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	<title>white nøise &#187; Comp hardware / mods</title>
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	<description>nerdy notes from suburbia</description>
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		<title>Raiding for fun and profit (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2010/04/raiding-for-fun-and-profit-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once the two SSDs were installed and recognized by Windows in RAID 0, it was time to move my boot partition from its 80GB 7200 rpm Seagate Barracuda to the new RAID volume. First I used a Ghost boot disk to image the partition to a different drive. Then I used Ghost to take that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raiding for fun and profit (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2010/04/raiding-for-fun-and-profit-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2010/04/raiding-for-fun-and-profit-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year I&#8217;m compelled to make at least one or two upgrades to my computer(s) &#8212; whether I need them or not. Related to my main rig (&#8220;big red&#8221;), the upgrades always occur before the summer MillionManLan so I can take full advantage of them during the 4 day game fest.
This year&#8217;s plan is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girlie Bits and Bytes</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/12/girlie-bits-and-bytes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Christmas was rolling up at full speed, I set out to prep a decrepit PC for a second wind. Over the summer I came into the possession of a Gateway Astro (circa 2000) to be handed down to a lucky seven year old girl. This is one of those PCs that really should have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing the Blu-Ray Blues</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/08/fixing-the-blu-ray-blues/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/08/fixing-the-blu-ray-blues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comp hardware / mods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Theater]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Not too long ago I moved my former PC of greatness down to its destined home, the basement AV rack. That was after a reconfiguration to Windows 7 RC and the addition of a spiffy new Blu-Ray (BD) drive and IR receiver. For the most part Win 7 is great, and the Media Center application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mouse Refab</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/07/mouse-refab/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/07/mouse-refab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a Logitech G7 wireless mouse for about 3 and a half years. While every other piece of my gaming rig has been replaced and upgraded, I still am lovin this mouse. The sensitivity is great, the weight is nice, and the body is just right. You can even still get new rechargeable batteries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 13 (it&#8217;s a wrap!)</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/05/computer-build-09-part-13-its-a-wrap/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/05/computer-build-09-part-13-its-a-wrap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comp hardware / mods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I put the finishing touches on the big red box. Here&#8217;s a rundown of all the last projects in pics.
Added handles. These are standard drawer handles from Lowes.
Added soft grips to feet. The original feet were clear acrylic &#8211; nice looking, but hard and smooth. These pads add some grip and may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 12</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/05/computer-build-09-part-12/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/05/computer-build-09-part-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comp hardware / mods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So what&#8217;s to be made of all those numbers in the previous post? What kind of difference has all that tuning made to performance? Let&#8217;s take a look.

3Dmark06
This is the previous gen benchmark from Futuremark and is still useful for comparing against older DX9 systems. Here I could compare my stock and overclocked scores from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 11</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/05/computer-build-09-part-11/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/05/computer-build-09-part-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comp hardware / mods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the hardware side of my build nearing the end, I&#8217;ve been working on system tweaking and overclocking. The new I7 platform has a lot of new overclocking facets to it over the AMD architecture that I was used to. I7 overclocking revolves around the base clock frequency (Bclock) a pretty close analog to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 10</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/05/computer-build-09-part-10/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/05/computer-build-09-part-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comp hardware / mods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While the overclocking and tuning continues, I did manage to finish the case lights over the weekend. I choose to use white lights so the colors of everything (which have been all nicely coordinated, after all) wouldn&#8217;t be washed in any particular color. I got a couple 12&#8243; Logisys LED sticks. They are just like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 9</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/04/computer-build-09-part-9/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/04/computer-build-09-part-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comp hardware / mods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past couple weeks I&#8217;ve been on vacation and then sick, so the box building has certainly slowed down, but I&#8217;ve some progress over the past couple days.
First off, I picked up a couple final parts. After doing better in Vegas than I expected, I picked up a 300GB 10k rpm Velociraptor hard drive. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 8</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/04/computer-build-09-part-8/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/04/computer-build-09-part-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comp hardware / mods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A quick update after a bunch of work last weekend.
I spent about five hours on Saturday working on the box. I started with putting the mobo tray back in the case before continuing with any wiring. Well, that didn&#8217;t go so well. It may not be apparent from the previous pics, but the CPU cooler [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 7</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/03/computer-build-09-part-7/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/03/computer-build-09-part-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comp hardware / mods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a couple days away, tonight I pulled out the motherboard tray and mounted the mobo and the graphics card. To be honest up until a couple days ago I wasn&#8217;t even sure the tray could easily come out, then I noticed that five thumbscrews is all it takes to yank it from the case. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 6</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/03/computer-build-09-part-6/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/03/computer-build-09-part-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Installed the CPU cooler last night. You can see how it&#8217;s a tight fit and that my cooler options were limited.

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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 5</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/03/computer-build-09-part-5/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/03/computer-build-09-part-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick update on the last couple days of building. A few peeps have been wanting photos along every step to vicariously live the geek thrill ride. So photos, you shall have&#8230;
At this point the fans and PSU have been installed. Pay no mind to the wires, they haven&#8217;t been dealt with yet. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 4</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/03/computer-build-09-part-4/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/03/computer-build-09-part-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comp hardware / mods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the case for the build arrived. I went with a pretty unique cube design. For a while I considered fab&#8217;ing my own case out of acrylic, but I really wanted an Aluminum frame with acrylic panels. Knowing that decent metal work is a little beyond my facilities, I went with a semi-custom case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 3</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/03/computer-build-09-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/03/computer-build-09-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comp hardware / mods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several other parts showed up this week: the motherboard, the ram, and the graphics card. It was a very exciting day in the neighborhood. I finally could do a quick hook up to make sure nothing was DOA. So far, everything works like a charm.

A quick rundown on the latest parts for the few people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 2</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/02/computer-build-09-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/02/computer-build-09-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part number two has come in: the power supply unit. I went with a Corsair model (HX620W) rated for a continuous 620 Watts. Although there are lots of supplies available with larger rated capacities, this PSU has a the build to actually exceed the rated capacity by over 100 Watts if necessary. While researching PSUs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Build 09: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/02/computer-build-09-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/02/computer-build-09-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How quickly time flies and how yesterday&#8217;s monster computer becomes just good enough to get by. This year I&#8217;m finally sending my previous computer build down to the basement as a full-time HTPC, and I&#8217;ll be building a new machine to take it&#8217;s place as my main rig. My current motherboard/ram/cpu is a couple generations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duct Tape Server II</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/07/duct-tape-server-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/07/duct-tape-server-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, that&#8217;s right&#8230;we made another one. Joe, Cassie, Rob, Alex, and I all pitched in to get this beast ready just in time for MillionManLan 7. See how all the bits came together at DuctTapeServer.com.

News has been creeping along the internet since, including another spot on Engadget.
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		<title>Coolin the Pixel Spitter</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/05/coolin-the-pixel-spitter/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/05/coolin-the-pixel-spitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another little mod to the gaming system this week. I picked up a nice Zalman video cooler on sale for about 25 bucks. I haven&#8217;t installed a GPU cooler before so I thought it&#8217;d be interesting to see what kind of impact it&#8217;d make. Here&#8217;s a look at my aging, but able, BFG 7900GT with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red, White, and PSU</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/05/red-white-and-psu/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/05/red-white-and-psu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got home last night excited to find my replacement power supply had arrived.

It&#8217;s the same model &#8211; yay! all my modular power cords will still work with this unit.
It&#8217;s reconditioned &#8211; ok, fair enough, these are out of production and mine was over 2 years old.
It&#8217;s blue.

WTF? While I&#8217;m super glad to have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No CPU For You</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/04/no-cpu-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/04/no-cpu-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My computer has been out of commission for seven days. The power supply died in very unceremonious fashion. Luckily it was only 2 years and 2 months into a 3 year warranty so I was able to send it back for a replacement. Unluckily it will be another week before I can expect that replacement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;d Like to Teach the World to Stream&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/02/id-like-to-teach-the-world-to-stream/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/02/id-like-to-teach-the-world-to-stream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a lot of media. Thousands of songs. Thousands of photos. Maybe a couple hundred movies and videos. Most of it sits on a network attached storage box, some on my main comp.
For the past few years I&#8217;ve been happily using a D-Link DSM-320 as a media extender to (frequently) listen to music through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Inches of Fun</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/02/seven-inches-of-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2008/02/seven-inches-of-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple years small LCD screens have been popping up all over. Besides common places like car headrests and dashes I&#8217;ve seen them incorporated in all kinds of other products ranging from treadmills to refrigerators. I haven&#8217;t seen too many computer related uses of them, however. The consumer market has been so ga-ga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LonelyServer15</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/06/lonelyserver15/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/06/lonelyserver15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE &#8211; I&#8217;m continuing to update this list as time goes on. It seems the news is still spreading!
Duct Tape Server had a nice rush of popularity over the weekend. News of the server and the site quickly spread to a number of news feeds and blogs, including:

NEW &#8211; Nokytech (French)

NEW &#8211; PC-Feber (Swedish)

[H]ard&#124;OCP

Engadget

MacMod

Make

Fractalspin blog

Techzi

Uneasysilence

Blues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duct Tape Server</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/06/duct-tape-server/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/06/duct-tape-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes that&#8217;s right&#8230;a server made from duct tape. We just completed this server which we plan to take to Million Man LAN 6 later this week. DTS is the brainchild of Blackbane and I as we decided that Team Boom Tape needed to send a message to our Duct Tape Wars competitors that nobody pwns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beam me up</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/01/beam-me-up/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/01/beam-me-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High performance wireless is important in my house. For one, my desktop is located in a room at the opposite corner of the house from the cable modem and running an ethernet cable between the two is just not going to happen. This is the machine I&#8217;m likely to do all my gaming and large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IE7</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/12/204/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/12/204/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I installed the latest Windows updates and after some consideration I decided to go ahead and switch to IE7. Can&#8217;t be worse then IE6 I figure.
Now I&#8217;ve only been in it a day and so far I gotta say it seems like a decent but somewhat clunky knockoff of Firefox. For one, I hate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New 3Dmark06 Benchmark</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/08/205/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/08/205/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my highest score yet on the 3DMark06 benchmark today&#8230;5298. My previous high was 5100 so this was a nice surprise. I haven&#8217;t done much to improve performance. I did dump Norton for AVG, made a couple graphics tweaks (new drivers and OC tweaks), and of course added that new CPU cooler. I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some (don&#8217;t) like it hot</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/07/206/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/07/206/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I upgraded the CPU cooler in my machine this past weekend. I went with the Zalman cnps9500led. It&#8217;s 530 grams of copper love with a 92mm led fan. It&#8217;s cetainly the largest cooler I could have added &#8211; just a few millimeters of clearance.

I removed the AMD stock heatsink and fan (which didn&#8217;t feel any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This thing will cause brain cancer</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/07/203/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/07/203/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So with my Roadrunner connection and my computer at opposite ends of the house and a floor apart, I haven&#8217;t been getting the best wireless throughput. After fiddling endlessly with antenna positioning, channel selection, and so on I decided I just needed MORE POWER (cue Tim Allen&#8217;s monkey grunt).

So I took down my (damn unique!) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer mod &#8211; moonroof</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/06/201/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/06/201/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So with Million Man Lan (MML5) fast approaching and figuring I&#8217;ll be having case window envy, I thought I&#8217;d try making a new transparent top lid to my case. My requirements were (1) it had to be cheap, (2) couldn&#8217;t involve modding any of the original case pieces, and most importantly (3) it couldn&#8217;t actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A view to a kill</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/05/202/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/05/202/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 04:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another case tweak. After seeing my lit case, Mark B had a great suggestion of putting a photo of the case internals on the small LCD. After a few shots with different focal lengths and lighting I had one I liked. Yes, I actually set my camera inside the case, set the auto-timer, and quickly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to pimp that ride</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/05/198/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/05/198/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 17:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just made some tweaks to my case. I replaced the stock case fans with a couple quieter chrome ones and cleaned up the wiring a bit. The new fans have 3pin connectors that can be plugged into the mobo for rpm monitoring/control.

I also added two 4&#8243; red cold cathodes to light things up. That makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; the tally</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/199/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/199/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I guess it&#8217;s time I add it all up.



Item
Cost


Silverstone LC18 Case
550


2GB RAM Twinx2048-3200c2pt
179


ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
225


Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
58


Hiper Type-R 580W Power Supply Chrome
115


LITEON DVD Drive (16x/8xDL) with Lightscribe
48


AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ CPU
458


BFG 7900GT OCE 256MB Video Card
329


Sony SDMHS95PS 19in Monitor
380


Microsoft Windows Media Center OEM
110


Initial Build
2452


2 Red Cold Cathodes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 12 &#8211; the OC</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/200/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/200/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the OC now. No, not California, overclocking-land. Since getting the machine together I&#8217;ve been researching and tweaking, researching and tweaking. My first 3DMark06 score was 4656. Since then I&#8217;ve oc&#8217;d the graphics card (gpu from 475 to 525, mem 1360 to 1500), tuned the ram timings to the rated values instead of SPD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 11 &#8211; play time</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/195/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/195/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So after about two months of piecing it together how does it do? It do good, real good. My first test was BF2 since that&#8217;s my game of choice lately. I decided to give it a good test right from the start by maxing out all the video settings at 1280&#215;1024. As expected, my machine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 10 &#8211; it&#8217;s alive!</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/196/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/196/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first step in putting the beast together was taking apart the case (removing the drive cages). Then I added the standoffs and screwed down the motherboard. It took some work to get the cover plate over the rear ports and into the back of the case, but in the end I&#8217;m glad it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 9 &#8211; the last shipment?</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/197/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/197/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the last two key components arrived: the graphics card and the OS. For the graphics card I went with the BFG 7900 GT OC. It&#8217;s a 256MB, 256 bit, PCI Express x16 card which uses Nvidia&#8217;s latest chip (24 pixel pipelines). It comes out of the box slightly overclocked, but I might end up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 8 &#8211; the brains and the burner</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/192/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/04/192/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another box from newegg at my door today. This time it was the CPU and DVD burner. For the CPU I went with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+. It&#8217;s a dual core, 64 bit, 2.2 GHz (stock), with a meg of L2 Cache for each core. The included heatsink is actually a nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 7 &#8211; the hard drive</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/03/193/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/03/193/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One more component showed up today, a 80 GB SATA 3Gb/s hard drive. It&#8217;s the Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 and has a 8MB cache and NCQ. Sure, I would&#8217;ve prefered a 16MB cache, but those jump up in price a fair bit. This little guy should be nice and speedy for the OS and core applications. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 6 &#8211; the mobo</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/03/194/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/03/194/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next piece just arrived, the A8N32-Deluxe motherboard from Asus.

This is one killer board &#8211; two x16 PCI express slots, 6 SATA II ports, on-board RAID controller, on-board 8 channel audio, dual Gb LAN, and so on. It&#8217;s probably a bit more than I needed for a dead processor line (939 socket), but it&#8217;ll serve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 5 &#8211; the monitor</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/03/189/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/03/189/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, it&#8217;s not really part of &#8216;the build&#8217;, but it will be part of the system. I picked up a new 19&#8243; LCD monitor today. I&#8217;ve been looking at getting one for a couple years (remember my VIAO laptop has a 12&#8243; screen), but I&#8217;ve gotten more serious lately with the build happening now. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 4 &#8211; the ram</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/03/190/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/03/190/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piece number 3 rolled in today&#8230;2 GB of RAM. Since I&#8217;m looking forward to using an Athlon X2 processor I opted for 2 sticks of DDR 400.

These XMS sticks aren&#8217;t the very top of the Corsair line (they don&#8217;t have any LEDs), but they&#8217;re close considering the price. They&#8217;re spec&#8217;ed to run at 2-3-3-6 timings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 3 &#8211; the psu</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/03/191/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/03/191/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piece number 2 arrives &#8211; the power supply. I decided on the Hiper Type-R 580W in chrome. SLI certified, aviation style connects, up to four SATA drives, what more could you ask for?

This thing is sweet! No pimp LEDs, but the chrome cladding is slick &#8211; even the fans are chrome. Seriously, it looks like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 2 &#8211; the case</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/02/187/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first piece of the great computer build has arrived&#8230;the case. Gentlemen, start your drooling:

Now most people probably don&#8217;t drain a major part of their budget on a case, but of course I&#8217;m not most people (have you seen my basement ceiling). Maybe it was that I needed a little extra bling to help me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer build &#8211; pt 1 &#8211; the decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of debating whether my next computer will be a new high-end laptop or a self-built desktop, I&#8217;ve finally decided on the later.
And what a hard decision it was! Between the Dell M170 laptop which is branded with my own corporate moniker (XPS) and some sleek new VIAOs rolling out with a graphics toggle [...]]]></description>
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