Where Tech Isn't So Technical…
I had to replace a Godlike motherboard in one of my customer’s computers… Did I really want to do that? Of course, I did! I felt like a YouTuber! I never get to unbox such expensive parts… (with the rare exception of Core i9 CPUs, which is what was installed here). This motherboard is approximately…
By far, the dirtiest computer I have ever cleaned… Before… the dirt is thick, it is everywhere. I is disgusting and make me cough as I tried to clean it. This is the back fan. That’s not just dirt. It was almost like it was wet and dirty… This is the motherboard up close. The…
This was a major rebuild.. only because this is the first one I remember that has a floppy drive connection on the motherboard. Look at this hot mess… we are going to update the components and clean it up. FDD!?! First one of these I have seen in this department except some of the units…
I was able to build a number of custom machines at Fry’s during 2018. I don’t have an exact number, but there were a lot of them. But a few stood, but this one stood out about all of those…
So, I was tasked with taking an older Alienware Area 51 desktop. I called it a behemoth because it was so big and very heavy. Cases at that time were built almost like they wanted them to last and be indestructible. Today, not all cases are built that way. I took more pictures than I…
I didn’t take pictures of many of my builds prior to this one. However, this is what I consider build 1 because it is the first one I took pictures. Not a bunch of pictures, but this was the first I took pictures. In my latest builds, I am taking a bunch of pictures. Looks…
Back in November, I did my first and only (to this date) AMD Threadripper build. The CPU package is massive and requires a T8 driver (Could be a T10) to install into the socket. Luckily, it comes with the tool. Additionally, this build was water-cooled and there are no AIO [All-in-one] water-coolers that we sell…
Hi readers… yes, back for another post. This one is from a build I did last week. This one didn’t go as smoothly as I would have liked, but in the end, the customer got the build he wanted and that makes me happy. Let’s go over the build one step at a time and…
For this customer’s laptop, it was diagnosed with a thermal issue. In a laptop, generally, you do not have anything other than a CPU fan and it’s attached heat pipes that are used to draw heat from the components. In some cases, there are discrete graphics processors thus requiring more cooling. That is the case…