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[Gpuhackr] chose his username to explain exactly how he spends his time. For instance, here he's using an STM32 Discovery board to drive an AMD Radeon HD 2400 graphics card. The ARM microcontroller isn't actually using the PCIe interface on the card. Instead, [Gpuhackr] has patched into the debugging interface built into the card itself. This isn't quite as straight forward as it sounds, but if … [Read more...]
Around this time last year, [Sprite_TM] took a 1980's-era Macintosh SE and rebuilt it as a home file server. He used a Seagate Dockstar as the new motherboard, but over the past year he's been annoyed with the fact that the Dockstar doesn't have real SATA ports. Using USB to SATA converters on a server is a slow way of doing things, so [Sprite_TM] rebuilt his SE using an HP thin client. To do … [Read more...]
If you’re not willing to shell out for a reasonably powerful laptop it seems that there’s not a ton that can be done to boost your gaming performance. That is, unless you have an empty Express card slot and the right chipset. [Phatboy69] recently put together an external video card for his notebook, with fantastic results. His Vaio Z128GG had an Nvidia GT330M graphics card onboard, which is … [Read more...]
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