Comments on: Visual hardware identification guide

By: Frogz

Frogz — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:15:55 +0000

lets spam the poor guy with pics, i already sent fibre channel(a few different interfaces)
sata(lol he didnt have sata)
bnc
a PROPER aui(his version has no clip)
and some laptop optical drives

By: nubie

nubie — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:50:46 +0000

“You’re bound to see something in there you didn’t know existed.”

Wanna bet? Of course I keep Scott Mueller’s guide to repairing your PC next to my bed, all 1300 pages of it ;)

But you are correct, I don’t know a couple of the more obscure sockets.

I notice there is no picture of LGA 1160, why not?

By: smoki_loki

smoki_loki — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:15:16 +0000

moar geekporn plz

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:18:28 +0000

hey im a t-mobile tier 3 tech and id love to get the full sized image however our internet is filtered. would someone be able to upload this somehwre where it wouldnt be filtered and post it via these comments? thanks in advance from TMOS tech supprt Dept.

By: razvan784

razvan784 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:35:16 +0000

“DIPP” Memory (first under Desktop RAM). Piece of crap.

By: twistedsymphony

twistedsymphony — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:09:44 +0000

I have a similar poster with all of the different Playstation 1 motherboards and where the modchip solder points are… it’s really high quality and kind of cool looking. It’s been hanging in my office for year even though I’ve never really needed it.

I’ve considered making a similar poster for other consoles such as the Xbox 1 or PS2… I have access to the hardware, I have a light tent and a nice DSLR, I’m pretty handy with photoshop I just have no idea where I can go to get something like this printed up like your typical poster a reasonable price.

Anyone know where I can get stuff like this in a nice dead tree format?

By: fluxster

fluxster — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:41:15 +0000

well….you could use snagit 8 to leech it off the site and use poster 7.7 to expand the print to what size poster you want….just my 2 cents worth

By: devemman

devemman — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:05:15 +0000

it’d be really nice to have something like this for all those SMT IC packages/footprints.

By: Hirudinea

Hirudinea — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:47:43 +0000

I’m going to make this into some cool wallpaper!

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By: EndlessWaves

EndlessWaves — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:20:07 +0000

The ‘AT keyboard connector’ was used for both AT and XT keyboards.

And where is mini-firewire 400?

By: tom61

tom61 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:23:12 +0000

I wish it was all to scale, as it’d be a bit handier that way. You could also do a 1:1 print of it then for maximum handiness.

_matt: are you sure there wasn’t an adapter mounted to the back? It was common for the IDE CD/DVD drives to have a standard 50-pin JAE on them, but have an adapter mounted to the back of them via 2 screws that converted it to whatever the company making the laptop felt was good connector to use in the bay. I’m actually not versed in current cd/dvd connections in laptops, so you could still be right for those, just like IDE cd/dvd laptop IDE drives having JAE-50 conneectors intead of the 44-pin IDC connector that laptop harddisks had. Also, the connector in the picture is is for laptop harddisks (it is a 2.5″ SATA laptop harddisk pictured), not cd/dvd drives.

By: paul

paul — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:09:58 +0000

wow a deviantart that is actually useful!

very cool but what about BIOS chip types and sockets?

By: TJHooker

TJHooker — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:01:48 +0000

what’s funny is this information is useless to most people considering some dual core and HT based intels are considered obsolete now. of coarse that is a misconception of the common pseudo geek and consumer, and not the software engineers and crackers.

in any case an early mmx intel is far more intriguing to someone who sees past abstract software interfaces and down into dma and simd.

By: Jake of All Trades

Jake of All Trades — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:39:35 +0000

There really needs to be more guides like this! There are so many things, in all fields, that are a cinch to pick out of a lineup, but nearly impossible to describe in a way that would yield helpful results from a search engine, or in a way that would not make you sound like a total idiot to an expert.