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Gallery
A selection of computer projects, vintage equipment, and other technology I work with.
The most powerful (and expensive) PC I have ever built. This particular box sports an Nvidia RTX 5090, AMD Ryzen 9950X3D2, 256GB DDR5, 4 8TB Samsung 9100 PRO NVME SSDs, Seasonic 1600W TX-1600 enclosed in an elegant Fractal North case with wood slats. No RGB here. I also love the new Noctua NH-D15 G2.My client's father was a computer guy. Well, he left behind a ton of hard drives and other devices with unknown data on them. I was tasked with helping check the drives and centralize any personal information on them onto a single external drive to be combed through later. I was impressed with the number of hard drives, and there were even more than what I fit into this picture.A mixture of Hi8, VHS and VHS-C tapes in need of digitization. 100% success. This client can forever rest assured that they no longer need to worry about their tapes slowly rotting.Updating the firmware on my 2021 Mazda 6 Signature infotainment screen myself because the dealer quoted me $600 to do it. This was a huge pain to do, and I don’t even remember how I did it.My first serious computer I built for myself in 2015. I had finished connecting everything for testing. It was very messy. SFF builds are generally more difficult and disorganized than medium or full-size builds. I spent a lot on Noctua fans and heatsink.
These are the only two pictures I have of the finished first serious computer I ever built for myself when I had money to do so. It was powered by an Intel Devil's Canyon i7-4790K, 16GB of 2400MHz DDR3 RAM and an Nvidia GTX 970 attached to an ASUS Z97I-PLUS ITX board. It was all housed inside a SilverStone ML07. Pictured next to my old Xbox 360 Elite for scale, with my ancient iPod charger plugged in.
Took these two pictures in July of 2015. I got bored and built a Pentium 4 Prescott Windows XP desktop with scrap parts I had lying around.A blown PSU, or power supply, new out of the box, is unusual, but it does happen. This is a component I will overspend on every time to get the best, because a bad power supply can wreak havoc on your entire desktop computer. This brand-new desktop PC was otherwise built correctly but my client thought they did something wrong. Nope! Manufacturing defect.
If you’re lucky enough to be a corporate guest at Microsoft, this is what you may have the opportunity to experience. This was in November of 2019 at the Moffet Towers in Santa Clara. These were good times.My Windows 98 gaming PC. I built this completely with new-old-stock parts. Intel Pentium III 1.4GHz Tualatin, 512GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce Ti 4600, ASUS TUSL2-C, ASUS iPanel Deluxe, 128GB Samsung 850 PRO SSD with Startech IDE adapter, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS SB0350PTesting a finished modded Sega Dreamcast with GDEMU, Retro Robot USB C power supply replacement, resettable fuse for controller board, replaceable LR2032 battery mod and black shell swap. This particular console has the entire North American library. I’m using the RetroTink Dreamcast Component cable. Pictured left is a 14-inch JVC i’Art CRT with component inputs that was donated to me by a client out here in CA. I donated it to a friend when I moved back to TN.Heavily modifying a version 1.0 launch edition Microsoft OG Xbox from 2001. This is a view of the board.Setting my newborn daughter up to "game" on my M2 Pro Mac Mini so I could take a picture.My first desktop computer build for myself ever. It was crude. I took this picture in 2012. By then this computer was highly obsolete, but it was what I could afford. It had a liquid-cooled Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, a legendary CPU for enthusiasts when it was mainstream.Visiting Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara. It was a very windy day. I took home a lot of trinkets.When I had built up enough savings from working, I took a plunge and wanted to build myself a really nice computer. Unlike the cobbled together Q6600 build, this build used all new parts. Pictured here in 2015 is my original i7-4790K and ASUS Z97I-PLUS ITX motherboard. I still have it today!Another look inside a custom desktop computer build.A custom-built desktop computer with its internal components on display.I worked at Best Buy for quite some time as Microsoft vendor-provided labor and later a manager. I had just finished downstocking and cleaning in preparation for Black Friday in 2019.
A pair of AMD Radeon VII GPUs I had. It was an interesting but unpopular graphics card using 16GB of HBM2 memory. The red anniversary model is exceptionally rare.One of the rear-firing KEF speakers behind the couch.A closer look at the home theater receiver.A newly set up 5.1 home theater system using a 55-inch LG OLED TV, KEF speakers, and a Pioneer receiver.Running a brand-new, high-end gaming desktop computer through its paces right after I finished building it.A tidy small form factor desktop computer setup using the Dr. Zaber Sentry case. I had a lot of fun with this project, and I hope this niche desktop PC case returns in the future.Modifying the software on a Sega Genesis Mini console to accommodate other games that the unit did not ship with from the factory.Capturing analog Hi8 tape cassettes.
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