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Dollar Store LED Switch Light Teardown

Dollar Store LED Switch Light Teardown + Battery PSA

Here we have a lighted light switch. Is it any good? What’s inside?

Super Joy III Teardown

Super Joy III Teardown

Another plug and play tv game console, with the eternal question of if there are chips in it, or just dies, covered in goop, a blob as they get called.

Experiences with Overclocking a Cheap MSI Motherboard

tfw u boot into your pc @ 5ghz on air cooling

I guess the moral of the story is, don’t try to overclock a CPU on an affordable MSI motherboard. It just, kind of does what it wants. Basically I can overclock just fine from the Command Center program and set the turbo speed to what I want it to go up to.

So if I’m rendering video, CPU can now go faster than normal, but if I’m doing nothing, it slows down. Makes sense so far, right?

Now the command center program cannot make permanent changes to the system. Well that’s okay. That’s not the end of the world, you figure out what settings you want, then go to the bios and change them. So I can be stable at 4.5Ghz on air cooling. Cool. That’s a base clock of 100, and a multiplier of 45. Go to BIOS, change ratio to 45, boot it back up and be good, right? Well upon reboot, it was running 5Ghz. Well that’s not what I set. And it was staying there, yes programs are loading, so on, no worries.

Okay, fans cranking, programs are loaded, Utilization is a few percent, and it’s just roasting away at 5GHz. That’s, starting to look bad. Playing around with a few more settings, it actually boots at 4.5Ghz…and stays there. Still not what I’m going for. Sure there is a one button overclock built into the motherboard, but if it can’t handle me changing a number manually, I don’t want to see what it will do automatically. The voltage limits they tend to set are sketchy, and I doubt it would accept a change. At that point I gave up, and everything is back to default. I don’t even know if I ended up with XMP turned on for my RAM, but that’s enough for today.

And upon opening the Command Center, it has my settings. So I have no idea how any of this works. Considering it’s a dice roll for the program to load. So I guess if I wasted this hour, but ended up with a 7% overclock, I will make up that time in 14 hours.

tldr; Overclock cheap MSI boards with the Command Center and just cross fingers it works, don’t go to the BIOS.

Ademco 5816 Window/Door Open Detector

Ademco 5816 Window/Door Open Detector

More home security, this time with soldering tips for newbies, by a newbie!

Honeywell Basic Electronic Thermostat Teardown

Honeywell Basic Electronic Thermostat Teardown

This is a very basic thermostat unit with a nice internal layout.

RCA-NS 500 Teardown

RCA-NS 500 Teardown

Teardown of a 30-in-1 Games Console that plugs directly into the TV!
Playlist of it on Scrub Hub: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqcIzJjyFp8RAfQolhiolWEi5F21edW_J

Dollar Store USB Car Charger Teardown

Dollar Store USB Car Charger Teardown (with Fire!)

USB Car Charger from the dollar store. What’s inside? Take a look!
Also there is fire. Much fire!

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