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Last year was just an also year for getting more point. We got over 50K incremental points just by using the BoA portal. He deals were amazing. 15 points for beats at one point.  The top purchase sites were overstock, Rakuten, best buy and staples. As well as Walmart and…

Well, I got the SLI actually running, but it looks like you get some pretty strange artifacts when you run nvidia-xconfig –sli=auto, so you are warned. I’m not sure what the right approach is here, but the code looks like. Also if you have two monitors connected, then if you…

OK, I’m probably the only person who has ever had this happen, but it is confusing. We have two monitors setup going to two computers. One has DVI connected to both and the other has HDMI connected to both. This allows each computer to drive two monitors or when both…

We need a real NVidia card for testing and it’s hard to find a low profile low height with Techreport doing a great analysis. The short thing is that the Antec is very low profile and also single slot with less than 20mm thick.  The analysis is interesting and shows…

Well there are definitely some tips and tricks here to get Windows 8.1 to live on one SSD and Ubuntu to live a different SSD and then finally to have a data SSD that both can use. Here’s how to do it: 1. Install Windows 8.1 first because Windows doesn’t…

Well what is fast? That’s the hardest to say, but here are some results for the two machines which are: ASRock Z97m OC with Intel Core i7-4790K (Haswell) at 4.5GHz overclock with DDR3-2400 (no overclock ram) and a pair of SLIed Asus Strix GTX 970. The overclock is +200MHz on…

I’m going to be trying this bad boy out in a little bit. Thanks to lensrentals.com for making it easy. It was good to see what lenses to use as at 36MP, you really need good quality glass. I found the same last year with the Sony A7, you end…

This has got to be the densest systems I’ve ever built. Here are the specs: ASRock Z97m OC Formula. This is a micro-ATX motherboard Intel Core i7 4790K. This is the mid range overclockable. 4GHz (40x multiplier on a 100MHz bus). For grins, I tried the ASRock Formula Drive and…

Gosh darn it I’m so frustrated confused, I spent a day trying to get two GTX 970s to be recognized. Now today. I turn the thing on wander through the ASRock BIOS, confirm there are really two graphics cards there in the BIOS (there is a system browser under tools).…

This really does work. Had a problem. Was too dumb to figure out a site. Posted a “veiled” note on this silly little blog and Lo and behold the ceo of the company emails me the next day. Wow those tools are really mandatory for any business. That and being…