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My wife left a message on my phone at work today exlaiming, “The backyard is infested with frogs, HUGE frogs, call me back!” I thought what in the world? Huge frogs? We had a lot of rain the last two days and it’s widely known that frogs tend to come out of their hiding places [...]

So with all the excitement of recent benchmarks of Intel’s new Conroe processor, I thought I’d jump the gun and start picking out hardware for my new Conroe-based PC. This is my first go at what could make for a great computer ready for Conroe and Vista. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been using Vista on [...]

Picking out the case was probably the hardest piece of hardware to finalize since there are sooooo many cases out there to choose from and it can be difficult to tell from the pictures or the reviews which cases are decent and which ones to avoid. We settled on a Cooler Master Centurion 534 mainly [...]

Of all the machines I’ve built (or fixed) I’ve worked with a variety of different manufacturers including Abit, Gigabyte, EPoX, ASRock, and my favorite – ASUS. I’m not sure why I’m partial to ASUS mobos, maybe it’s all the positive reviews they get, maybe it’s their web site which has easy-to-access downloads for updates and [...]

When building a new computer the first thing I like to pick out is the processor. It seems to make sense since ultimately the processor will drive every other decision that is made as far as choosing the right motherboard, graphics card, power supply, etc. The most obvious first choice is not always the easiest, [...]

Like many things in this world, once you get a taste of do-it-yourself projects, it’s hard to justify buying anything store-bought ever again. From building speakers to building computers, the satisfaction of creating something all on your own that’s better and cheaper than anything you could have bought, can easily get you hooked into wanting [...]