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
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
One of my roommates, in the throes of a head cold, decided to start trying to troubleshoot our furnace — by flicking off random switches in our circuit breaker. I was right in the middle of a game of Left 4 Dead when
I just took my old machine into the local computer repairman's shop, mostly as an experiment. I'd built it about two years ago but it died in my most recent move, it'd power on but wouldn't boot, so I figured it was worth
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
When computing becomes a trudge, the most important consideration is to recognize and repair software problems first.
If you're on Windows-based PCs, spyware and other kinds of malevolent software can bog down the system. Install, and regularly update and run, antivirus
"What are some of the challenges you face today with keeping your PC secure?"
The biggest challenge in computer security is not doing dumb things out of ignorance or inattentiveness.
When computer security issues are raised, most people think of viruses, dodgy
