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FPS R.I.P.?

For years, we have measured video cards by how many frames per second they could put out in various games. It was a good measurement. You want to play a game, not Keystone Kops, especially when the cops are trying

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Peltier Radiator Formula

I just read your article on the Peltier Radiator and found it interesting. I have some input on the results of your experiment. I have a background in mechanical engineering, with specialization in HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning). For the

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Picking Sides

This isn’t a hardware piece; this is a people piece. Over the years I’ve been strolling around the Web, I’ve found that folks are a bit . . . argumentative. There’s been and are plenty of areas of contention: Intel

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MotherBoard Monitor – Shutdown and CPU Heat Up

SUMMARY: Motherboard Monitor is one those utilities that you can not do without. “Shutdown” and “CPU Heat Up” are two fail-safe features that are no-brainers. Aside from its monitoring capabilities, Motherboard Monitor has fail-safe functions that can save your CPU

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TechStyle Wood Case

SUMMARY: Very nice upscale case for folks who are sick of IBM putty gray lookalikes. TechStyle Computers was kind enough to send one of their tower cases our way to review. Techstyle’s cases are Enlights that have been modified with

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Build a Temperature Probe

I was doing some digging to find a thermal probe, and it turns out they are quite expensive – usually hundreds of dollars. Being the resourceful person that I am, I decided to build my own simple thermometer as I