What’s better than one 1080Ti? Two of them. Well, maybe. Under certain conditions. For older games. Sometimes. Welcome to Esk Computers, I’m Scott and today […]
My9-9900K: Recreating my last daily driver
They say you can’t go home again. They’re full of crap. I’m rebuilding my previous daily driver system, and seeing if 2018’s best consumer processor, […]
Ubuntu Touch on the Oneplus 6T is decadent and depraved
Is 2026 the year of Linux on your phone screen? No, not really, but let’s explore Ubuntu Touch anyway. I picked up this OnePlus 6T […]
Shucking the hard drive from a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk enclosure for fun and profit
Let’s destroy something beautiful by ripping apart an external hard drive to harvest and reuse its juicy innards. Welcome to Esk Computers, I’m Scott and […]
Resizeable BARrier to entry: making the Arc A310 even slower
Last week we saw what the tiny little Intel Arc A310 was capable of under ideal conditions, today we’re seeing if it can keep up […]
The Intel Arc A310: top tier display adapter gaming
The Intel Arc A310 is not intended to be a card for gaming, but I’ve checked, and they can’t legally stop you. Welcome to Esk […]
How to recover data from an SD Card
Can I recover my data from this corrupted SD Card, or have those photos been forever banished to the land of wind and ghosts? Welcome […]
A Sega Special Reserve – what’s worth playing today?
What retro games from Sega’s console history are worth playing these days? Let’s find out. Welcome to Esk Computers, I’m Scott and today on the […]
The e-waste to internet radio pipeline
This unassuming metal slab hides a computer of, well, very little power at all by 2015 standards, and even less so in Space Year 2026. […]
2080Ti in 2026: Has the 2080Ti fallen off yet?
Let’s find out if the 2080Ti really is one thousand better than the much loved 1080Ti we’ve been poking at recently by throwing it against […]
Dual Xeon Server revisit: Quad Channel Memory and Process Lasso for more speed
In today’s episode of I’m an idiot and made a mistake, I wanted to add another 32 gigabytes of ECC RAM to this server’s existing […]
The 1080Ti vs. modern games: 60 fps by hook or by crook
Let’s see how well the legendary 1080Ti can play some of the most recent games if you can accept lower settings and maybe, ewww, upscaling. […]
Water cooling a Quadro P1000 for no obvious reason
A little while back we were looking at this tiny little console size computer, and crammed a single slot, half height graphics card into a […]
The 1080 GOATi – When did this legendary card fall off, or is it still going strong?
A little while back I built a very silly dual X99 Xeon server that I’d hoped to run with dual 1080Ti’s, because I thought that […]
Keeping the 2010 MacBook Pro on life support
We recently looked at how a fifteen year old laptop was holding up on our Lenovo X220 video. Let’s go one year older and see […]
Unicorn Hunt: the quest for a Sega-styled modern controller with six face action buttons
I just wanted to do a quick follow up to my video on Logitech controllers, where I bemoaned the absence of modern controllers with the […]
Quadro P2200: When did the Adult GTX1060 fall off?
I’d picked up a Quadro P2200 as a candidate for using in my dual Xeon home server for transcoding media, but if you watched my […]
My 9800X3D / 7800XT daily driver: On balance, off balance, doesn’t matter.
I’ve mentioned my own rig in passing a few times previously as a comparison point when looking at builds on the channel, and seeing as […]
Stuffing Proton where it doesn’t belong: Linux Steam on the OG 2016 GPD Win
I mentioned on the recent video about installing Bazzite on the GPD Win 3 that I wanted to subject the OG GPD Win to the […]
Defenestrating the GPD Win 3: testing Bazzite and Xbox mode
After doing the last video on the GPD Win 3, I did have some comments wondering how well it would run with the new gaming […]