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Speck See Thru for the MacBook Air
I absolutely adore this case. Expensive at $50 but comes with a one year warranty if you buy from an authorized reseller. I didn’t and it cracked and regret it, but it really does protect the finish of your MacBook Air. It is very tight and cracks easily on impact so beware, but it is…
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Gamer PC Cooling with Swiftech Edge H200-320 or even an Puget Systems Aquarium with Noctua NH-D14
I’ve always wanted to build a watercooled case. A few years ago, I wanted to build a silent PC and loved silentpcreview.com, but now with water cooling becoming much more turnkey, it makes some sense to go all water cooled and make your machine silent overclockable. Tom’s Hardware has a pretty good guide, but the…
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Gamer PC Memory with Mushkin Redline 993997 DDR3-2133 or G.Skill F3-2400
Time once again to learn the in’s and out’s of memory which right now is SDRAM DDR3, but the basic facts are that you can overclock memory a little and in most benchmarks, once you go from vanilla DDR3-1333 to DDR3-2133, you have had a huge improvement in performance at a relatively low cost. If…
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USB Flash Keys
These things just keep getting cheaper and smaller. So much so that I keep losing them, I’ve bought of series of fast USB 3.0 drives (even though I don’t have any computer with USB 3.0 :-), but the main thing I’m finding isn’t speed, it is not losing the darn things. The plastic cases are…
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Gamer PC Storage Samsung 830 256GB x 2 soon to be 840
Well this is a huge area encompassing both the system ram and also the disk. Right now it feels like going solid state on everything is the way to go, so we are thinking just get a 500GB SSD or maybe a pair and put the rest of the stuff on a NAS somewhere. I…
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Gamer PC Keyboards with Razer Black Widow Ultimate
Well, the world is turning back a little. For the true gamer, you can either get a keyboard full of extra keys for macros or go old school and get mechanical keys. These are the old IBM Selectric or original IBM PC keyboards (I wish I kept mine). They go clack, clack, but they feel…
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MacBook microphone not working
OK, so discovered that my microphone wasn’t working. What’s the diagnostic procedure. Well it comes down to a bunch of simple things to try: Go to System Preference/Sound make make sure the internal microphone is selected and not muted Reboot the machine and hold down the four keys Option-Command-P-R to reset the PRAM configuration information…
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Gamer PC GPU selection nVidia GTX-670 as ASUS GTX670-DC2T-2GD5 or Gigabyte N670OC-2GD
There are lots of them out there but some quick review at Tom’s Hardware. The unit you get depends a little bit on what you want to do. The big decision is whether to go water cooled or not. If you do then a pair of PNYs (as described by overclocker.com)will really help make a…
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Gamer PC motherboards ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe or ASUS Maximus GENE Micro ATX Z77 for water cooled
Well the big news is that you fit this monster Core i7-3770K in just a tiny motherboard based on the Z77 or you can a big board with room for 4 graphics processors all based on the same firmware. The summary is the size of the board depends on how many graphics cards you will…
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Gamer PC CPU is the Intel Core i5-3570K as best value
The other big trend at the recent Intel Developer Forum (IDF) are small computers, they are doing and as Tom’s Hardware’s Buying Guide notes. The net is that you want a good tradeoff, it is to get the Core i5-3570K for $225 which is only 100Mhz slower than the Core i7-3770K. You don’t get the…