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Time for the test: Benchmarking

For the first time in my life, I bought benchmarking software. But it seemed like I should use the latest, if not the greatest option available, which still seems to be — surprisingly — 3DMark from Futuremark. There are certainly
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BUILDING OUR HTPC - THE FINALIZATION

The challenge presented at the beginning of this process was for us to build a great home theater PC while sticking to a budget of $1,000. We knew we were up for the challenge, and wanted to walk you through
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I’m so afraid.

I've just put in my replacement video card into the gaming PC. My roommate and I are fairly certain that was the problem, so I tried to RMA my busted card to Newegg, but they wouldn't take it without the
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Home Media Server - The Finale

Over the course of this home media server project, I've talked about the different home storage solutions currently on the market, outlined my thought processes while picking the parts for a custom build, and have taken you through a few
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BRINGING TOGETHER THE REST OF THE PIECES IN OUR HTPC ...

In our quest to build the ultimate inexpensive hoome theater computer, we've walked you through selecting all the major components that will power our labor of love PC. I'm talking about things like why we picked our chosen motherboard, the
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Tweakin’ The BIOS

My home media server build is just about ready for prime time, so I figured I'd take a few minutes and tweak its system BIOS in an effort to squeeze a bit more performance from the rig.  The changes aren't
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Big black mid-tower of failure

I just don't have the spirit to deal with fixing this machine. It's literally paralyzing. I'll sit around for hours in the time where I would normally be playing games and instead just sit around doing...nothing. Just staring at my big black mid-tower
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Norton figures

Last week, I started running some tests on the Home Office PC I’ve been building over the last few weeks.
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Testing the Home Office PC

It’s time to put that Home Office PC to the test.  So far, I’ve assembled it from scratch, and managed to set up a RAID 1 array.  This has given me redundancy: if one drive fails, at least the

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Home Theater PC Main Components

We're starting to wind down the layout of all the parts that are going into our Home Theater PC. First, let's recap some of the main components that we've thrown into this project this far: 1) The process of selecting
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