Category Archives: DIY

Fake ECOO E04 battery alert

Posted on July 16, 2015 by cmexonat

Recently I’ve got replacement battery for my new ECOO E04 smartphone. It seemed as original at the first glance. But capacity was too low. It was 1700mAh instead of 3000mAh as listed and not even 2000-2500mAh as it was reported … Continue reading →

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Don’t throw away your old 775 motherboard, or to put Xeon into 775 socket

Posted on January 15, 2015 by cmexonat

Lately I’ve noticed interesting way to upgrade my old box with LGA775 system. It has Core2Duo E7300 processor and 8GB of RAM. So I saw somewhere on the web that one can use Xeon processors (771 socket) in 775 socket … Continue reading →

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How to upgrade DELL Precision M4500 up to 16GB RAM

Posted on March 21, 2013 by cmexonat

Disclaimer! AFAIK You may install 16GB of RAM for QuadCore system only! If you have DualCore processor it’s limited to 8GB. Yesterday I have got my upgrade kit from Germany, the 1TB HDD and 16GB RAM. Surprisingly, parcel arrived in two … Continue reading →

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mSATA SSD arrived!

Posted on March 15, 2013 by cmexonat

Hi there! Today I’ve got 128GB SATA minicard for my Dell Precision M4500 laptop. As you may remember I posted about this SSD drive here. I’ve ordered it month ago from Hong Kong ebayer, this is the link to the item. Firstly … Continue reading →

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eGPU is the way to boost up laptop rendering power

Posted on February 17, 2013 by cmexonat

Recently I googled an interesting posts about how one could expand laptop graphics subsystem greatly. Yes, it’s about external GPU. One just need to plug such thing as PE4H kit in a laptop’s ExpressCard slot. You can plug in it any … Continue reading →

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Sennheiser PX 100 for $5

Posted on February 14, 2013 by cmexonat

(not including shipping)  (Photos from the seller) Last week I got from flebay decent Sennheiser PX100 without jack for $5 + $15 EMS shipping. I knew this model, because my wife has the same phones and they are just great … Continue reading →

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