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How To Fix A Bricked Motherboard it your PC lost power during a BIOS
Your PC lost power during a BIOS update because of a freak thunderstorm or a circuit breaker, or you just tripped over the power cord, and you've bricked it, meaning you now have a very expensive paperweight. Is there any way to resurrect it from the...
Den W. · 2 years ago · 901
DON’T buy a new PC for Windows 11!
If you're anything like most gamers, you were probably outraged when Microsoft announced that Windows 11 wouldn't officially support any CPU released before about 2017. But as usual, the whole story is a little bit more complicated than that. By far...
Jacob Enderson · 13 July 2021 · 251
The Evolution of PC Cases
I guess you could consider the wooden frame that the abacus came in as the first computer case, but today we're gonna start by talking about the case from the original 1981 IBM PC. The original Personal Computer from Big Blue was obviously a tremend...
Den W. · 06 July 2021 · 1.1K
Your PC Is Full of GOLD
When you think of gold, you probably think of jewelry gold bars, even if you're old, like me, gold Slugger but gold is actually extremely common and important in electronics as well. You've probably seen it on contacts for everything from Ram to HTM...
Jacob Enderson · 13 May 2021 · 1.3K
"Shut Down" Doesn't Actually Shut Down Your Windows PC
Even if you know, absolutely nothing about computers, turning off a PC, it's pretty simple, right? When you press the button on the front or the side or just click shut down on the windows start menu and that's supposed to do the trick. But wait, it...
Jacob Enderson · 12 May 2021 · 142
What is gate all around CPU?
If you're a PC enthusiast, you probably know that the main way that our PCs, our phones and our consoles have gotten faster over the years, is through shrinking transistor sizes on our processors. Indeed, we have gone from using 250 nanometer chips...
Den W. · 11 May 2021 · 665
Do THIS On Your TV when you connect it to PC
Monitors and TVs seem pretty similar these days, don't they? They're both flat, pixel covered rectangles that output a picture. So what's stopping you from using a big old TV as the display for your PC? Bigger is better, right? Well, despite the fac...
Alex · 08 May 2021 · 151
The History of Water Cooling
It's easy to think that water cooling is a fairly new thing on the computer scene. I mean, I'm going to guess that your old mid 1990s Packard Bell didn't have an AIO liquid cooler. But it turns out that water cooling has been around for a really long...
Alex · 07 April 2021 · 1.4K · 1
PC vs Mac - The Answer
Coke or Pepsi? McDonald's or Burger King? Subway, or starvation? Classic debates such as these are not just the domain of the food industry as today, we're going to cover the age old question. PC or Mac? It can be difficult to get an objective answe...
Alex · 01 April 2021 · 183
Build A PC For Under $600 (Early 2021)
So, you already know from the title that this article is from early 2021 and right now the market for PC components isn't in a very good way. Supply chain squeezes have made it really difficult to get your hands on both big ticket graphics cards and...
Den W. · 19 March 2021 · 392
TOP 5 Best Gaming Motherboard Under $500 [2021]
In this article, we're going to look at the top five best Gaming motherboards under $500 available on the market today. We made this list based on our own opinion, research, and customer reviews. We've considered their quality, features, and values w...
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Is Threadripper Worth It?
We've had high-end desktop or HEDT processors for quite a while now, you know, those CPU's that sit at the very top of the food chain that straddle the line between home PC and workstation, with a high price tag to match. And for a long time, Intel d...
Jacob Enderson · 30 January 2021 · 389
Why Are There Only Two CPU Companies?
Life is great when you have lots of choices. I mean who hasn't had a little party in their head when getting off at a highway exit and seeing two dozen fast food places vying for your attention. But this isn't the case in the CPU world where you basi...
Alex · 18 January 2021 · 864
PCI Express 6.0 Is A Big Deal!
Although we still haven't gotten PCI Express 5.0 devices in our hot little hands yet, believe it or not, the PCIe 6.0 specification has already been released. And as you may have guessed, it's insanely fast. At 126GB/s one way on an X16 link, it's t...
Alex · 12 January 2021 · 193
Are Prebuilt PCs GOOD Now?
It used to be that if you wanted a truly high-end, well-built PC, it was a no-brainer that building it yourself was a far better solution than ordering a pre-built that came off an assembly line somewhere. But these days, the PC gaming industry is s...
Den W. · 12 January 2021 · 83
The Sneaky Thing About PCI Express
You wouldn't be able to connect high-speed components like graphics cards and NVMe drives to your computer without the PCI Express bus that's been a fixture on our motherboards for over a decade now. If you're not familiar, you can connect your devi...
Alex · 2 years ago · 322