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It's nice to get the hands dirty every now and then and physically improve something. The main reason behind this mod was to just practice soldering. I have some understanding of what's going on, since the amp is very simple, but I really do get lost when it comes to balancing resistors and caps...

I quite literally hacked on a switch so I don't need to unplug the amp every time I want to turn it off. Had to drill a hole through the PCB, cut the tracer coming out of the DC input and bridge it with some leads from the switch. Yeah, I'm not elegant at all. :p Pic of the Amp now with the...

I am not an audiophile, but I do enjoy listening to quality audio. For a while now I've been eyeing up an amp so that I'm not limited to my sound card for driving headphones. The majority of soundcards do not have amplifiers in them, so when plugging in high impedance headphones, the volume is...

Think I find the simulated cloth and tearing more impressive than debris physics. The water effects are rather bad, looks like coloured mercury. Still, it does add some nuance to the style. At least the particle physics isn't as excessive as Sacred 2 - but then again, this is nearly 4 years later...

I don't use 'clean-up' software in general. Does more harm than good to be honest. I pick up a defragger and that's about it. Windows 7 does a lot of this stuff in the background now, or you can just dip into the control panel and do it yourself. But that's just me.

I was offended by that comment and will now sue this entire publication and webhost. I will also sue jellsoft for allowing you to post such a comment with its forum software, vBulletin. While that goes through, I will proceed to call everyone Gay over chat with a voice modifier while I pwn them...

Brushed aluminium can cover a multitude of sins.

For as long as MMOs have existed, so has the sale of in-game currency for real-life cash. Rarely, the developer will allow such dealings to go on, and when it does, it's usually managed through a sanctioned service (think Blizzard's auction house for Diablo III). But when the need arises where...

And if you are feeling suitably masochistic, you can share the water loop between two computers next to each other. If you can't dissipate enough heat, can always get a bigger radiator. Never done a water-cooled loop before, never needed to - hasn't stopped me thinking about making one though.

Useful, but limited to 2 amps. That's enough for one of your fans. Aquacomputer Aquaero 5 LT - that is fully programmable, complete with USB interface and can be used for water cooling too. Each fan header can support 1.65 amps for a total of 5 amps across 4 headers. You can buy additional...

Using a probe will result in much lower recorded temps, which means you'll need to compensate for that. I'm not certain, but I think 80-90C on the core would be about 60C on the heatsink. Placing the probe on the heatsink is a better option than exposed to exhaust air, dust will give inaccurate...

Supposedly, the max temp is around 100-120C, but that's more like the critical temp when things go funky. Ask any gamer though and they get very uncomfortable around 90C. Also, that's core temp, typically memory or VRMs go before that, but they don't have any temp monitors.

While 7 was/is good, there are still plenty of improvements that can be made, and this is something that Windows 8 DOES bring, but shot itself in the foot be forcing a new UI on top of it, whether it was needed or wanted (and only half implemented). In many regards, I do feel kind of sorry...

Good call with the foil inside the tubes, wouldn't have thought of the static build-up with the rubber. Also, it's not a mod without duck-tape! With the card itself, the vented holes in the PCB, is there much airflow coming through them? It might be worth blocking the ports off, that way you...

Oh, if only, lol. I do think MS will have a rude awakening with this OS like with Vista. First day sales will be strong as usual, then once everyone gets the OS home and installed, a very large 'WTF' face will descend up home office. Tablet users will likely be happy, but because this is a new...

I'm having a distinct sense of deja vu here, but Microsoft is requesting developers to not call the typography-based design language formally known as Metro, uh, Metro, but to call it the 'Windows 8 style UI', due to possible legalities regarding a European company's trademark on the name...

The KDE project has this week announced version 4.9 of its popular desktop platform, dedicated to the late KDE contributor Claire Lotion. It brings significant improvements, including an expected progression of the Nokia-maintained Qt Quick framework. In addition to adding support for more KDE...

In what might be the best news to come out of the AMD camp in quite a while, the company has announced that it's bringing Jim Keller back on board to become the Corporate Vice President and Chief Architect for CPU Cores. He'll be reporting to the company's CTO and Senior VP of Technology and...

HP has just scored a major win with its lawsuit against Oracle, focused around Oracle's pulling of support for Intel Itanium-based products. You might recall that last spring, Oracle pulled all software support for Itanium processors and then went on to claim that the architecture was nearing...

On a regular day, learning of a Linux distro bundling a new desktop environment in its next release is the furthest thing from being a big deal, but things are a little different here. Fedora, the spearhead of the GNOME 3 movement, has said that it will be bundling MATE (a GNOME 2 fork) in...