Tag Archives: Hardware

HP MediaSmart Server ex485 review

I bought my HP MediaSmart Server quite a while ago and I have had a few random posts about it but I wanted to do an official review to let you know what I think of it. In order to successfully review this I am going to break it up into 2 sections: hardware and …

September 12, 2009 – 10:23 | By Rothgar | Posted in Hardware, Home Server, Projects, Review, Software, Windows | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

How-to Fix a Video Card in the Oven

I recently happen to come across a video card that had problems with 3D rendering. I usually would just throw out the video card and get a new one, but when the video card is a Nvidia 8800 GTX I just couldn’t throw away the card no matter how bad it was broken. Luckily shortly …

June 23, 2009 – 20:51 | By Rothgar | Posted in Fact, Funny, Hardware, Thoughts | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

Vantec NexStar MX enclosure review

So, when I bought my NAS I started transferring over everything I wanted to keep on it. But then I realized that 500 GB would not be enough room to store everything. Instead of returning the NAS and getting a bigger one, which I did not have money for, I decided to keep the 500 …

December 26, 2008 – 11:45 | By Rothgar | Posted in Hardware, Projects, Review, Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (5)