1. Buying A Cheap, Low-Quality Power Supply If you’re brand new to building a computer, one of the most prevalent things you are going to hear is “Don’t choose a cheap power supply!” And, for the most part,
PC building myths are a dime a dozen. The number and flavor of these myths might change over time, but each PC component has various persistent myths surrounding it. Browse Reddit, watch YouTube, or talk to a friend — you'll inevitably come across one or more of these "thumb rules," ...
So, what’s a good CPU look like? – For a gaming computer, you’ll definitely want the maximum cores you can afford. For high-intensity graphical games, a 6-core processing unit is recommended. However, newer units are using 8-cores. The cores are what increase the speed at which you...
Hello Im a complete noob at building PCs so would like help from knowledgeable and experienced people. Main reason why I want to build a gaming PC is to...
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Dark (to be replaced with a good case shortly) basically everything was bought used off of reddit or here, only new component was the case. absolutely nutty deals for some of these parts, ill have to tally it all up once it's "done" Expand Bombasti...
I never bought into the whole excuse that apple would never make a cheap underpowered machine...particularly when they were saying that at the same time they were selling the mini with specs worse than some netbooks (and for a considerably higher price)....
They have a good point, but so far I have not seen this to be a problem. There are many legitimate sites out there linking to other legitimate sites organically from pages called links.html, sponsors.php or product-X-review/. In the end, it is up to you as to what you see as a...
I still build my own x86 gaming system -- heck I just built a LANBox for gaming, but I do the majority of my work on the Mac Pro; I even do the majority of my "windows 8/7" under the mac pro under Fusion. I was being a stingy and cheap before for trying to save a ...
building an IKEA chair just doesn’t fit within the robot’s standardmodus operandi.Suarez-Ruiz and Pham were trying to address this issue by building a bot equipped with two arms, each with six-axis motion and grippers at their ends, and a six-camera vision system that supposedly gives pr...
Next I had to figure out power. Each drive I had can pull up to 1.5 amps at 5 volts. This means I need 9 amps on 5 volts. That is a good amount of power on one rail. I thought I could use a standard PC power supply, with a cable to turn it on with a switch. These PSUs...