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A Primer on Motherboard Memory Slots

August 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Motherboards

If you are thinking about upgrading the memory in your computer, you need to know a thing or two about the memory slots on your motherboard. Explore how the memory slots on your motherboard affect how you upgrade your RAM.
In the early days of home computing, memory was hard wired into a computer. Upgrading the [...]

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Learn about the Memory Capacity of a Motherboard

August 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Memory

There’s more to adding memory to your computer than just the number of free memory slots you have on your motherboard. Learn about your motherboard’s memory capacity limits and other factors affecting the upgrade of your computer’s RAM.
Adding memory to a computer is one of the cheapest, fastest, and easiest ways to boost your PC’s [...]

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Building a PC: Connecting the Case’s Switches and Audio

August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

Even the most stripped, budget, case has a couple lights and switches to hook up. These are tiny little wires that go on tiny little pins. The good news is you’re almost done building your PC.
The Basics
The front panel of your case has a bunch of stuff you need to connect to your motherboard. Most [...]

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Building a PC: Connecting the Hard Disk and Burner

August 1st, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

Our PC has taken shape; in this article we connect the drives.
Connecting a Molex Powered PATA Device
We put the burner in the case in the previous article; now we are going to hook it up.
First we’ll hook up the power. PATA (Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment) devices, draw power via a 4-pin molex connector Note that [...]

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Building a PC: Installing an Optical Device

July 27th, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

Whether you are jamming the ancient CD-ROM from your old PC in there or you have a sleek new Blu-Ray burner, they all go in pretty much the same.
Before We Begin
A desktop PC’s hard drive (the installation of which we cover in the next article) should always use SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) connections by [...]

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Building a PC: Installing Memory

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Dual Channel
We could use one large memory module (often called sticks) with all of the memory we need. It is, however, in most configurations, advantageous to run two smaller memory sticks in dual channel mode (e.g.: two 1G modules instead of one 2G stick). The concept is to balance the bandwidth (amount of data) coming [...]

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Building a PC: How to Install a Power Supply Unit

July 25th, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

Big Stuff Goes In First
A principle that applies to everything from packing a suitcase to warehousing is to put big things in first and stuff little things around it. A PC is no different; it is better to get the single biggest piece, the Power Supply Unit (PSU), in first. You will have more room [...]

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Computer Power Supply Problems

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · How To Maintain

If you have little knowledge of the inner workings of a computer, it can seem complicated. When it stop working, you might think there is nothing you can do.
There are a variety of problems that can occur, some of which are major software problems.
Many people have experienced the frustration of turning their computer on and [...]

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