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As an experiment, I attached a thermocouple to a resistor rated for 1/4w and wrapped it in foam. At 0.1w the resistor was over 100º and...

For upgrading the Pismo CPU there are a few options. A faster version of the same G3 (750S or 750L) can be installed to achieve...

Measuring the total power used by a graphics card is more complicated, but I saw a nice project where someone is gathering actual data...

I think the problem is more likely to be a bad solder joint. If you can get the board set up in a way that you can test it on the...

Nice find! Thanks for sharing. Do you have plans for it?

What CPU does it have? I would guess that a 1.4GHz upgrade uses a 7455, and if so it would not need anything changed in the firmware.

If quake is your measure of daily usage, then yes, the only thing faster than a pentiumTM is another one with more cache. My point is...

I was curious so I looked and the dnet statistics server is still up: cgi.distributed.net/speed/ You can pull up graphs like this...

Respectfully, I disagree. I think that would be one of the worst ways. Even among contemporary x86 chips, quake is notorious for...

There is still a lot of good info in archives of cubeowner.com

I thought I'd share a little weekend project here. I picked up a "dead" Digital Audio tower and below are some steps I took to restore...

I can't think of any issues in particular; these are generally nice and reliable. I'd look at the usual things to check on a used...

Are you using a little thumb drive, or a whole disc? If the port works with other devices, it could be that it can't power the drive...

With a few versions to compare, that location seems to agree with the cache speed. 133MHz 0x86, 150MHz 0x98, 167MHz 0xB1. Maybe 0xFC...

Nice work! What does the Lombard EEPROM dump look like? If the Wallstreet CPU had cache chips rated for 150MHz, what is the speed...