Stopped in at Fry’s earlier and was able to grab that combo I mentioned a day or so ago.  It’s the ECS 945GCT-M/1333 motherboard and Celeron 430 for $49.99.  I can get the processor alone for $39.99 at MicroCenter, so that board is well worth $10.  I plan on replacing the crappy nForce board in [...]

Sometimes, there doesn’t need to be anything special to post about - like now.
I found that I won’t need a new cooler for my rebuilt quad system.  I ended up taking the board out of the case and rotating the heatsink 90° so that the fan was blowing upwards - out the 140mm exhaust mounted [...]

I finished my round of rotating boards this weekend when I replaced the P5B in my bedroom HTPC with my primary system’s DS3.  All in all, it was a pretty painless ordeal.
The Asus P5Q vanilla appears to be a terrific board.  Perfectly stable so far and provided exactly what I was looking for on the [...]

Well, I just got back from visiting MicroCenter to return the dead WD hard drive, only to find that the email I received from them was incorrect…this weekend is tax-free weekend in Georgia!  I returned that dead HD and the CM PSU that I bought and replaced them both.  I got another, identical drive and [...]

I have put my Blockbuster Online account on a 3-month hold, but after last night I think I will go ahead and cancel.  I signed back up for Netflix so that I could try out their 4-at-a-time plan with the unlimited Watch Now service and I have to admit, I’m more than impressed at the [...]