USB Explained
Defining USB, Types & How Do They Work? USB or Universal Serial Bus was introduced in 1994 by Intel Corp although the official version 1.0 wasn’t released until 1996. Due to it’s early…
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Selecting Hardware Upgrades For My PC. What Computer Components To Upgrade or not?
Upgrading a computer? Best hardware upgrades. Steps to install. How PC hardware & OS optimize their performance. Learn here and also follow the links to a series of articles detailing main computer components. Updating PC and OS In this article…
Hard Disk Drives & Solid State Drives. Which one to use?
Choosing a Hard Disk Drive or a Solid State Drive for your computer internal drive or as external back up? Hard Disk Drives (HDD) are just round platters with a magnetic coating that spin at a very fast speed. …
Motherboard Reviews
What is a Motherboard? What are the Motherboard components & how do they work? A motherboard, Mainboard or MOBO is a Circuit Board of components and expansions, Bus Slots, Memory Speed, Graphics Cards, Audio, Overclocking, Network Adapters & more.…
Best Power Supplies To Build Your Custom Computer
If you are considering building your own custom computer, the Power Supply that you select to handle all that new hardware is extremely important. As you move up in Motherboards, you will have noticed by now that the CPU…
AMD Phenom II
AMD Phenom II, a cooler and more powerful CPU. The AM3 Phenom II were based on primary dies that AMD used to harvest defective cores and produce lower core CPUs. (A little more history here). The AMD Phenom 2, an…
Top Twelve Tips to look for when buying a Computer
Top Twelve Tips to look for when buying a new PC or Laptop Lot of people have been asking me “What should I look for when buying a new PC or Laptop.” Okay, here is my top twelve things to…
$35 PC Raspberry PI Released
Updated Raspberry PI After six years of development Raspberry PI was just released and sold out in 2 hours. This PC on a board the size of a credit card just, 85.60 × 53.98 mm (3.370 × 2.125 in), packs…
Identifying Peripherals Part II
Identifying by chip number is not all that difficult. Looking on the circuit board look for the bigest chip. If there is a heatsink on it, look around. If this is a mother board, look for a part number. Below…
Identifying Peripherals to Find Drivers
Imagine this scenario. You’re just recovering from a hard drive crash. You lost all of your data. You have the windows install CD and the key…..but no drivers or that particular machine or video or audio card. Maybe all of…