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Posted by Karpat Zoltan on Jan 27, 2012
Hard drives are mandatory parts of most computers, as the operating system needs to start and run from a reliable storage device. They are also important for personal storage, as the internet is not secure enough yet for storing your most treasured personal...
Posted by Karpat Zoltan on Jan 25, 2012
AMD and nVidia are the two main graphics chip manufacturers today, alongside Intel, which makes integrated graphics processors only. In the past two years AMD was months ahead of nVidia in research and development, as it launched the first DirectX 11 graphics...
Posted by Karpat Zoltan on Jan 23, 2012
Analog video capture cards are slowly becoming unusable, as the High Definition era has arrived and digital video signal transmission is the only way to see high quality movies on a large screen. One consequence is that gadgets and consumer electronics have almost...
Posted by Karpat Zoltan on Jan 23, 2012
Over the years I have seen many kinds of customers at computer stores, from the simple ones, who ask for a “dual core computer” right up to the nerdy ones, who negotiate every detail about the computer parts they want in the new computer. You would think that the...
Posted by Karpat Zoltan on Jan 19, 2012
Today, there are many different ways to build a desktop computer form all kinds of parts. The first – most recent – thing that comes to mind is the amazing advance of smartphone technology, which may already replace a computer used for home or office work. You...
Posted by Karpat Zoltan on Jan 19, 2012
For the last few months the best gaming video cards were the AMD Radeon 6990 and nVidia Geforce GTX 590. It's hard to pick a winner, as different games and applications give different results. This is absolutely natural, because the two largest graphics chip...
Posted by Karpat Zoltan on Jan 11, 2012
Although the AGP slot has been abandoned a long time ago (5+ years), some manufacturers still make a few video card models, which can be installed in older computers with AGP slots. As incredible as it may sound, some AGP video card models were manufactured in such...