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 [NEW!]  Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for Windows XP
July 01, 2009   |   By: Mike D.   |   Topic: Beginners Guides
PCSTATS covers all the TechTips you need to push a PC from sluggish to quick. This Guide deals with quicker boot times, making your current hardware work faster, and 99 other Tips from PCSTATS that will help you make your computer run better, quicker, and more efficiently!    Continue»
 
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1.0TB SATA Hard Drive Review
June 17, 2009   |   By: M. Page   |   Topic: Hard Drives
WD's Caviar Black series SATA II hard drives feature a faster spindle speed and 32MB of onboard cache. Drive capacities range from 500GB through to 1.0TB, but all the Caviar Black series drives use Perpendicular Magnetic Recording.    Continue»
 
Computex 2009: Gigabyte Highlights Photo Tour
June 09, 2009   |   By: M. Page   |   Topic: Tradeshows / Events
AMD released a pair of dual core processors at the start of Computex, while motherboard makers took the initiative to release several socket AM3 motherboards based on the new AMD 785G + SB710 chipset.    Continue»
 
Computex 2009: Sparkle Highlights Photo Tour
June 05, 2009   |   By: M. Page   |   Topic: Tradeshows / Events
Computex 2009 takes place each year in Taipei Taiwan. This year Sparkle Computer Co., Ltd. sent PCSTATS a round of photos of its booth and several new products exhibited at the trade show including new nVidia ION based small form factor HTPC systems and the Calibre graphic cards series.    Continue»
 
ASUS EN9600GT DI/512MD3/A Geforce 9600GT Rev.B Videocard Review
June 03, 2009   |   By: J. Apong   |   Topic: Video Cards
The Radeon HD 4770 has been widely praised for its lower power consumption, in no small part due to its die-shrink to 40nm. Will NVIDIA's new steppings allow the Geforce 9600GT to compete in terms of power efficiency?    Continue»
 
Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips and Tweaks for Windows Vista
June 01, 2009   |   By: Mike D.   |   Topic: Beginners Guides
Take control of Windows Vista with help from PCSTATS. We've got 99 ways to squeeze out better performance, enhance boot times, free up hard drive space and trim away Windows Vista's fat.    Continue»
 
Sparkle GTX260 Core 216 GeForce GTX 260 Videocard Review
May 26, 2009   |   By: J. Apong   |   Topic: Video Cards
The Geforce GX 260 core on Sparkle's videocard is clocked at the default speed of 576MHz, the shaders hum away at 1242MHz, while the GDDR3 memory runs at an even 999MHz.    Continue»
 
Beginners Guides: Flash Memory Data Recovery and Protection
May 14, 2009   |   By: Mike D.   |   Topic: Beginners Guides
One of the major benefits of flash memory is that they are compatible with many of the data recovery programs designed to retrieve accidentally deleted files from computer hard disks.     Continue»
 
Gigabyte GV-R477D5-512H-B Radeon HD 4770 Videocard Review
May 13, 2009   |   By: M. Page   |   Topic: Video Cards
ATI's Radeon HD 4770 (code name RV740) is derived from the venerable Radeon RV770 GPU. The Gigabyte GV-R477D5-512H-B videocard has its GPU clocked at 750MHz and is equipped with 512MB GDDR5 memory running at 800MHz, giving it a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s.     Continue»
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz 1333MHz FSB Processor Review
May 12, 2009   |   By: M. Page   |   Topic: CPU / Processors
The 3.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU is a dual-core chip based on the 45nm 'Wolfdale' core that falls into the upper end of family, supplanted only by the relatively expensive Core 2 Duo E8600.    Continue»
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz 1333MHz FSB Processor Review
May 08, 2009   |   By: J. Apong   |   Topic: CPU / Processors
Intel's Core 2 Duo E8400 is a 3.0GHz dual-core processor based on the 'Wolfdale' core that is being manufactured on the 45nm process. This socket 775 processor packs in 6MB of L2 cache and operates with a 1333MHz Front Side Bus speed.    Continue»
 
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2 GHz Socket AM3 Processor Review
April 30, 2009   |   By: J. Apong   |   Topic: CPU / Processors
The 3.2GHz AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition is the companies' latest quad-core processor, and it's being released in tandem with a new memory tuning tool called Black Edition Memory Profiles, or B.E.M.P. for short.    Continue»
 
ASUS EAH4770 HTDI/512MD5/A Radeon HD 4770 Videocard Review
April 28, 2009   |   By: J. Apong   |   Topic: Video Cards
The Radeon HD 4770 strikes a balance between performance and price, coming just under the lucrative $100 mark and slotting in nicely in terms of performance between existing Radeon 4670 and 4850 videocards.    Continue»
 
ASUS ENGTS250 DK Geforce GTS 250 Videocard Review
April 16, 2009   |   By: M. Page   |   Topic: Video Cards
ASUS's ENGTS250 DK videocard should draw less power and produce less heat than the Geforece 9800GTX+, and in this case makes use of a very nice and pretty quiet heatsink.    Continue»
 
Beginners Guides: Hard Drive Data Recovery
April 12, 2009   |   By: Mike D.   |   Topic: Beginners Guides
Hard drives, being the dynamic storage devices that they are, are extremely easy to erase in any number of amusing and simple to achieve ways. This Guide also deals with recovering deleted formatted information.    Continue»
 
ASUS EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A Radeon HD 4890 Videocard Review
April 02, 2009   |   By: M. Page   |   Topic: Video Cards
As you might have guessed, ATI's new Radeon HD 4890 videocard is well placed to compete with enthusiast videocards like the Radeon HD 4870 1GB and Geforce GTS 260 Core 216, as well as the recently released nVidia Geforce GTX 275.    Continue»
 
Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI Geforce 9600GT Rev.B Videocard Review
March 25, 2009   |   By: M. Page   |   Topic: Video Cards
This isn't an old 9600GT GPU making a comeback with 1GB of GDDR3 memory, this new Geforce 9600GT graphics card from Gigabyte uses the 'revision B' nVidia 'G94' GPU; it's built with a smaller manufacturing process, has a physically smaller silicon die, uses less power and consequently runs cooler.    Continue»
 
DIY Guides: How To Install/Remove Intel Socket 1366 CPU and Heatsink
March 24, 2009   |   By: M. Page   |   Topic: Beginners Guides
We thought we'd run off a quick DIY Guide illustrating the procedure for installing a socket 1366 CPU for the benefit of our readers. If you are planning on building a Intel based computer anytime soon, bookmark this PCSTATS DIY Guide now...!     Continue»
 
Samsung LN40A650A 40-inch LCD HDTV Review
March 16, 2009   |   By: J. Apong   |   Topic: Home Theatre
Samsung are a well know brand in the HDTV arena, and today PCSTATS is testing one of its mid-sized 40" widescreen LCD displays that goes by the call letters LN40A650A.    Continue»
 
SuperTalent Godfather Series 16GB USB Drive Review
March 15, 2009   |   By: M. Page   |   Topic: Memory
The simple rubber casing on this 16GB USB drive nice, serving as a backdrop for The Godfather movie logo on one side, and a sihlouette of Marlon Brando's face.     Continue»
 

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  43. Linux Part 1: Getting Familiar
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  46. Little Known Features of WindowsXP
  47. Making Old Software Compatible with Windows Vista
  48. Making DVD Movies from Video Files
  49. Most Common Ways to Kill a PC
  50. Optical Drives & Recording Formats
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  57. Registry: Backups, Repairs, and Protection
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  60. Safe Mode in Windows Vista For Crash Recovery
  61. Setting up an FTP Server in WinXP
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  63. Spyware Protection and Removal
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  65. Stopping Vista From Thrashing Hard Disks to Death
  66. Synchronizing Files and Folders
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