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Continue reading →: Overclocking an ASRock Z97m OC Formula with Intel Core i7 4790K with dual ASUS Strix GTX 970
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…
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Continue reading →: Frustrating day getting two nVidia GTX 970s recognized in a ASRock Z97m OC Formula
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).…
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Continue reading →: Wow great service social media monitoring
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…
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Continue reading →: Storage lust
Well, if you are upgrading a machine, right now here are the choices: ## Video Now you should probably wait a bit as the GTX980 family is (by video standards) long in the tooth and Computex is about to happen in June. The big things are getting to HDMI 2.0…
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Continue reading →: Kickstarter hit rates
wow I’m sad to say I’m shocked at how much I’ve spent! 24 projects ordered and waiting 6 projects ordered and waiting, waiting, waitin 12 projects got and liked 1 project got, broke but founder emailed me?!! Amazing! 4 projects got and they had issues 5 project got and didn’t…
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Continue reading →: Kickstarter misfires and great service
Well kickstarter has been a great adventure but it is one of those 20% of the things are complete duds. Since I posted this #8 actually emailed me back?! And offered to fix. Now that’s amazing!!! Here’s a list so far in reverse order of “insults to customers” and lessons…
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Continue reading →: Cools apps for the month
havent posted cool apps for a while but amazingly useful and well designed apps (at least to me) The first are essentially replacements for services I want to love but can’t: iOS photo deduplicator. Wow iOS and iCloud sharing is so strange. Now all I get are duneed duplicates that…
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Continue reading →: Car leasing maze
Well I’ve actually never really understood leasing and car financing, but with cars where you want them for a short while it makes some sense. Particularly where there is technology risk and you want to swap up in a short period without the backend risk of what the car is…
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Continue reading →: Nikon Camera drool
Well why waiting the new Canon 5Ds to try and also for the new Sony A7/9 announcements coming, so since I need to shoot a regatta, seems like a good time to try the Nikon system which seems to have gotten amazing color depth and noise reviews. Not surprising since…
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Continue reading →: Create bootable Windows 8.1 from a Mac
OK, I’ve tried this something like a zillion times (and also for Ubuntu). Here are the mistakes: Do Not use Mac Unetbootin Finally if you try to use unetbootin on the Mac, it has been broken for three years (?!!). The things you have to do manually are to mark the partition…