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Mystery AT Pentium III Build
I've done it again! Not content with the Barn Find Pentium Pro, and the awful P4 machine that I picked up at the same time, I've hopped back on OLX.in…
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How to Upgrade the HP Envy X360
I love my new notebook, but gosh do I wish it came with more storage. Thankfully it's not that difficult to upgrade, watch the video to see how.
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How to backup old PCs over Serial
Look, old PCs can be hard work. Getting data off and on to them with no network and no USB is an absolute nightmare. So how do we do it?…
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Checking out the Shuttle SN41G2
Back in 2003 PCs were changing. We'd suffered the horrible beige boxes of the 90s and with the invention of the iMac in 1998, companies were looking to make their…
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Making The Barn Find Pentium Pro More Usable
In this video I upgrade the Barn Find Pentium Pro with additional parts which will hopefully make it more flexible and easier to upgrade in future. https://youtu.be/xxdjKyQRqhk
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PC Stats Display With Raspberry Pi and Aida64
A while back I made a PC stats display using a Raspberry Pi and some free software from Modbros. Conceptually I loved it as a solution, I just wished it…
This Pentium 4 PC Wasn’t Worth Saving
Sometimes a piece of junk is JUST a piece of junk. A while back I picked up a couple of PCs on the Indian classified website olx.in One of those…
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Checking out the Gotek Floppy Emulator
Floppy disks were a massive part of the computing landscape in the 80s and 90s. Back in a time before high speed internet and USB drives, if you were moving…
My AMD Ryzen 5900x / Nvidia 3080 BEAST
Yeah, I know, I have way more money than sense. There was absolutely NOTHING wrong with my AMD Ryzen 3900x based system, even with its cautiously optimistic Radeon 5700XT GPU.…
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Unboxing a Pentium Pro from 1996
Way back when, Intel needed a product that would bridge the gap between high-end server machines and ordinary desktops. They came up with the Pentium Pro not long after the…