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Fully-functioning Gaming PC
It must be some sort of miracle. I got all the parts for my new gaming PC yesterday, cracked them all open in a pile on my bed, and about two hours later had my new, fully-functioning PC with a fresh copy
PC Shopping List
So in this article, we get down to brass tacks. I’ll be doing the actual shopping for parts, for the Home Office PC you remember I’m building. It’s not such a simple task, simply because there’s a budget to
Gaming PC
My old gaming PC is dead. It gave up the ghost after I moved to my new apartment. What was worse, it died after a brief dalliance with life: I wired it all back up in my bedroom, flipped the
Hardware Selection
In our quest to build a great HTPC on a budget, one thing we need to think about is the hardware and software we are going to use to build and run everything. We are going to be really ambitious
Old PC vs. New PC
You know what I really, really love? The iPhone camera. Yeah, it just takes the sharpest pictures, even in darker settings with almost no grain and hair-raising resolution. That's why the pics I'm including with this article look so
Building a Custom Home Media Server
In a previous post, I wrote about my plans to build a custom home media server to store all of my digital media files in a single, secure location. As I mentioned in that post, there are a number of
I hate building PCs
I hate building PCs. But I'm a skinflint masochist, so every time I need a new gaming computer I end up gathering all the parts separately, making the blood sacrifice in skinned knuckles and torn hair, and cursing my decision
