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What to look for in a motherboard

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 11:00:39 +0000

I’ve been building PCs for more than 20 years and I tend to keep them a very long time, so it occurred to me that someone might be interested in what I look for in a motherboard to ensure both

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Lenovo Thinkcentre M58 upgrades

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:00:35 +0000

I picked up an off-lease Lenovo Thinkcentre M58 over the weekend. Based on the date code on the hard drive, this one dates to 2010. It’s a serviceable machine. You have a few options when it comes to Lenovo Thinkcentre M58

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Having trouble installing Windows 7 from USB? Disable USB 3.0.

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:00:39 +0000

I had trouble installing Windows 7 from USB on an Asrock Q1900M motherboard. It was the most difficult time I’ve had in years. Creating a bootable USB stick from my Win7 DVD went flawlessly, and the Asrock booted off it

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Upgrading a Compaq Evo D510 for Windows 10 and beyond

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:00:10 +0000

I had an old Compaq Evo D510 full-size tower/desktop convertible PC, from the Pentium 4/Windows XP era, that I wanted to upgrade. The machine long ago outlived its usefulness–its Pentium 4 CPU is less powerful than the average smartphone CPU

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SSDs in business: The time is right

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:00:15 +0000

My employer is experimenting with a few desktop PCs with SSDs. And they are amazing. These machines have an Intel Core i5 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and a 120 GB SSD. They log on and off in seconds. Word

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What happened to Altavista

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:00:02 +0000

For as long as I can remember, my home page has been about:blank. But for a good chunk of the 1990s, I would have done well to set it to altavista.digital.com. Here’s what happened to Altavista. Most people remember Altavista

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AMD hits 5 GHz

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:00:30 +0000

So, AMD announced a new 8-core CPU running at 5 GHz this week. It’s a bit of a hollow victory, since it basically will match the highest-end Intel Core i7 in performance, in spite of its much higher clock rate

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Is this a good computer for the money in 2013?

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:00:32 +0000

My realtor sent me some computer specs this past week and asked for my opinion on it, since I get paid to keep up with this stuff these days and he doesn’t. I thought my critique of the system might

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Yes, SSDs are “finally worth the money.”

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:00:44 +0000

Slashdot asked today if SSDs are “finally worth the money.” I’m wondering since when they haven’t been. I’ve been buying SSDs since 2008. And their price has been falling at a rate faster than hard drives did, historically. The justification

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Bombshell: HP pulls out. Of tablets and desktop PCs.

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:16:33 +0000

And speaking of duds, it looks like HP has one on their hands in their Web OS-based tablets. Best Buy has about a quarter-million unsold tablets in their warehouse and has only managed to sell 25,000 of them. And when

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