This is the ultimate tour of my office. From office electronics to sports memorabilia. So, let’s just dive right in with an overview… (Cheat Sheet to the models and specs here – What I use.). This may be a bit self-serving or seen as something negative. Personal blogs can always been seen that way, but…
Category: Custom Build
Evolution of My Build: 2019 – 2023
Looking back, my build has been through many upgrades. There is barely anything left from my original build. I want to go back through time and look at my build through the years. I did my original build in April 2019. Here are the specs of my original build: CPU: Ryzen 5 2400GMotherboard: MSi B450M…
Review: MSi GF65 10UE-213 (2021) in 2023
Introduction This laptop was released in June of 2021. As of now, it’s almost 2 full years old. This is a review that if you were to find one used… is it good? The short answer is yes, but mainly for gaming. The GPU can game reasonably at 1080p at medium to high settings without…
Switching to Apple Silicon Part II: The Benchmarks (Supplemental)
So, I decided to benchmark my laptop as well because it has nVidia RTX mobile graphics but has a much weaker 10th Gen Core i5 CPU. I am just going to put the graphs up. I think you can see that the RTX mobile graphics has higher computational scores than my desktop AMD GPU and…
Switching to Apple Silicon Part II: The Benchmarks
I came from an 27″ Intel Core i9-9900k. The 9900k in the iMac was gimped to begin with due to lack of appropriate thermal solution. However, it was a fast chip. Compared to other iMacs, at least. Compare an iMac to a PC built around a 9900k and there is a big difference. So, Apple…
Learning Series: Anatomy of a Closed Loop Liquid Cooler
Since I had to replace my liquid cooler, I thought I’d make a blog post on how it works. There is a huge correlation between water cooling a PC and an engine. Vehicle Cooling Here is a car cooling system diagram. I stole it from the internet. I bet they never know… You have the…
Learning Series: To build or to buy
So, you are going to build a new PC be it for gaming or productivity. You are going to need to buy the parts. There are several choices in each category of part that it can be confusing to the everyday consumer. Such that, it might be easier to just buy a pre-built PC rather…
Revisitng My Build: Cleaning Up
I actually wanted to fully disassemble and reassemble, but I don’t have any zip ties. Really, the cable management was pretty good so I didn’t want to mess with that. So, I did a smaller project. This is what it looks like a few days ago. It’s purple but not for long… Inside my case….
Revisiting the Fry’s Past: The Corsair “AmmoBox Case”
This is another of the different type of cases that I built in during my years at Fry’s. I call it the “AmmoBox Case”. Its official name is the Vengeance C70. I didn’t get a picture of the final product here. I am not sure why, but let’s move on with the build. The parts…….
Revisiting the Fry’s Past: Build 66 (Raidmax X08)
I chose this one because of the unique nature of the case. I did not think to do all of the testing that YouTube channels like Gamers Nexus does when I was building at Fry’s and thinking… “That’s a cool case.” Chances are: GN would tell me that “it’s a hot case.” 🙂 So, I…








