Recent content by Mr_Dove

Is power-on hours a reliable way to judge the possible life of a hard drive? I have two drives in the 20,000 hour range and one in the 13,000 range. Should I worry about replacing these drives soon?

My 2 year old daughter recently dropped my laptop onto the floor from the table. It's about a 2 foot drop onto carpet. Naturally the system started giving me problems shortly after. I removed the hard drive and began testing it in an external enclosure that I have. I used SeaTools for a...

thanks for all the comments so far. My original system was a Core2duo E6300 1.8gz GIGABYTE GA-965GM-S2 Motherboard 4.5 Gb of ram Video card is 8600 GTS (I believe that EVGA upgraded this for me at some point as part of some warranty service) At some point I was able to swap out the...

I have two desks that are made from solid-core doors. They are heavy duty with a nice oak top. One of the desks belongs to my kids. They do school work and crafts at their desk. Because of the crafts it ends up getting hit with paint, markers, crayons, glue, etc. My desk is used...

I'm upgrading my system soon. It's been about 5 years since I upgraded anything. Skyrim is on my mind while I plan my upgrade path. My current video card works fine for almost everything but it won't run Skyrim. With a decent video card I might play more PC games instead of console games...

I'm going to be building a new system over the next few months. I would probably describe it as an economy gaming system. Because of my financial constraints I usually try to purchase a motherboard that will allow me to upgrade my processor in the future. I usually start out with a slower...