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
I’ve been really lazy and remiss about posting, not least because I am not sure anyone reads my blog. However, in the interests of being a Data Hamster and recording stuff that I do, I guess I should. I have gotten into Retro Computing lately, buying stuff I literally threw… Continue reading