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2012 Budget Mini-ITX Desktop PC System Build Guide
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Are you looking to build a new PC and thinking about using the Mini-ITX platform? Today, Legit Reviews shows you how to create a SFF system and stay under the $650 price point. The system uses an Intel Ivy Bridge processor, a Kingston 120GB SSD, and an ASUS GeForce GTX 650 video card just to highlight a few of the main components. This system should be able to easily tackle normal usage scenarios during the work week and then switch roles to a nice gaming machine on the weekends. Read on to check out the build!
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News: How to build a PC
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Building a PC from parts might seem daunting, but it`s really not that difficult. We`ve published an in-depth guide that walks through every step in the process in painstaking detail. The guide is laced with video footage, including a full-length cut that chronicles the build from start to finish."
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HDTV Setup: You're Doing It Wrong
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"You just bought a new HDTV, hooked it up, and just want to sink into your couch and enjoy that beautiful HD picture. You should be able to just press a few buttons and watch high definition TV with total ease. But unless you set things up correctly, that might not be easy to achieve."
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PC Buyers Guide Winter 2012
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1.html,Guru3D offers you their bi-annual PC Buyers Guide, this is the 2012 Winter slash Christmas edition. This article brings you a set of recommendations of products we feel are great components to build yourself a nice gaming rig. We go from low-end targeted at gamers, to high-end for the enthusiast fragger. Again, we make these guys with gamers in mind."
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December 2012 system builders guide
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We have just posted up our December 2012 system builders guide. In this article we take a look at some components that can help you build a great Intel or AMD system on a modest budget. We also have a bit more fun and find out what we can get for about $1600. If you are looking to build a new PC over the holidays, take a look at our list for a few ideas.
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brief history of video cards: 64 GPUs tested from the last five years
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Today we published a rather special article. We took 64 graphics cards from the last five years, and tested each one with our current graphics benchmarks. It is quite interesting to see how each successive generation of AMD (ATI back then) and Nvidia video cards pushed performance to another level. We started with the ATI Radeon HD 3000 series and the Nvidia GeForce 8000 series, which were the first DirectX 10-compatible video cards. We picked the high-end cards from each generation, and also the mid-range ones. Surprisingly, a lot of these hold up quite well, even in today’s demanding video games. If your PC is still running on an old graphics card, now you can see exactly how much (or how little) you will gain if you buy a newer one.
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Beginners Guides: Hard Drive Data Recovery
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Killed a hard drive without backing up? Deleted your babies first photo and already emptied the recycling bin? Not to worry, you can probably recover your data with the help of this guide from PCSTATS.
"The loss of factory hard drive capacity seems to be an increasingly common occurrence with very large capacity (ie. 1TB) hard drives, but it's not specific to any one hard drive manufacturer. It can happen to brand new drives or existing hard drives full of data. In either case the data portion of the drive isn't generally affected. If a new or existing hard drive in your computer suddenly pops up with a capacity of 32MB, or another value equally small compared to the true drive size, don't freak out, the data should still be there."
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Beginners Guides: How To Install/Remove AMD Socket FM1 CPU and Heatsink
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AMD made several noteworthy accomplishments with its socket FM1 'Llano' processor, the most important being the integration of a graphics core directly onto a CPU die which substantially reduced motherboard complexity. Major architectural changes were also brought forth by AMD's Fusion family of processors, yet like the socket AM2/AM2+/AM3 processors that preceded it AMD kept the socket and heatsink mounting system totally compatible. Installing a socket FM1 AMD A8-series processor into a motherboard is not too difficult, unless you've never done anything like this before and in that case a little guidance is called for.
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How-to: installing Windows 8 without product key
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Installing Windows 8 is a bit different than installing the previous version of Windows. Windows 7 you could install without entering a product key, but when you install Windows 8 you are required to fill in a key right-away. For a normal installation that doesn't matter much. But if you only want to experiment with Windows 8 for testing purposes, or for any other reason only will have it installed on your computer for a brief period, then it's a different question.
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[Tech ARP] Thomson / Technicolor TG784n Port Forwarding Guide Rev. 2.0
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Port forwarding is important if you have applications or games that require an unobstructed connection from a computer on your local network to a remote service or server. What it basically does is open a port in your firewall and direct all traffic that is sent to that port to a specific computer on your network. Think of it as opening a secret entrance in your city wall and then routing all traffic that goes through it to a specific house. If you do not set up port forwarding for your application, it may not be able to connect to the service or you may have to live with reduced performance. This port forwarding guide is for those who are using the *older Thomson TG784n* router, or the *newer Technicolor TG784n v3* router. Although the example uses the latest Technicolor TG784n v3 router, the steps are the same for the older Thomson TG784n router. Let`s get right down to it! *In this update, we made various improvements and corrections to the guide. We also added some information on the default MAC address selection.*"
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How Has Windows Search Improved Since Win2k? Hint: It Hasn’t!
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Last weekend I was feeling a bit nostalgic and fired up Windows 2000 on my home computer. Win2k has a special place in my heart. Sadly, due to planned obsolescence it's no longer possible to use this fantastic operating system with the latest software available.
Be that as it may, what annoys me even more are the "improvements" made to Windows search through the years. The search box in Windows 2000 is very powerful, there are no cute animations and there are no exclusions. It's just no-nonsense search, as you would expect it to be. I'm afraid to say, Windows search has got worse, and not better over the years, 8 included.
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Beginners Guides
