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I have been writing a series of posts about building a small standalone pfSense box. The enclosure (casing) and the power supply has been covered. This one is now getting into the core of it — the motherboard itself. ...
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USB hubs are aplenty. If you use a computer, chances are you have a USB hub. However, most USB hubs are still of the USB 2.0 variety. Many computers nowadays include one or more USB 3.0 port to support much faster data transfer ...
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This picoPSU is probably the world’s smallest ATX power supply. If you are building a small computer, where small form factor is of the essence, then this tiny little PSU could be something very interesting to you. ...
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If you build your own computer, you’ll know that the enclosure (i.e. casing) is one of the many components that you need to choose. For some people, the enclosure is unimportant, so anything “cheap and works” is ...
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I’ve blogged about this before. But every time I open up my PC casing, I’m mighty pleased with what I decided to buy a couple of years back. It wasn’t the cheapest PC casing around, but it was something that was ...
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Many of us will have used external hard disks. External hard disks basically comprise an enclosure, with a standard notebook or desktop hard disk inside, and a host interface (typically USB) to the computer. You usually expect to ...
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When I bought my PC recently, it was a very ordinary PC, and yet it was specially customized. It was customized to exactly what I wanted, because I selected everything that went into it. Yet at the same time, it wasn’t ...
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It’s been quite a long while since I last built my own PC. My last desktop PC was built some time around 2005. I was reasonably familiar with PC components at that time. Technology has changed so much, and even though I do ...
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Earth Hour in 2011 is observed on 26th March, from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. People around the globe will switch off lights and commit to actions that go beyond the hour. At https://zitseng.com/, I will observe Earth Hour by switching to ...
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I just bought my first non-DIY desktop PC. Yeah. I’m actually a little surprised that I did not DIY it myself. I guess after years of building PCs, installing software, I decided to give in and let some branded PC company ...
