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Mega Shadow – Lapped or Not?

icebob — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:22:53 +0000

I’ve been asked by Nick at CrazyPC.com to test the Prolimatech Mega Shadow heatsink. The purpose of the test is to see if lapping the heatsink will give any performance improvement. Since I already have a Megahalems in one of my secondary rigs, I found the idea interesting. The testing p Read more ...

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Network Security 103: Network Address Translation

dark_15 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:27:07 +0000

Private and Public Addressing

Before we dive into NAT we must first discuss the difference between public and private IP addressing. Public IP addresses include the range 0.0.0.0 – 255.255.255.255, or over 4 billion unique addresses; this is of course with a few exceptions that we will not go into detail here.

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Free Water Cooling…Or Marketing Gimmick? Or Both?

hokiealumnus — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:01:29 +0000

Wednesday, the Overclockers.com news email received an interesting press release. The title is simple enough but is quite the claim: “iBUYPOWER Partners with Asetek to Develop the First and Only Liquid Cooling Solution for the Level 10 Tower”. While I’m unable to prove it false with a link (quick Google search yields a whole lo Read more ...

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What to Know Before Clicking ‘Buy’

BossBorot — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:17:58 +0000

We all want to find the best deals when buying things online. Although buying online is usually cheaper, before clicking buy it is important to be aware of currently running deals both online and off.

If you want to buy a motherboard or CPU check if you live near a Microcenter or Read more ...

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Network Security 102: Stateful Firewalls

dark_15 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:14:56 +0000

Session-based firewalls are probably the most popular type of firewall today. But how do they work in protecting your network? In this article we will discuss Stateful Firewalls, and the strengths and weaknesses of this type of firewall.

Stateful Firewalls

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The Sacrifices We Make for Modern Tech

Patrick — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:00:10 +0000

It’s 1:13AM CST and I’m sitting here staring on and off at the task manager on my main PC. I got hit hard – HARD – with what appears to be a brand new variant of the Virut virus. I dual boot XP, and had to reformat both of my Windows partitions Read more ...

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Annual Water Cooling Cleaning and Rebuild Journal

Conumdrum — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:10:54 +0000

Properly maintaining a water cooling loop is critical for great long term performance. So I documented my rebuild and my thoughts as I worked my way through it. My rig is pretty complex, but the basics are the same for any water cooling loop. The rig was first built March 2009. I drained and refilled per at least the six month window, and Read more ...

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SSDs, TRIM, and Available Disk Space

I.M.O.G. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:46:19 +0000

There is a lot of discussion on forums about the impact of available disk space on SSD performance. A pertinent question was raised; At what point does drive utilization impact SSD performance? Running some quick tests, the results proved rather insightful.

Questions and Answers

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2009 Game of the Year Awards

Rainless — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:00:12 +0000

2009 was both a revelation and a revolution in the field of Electronic Gaming.

2008 ended with the gaming industry hanging on a gigantic question mark: How would gaming be affected by the sudden downturn in the economy?

Everyone knew something would happen, but no one could have predicted such a mixed bag of results: In January Mic Read more ...

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X58 vs. P55 Quick Memory Comparison

Ross — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:03:38 +0000

Some may have noticed that P55 (Lynnfield) systems seem to overclock memory “better” than X58. I did. Most notably, memory that would barely run 1100 MHz on X58 for me was magically running over 1300 MHz on P55 after some tweaking. If all other things are equal, that would be amazing, so we’ll take a very quick peek at how memo Read more ...

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