Build It: A First-Class Gaming & Media PC for the Living Room
I don’t want to watch cable TV. I don’t want to use a controller. I just want to watch 3D Blu-rays and frag people with a mouse and keyboard, all on a box that fits on my entertainment center. Is that too much to ask? We’ve built our fair share of home theater PCs in…
How to Live Like James Bond For a Weekend
Steve Kamb found out how to fly 35,000 miles and visit four continents for $418. He’s now going round the world in that trip and managed to score a weekend in Monte Carlo, Monaco, living like James Bond. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-travel-around-the-world-for-418-5710654 Fantastic hotel room, Martinis, tuxedo and food for just $138. This is how he did it:…
Scrub Your PC Clean: Remove Malware in Four Easy Steps
Malware sucks. In the best-case scenario, it craps up your system with unwanted files and occasionally makes itself known in the form of a persistent pop-up window or annoying browser-based toolbar. In the worst-case scenario, malware completely takes over your desktop or laptop and ruins your life. Your system slows it to a crawl. You…
The Memory Buyer’s Guide: What’s the Best RAM for My System?
RAM. How much do you need? How fast should it be? Are latencies important? Today, we’ll be covering everything you need to know to get the right RAM for your system. The Importance of RAM Did I mention that this is going to be an all-encompassing guide on RAM? No? Well it is, so those…
How to Buy a Hard Drive: An Essential Guide
Do you need gigabytes or performance? Laptop upgrades or a screaming new gaming PC? We walk you through what you need to know to pick the right storage solution for your PC. Storage. Always needed, often overlooked. Often lost in the buzz surrounding the latest DirectX 11 GPUs and hexacore CPUs is the ability to…
