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I went back a few pages on the topic list, and I couldn't help but notice the massive amount of separate PC help topics. There might be some reinvention of the wheel involved as common problems are revisited again and again. I've built 12-15 PCs for my extended family, and I'm an electrical engineer, so I can help sort of resolve most of these problems in one place.

With that said, if you need any advice or insight on the selection, installation, repair, or on troubleshooting of PC hardware, feel free to ask here; this is a good place to get questions answered if your problem doesn't quite need a big topic. I will probably do most of the help on this topic, but if you want to be the first to offer assistance, please do so.

This topic includes questions on choosing or installing...

-CPUs
-Fans/Heatsinks*
-Video Cards
-Power Supplies
-Motherboards
-Memory
-SSDs
-Hard Drives
-Monitors
-Speakers

*If you really want to optimize heat transfer, this can get into some more advanced thermodynamics topics. My Laplace transforms are a little rusty (might not need them anyway given the limited number of options for heatsink configuration in an ATX mid-tower case), but I can be a big help in the department of moving heat efficiently (please don't read too deeply into those last 3 words). Sometimes, you will want to have more intake fans than one front-mounted intake depending on the CFM your fans can move air, and some systems might involved liquid cooling. I can solve these thermodynamic problems.

This ought to consolidate general help into an easy go-to place. I'm sure a lot of people know what to do already, but just remember the golden rule: only a rice grain-sized drop of thermal paste on the CPU core (middle of the heatspreader). LinusTechTips/NCIX is usually good about video how-tos and also does a good job of highlighting product features on newly-released PC hardware, but there are times when you might want more specifics.

Good luck with your DIY projects!

It's nothing big, just a project in one of my HS classes (Adv. Programming). I found it on an SD card sitting in my SUPERCARD (handy tool for GBA dev, heheh). I made this GBA game in 2 months from scratch in C, and I'll spruce it up with some obstacles if I can find the source code. I posted a link to download the game.

DOOMSDAY ADVANCE



You raise your score by getting rings, and the idea is more or less to survive. It's not much, but I hope you enjoy!


EDIT: If you want to join me into expanding this game into something good, or if you just want to add music to this game, fine by me. When I find the src, I'll put it up. I don't give a rat's ass who takes credit for what, who does what to the game, who claims intellectual authorship; just make it sparkle! If you want to work with me (NOT FOR ME, WITH ME), we can make something a little more extensive and robust. I don't want much out of this, I'm just here to tell you how my game works so you can retool it into whatever you want. Again, I'm not going to claim ownership over a fangame based off of IP that's not mine, so knock yourself out.

EDIT 2: Any interest in this project, perhaps? No one wants it? Perhaps I can put it in the SR wiki...