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How Often Do You Upgrade Your Computer?
Your computer is slowing down. Things don’t run the way they should anymore. You baby it along by defragging, uninstalling programs, deleting files and cleaning things up as much as possible. Perhaps you go as far as cursing at your poor machine or even threatening it with a hammer. At what point, though, do you [...]
Are Two Cores as Good as Four Cores?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Michael from CMPLive decided to do a special episode of “Real or Hoax” for our channels. He is a brave soul, and decided to take on the age-old question of whether or not two cores really are as good as four. [...]
Are There Things You Shouldn’t DO on a Laptop?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Over on Lockergnome, PhidiasBob asked the community if there are things you can do on a desktop machine that you should NOT do on a laptop. This is a fair question to ask. I think the only thing I wouldn’t do [...]
Processor Speed Vs CPU Cores
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you had to choose between a 2.2 hz quad-core or a 2.5ghz dual-core one, how do you know which is right? In my mind, you’re better off with as many cores as you can possibly get. Even if software is [...]
VMWare CPU Usage in XP
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Some people have trouble gaming inside of VMWare. It tends to throttle their CPU. However, in the newest version of VMWare Fusion one of the toggles have been removed. You can change quite a bit of settings to optimize your virtual [...]
Should You Build Your Own PC?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I had a caller from Australia the other night whose older computer has served him well for a number of years. He’s trying to decide whether he should build a new one, buy a new one off the shelf or simply [...]
AMD Eyefinity Multi-Monitor for Gaming
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Playing games is fun, but sometimes one screen is just not enough. Wouldn’t you have a much better experience if you were using three screens? With AMD’s Eyefinity, you can easily run three screens off of one graphics card. I spent [...]
Acer Ferrari One 200
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you’ve been watching my live stream this past week, you’ve likely seen the red laptop sitting on my desk. It is an Acer Ferrari One – part of the 200 series. It was sent to me to review by my [...]
AMD Questions and Answers
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Thanks to AMD for allowing our community to ask them questions. Yes, we have an open line of communication with them – so don’t think it begins and ends with this video. If it weren’t for AMD, I wouldn’t have been [...]
What Happens When Your Laptop’s Motherboard Goes Bad?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed There is this thing sitting inside your computer that is the one thing every other thing is connected to! It’s called a motherboard. I have no idea why there’s no fatherboard… but yeah. The motherboard is crucial. If it’s not working [...]
Future of the Data Center
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The Microsoft Data Center Futures team built a prototype containing 100 dual-core Atom processors. They believe that data centers in the future will include many more low-power processors. This prototype is the first step in demonstrating their potential cost savings. This [...]
What is Intel’s Core i7?
This is Kyle Allen’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily [...]
What Should You Look for When Buying a New PC?
The other night, I posted a blog post from Dan, with his tips on how to find information. He sent me a second list, and it is definitely something you all should read through. Here are Dan’s tips for how to make sense of Windows computer specs when buying a new computer. SIZE Decide what [...]
Does Your Computer Need a Boost?
Dominec recently submitted an email to me, full of tips and tricks. Earlier, I posted his tips to create an iPhone ringtone yourself using iTunes, and your own music. He also sent in the following excellent tips for upgrading your PC. Like it or not, that blazing fast piece of hardware you have in front [...]
Quad Core Gaming
Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – I had a question sent in about processors. The question is whether or not a game made for single processor systems would run on a Quad Core system, only use one processor, or not work at all? If you have a [...]
