motherboard

pc building

Building a PC, Part VII: Rebooting

I've had more or less the same PC, with various updates, since 2007. I've written about most of it here: * Building a PC, Part I: Minimal boot * Building a PC, Part II: Burn in * Building a PC, Part III: Overclocking * Building a PC, Part IV: Now

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hardware

Building and Overclocking a Core 2 Duo System

It's been over a year since I built my last PC, and all those killer Core 2 Duo benchmark and overclocking results were making me anxious. I just pulled the trigger on the following Core 2 Duo upgrade: * ASUS P5B Deluxe motherboard, $195 * A-DATA 2GB DDR2 667 memory,

By Jeff Atwood ·
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mini-itx

The Impossibly Small PC: Nano-ITX

VIA's Nano-ITX fits an entire PC motherboard into an impossibly small 12 by 12 centimeter format: This board has been gestating for a while at VIA, and according to the nanoitx blog [http://nanoitx.blogspot.com/], it's evidently because of interference and heat problems presented by

By Jeff Atwood ·
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