Articles about PC computer hardware
Getting a brand-spanking-new computer can be an exciting time. Transferring all your favorite and sometimes needed data, maybe not so much. Depending on the means (and media) you have at your disposal, it can be either a relatively fast and simple process or an exercise […]
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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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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
A Day In The Life Of A PC Technician – Day 15 Read More »
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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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
What’s Your Favourite Tech Gadget? Read More »
Shiny Thing Syndrome Strikes Again! It’s just as well I write about my upgrades here at DCT because otherwise, I’d find it difficult to keep track, but true to form I appear to be sticking to a three-year cycle of GPU upgrades. In January 2018
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A nephew, who is into gaming, spilled some wine on his Razer Blackwidow Te Chroma v2 keyboard. They cleaned out the keys, but then it seemed like the “A” key got stuck. It wasn’t sticky or anything, it’s just that when I plugged it into
Fixing Stuck Key Razer Blackwidow Te Chroma v2 Read More »
System information tools help users identify and record details of hardware specs, the operating system, and the software environment. These types of tools can range from basic to comprehensive and, while not needed all that often, do come in handy on occasions, particularly when seeking
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AMD vs Nvidia In 1998 my first GPU was an ATI 3D Rage Pro PCI card with a whopping 8MB of memory which I later paired with 2 x 3DFX Voodoo II (SLI) with a pass-through cable. Since then, I’ve bought numerous ATI/AMD and Nvidia
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Tales of woe. The customer is always right. Well, maybe not always, perhaps very seldom… Hard Drive Full Some years ago, when I upgraded my laptop, I gifted my old Asus laptop to son number two. The laptop was quite old then and must be
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