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Probably the biggest topic of conversation at UltimateComputers.net is: will these parts work together?  This video explains how you should go about choosing parts that will be compatible.  Enjoy!

On August 22nd I’ll be heading up to Ithaca, NY to start my college education at Cornell University’s Engineering college.  So what do you think the one thing that stressed be out about college was?  The workload?  The pressure?  The upperclassmen?  Nope.  My one worry was this: How will I survive without a powerful computer!?  The problem is that I won’t, which I why a recently built a new desktop to take with me up to college…in addition to by Dell D630 Laptop.  If you are anything like my parents, you’re probably thinking, “Why do you need such a massive powerful computer!?”  It’s who I am, people.  I’ve got a need for processor speed.  So without further adeiu, I introduce you to my newest speed machine:

Before building a fairly basic computer for my mother, I realized that the since I wasn’t doing anything extreme (like watercooling), this would be the ideal opportunity to make a simple instructional video for beginner computer builders. The result was an easy-to-follow 10 minute tutorial:

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, and now it’s finally done. Myself, and a few friends have finished building a computer completely submerged in mineral oil. Because mineral oil does not conduct electricity, computer components can be submerged in it without risk of shorting. It also helps to dissipate the heat created by the processor, and other chips. In our project, we use baby oil (mineral oil + fragrance). Visit the project page for this at ultimatecomputers.net for photos!

I’ve upgraded my computer! My old system (ultimate computer 1) has been donated to my brother, and I will be replacing it with a watercooled beast. The specs and pictures are available in my forum post here.

And I’ve made both a montage of the build set to music, and a 20-minute instructional version for those interested in the fine-points of computer building. Both are available on ultimatecomputers.net: montage, instructional

Here is the youtube embed of the montage (The instructional version is also available on my youtube profile in 4 parts) :

That’s right, not just one more computer building video, but two! Are you excited or what? I did these a few days apart, but uploaded them both to youtube today. Once again, the parts are pretty similar, because I’ve tested that they work well together. So without further adieu… UltimateComputer3.

Visit the project page at ultimatecomputers.net

The video of my first computer build was more successful than I thought on youtube, so it looks like I’ll be filming some more. Following is a similar system that I built with a friend. It’s designed for most of the same stuff, video editing, some games, etc.

Visit the project page at ultimatecomputers.net

Well it’s about time. I finally built my own computer for the world to see. It’s running an AMD Athalon X2 4400+, 2GB of RAM, and an eVGA nvidia 7800GT video card.

Visit the project page at ultimatecomputers.net