Archive for January, 2009


Computer Cooling Techniques

  Posted January 24th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Computer Cooling Techniques

I noticed a whole bunch of questions about various types of computer cooling this past week on the forum, so I figured we were due for a TechBits episode on the topic!  You can check it out below or you can watch it in HD on youtube. In other news, I broke 500 subscribers this [...]

Back Up to Cow Country

  Posted January 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
Stuff is Going on!

So tonight will be last night for quite a while that I’ll get to sleep in my comfy bed, as I’ll be heading back up to Cornell University for the Spring Semester tomorrow (actually, I guess it’s today since I’m writing this late at night). As far as courses go, my lineup is as follows: [...]

YouTube Partner Status Achieved

  Posted January 13th, 2009 | No Comments »
youtube

Great News!  After posting my first video to Youtube over 2.5 years ago, I’ve finally been selected to join the youtube partner program.  As a member, my videos get priority, I’m eligible for revenue sharing if Ichoose to have ads appear next to my videos, and I get to do a lot of great stuff [...]

So you’ve Built a Computer! Now What?

  Posted January 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
Computer Setup

This most recent video tutorial, brought to you by ultimatecomputers.net, answers one of the biggest questions I get: how do you configure a computer once you’ve finished building it? I explain how to maneuver through the BIOS, ensure your temperatures are okay, setup a RAID array, set your default boot device, install Windows, get drivers [...]

This Computer really is Ultimate. Worthy of Edition 6? Hell ya.

  Posted January 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »
UC6

Building the Ultimate Computer: Edition 6 is live!  This is undoubtedly the most bleeding-edge computer I’ve ever built.  It sports a GTX280 Video Card, an Intel Core i7 940 Quad Core CPU, and 12GB of DDR3 Triple Channel RAM!  This thing hasn’t even been overclocked yet and it’s is already destroying benchmarks left and right.  [...]