8bit Customs

We are a custom PC company that specializes in custom built PC's, PC repair, and all-around technology consulting.

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These “solar roads” could power the entire USA.

More info: http://bit.ly/1omMdBf

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This would be amazing!

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Earthworm Jim by Skottie Young Follow for more gaming!

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Earthworm Jim is badass!

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Here are some progress pictures. The project is coming along nicely. I'm pleased with the cabe sleeving although it definatly shows signs of a beginner's work :) That's ok though, practice practice practice!

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MDPC Cable Sleeving...SWEET!  Just finished sleeving my 8 pin CPU power cable.  Turned out awesome for a first attempt if I do say so myself.  So excited to see this build completed :)

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First mod done, many more to come! Million Dollar PC on the way!

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Nintendo’s Game Boy Turns 25. The Game Boy (ゲームボーイ Gēmu Bōi) is an 8-bit handheld video game device developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on April 21, 1989.

via Wikipedia.

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Classic

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History of Video Game Controllers

by Rita Malaquias

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Sweet!

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Last month we shared photos of a fantastic Tauntaun rocking horse and today the latest in Star Wars-related rocking horses is this awesome AT-AT Rocker. It was designed and made by Jen Yates, creator of EPBOT and Cakewrecks.

Click here to learn about how Jen created this geektastic rocker.

[via Geekosystem]

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Parenting... You are doing it right!

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Here’s a quick build I did for my parents. It’s basically all parts I had sitting around so I threw it together for them.  It includes an AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition, a Crucial 64GB SSD for some speed, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and a custom liquid cooling system.  A dual 120mm radiator, Thermaltake pump and an OCZ CPU water block keep this PC nice and chilly :)  All of this is housed inside a Silverstone PS07 case in white and running Windows 8.  I managed to fit almost all of the wires behind the motherboard tray so that the case looks almost empty, besides the cooling system.

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Water cooling these components, especially some unknown low profile video card, is really pointless and unnecessary. There’s plenty of room for a passively cooled equivalent if noise is a concern. A big air cooler will do just fine for a Phenom 2 as well.

I also don’t like PSU on top case configs, never have, even when that’s all you could get.

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I completely agree, lowguppy, but if you have a bunch of unused parts laying around then why not use them? I set this up just messing around and have since taken the watercooling system out to use in my own computer. This PC was only used for sending email and youtubing anyway...nothing like a bit of overkill yeah?

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Not Your Typical Paper Cutouts

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Crazyness!

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Here is my home media server.  It is setup with Plex Media Server and it broadcasts all of my video files to the other computers/devices in my house and my sister's house next door.  Since I didn't feel like investing in a solid state drive for this older, yet still peppy (with Windows 8 installed), machine, it is running RAID array with three hard drives to gain just a little bit more speed.  And it is tucked away in my shop in the basement so that it does not add any noise to the living room :)

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Visit Original Link

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Sweet!

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Dusan Cezek   |   http://behance.net/najboljidizajn

"A small pixel art gif project featuring ones of my favourite, not so main stream, movie scenes and comics."

Fluent and capable ideamaker, art director and digital creative thinker. Specialist in startlingly effective rich media advertising, strategy planning, development and execution of integrated campaigns, websites and email campaigns. 

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Haha! Snoochie Boochies!

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Bytes vs. Hertz

Hey everyone! Nick here with 8bit Customs,

    I want to try to get a little series of helpful tips going for people that are not so in tune with PC lingo as some of us techs. Tips that can help with picking out that next PC, tablet or smart phone.     Lets start off with a quick post about bytes (upper case "B") and hertz (Hz). I know that sometimes this can confuse the not so tech savvy so I thought I would try and help. Now this doesn’t just pertain to your PC at home, but also your phones and tablets and almost anything else that has a computer in it.     We start with bytes. Mega, Giga, Tera… Bytes are used to describe data storage. Think of bytes as grocery bags. The more bags you have, the more groceries (data) you can hold. When you buy a computer and it says that it comes with a 1 TB hard drive it is saying that you have roughly 1 trillion bytes of storage. If it were a 100 GB hard drive it would be equivalent to about 100 Billion Bytes. Also remember that 1000MB≈1GB and 1000GB≈1TB. Basically lots and lots of grocery bags!     Now hertz. They also use the prefixes Mega, Giga. No Terahertz yet. Maybe in the near future. Hertz are what measure the speed at which computers process data (bytes). So imagine the billions of grocery bags you have sitting in the trunk of your car holding all of those groceries. Hertz would be how fast you can bring those bags into your house from you car. And if you see a tag saying a PC has a multi core processor, this will simply multiply the amount of data you can process at the same time. Imagine you have all these grocery bags full of stuff and some of it needs to stay cold, but it’s going to take you all day to move them all inside. What do you do? Well call up your neighbor, or neighbors, to come and help you move the bags. This is multi core processing at it’s most basic.     So when looking at a PC you will notice that inside there are many different components that all use bytes and hertz to refer to what that specific component can do or fast it can do it but you can pretty much stick to the rule that more is always better. CPU (multi core or not), memory (RAM), graphics card (GPU), hard drive (HDD or SSD) and many of the parts attached to the motherboard itself (the main circuit board that holds all of these components).     OK, hopefully this helps a little bit…well not a bit. A bit (lower case "b") is another form of data measurement and that’s for another post altogether. Good luck and remember, bigger is better when it comes to hertz and bytes so go big or go home!

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Look at all those boxes!

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Here are some TV menus we setup at our local mall in Syracuse, NY (www.Destinyusa.com).  There are 3 LCD TV's all run by a custom build PC with dual graphics cards and running Windows 7 Pro.  There is also a night vision security camera that is monitored from the same PC using open source software that will connect multiple cameras and even record on movement or timers.  We did all the mounting hardware for the TV's and also ran all of our own cables and wiring.

Feel free to contact Nick ([email protected]) to inquire about a setup like this for your business or for any other computer work you may need.

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Here's my own personal computer. It is a Haswell Core i5-4670K CPU paired with a Gigabyte GA-Z87MX-D3H motherboard. Throw in an NZXT 700W power supply, 8GB of DDR3 RAM running at 1600MHz and a Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD and you got a pretty nice compact setup all housed in a SilverStone PS07 MicroATX case (white of course). And finally, add in the custom liquid cooling loop and you're ready to go! Oh yeah, this is a Hackintosh by the way. Yes sir it is running Apple's newest OS X, Mavericks (10.9.1)