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Installing pfSense on the WANBOX

Mike Murray

April 7, 2018

4 in 1 PCIe Risers Tested and Explained

Mike Murray

February 22, 2018

Is Alexa Safe?

Mike Murray

February 11, 2018

Repairing the Commodore PET 4016

Mike Murray

February 3, 2018

Mining with a CPU (without a GPU)

Mike Murray

January 29, 2018

Using Dual Power Supplies for Mining

Mike Murray

January 28, 2018

Mining. You're probably sick of hearing about it! But its in the news. Its on TV shows. Its all over blogs. Well, not mining specifically, but cryptocurrency. Specifically a certain type of cryptocurrency call...

How to set Windows 10 to Auto-Login

Mike Murray

January 22, 2018

It's very common to want to login to windows without entering a password or to do what is called auto-login after Windows boots up. With Windows 10 auto-login you can bypass the login screen completely and go ...

Windows vs. Linux for Mining

Mike Murray

January 22, 2018

I recently published several videos and articles on building and optimizing mining rigs. In both builds I used Windows. Mostly because I had never done some of these things and I knew it would be much simpler t...

Overclocking the AMD RX 580 for Mining

Mike Murray

January 20, 2018

Mining is literally going insane! People are snapping up both GPUs for mining as well as ASIC miners faster than manufacturers can make them. This has led to explosive growth in those markets. It's also let to ...

Building a Mining Rig

Mike Murray

January 15, 2018

After the tour of my mining rig I had a lot of comments asking to do a build a video of a mining rig. So today we're building a mining rig! I'll walk us through some of the changes from the original mining rig ...

LATEST THE GEEK PUB PROJECTS

Repairing the Commodore PET 4016

Mike Murray

February 3, 2018

Building my New Desktop and Gaming Rig

Mike Murray

August 6, 2017

X-Carve Upgrade HONEST Review

Mike Murray

July 21, 2017

The LattePanda Single Board Computer (Intro)

Mike Murray

July 15, 2017

Tour of My Home Network (and More!)

Mike Murray

July 3, 2017

LATEST ARCADE PROJECTS

Make the Pacade (Bartop Retropie Arcade Cabinet)

Mike Murray

March 12, 2017

About a year ago, I introduced my Bartop Arcade Cabinet Build. It was a big hit and I got so much great feedback from yo...

Make an iPad Arcade (Tablet Arcade) FAIL

Mike Murray

September 5, 2016

My arcade projects are some of the funnest projects I have done, and my fans have told me the same! Many of my loyal fan...

Setting up RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi 3

Mike Murray

May 21, 2016

This is without a doubt the most requested video/article in the history of The Geek Pub. No seriously. Each of the arcad...

Build a RetroPie Bartop Arcade Cabinet

Mike Murray

April 24, 2016

Making my retro Arcade Cabinet last summer was one of my all time favorite projects. It been one of my most popular vide...

How to Make Pac-Man Wall Art

Mike Murray

August 30, 2015

Pac-Man is the legend in arcades. One of the very first video games to rock the arcade sphere. Pac-Man is an icon. ...

How to make an Arcade Machine: Part 3

Mike Murray

August 23, 2015

Thanks for being a Guild Member! Access Granted! Download the Arcade Cabinet Plans Here! How to Build an Arcad...

Latest from the Guild Center

Drilling your Arcade Speakers, the Right Way

Mike Murray

March 13, 2017

Backboring Arcade Controls

Mike Murray

March 13, 2017

Adding a Fan to your Arcade Cabinet

Mike Murray

March 12, 2017

Adding USB Ports to your Arcade Cabinet

Mike Murray

March 12, 2017

T-Molding Tips & Tricks

Mike Murray

January 3, 2017

Using my Templates

Mike Murray

August 28, 2016

Latest from the Blog

Is Alexa Safe?

Mike Murray

February 11, 2018

CloudMiner.Biz is a SCAM!

Mike Murray

January 24, 2018

Antminer Alternatives

Mike Murray

January 7, 2018

Eaton Breaker Flashing Red

Mike Murray

January 7, 2018

Latest Reviews and Recommendations

4 in 1 PCIe Risers Tested and Explained

Mike Murray

February 22, 2018

When building a GPU based mining rig you're obviously going to need a bunch of GPUs. These GPUs will be connected to a single motherboard. That immediately becomes a problem. Most motherboards only have one or two PCIe X16 slots for installing video cards. Thi...

The Best Jigsaws for Woodworking

Mike Murray

January 22, 2018

When I was younger I used my father's jigsaw a lot. I remember it well. It was Black & Decker model from the late 1970s or early 1980s and it was total junk. I remembered thinking the jigsaw was one of the worst performing tool ever made. What I didn't re...

The Best PCIe Riser Cards

Mike Murray

January 21, 2018

If you recently got into GPU mining Ethereum or some other cryptocurrency, then you probably wondered why all these hardcore miners were using riser cards! The answer of course is three fold. They need to 1) fi...

The Best Powerline Network Kit

Mike Murray

January 8, 2018

I've spent a lot of time helping friends and family over the years with their home networks. One thing I have determined without fail. The absolute best powerline network kit is the TP-LINK AV2000 Gigabit Power...

Best Wi-Fi Access Points of 2018

Mike Murray

January 8, 2018

I talk to people every day about computers and electronics. From friends and family, to business colleagues, to vendors selling equipment. There is one statement I hear constantly and it drives me crazy. "The W...

Best Power Supply for Mining Cryptocurrency

Mike Murray

January 7, 2018

When building a GPU based mining rig, research shows there is a lot of misinformation going around that makes it difficult to decide what to purchase. This has a lot to do with the nature of mining. Its somethi...

Best Cases for Mining

Mike Murray

January 6, 2018

If its not just crazy obvious, mining has become a big deal. There is some serious money being put into mining! Today, even some of the big clearing houses and brokerage firms are dipping their toes into crypto...

Quietest CPU Cooler

Mike Murray

January 4, 2018

If you follow me closely, you're probably aware that I recently did a pretty sweet mining PC build. This mining PC sits in my office about 3 feet from desk where I write posts for this blog, work on my day job ...

Best GPU for Mining Cryptocurrency in 2018

Mike Murray

December 22, 2017

Recently I did a quick video on my mining rig build. It turned out to be a very popular video. Something I didn't really expect to happen. The comments section raged on over my choice of GPU. Some people immedi...

The Best Video Capture Devices 2018

Mike Murray

September 19, 2017

I'm not a big fan of these "best of" or "top xxx product" articles that a lot of websites seem to post these days. Mostly because I know they are SPAM and they are simply posting the article to drive revenue an...

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About my Synology RS2416+ and a review!

Mike Murray

August 4, 2017

Since my home network tour a lot (and I do mean a lot) of you have asked for more details on certain parts of my home network. The most asked question is of course why I chose a Core i7 over a XEON. Followed ri...

X-Carve Upgrade HONEST Review

Mike Murray

July 21, 2017

The team over at Inventables contacted me and said “Hey! We’d like to send you the latest version of the X-Carve with all of the upgrades including the X-Controller; and the only thing we’d ask in return is tha...

5.0

Review of the Synology NVR216

Mike Murray

March 20, 2017

Surveillance systems are something that used to be considered a nice-to-have. With today's crime rates, and lawsuit happy customers it just makes sense to have something like the Synology NVR216 in your persona...

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Review of the D-Link DNR-326 NVR

Mike Murray

August 12, 2016

When I built my new home a while back we decided to build it with cabling for video surveillance. We had our builder run Category 5e (Cat5e) cables to locations we thought would be ideal for cameras on the out...