I got a little carried away whilst building my 2012 Z77 LGA1155 PC and had an itch to build a Z97-based LGA1150 system with a target year of 2014. After researching what motherboard to get, I hit on the idea of building a PC with as many MSI-branded components as possible…. Continue reading
I have long had a soft spot for the LGA775 architecture, and one of my retro PCs is an ASUS P5W motherboard, a Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU with a stock cooler, 4GB of Kingston HyperX PC2-8500, and an nVidia Quadro 4000 2GB GPU. A motley build, for sure. However,… Continue reading
As part of my little business buying and selling old graphics cards, I have been using a Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H motherboard as my testbed, on an open case, which has been very dependable. The Z77 chipset (LGA1155) is ideal for what I do as it was the last chipset to support… Continue reading
Lately I have been running a little hobby business of buying and selling old computer tech. Mainly graphics cards. I buy job lots of stuff that are sold “as is”, test and verify them, refurbish the ones that work and strip the ones that don’t work for parts. Often the cards… Continue reading
Earlier in the year my main PC failed. The board was dead and it wasn’t the PSU as I have a PSU tester and it tested out fine. The PC was long overdue an upgrade, so I went ahead with that. More on that in another post. The system was… Continue reading