System monitoring tools, which display core temps, fan speeds, etc. in real time, can be a very useful addition to the desktop. I’ve written about these types of tools previously, notably MooO System Monitor… you can catch up with that article here: Peeking Under the […]
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Put half a dozen doctors in a room and ask them for a diagnosis on the patient in front of them and you may be surprised at the answers you get. The same can be said for many computer related problems and cooling your computer
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Remember when you last moved house? All those boxes, each with a label saying books, cutlery, stamp albums, Uncle Ted’s ashes, that sort of thing? And remember when you all arrived at the new house and the domestic removal technicians unloaded all those boxes, which
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Many of us buy used cars because we don’t have a choice. Our pockets aren’t deep enough for the shiny new twin turbo with go faster stripes, GTX stickers and creamy leather seats. The same can be said for most acquisitions really, whether they be
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What is a Bottleneck? A bottleneck, when talking about computer hardware, and not your favorite rustic libation, refers to the slowest device in the system. That one piece of hardware that is bogging down everything else. Your hard drive is a typical example. It is
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The BlackBerry Saga Continues Last week, I reported that former Apple CEO John Sculley was considering purchasing BlackBerry. At this point, forget John Sculley or anybody else, for that matter. BlackBerry announced on November 4th that it was abandoning the idea of selling the company and fired its
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Forums can be a great source of information. If you want to know how well a product is doing, if there are any issues and how frequent or severe, just search around associated help forms. A current topic right now is how Windows 8.1 is
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As reported by 9TO5Mac, Apple has started a replacement program for the graphics card in selected iMacs sold between May 2011 and October 2012. The affected 27-inch iMacs have: Sandy Bridge processors Thunderbolt ports 3.1GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 OR 3.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
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DrDataRAM – Using a RAM disk to speed up your PC – Part 2 This is part 2 of a two part article. I would highly recommend you read How to setup and use a RAM drive – Part 1 before proceeding. In this segment
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A week ago I wrote an article about RAMDrives and my thoughts about them; I wrote about how I thought they should and should not be used. You can read all my rants and raves in the original RAM disk article. In any case, today
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