This HP Pavilion DV9205 was intermittently working.  No display would be shown after a reboot.  Sometimes it was there sometimes it wasn’t.  After some throrough investigation and research all signs pointed to a bad motherboard. This Pavilion model line with the AMD chipset has had several documented issues with the embedded graphics.  After scoring a used (but warrantied) motherboard online and swaping them out everything worked...

    Build 2  killer game PC’s for 600 bucks each? No way, really?! Yeah, it’s completely possible…   AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition 3.3Ghz, 3.7Ghz Turbo ASUS M4A88T-M 880G AMD Motherboard Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB of RAM Seagate Barracuda Green 1.5 TB HD LITE-ON DVD Burner BYTECC – SATA Cables RAIDMAX – 500W power supply and Case w/4 Fans and Blue LED’s PowerColor AX6790 1GB Radeon 256...

So below you will find the specifications and more of my personal media server. I’ll get started with the specs: Dell Precision T7400 Dual Xeon E5440′s overclocked to 3.2 Ghz (2.83 Ghz, unclocked) 8 GB’s of FB-DIMM RAM – Running really hot! NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 Video Card (OEM) Intel RAID Controller R32WC040 – 35mm fan attached to heatsink Dell SAS 6/iR RAID Controller 4 – 3 TB Hitachi HDD’s ran...

This poor circa 2005 Vaio has seen better days, but with a quick cleaning and RAM upgrade she’s running like new again. Will be posting some pictures and more info on this machine soon.

Just taking this beautiful MacBook Pro to the next level. Installation of 8GB of RAM.

Jason’s AMD Beast System Specs: COOLER MASTER Elite RC-310-OWR460 Black SECC 460 W Power Supply AMD Phenom II X6 1035T Thuban 2.6GHz Thermaltake A4022 92mm CPU Cooler 2 – COOLER MASTER SickleFlow 120 ASUS M4A88T-M AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 7200 RPM HD Future plans include a 2 GB Graphics card; overclock; more efficent cooling; and perhaps a new...