Aaalrighty, let’s try and make some money out of this… Been fixing friends’ computers, donating laptops, DIYing coolings… Now I got this website – aiming at offering remote computer support. Like, share and subscribe! 😉 www.hilfepc.de
Measure CPU Watts with a Multimeter
I’m really into measuring things. Here is a video of me measuring power consumption of an Ivy Bridge Core-i5 and a Xeon 1245 V2 (roughly equivalent to Core-i7 3770)
That Fleetwood Mac Thing
Playing with “Love That Woman” by Fleetwood Mac
The 19V-ish DIY powerbank
Ever wished yourself a power bank for your (non USB-C) laptop? I did lately, though I can’t complain with the 7200 MAh battery of my Fujitsu Lifebook s792. First I looked up some power bank cases like this, as well as some DIY charge balancing boards. These look like a pretty nice option for use […]
Testing DDR3 power consumption
Did a little power consumption testing of 6 different SODIMM DDR3 memory modules. Here are the readings of a Kill-A-Watt kind of device, measuring Watts on a Fujitsu Lifebook s792. – First reading is Watts at idle.– Second reading is average Watts while running MemTest+ 5.01. Hynix 1Rx8 2GB 10600-9-10-B1 (HMT325S6BFR8C-H9 NO AA)Idle: 9.6 / Load: […]
Chromium vs. CPU
Lately noticed my laptop fan laboring steadily when Chromium is open. Did some comparison, it seems that the start page (with Google on it) consumes about 4 threads each 35% CPU time…Pretty much the same as if watching a 720p YouTube video. Observed a very similar problem with Opera (again based on Chromium for what […]
“Sitting on Top of the World” with cats
Prepare to stuff your ears with cheese.Bat Yanko, Oscar and Franco are about to the sing the blues.
Working for free, as if you were a GPU
Financial intermediary logic, courtesy of Nicehash: What you get is a % of % of what you give. But you don’t really get it, because now it is only % of the minimum %. Profit. So I recently mined a few days with Nicehash, mainly to test some water cooling setups. Using just two Radeon […]
One water block per mining rig?
Being the PC cooling freak that I am, I totally had to play with this. Namely – cooling a set of crypto-mining GPUs. The plan: shape a system of copper pipes into a single heat sink unit, providing 1x water input, 1x water output and multiple GPU interface surfaces.The result was the following module that can […]
How (not) to cool a video card
Note: I really don’t like pointing fingers at people about how they did something wrong. This was however too perfect a textbook case to pass by 🙂 Radeon R9 270 with a thermal pad. Priceless. So, a few days ago I got a used Radeon R9 270 from Ebay . The card was sold as […]