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Did You Know You Could Rip Apart Your Computer And Melt The Circuit Boards For Gold?

11:20AM August 23, 2011 | Casey Chan

Gold is like so in right now. And not even just for jewellery! I mean, it’s over $US1900 — that’s big money making opportunity. So it’s not that bat-shit crazy to melt your electronic circuit boards and tear apart your phone to create a gold nugget, right? More »


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Motherboard Art Brings Life To Your Computer

12:00AM June 24, 2011 | Casey Chan

Joe Dragt began painting on motherboards when he was tasked with the duty of recycling 30 old computers. Instead of seeing old, downtrodden and beige, he figured the circuitry of their motherboards would make for really great art backgrounds. More »


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Put An Assault Rifle In Your PC With This Assassin Motherboard

4:23AM May 21, 2011 | Sam Biddle

You can go the route of modesty with a gaming rig – sure, but there’s something to be said for the glowing, flowing, completely outrageous rig of conspicuous PC carnage. How about a motherboard that looks like a disassembled gun? More »


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Alliances Forged In Hell’s Frozen Recesses: Nvidia And AMD

1:40AM April 29, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

If you’ve ever built a computer, this will be jarring: Nvidia’s agreed to licence its SLI tech for use on AMD motherboards. (AMD, of course, bought Nvidia arch-rival ATI a while ago and buried the ATI brand in favour of a unified AMD front a few months ago.) More »


This Is What Motherboards Look Like Now

4:00AM November 16, 2010 | Joel Johnson

Asus calls the black cladding over its new Sabertooth P67 motherboard a “tactical vest”, which despite the goofy name is there for good reason: the shielding ducts cool air over motherboard parts, while protecting from daughterboard heat. In theory. [Slashgear]


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Some New MacBook Air Owners Reporting Possible Logic Board Issues

8:39AM November 3, 2010 | Brian Barrett

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This isn’t anything we experienced in our reviews of the new 13-inch and 11-inch MacBook Airs, but Cult of Mac notes that some users are reporting video distortion and crashing issues – that sound logic board-related – in larger than normal numbers. More »


Motherboard Mega Roundup: 6 Top Mobos Reviewed

12:40AM September 25, 2010 | Gordon Mah Ung and Paul Lilly

We’ve decided to round up the best and brightest motherboards available. And we’re not talking Micro ATX, sub-$US100 budgetrino boards here. We reached for the most feature-filled, over-the-top X58 and 890FX boards from the top three mobo vendors. More »


Dell Repairs Servers With Virus-Laden Motherboards

10:32PM July 22, 2010 | Mark Wilson

Could you imagine this scenario? You order a replacement motherboard for your PowerEdge R310, R410, R510 or T410 server, and it comes with a virus. That only happened in less than 1 per cent of these models, but it doesn’t exactly help one sleep well at night. Dell blamed the issue on “human error”. [WSJ]


The Motherboard Of All Stained Glass Windows

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12:00PM June 22, 2010 | Nick Broughall

What does one do with piles of leftover motherboards? Well, if you happen to have a talented stonemason friend like Agg on the Overclockers AU forum, you donate them so they can be reworked into an awesome stained glass window. More »


Motherboard City, Population: 2048KBytes

8:40AM May 13, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Someone built the entire city of Helsinki, Finland, using motherboards. It’s looks detailed that I thought it was an actual model at first sight. I can’t wait for someone to make New York. And then Berlin.