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Archive for the ‘Advanced’ Category

April 16th, 2008

What is the difference between SATA and IDE drives?

You might be wondering what is the difference between SATA and traditional IDE hard drives? The first thing you’ll notice is the interface/connectors of the drive itself. SATA drives have a single cable with a small connector, while an IDE drive will have a wider flat ribbon cable. SATA drives also boast faster data transfer […]

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March 23rd, 2008

Build Your Own High Definition PC

In case you havent noticed, We’re living in a high-definition world. From games to movies and with a new generation of affordable, high-quality HD components flooding into the world of PCs, it’s about time your very own PC gets into the world of High Definition.
Unfortunately, great HD systems still cost a fortune. However, if you’ve […]

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March 16th, 2008

PC Heat Management

Some of you may have, unfortunately, experienced this on your older system that have been working fine for a long time. One day, it just randomly locks up, requiring a hard reboot. You hit the reset button, and things go smoothly for another few hours (or even days), then it locks up again. The system […]

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March 7th, 2008

Fix those DLL Errors

DLL errors are some of the most common, frustrating, and complicated windows errors to troubleshoot and resolve. Fixing a DLL error is rarely as easy as replacing the DLL, something that I don’t recommend doing even if it does fix the problem.
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February 13th, 2008

Drive Imaging

It is a scary thought but your hard drive could stop functioning at any moment. Will you be ready? If you’ve got a drive image, you’ll save not only your data but your apps, drivers, and all the settings that make your machine personal.
You may never have experienced a drive failure or become so corrupted […]

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February 8th, 2008

Running Multiple Operating Systems

Nowadays, you don’t need separate computers to run different operating systems. Sure, Microsoft’s Windows is by far the most common OS running on the millions of PCs in daily use, but that doesn’t mean using just XP or Vista.
You can add a newer, even older, Windows version to your existing one, and you can even […]

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January 24th, 2008

Overclocking the Phenom 9600

AMD’s industry position is a precarious one; they got beaten by Intel the past 2 years with the Core 2 Duo processor and got trounced on the graphics card front by Nvidia with their superb 8xxx series. But Extremetech writes: “AMD might be down, but it’s certainly not out. Though delays and lackluster performance have […]

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December 9th, 2007

Farewell Vista, Hello XP

PC World shows us how to make the switch back to Windows XP and deal with the gnarly problem of transferring your Vista e-mail, contacts, and user data back to the old standby operating system:
“After exploring Windows Vista for about six months on my test-bed PC, I decided two months ago that, along with upgrading […]

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November 18th, 2007

Build an External Harddrive

It’s nearly 2008, and nearly all PCs are filled with multimedia these days. Though not everyone’s PC harbors hundreds of downloaded movies, even the most workaholic business traveler has a few tunes for the road on his laptop. And if it’s not Hollywood movies and music taking up room on your system, then it’s personal […]

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November 17th, 2007

How To Capture Video from Legacy Devices

Does this scenario sound familiar? You’ve got an ancient camcorder that records to something old like 8mm or mini-VHS tapes; and somewhere nearby, you’ve got a stack of stuff on VHS or god forbid maybe even Betamax. Sure, your new DV camcorder has the handy FireWire port to zap movies onto your PC, but what […]

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