Inside report from the Slovenian hardware community by Modmeister Matteus
When Janez Drnovsek’s beloved dog Poochie died of canine syphilis, he was devastated. That was, until the Ljubljana-based hardware enthusiast came up with an idea: why not transform his faithful companion into a unique small form factor PC? That way Poochie could be by his side once more, as he indulged his favourite hobby of collecting bovine pornography via the Internet.
Many hours with the dremel later, he’d modded Poochie into an ergonomic Mini-ITX platform, into which he built an EPIA MII 12000 mainboard. But even the EPIA was too noisy for Drnovsek, so he added Zalmann’s excellent Reserator 1 water cooling. Using ClockGen, Drnovsek managed to overclock his Poochie EPIA system from 1.2GHz to 1.204GHz, which gave a 0.3 per cent performance improvement overall in 3D benchmarks.
‘Poochie was a good dog, and my only real friend’, Drnovsek told Tehwinquirer.net. ‘But now he’s a kick-arse gaming system, which is even better!’ After the success of his Poochie mod, Drnovsek is looking forward to when his pet goat Ethel meets her demise. ‘She’ll be perfect for my new Pentium M project’, he commented.
Poochie Mini-ITX System
3DMark03: 72 (72.2 overclocked)
3DMark05: 9 (9.03 overclocked)
‘Poochie was a good dog, and my only real friend’, Drnovsek told Tehwinquirer.net. ‘But now he’s a kick-arse gaming system, which is even better!’ After the success of his Poochie mod, Drnovsek is looking forward to when his pet goat Ethel meets her demise. ‘She’ll be perfect for my new Pentium M project’, he commented.
Poochie Mini-ITX System
3DMark03: 72 (72.2 overclocked)
3DMark05: 9 (9.03 overclocked)
