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Episode 22 of the Custom PC podcast

Posted at: 7th November 2008 by Clive Webster

The latest episode of the Custom PC podcast sees James, Antony and Clive talk about Intel's brilliant new processor Core i7 and how easy it is to overclock, as well...

Intel Core i7 - all you need to know

Posted at: 3rd November 2008 by Clive Webster and James Gorbold

Custom PC takes you through everything you need to know about Intel's amazing new...

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB

Review Date: 24th October 2008

Black is considered the colour that never goes out of style, and this ethos seems to have crept into the PC industry. Now Western Digital has adopted it as branding for a new series of hard disks. The company uses... Read more

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dnam1x

Posted at: 12:10am 21st November 2008

In the last post, I had finally gotten the enclosure up on the wall and all the components installed. The cooling pump had been primed and everything was up and running. Yet again, however, I didnt really have an idea of how I was going to implement a few things before I started building. Basically, it was a matter of crossing that bridge when it came up, now I had...

Big_Adam

Posted at: 1:26am 20th November 2008

I’m currently in love with Fallout 3 (to the point I want to make a non-working Bottle Cap Mine) but it has the major and massive problem of bugs, lots of bugs. This got me to thinking; remember the old PS1 and the old PC games? I never had bugs in any of them. Sure you had the occasional one that you had to do something REALLY specific to do but...

bassdominator

Posted at: 12:33am 20th November 2008

Project Violet Introduction: Started upgrading my pc just before christmas 2008, early pressies was the excuse and from there I seemed to have got the modding bug I named my rig 'Project Violet' in May when I purchaced 6x30cm UV CCFL's and 20x3mm UV led's, it seems to have spiraled from there. Rig spec : Q9450 @ 3.47 Ghz OCZ Flex XLC 2x1GB @ 1151mhz 700W OCZ Sli PSU 74GB Raptor 2x 320GB HDD's Zotac 8800GT AMP @...

Get Half-Life for less than a dollar on Steam

Posted at: 20th November 2008

For those that have been locked in a large wooden chest, thrown inside a larger metal chest, buried and then forgotten about for 10 years, ... Read more