Wednesday, November 30, 2011

How to repair a CPU with bent pins - heatsink and cpu came loose during shipment!

Today i give you the story of a Pentium 4 478 with bent pins and how i was able to save it, all started when...

Shipping a computer 
A friend of mine that lives in another state, decided to send one of his unused computers back to one of his relatives, he reformatted and packaged all the discs and papers in a single box, the old Pentium 4 socket 478 HP case was wrapped in protective foam to ensure it would not get damaged during transport, and shipped it off expecting nothing to go wrong.

Something did go wrong
Upon arrival his relative noticed a funny rattle like sound coming from inside the box, and as the box was moved from side to side, it felt as tough there was something heavy "loose" inside,   beeing a care full person, the relative contacted my friend about the issue before trying to plug it on, to which he promptly asked to open the box and open the case door, and they where surprised to find "a big piece of metal with a fan, hanging from the inside of the computer, and the metal had a part full of copper pins all bent and warped"


Monday, November 21, 2011

AMD HyperTransport make sure its 1000mhz or higher! /too much work !

 THIS IS NOT AN OVERCLOCK GUIDE ITS A REMINDER TO CHECK YOUR HT AS IN SOME MOTHERBOARD IT COMES IN LOW SPEED SETTING AS DEFAULT

AMD's HyperTransport:
I wanted to venture fort into the subject of AMD and its hyper transport technology and how configuring its speed can mean a slow or fast computer
, but after doing a lot of tests and benchmarks i came up with a lot of unconclusive data and mixed results. in short you just gotta make sure its 1000mhz at least or higher! setting it lower does hinder performance, but beyond 1000mhz  you really cant tell the difference (only in some case specific situations) let me explain a  bit more.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

FancyCache - How to use Ram as hard drive cache

Welcome to the last of these  ram caching mini series where i finally show you a great tool to further improve upon any windows caching system, as we saw in the  previous post here, we understand the improtance of using a newer operating system  such as 7 with loads of ram, so that everything is re read from ram, but if you are still reluctant to move on from xp  due to its small footprint, and have loads of ram to spare, you will love this program!

THIS IS WHAT FANCY CACHE CAN DO TO YOUR SYSTEM ITS AWESOME