It’s really amazing how many computer users out there create large audio and video projects and play the latest games too. But if you’ve ever been on a system with a small or limited amount of memory, all that creativity can come to a stuttering, grinding halt resulting in a frustrating experience. Thankfully, RAM is cheaper than ever so there …
We’ve teamed up with the folks at NCIX PC, one of North America’s leading designers and builders of amazing custom PCs, to give away a fantastic prize courtesy of Sapphire Technology USA, makers of lots of cool AMD powered stuff including GPUs and more. The grand prize is one of their awesome little HD3 Mini PCs valued at …
One of the amazing things about the DIY PC market is the level of control and customizability you have to create whatever your heart desires. You can build something very inexpensively, or build something with the same top notch components that the best system builders use. Everyone has access to the same parts, but the combinations are endless. This of …
I remember when certain 8xxx series NVIDIA video cards developed an issue where the GPU would actually de-solder themselves from the PCB. The solution was to cook them in an oven to “reflow” the solder and re-establish the GPU’s connection to the PCB. Although this isn’t quite the same, it does involve heating up damaged parts. In the case of flash based …
Buying a new computer can be a very exciting experience, but it can also be incredibly frustrating and gut-wrenching when you’re not really sure which way to turn. It also doesn’t help if you happen to be tighter on funds–either by personality or by circumstance–but you know that you’ll be happier when you finally have that new computer in your …
Our mini ITX demo system that first appeared at the NCIX Windows 8 Launch Event is quite the conversation piece. Especially once people realize that inside the understated ANTEC ISK300 mini ITX case lies a full desktop Core i7 3770K CPU, two Kingston HyperX 120GB SSDs, 16GBs of HyperX DDR3 LoVo memory, and a discrete AMD HD 5570 low profile …
Recently, we took a very close look at Fractal Design’s Define R4. It was a surprising experience, providing a combination of both innovative and simple tried-and-true design features. As we mentioned in that review, Fractal Design takes a “less is more” approach to what goes in to designing enclosures. However, two things home theatre PC (HTPC) enclosures must have …
There are so many portable devices out there from smartphones to tablets. One limitation that many of us are starting to run into, even with the limitless expansion of the cloud is physical storage space for our photos, cat videos and files. But what do you do when you continually have files so large, that space continues to be an …
Earlier this month, Futurelooks checked out a wide range of Windows 8 capable devices at the NCIX Windows 8 Launch Event. While one of the benefits of Windows 8 is that it allows for the use of the same operating system on various computing devices such as personal computers, tablet PCs or laptops, it is worth considering how an …
