Articles about computer hardware
Intel Alchemist Similar to the CPU market which is dominated by Intel and AMD, the GPU sector only has two major players, Nvidia and AMD — until now. Intel, a household name that’s been around since the dawn of the personal computer, is set to […]
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A little while back I bought a brand new PC. I didn’t really need it but my existing machine is getting a bit long in the tooth (around 8 years old) and it was too good of a deal to pass up. The new PC
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This is with a Gateway DX4380 desktop computer. I mentioned it briefly in my last article: How To Add/Change Password With Command Prompt How To Add/Change Password With Command Prompt I like to add a second hard drive to all my systems — my main
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Windows XP On SSD Why on earth would anyone want to install Windows XP in this day and age, let alone on an SSD? My answer is — why not? If you’re a tech enthusiast and more particularly if you have an interest in retro
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To put it mildly, Windows 11 has some bizarre and frankly outrageous hardware requirements. First and foremost is TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) which, until a few weeks ago no one had ever heard of, but now is the talk of the town. But not
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Accessing information about a computer’s hardware components can help in many situations including when seeking assistance/support. There are quite a few third-party tools that will accomplish this. However, Windows 10 has a basic System Information tool built in that will provide enough information to satisfy
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Water Under The Bridge… Indeed, my last Day In The Life article was way back in September 2020, which now seems an eternity ago and a great deal has happened since then. But I won’t dwell on the elephant in the room as I suspect
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Windows 11 isn’t coming to a PC near you! Having glossed over the debacle which was Windows 8 and straight to Windows 10, leapfrogging the seemingly evil number nine, Microsoft has decided that we all need their shiny new toy, Windows 11. On first hearing
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A man brought me his laptop because his mouse/touchpad wasn’t working. I thought it was a simple matter of just enabling it. This was an Acer and the key combination is Fn + F7. Then I discovered the keyboard wasn’t working either. The first thing
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A guy brought me his iPad. I was told it was stuck in recovery mode. When they brought it to me, it was stuck on the Apple logo. I plugged it into my computer to see what would happen. Nothing happened. So I opened iTunes
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It’s no secret that the Radeon RX 5700 XT was plagued with driver issues when it was launched in July 2019, but these have been largely resolved with driver updates. The issues ranged from blue screens and black screens to constant game crashes with many
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2020 saw some remarkable events, one of which saw it become the year of the scalper. Or to be more precise, the scalper bot. Scalper Someone who purchases large quantities of goods (usually tickets) early with the sole intention of re-selling them at a higher price at a
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Gadget: A small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one. Perhaps shiny thing would be a more appropriate description for those tech objects we find so useful in our lives. Or maybe not even necessarily useful, but instantly required on
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Shiny Thing Syndrome Strikes Again! I’m not entirely sure why I began looking at new monitors, but once the window shopping started, it was difficult to stop. Up until now, I’ve been using a Samsung 27″ curved monitor at 1080p and 60- 72Hz refresh rate
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