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How much power does a PC consume? | I built a PC-based NAS a couple of years ago. If you, like me, run a PC on a 24×7 basis, you might have a concern over its power consumption. How much power does the PC ...
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The Mac is still quite stagnant. | Apple’s latest Mac notebook, the Late 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, seems to be doing many things right. It’s good enough to be even winning back some ex-Mac users who have ...
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RAM and NVMe flash prices have dropped much. | Good news for people who like to build their own PCs. You might have been horrified by the RAM prices in 2018. Large-sized SSDs weren’t cheap. Fortunately, the ...
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Switched, and sticking with Windows. | One year ago, I switched from Mac to Windows. It began as an experiment a few months earlier to see if Windows would work for me, and if it would serve my needs better than ...
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There are two primary ways to get a Network Attached Storage (NAS). You could buy an off-the-shelf NAS appliance. Alternatively, since a NAS is really just a PC with many hard disks, you could also make one out of a standard PC. ...
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After installing FreeNAS recently, I suddenly recalled the horrors from my experience with PC memory errors. Once upon a time, I had been very perplexed by frequent crashes of my Linux server until it finally dawned on me to test ...
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I am a strong proponent for buying a good power supply unit (PSU). Even if it may cost more capital outlay initially, you will save money from utility bills in the long run, especially when you are running a 24×7 sort of ...
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If you’re a serious hard-core gamer, you’re going to love ASUS’ new ROG GT51. This gaming desktop is liquid-cooled, and the first to feature the latest 2-way SLI NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X graphics card and the ...
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This is the Jetway AD3RTLANG, a daughterboard with three Gigabit Ethernet ports for supported types of Jetway motherboards. These are useful when you need to add more LAN ports to your project, such as when you want to build ...
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I have been writing a series of posts about building a small standalone pfSense box. The enclosure (casing) and the power supply has been covered. This one is now getting into the core of it — the motherboard itself. ...
