How thrifty are you? Thrifty enough to recreate a city out of your old junk? This man did just that. Using old motherboards as his canvas, the city of Helsinki can forever live on in silicon. Using the Google Earth image on the top right in comparison, it’s apparent the creator did a mighty fine job. [H]ard|OCP >...
What’s the most important thing to look for when shopping for a new motherboard? If you’re planning on re-using some of your current hardware, compatibility is a good place to start. But what if none of that matters? What if you simply want the best…? Well then, the doors open up quite a bit. For some, the number and type of SATA ports is the goal. For others, amount and speed of RAM reign supreme. Perhaps more important than the previous two is...
Think that old, decrepit dying hard drive you tossed in some box never to look at again is still useless? Think again. With as cheap and plentiful as hard drives are becoming these days, trashing an old drive simply because it’s too small is all too common. But those precious bits you’ve tossed aside have so much more potential. One possible idea is to slap it in an enclosure or hard drive dock to make an external hard drive out of it. But who needs another...
The processor race and its ever ongoing back and forth tussle between AMD and Intel is about to get a new addition sure to bring many more heated battles. Following on the heels of AMD’s server based 6-core processors, the consumer market is next in AMD’s crosshairs with the company’s announcement of a 6-core party starter unleashing number crunching madness on the consumer market come 2010. The new hotness will come with the “Thuban” moniker...
In a world full of slow, SATA1/2 hard drives, SATA3 hard drives look to bring a new meaning to the word fast. If speed is your number one concern, look no further than Seagate’s 3.5″, SATA3 hard drive. This particular drive’s claim to fame is that it is the claimed world’s first 3.5″ internal hard drive to ship with 6Gbps SATA3 specs meaning accessing your data will be leaps and bounds faster. If you were to question how fast and I were to...
