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PC Power Supply Buyer's Guide

Wednesday August 29, 2007
Image Courtesy Mark Kyrnin With all this talk about secondary power supplies and power supply efficiencies, what other things does one need to think about when buying a new or replacement ... Read More

Saving Energy By Choosing The Right Power Supply

Tuesday August 28, 2007
Image Courtesy Mark Kyrnin With all this talk about the extra power required to run a desktop computer system with the latest and greatest graphics cards, I thought it would be ... Read More

Adding Extra Power To A Desktop PC

Monday August 27, 2007
Image Courtesty Ultra Products Today's top end graphics cards draw a lot of power from a desktop computer. This can cause problems for those looking to upgrade their system but their ... Read More

Week In Reviews: 8-25-2007

Saturday August 25, 2007
It was a busy time for reviewers over the past week. A number of sites took a closer look at a variety of Intel P35 based motherboards as well as ... Read More

Vista and PC Audio

Thursday August 23, 2007
Image Courtesy Microsoft® Even though the news is quite old, most people are probably not aware that Microsoft made some major changes with PC audio in Windows Vista. Hardware acceleration of ... Read More

What Computer Should I Buy?

Monday August 20, 2007
As August comes to a close, schools are beginning to start the new school year and the various Back to School sales are wrapping up. This is generally one of ... Read More

Week In Reviews: 8-18-2007

Saturday August 18, 2007
While last week saw a bit of a slowdown in the number of PC component reviews on the net, this week was filled with many more. Included amount them are ... Read More

ABS' New Ready To Ship Desktops

Wednesday August 15, 2007
Image Courtesy ABS Computer Technologies Inc. ABS Computers is best known for building custom computer systems for customers. While this gets a system that is geared specifically to the needs of ... Read More

Alienware's Low End Desktop

Tuesday August 14, 2007
Image Courtesy Alienware Inc. Alienware is best known for building computer systems for those interested in computer gaming. They expanded their product lines to try and become a more mainstream supplier ... Read More

Dell's Inspiron Desktop

Monday August 13, 2007
Image Courtesy Dell Inc. For years, Dell used the Dimension name for their desktop computer systems and the Inspiron name for their notebooks. Now they have decided to drop the Dimension ... Read More

Week In Reviews: 8-11-2007

Saturday August 11, 2007
Overall this is a very light week for PC component reviews from the week. It seems that the majority of the reviews this week were on new motherboards. In particular, ... Read More

Gateway's Quad Core Retail Desktop

Thursday August 9, 2007
Image Courtesy Gateway Gateway seems to be doing a lot more with its retail computer systems of late than what they offer from their website. Take the new GM5478 desktop PC. ... Read More

HP's Media Oriented Desktop PC

Wednesday August 8, 2007
Image Courtesy HP Inc. HP has been a major proponent of multimedia in its desktop PC lineup. Even though it has essentially removed their home theater specific products, they continue to ... Read More

Lenovo's More Consumer Friendly Business Desktop

Tuesday August 7, 2007
Image Courtesty Lenovo Lenovo's J series of desktop computers have really been what they want consumers to purchase, but even their most expensive J desktop really falls into the budget category. ... Read More

Systemax's Mainstream Home Desktop PC

Monday August 6, 2007
Image Courtesy Systemax Systemax is a name that computers shoppers are likely to have heard about when shopping for a PC. They are a fairly large company that builds computers systems ... Read More

Week in Reviews: 8-4-2007

Saturday August 4, 2007
No particular component type got an unsual amount of coverage this past week on the Net. If anything, items such as monitors and sound cards that don't tend to have ... Read More

Build Your Own Home Theater PC

Thursday August 2, 2007
Image Courtesy SilverStonetek Co., Ltd It has been almost a year since I published my first guide to building your own home theater PC. A lot has changed in computer technology ... Read More
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