Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

Since I’ve been descending into geekdom, might as well go all the way, the current rage is to water-cool your CPU. Since heat is the biggest enemy when overclocking, folks have been using exotic cooling to get much better performance. If you nitrogen cool your Pentium for instance, you can…

Well, I’ve gotten the new power supply and it sure has helped. Here is where I am: # System runs stably at 198MHz, but won’t pass Prime95’s validation suite. Backing down the memory to 191MHz seems to make the system super stable. I’m guessing that it is the cheap RAM…

Well, I had thought that the Outlook 2003 spam filter would obviate the need for external spam filters, but either I don’t understand it or I it doesn’t work well. Basically, it doesn’t seem to work in cached mode and it seems to require you to click before it fliters…

Well, here’s what I’ve learned about really debugging a PC that is crashing. Script for future use: # Get a device count and estimate power supply requirements. Make sure the power supply is adequate to the job. Otherwise, go get another one. # Run memtest86+ overnight. Make sure the basic…

I had great hopes for this integrated graphics system. Might save me from having to buy AGP cards. Unfortunately, the data shows that a $50 AGP card easily beats it. And it is 2-3x slower than a state of the art $200 card. These kind of integrated solutions are good…

If you’re working with color pictures, getting the right color on the screen is pretty hard. Fortunately, several sites produce things called ICMs, these are used by Windows to correct colors for you. For the displays that I support, here are the ICMs. You also have to set brightness (really…