Category: Desert Sapphire

Two years passed since I last looked at Desert Sapphire. I was supposed to do maintenance on it last year, but some badly timed food poisoning (when is it ever ...

My wife and I drove out to the Las Vegas metro to revisit Desert Sapphire, the custom external water cooled build that I built for a friend of my wife’s. ...

The project is now in the client’s hands. Let’s go over the last steps and the final details. First, the PMP-420 was a no-go. I replaced it with a D...

So the build continues… The day after Christmas, my wife and I drove out into Kansas to visit family. Given the weather forecast for the next day compared...

Ah I love international orders… Thankfully everything in the box was unharmed. The only casualty was a corner of the thermal pad for the passive backplate...

I mentioned in the previous segment that water cooling parts were on their way. The first order from Performance-PCs arrived the day after Thanksgiving — ...

The time has come to introduce another build project, this one being a client build. All of the primary hardware has been purchased and I’m just waiting o...