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. [...]

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Well the time of the duallie in the HTPC is ending and the time of the Tri/Quads is ushered in and we have the HEPC (Home Entertainment Personal Computer). Below are some of these offerings: AMD Phenom II X3 705e Heka 2.5GHz 3 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 65W Triple-Core Processor [...]

I wish I knew. Don’t we all? These are supposed to be Phenom II X4 chips that have overclocking capabilities that exceed any retail Phenom II part.  Pretty cool, but there are still many unknowns that need to be answered before we can truly start to speculate on the potential of these new chips.  Let’s [...]