Recent content by JokerXIX

Thanks for the responses. Future upgrade-ability is one of my main concerns, which kinda seems to be a problem for Intel.

Thanks for the responses. I'm going to do some more reading on this, but Intel's looking pretty good.

I apologize in advance for the sister post in the AMD CPU section. I want opinions from both sides of the aisle. I wish there was a universal CPU one for me to post this in. I'm at an impasse building my new desktop, mainly because I can't look at anything until I know which CPU socket I'm...

I apologize in advance for the sister post in the Intel CPU section. I want opinions from both sides of the aisle. I wish there was a universal CPU one for me to post this in. I'm at an impasse building my new desktop, mainly because I can't look at anything until I know which CPU socket I'm...

I'll definately continue this project over the summer. So if I'm looking for at least 3 hours of uptime, what should I do?

Yet another thing I was unaware of..I assumed that colleges would have decent internet everywhere. Hmm...maybe I don't want to do that then...It's looking like I should just get a laptop.

It's beginning to look like I seriously underestimated the challenged of putting a PC into a briefcase (I thought I was doing fine up until I hit the power issue). This would be for college. Right now I'm starting to stray away from the briefcase PC (the only thing it really had going it is that...

I considered doing that, but I'd only undertake this project because of the challenge. So disassembling a laptop would defeat the purpose. For some reason I was mistaken and thought DDR2 was cheaper than DDR3.

Also, there's the issue of price. I'm up to around $950, give or take because of the CD drive, and still need the batteries, briefcase, and keyboard. The keyboard is almost sure to be negligible. I'd love to keep it under $1200. I'd only use this programming and developing, so I was thinking...

Well, the thing is I'm doing a mod where I'm putting a computer, monitor and all, into a briefcase (no more than 2.5" thick a side). I looked up some similar mods online but all of them had power cords. Power tool batteries would be interesting, I hadn't thought of that. I'm hoping for at...

I'm building a portable computer (not a laptop, a computer...all the laptop parts, especially motherboards, are proprietary...) that needs to run off of a battery. I've found some potential parts for the power system online (http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-90) but am wondering if there's...