Friday, June 28, 2013

Motherboard Selection Criteria's

I am often asked to make recommendations for purchases. Without guidance, many individuals have no rhyme or reason for their selections and instead base their choices solely on magazine reviews or, even worse, on some personal bias. To help eliminate this haphazard selection process, I have developed a simple motherboard selection checklist.It helps...



Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Overclock your PC

Setting the processors speed to run faster than the manufacturers rating on the chip is called overclocking. You can get away with a certain amount of overclocking on Intel, AMD, and other processors. So, a chip rated 3GHz might in fact run at 3.5GHz or more but instead being down-rated allows for a greater margin of reliability. By overclocking, you...