Feb 07 2006
Watch A Hard Drive Work
This cool video of a hard drive in action shows how its arm seeks across its platters. I’m surprised hard drives last as long as they do.
Archive for the tag 'hardware'
Jan 09 2006
Cooling A Computer With Oil
Strip Out The Fans, Add 8 Gallons of Cooking Oil:
Common sense dictates that submerging your high-end PC in cooking oil is not a good idea. But, of course, engineering feats and science breakthroughs were made possible by those who dared to explore the realms of the non-conventional.
They recommend motor oil, although they used vegetable oil. [...]
Nov 05 2005
There’s A Bee In My…
My new computer is dying. There are three fans in it: one on the CPU, one on the video card, and one for the motherboard’s chipset (NVIDIA nForce4). A month ago a loud buzzing sound started emanating from the computer case, sounding like a big-ass bee stuck in a glass jar; and then [...]
May 23 2005
Building A Computer
I finally bought a new computer. I bought it in pieces from NCIX.com (I’ll post about them later), who are on the other side of Canada, but with shipping it was still cheaper than buying the equivalent pre-assembled PC. It arrived in less than a week. Here’s the important stuff:
AMD Athlon 64 [...]
Aug 21 2004
How CPUs Work
Understanding the Microprocessor, a bookmark I’ve had a long time that explains basic computer concepts. I studied this in a lot more detail in computer science studies at university.
