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This week all the parts have arrived for my new computer. I worked on various aspects of it over several nights this week and the assembly was finished last evening. Having elected to build a fresh Windows 8 install, and the Windows 7 image  of my previous computer being on the disk I was putting…

An interesting range of product can be found in Intel’s lineup of Mini-ITX boards with the NM10 chipset. These have an Atom CPU embedded on the board and the price is about the same as a current B75 chipset board like the one I am buying for my new computer. There is quite a lot…

Well doing the specs and it looks like the lowest spec CPU is going to be a Core i3. It looks like SLAT (which Intel calls Extended Page Tables or EPT) is part of VT-x by default now, but I will have to do some more research on that. The cheapest of this CPU is…

OK so now I have decided at last what I am going to do upgrade-wise, and it will be implemented over the rest of this year, I hope. The plan is simply to upgrade in that Foxconn TS001 chassis by replacing the mainboard, CPU and RAM. I will possibly buy a SSD and maybe replace…

While I haven’t yet figured out whether to buy a new computer or whatever, the old one is getting packed to the gills with everything I can do with it to make it more useful. So, today, I decided I could make it dual boot Windows 7 with Windows 8, just until I figure out…