Project Absinthe – Part IV
The night after posting the previous section, I got right to work on advancing things as best as I could. I mounted the 240mm radiator where I had suspected it ...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Project Absinthe – Part III
Let’s start with a proof of concept in a bid to do something different. For making hardline water cooling loops, most everyone is using acrylic or PETG tu...
Project Absinthe – Part II
Progress on Absinthe would have continued on Saturday had a little shipping concern not gotten in the way. Instead everything had to wait till Monday. This wasn...
Computer build tip: Cable management
Walking through Wal-Mart one afternoon, I saw these and got a bright idea: And that bright idea was to use these for cable management in a computer case rather ...
Passive response to concerns
When someone breaks into your home, you typically take measures to ensure that future break-ins are prevented. In my case, there were two homicides within 6 mon...
When overnight isn’t
Amazon really screwed up this time. The morning of July 3, I ordered a new computer power supply. The order I placed had the option of Saturday delivery, to be ...
Project Absinthe
Project Absinthe started life as an upgrade from an AMD X2-3800 system running Windows XP. Here are the current specs on the system (PCPartPicker.com list) CPU:...
Water cooling build in my wife’s computer – Part IX
For just $6, I was able to overnight a $160 power supply. Pretty sweet deal, courtesy of Amazon Prime. Anyway. I ordered the RM1000 power supply to go in my wif...
Reply to Ragen Chastain
Back at the end of 2012, Ragen Chastain penned an article for iVillage called “Are You Guilty? 10 Ways We Body Shame Each Other Without Knowing“. I&...
Water cooling build in my wife’s computer – Part VIII
The day after posting the last part, the AlphaCool CPU water block was confirmed delivered in Germany. I’m definitely curious as to what they’d find...
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