Articles about computer hardware
Livin’ La Vida Loca Having cleared out those pesky customers, let’s look at how the retro bug has caught on South of The Border. Not content with a PC Chips Slot 1, I decided to scout around for a compatible motherboard for a Pentium III […]
Now I know snooping by authorities has a lot of people up in arms, and with good reason, it is certainly nearing saturation point BUT does this new SSD maybe take the concept of security a little too far? The Autothysis128t is a self-encrypting secure
Solid State Drives (SSD) are the new kids on the block in the computer hardware neighborhood. As far as upgrades go, SSD’s and RAM are the best two to address if you want your computer to run faster– much faster. SSD’s have dropped in price
Retro is The New Black Have you ever wondered what happens to all those beige boxes you remember from the 80’s and 90’s? Well some of them end up in flea markets, car boot sales and Ebay, if they haven’t already been crushed or thrown
Tuesday Ah yes, another day another dollar. Hopefully. The delivery of cheapo, generic power supply units (PSU) arrives, just in time to apply my attention to another seemingly dead PC, whose PSU has just given up the ghost after six years of loyal service
This is no joke folks, the latest protection for USB connected devices is actually called a USB Condom. While not exactly resembling a real condom, you have to admit that the name choice was bound to create a fair amount of attention – clever marketing?
In an obvious effort to combat the growing popularity of Chromebooks, Microsoft is helping hardware manufacturers to build low-priced Windows laptops. Microsoft is using Windows 8.1 With Bing, which was unveiled earlier this year, to spread Windows to more low-cost PCs and tablets. The OS
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Are you fed up with the frustrations caused by USB connectors having a right side up? Or from needing different cables with different connectors for different devices? It’s taken some 18 years, but finally, a new standard, USB Type-C, is ready for mass production. The
What happens when you start your computer It is a miracle that your computer starts at all. The term “booting” stems from the idea of “picking one’s self up by the bootstraps”. Try it sometime and you will immediately begin to get a message. This is a basic
New King on The Block According to AMD, the Radeon™ R9 295X2 graphics card launched in April 2014, is the world’s fastest, period and here’s why: 11.5 TFLOPS 5632 stream processors Core Clock 1018 MHz 8GB memory 12.4 billion transistors 512-bit memory interface x 2 Dual liquid-cooled
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Whatever you decide, then the choice of computer cases available today is mind blowing. Horizontal motherboard Take the Deepcool Steam Castle pictured above as an example of thinking out of the box. This case is so cute you almost want to cuddle it and take it home
Living for the Tweak Anyone who has followed me for any length of time knows that I live for tweaking computer systems. I try to get them to be all they can be. Software methods are one way. Via Windows settings, Registry settings, and countless
How to upgrade the PS3 hard drive About four months ago my stepson’s Playstation 3 stopped working following a power surge, or to put it another way, the lights were on but there was no one at home. Naturally, the lad was beyond consolation as
Watching us, watching them For many of us, watching TV is no longer the linear, force fed diet of scheduled ads every ten minutes interspersed with trash soap and reality shows, and the argument over whether the Internet killed the TV star is still being
