Piece Meal Upgrades pt 3 As already discussed, a piece meal upgrade is performed when a jump to an entirely new platform is not financially possible. A ground up all new part design is best and will give the best price performance ratio if properly setup.  For those that cannot afford a complete rebuild though, [...]

Individual components of a PC have the shortest lifespan and quickly crash the price: performance wave. Upgrading to early will cost more, upgrading too late can do the same.

The Peripherals Monitors, come in 2 distinct flavors, CRT (not manufactured anymore) and LCD.  The difference between CRT and LCD is dramatic, with vivid colors and crisp geometries on LCD, higher resolution and better contrast on CRT.  LCD’s can be upgraded very cheaply now, CRT has no upgrade path, it is only mentioned if the [...]

Identifying desired function of your finished upgrade.

Piecemeal upgrades, supercomputer performance on an OEM budget.

INTRODUCTION Hello and welcome to the review of the ASUS CROSSHAIR III FORMULA motherboard. I was thinking about doing a new review for a while, and it struck me that a number of us have picked up new AM3 CPU’s over the last couple of months with the 550 BE being one of the favorites. [...]

The option labeled ‘MCH Strap’ would indicate that it changes the latencies of the MCH, like on previous Intel chipsets such as the P965, P35, X48 and so on. The only catch is that the Intel X58 chipset, does not have an MCH (Memory Controller Hub).

It was almost exactly a month ago that I took the Classified and its 965 occupant over the 5GHz mark and under seven minutes in 32M SuperPi. Well today, I took the baby nephew of the 965 – an Intel Core i7 920 – well over 5GHz and even further below seven minutes in 32M [...]