The power supply is arguably the most important component in every computer system. It must supply a steady, reliable source of power to every other component in the system, and it must do so without making...
Reducing HTPC noise Ok, so you’ve built your HTPC (or you’re at an advanced planning stage) and you’re starting to worry about how noisy it is now it’s sitting under your TV. Well there’s no need to panic,...
How to Build a Quiet PC There are a 1001 articles out there that give you methods for quieting your PC. Some of those methods are helpful and some are inadequate. These five simple steps are what we beliveve...
If this looks familiar read below on how to give that mini makeover your hard working baby needs. Cable management is the most visual aspect of your kick ass system. However, cable management is often...
Most people have difficulty in sorting through the hype when choosing a new graphics card for gaming and are often lead astray, mostly by the amount of on-board RAM, which actually has little bearing on the...
WATCH OUT WHEN BUYING A PC FROM EBAY After spending several months looking through hundreds of post with the tiles "QUAD CORE PC - 4GB DDR2" and then looking at the price and it's only £330 some would say,...
Introduction As 7200rpm hard drives are the standard today, and high-rpm drives are found in most desktop PCs, and not just in servers, hard drive cooling has become a more important issue Most recent IDE...
If after reading some of the reviews you are starting to panic. DON'T. I will tell you what I did to get a full refund(inc p p) when I bought and recieved a memory module that didn't work for my laptop. ...
There are thousands of items on eBay that have 'spares or repairs ' or 'faulty ' in their keyword searchable title.The people selling them fall into two categories, those that genuinely do not know what's...
Planning Probably the most important place to devote plenty of time to is the planning stage. You see so many unfinished HTPC projects for sale on ebay because of poor planning. Where do you want the HTPC...