Lapping Core 2 Duo E6600

August 4th, 2008

After an eventful day of lapping, I’m happy to be writing this review on how lapping my E6600 went. It started off well, I went from a low grit sand paper all the way up to 400 grit sand paper. Although I would of liked to have a higher grit paper to finish off the job, my results were fantastically surprising!

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Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 1000Mhz

August 4th, 2008

The Crucial Ballistix Tracer memory is a pretty cool set of RAM. Today I’ll be taking a look at the 2×1GB DDR2 1000Mhz tracer set. Crucial sells the standard Ballistix RAM, but also the Tracer set which includes activity LED’s on the memory itself! I’ll be including some pictures with physical descriptions, benchmarks, and even a video of the LED’s in action!

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EVGA 8800GTS 512MB

August 4th, 2008

Today we’ll be taking a look at the G92 8800GTS by EVGA. I’m going to start off with a few comments about EVGA and their wonderful services! They provide an excellently maintained support community, and also provide a neat feature called mods rigs. If any one of you own any kind of EVGA computer component then your eligible to win $1000 at <a href=”http://www.evga.com/community/ModsRigs/” target=”_blank”>EVGA mods rigs</a>! I recommend anyone who can, sign up and submit your system! Now on to the video card review! I’ll be including some physical descriptions and benchmarks.

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Lian LI PC v2000b Plus II

August 4th, 2008

I’d like to introduce to you, the first ever Crazy Computers written review! Today we’ll be taking a look at the Lian Li PC v2000b Plus II. First of all, as I’m sure many of you would agree, Lian Li build quality virtually surpasses all other manufacturers out there, and they didn’t disappoint with this case. As some may have noticed, this is my “daily driver” so to speak, I use it as my main desktop computer which is the reason for the installed hardware. It gives you an idea of how large this case actually is, I have it loaded with hardware and this case makes all of the hardware look small!

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