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Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Oct/Nov 08

OK, it's time once again for The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Oct/Nov 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. So if you're thinking of buying, building...

Tags: ASUS, Card, Video Card, Performance, Board, Motherboard, Price, CPU, List, RAM, Graphics, Intel Corp., Radeon, LGA775, DDR3, XFX GeForce GTX 280, PSU, Galaxy EGX1000EWL, Corporate Governance, Video Cards, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Hardware 2.0 Best Kit List Oct/Nov 08

OK, it's time once again for The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Oct/Nov 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. So if you're thinking of buying, building...

Tags: List, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, hardware, cpu, drive, psu, ram, motherboard, gpu, graphics

Image galleries 2008-09-19

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08

OK, it's time once again for The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. So if you're thinking of buying, building...

Tags: ASUS, Card, Video Card, Performance, Board, Motherboard, Price, CPU, List, RAM, Graphics, Intel Corp., Radeon, LGA775, Q9300, DDR3, XFX GeForce GTX 280, PSU, Western Digital Raptor/RaptorX, Galaxy EGX1000EWL, Corporate Governance, Video Cards, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Jun/Jul 08

OK, it's time once again for ... drum roll please ... The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Jun/Jul 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. ...

Tags: Card, Video Card, Performance, Board, Motherboard, Price, CPU, RAM, Graphics, Intel Corp., Q9300, LGA775, AM2, DDR3, Logitech Z-5500 Speaker System, PSU, Galaxy EGX1000EWL, Samsung T220, Corporate Governance, Performance Management, Chipsets, Video Cards, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Apr 08/May 08

OK, it's time once again for ... drum roll please ... The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Apr 08/May 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. These components are on...

Tags: ASUS, Card, Video Card, Performance, Board, Motherboard, CPU, List, Intel Core 2 Duo, RAM, Graphics, Intel Corp., LGA775, AM2, ASUS Maximus Extreme, Maximus Extreme, DDR3, PSU, Corporate Governance, Performance Management, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-28

The Hardware 2.0 Best Kit List - Apr 08/May 08

The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Apr 08/May 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: kit, components, graphics, ram, cpu, drives, processors, cases, psu, cooling

Image galleries 2008-03-28

55W PC power supply powering the dual-core computer

55W PC power supply powering the dual-core computerSweet findI still think that would be ideal at packing a case with hard drives. I always wanted multi tiered file servers and thought that if I build several computers into a single system, I would be better off than if I...

Tags: File servers, Processors, PSU, POWER SUPPLIES, power supply, file server, dual-core computer, dual-core, server

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Feb 08/Mar 08

OK, here it is folks - The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Feb 08/Mar 08. Here I've tried to compile a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available. These components are on this list because I firmly believe them to be the best either in terms...

Tags: Video Card, Performance, Board, Motherboard, CPU, Intel Core 2 Duo, RAM, Graphics, Intel Corp., LGA775, AM2, ASUS Maximus Extreme, Maximus Extreme, DDR3, PSU, Corporate Governance, Performance Management, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Portable Startup Utility 1.3 (Windows)

Portable Startup Utility is a small tool designed to start application where your portable device is pluged in. Some features of Portable Startup Utility: PSU will launch applications with optional arguments from your USB drive; PSU will launch Portable Apps Menu from PortableAppsPortableAppsMenuPortableAppsMenu.exe; PSU will optionally wait for PAM to...

Tags: Letter, SmithTech, PSU, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-01-23

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Dec 07/Jan 08

Overall, I get more email asking me for kit and component recommendations that pretty much anything else, and that volume increases dramatically as the Holiday season comes into full swing.  Also, over the Christmas period many people will have received new peripherals, tech toys and games and this will force...

Tags: ASUS, Video Card, Motherboard, CPU, Intel Core 2 Duo, RAM, Digital Equipment Corp., Graphics, Intel Corp., PSU, Video Cards, Chipsets, Processors, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-12-20

Building a Windows Home Server - the easy way!

So, you're thinking about building your own home server based on Microsoft's latest OS, Windows Home Server and want some pointers as to the best hardware to use.  You've come to the right place!  Here I'm going to take a look at the components that you'll need to put together...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, CPU, RAM, Home Server, PSU, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-11-19

The quad-core project - Building the PC walkthrough

Last weekend we built two new quad-core PCs over at the PC Doc HQ.  I promised that you'd be first to see the results of our hard work (buildig these PCs is easy, the hard part is the photography ... hot lights, having to keep your arms out of the...

Tags: PC, Board, Quad-core, Heatsink, Motherboard, CPU, RAM, Raptor X, HX520 PSU, Corsair, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Choosing the right PSU for your PC

Choosing the right PSU for your PCAnd oh, yeah . . .And oh, I forgot - I do indeed use a UPS. Needed to, I was getting brownouts in my neighborhood, and that killed my first power supply collapsing magnetic fields cause spikes in transformers.So now I use a UPS...

Tags: PC, power supply, PSU, PC Power, Cooling, Antec

Discussion threads 2007-03-09

Choosing the right PSU for your PC

So, just how big a power supply unit does a PC really need? In this post Ill show you how you can work out how big a PSU your system needs and some of the considerations that you need to keep in mind when buying a PSU.It seems to...

Tags: Desktops, PSU, PC, calculator

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Additional Resources

Maingear unleashes Shift desktop, child-sized 'personal supercomputer' for $2,199 (or $13,394)

Without demonstrated Linux or OSX support......what's the point? Who does video stuff on Windows?Plenty do.....You just don't get out much. My XP system with cakewalk software did me just fine and that was on a P4 system that couldn't keep itself cool, ever. But my audio quality...

Tags: Desktops, Maingear, personal supercomputer, supercomputer, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Hardware components

Another ideaThe KH family must look forward to Santa's arrival if those are your ideas of gifts!One I think worth considering is and external drive and a back up program. You know which friends need those. (Sorry Zack :- Well, those choices were...... different.Why the i7 extreme, when you can...

Tags: Games, Holiday Gift Guide 2009, Holiday Gift Guide, Holiday gift, hardware component, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Windows 7 OEM pricing emerges ... some serious discounts available

You forgot to mention ...... That OEM means it must be pre-installed on the machine that was purchased by the end user ... meaning it cannot LEGALLY be purchased for installation by your average Joe ... I own a small IT company in Canada, and I have a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows, OEM, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

AMD debuts Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs with DirectX 11 support

That's great...Now if only DX 11 were out. Seems a bit premature to me, let's hope firmware updates are easy.ATI had better get the power requirements right with this one, it doesn't matter how much money you save if you have to buy double the psu to use it.I'm going...

Tags: GPU, Radeon, DirectX, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Quad-core CPU for $99 ... from AMD

The Athlon II X2 comes with 1MB...L2 per core. It's too bad they didn't use 1MB per core for the X4.2M divided by 4 is 512KNope, it comes with 2MB of L2, divided by 4 cores gives us 512K per core.Adrian has it right.BradDid you read his Post?He said "Too...

Tags: Network technology, money saving, quad-core CPU, Adrian, DDR3, motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip, HyperTransport, DDR3 RAM, CPU

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Thieves ransack NJ Apple Store in 31 seconds

WowSomething tells me they had this planned out in advance...Who is this reporter?He makes it sound like these guys were criminal masterminds."Throwing a blunt object through the plate glass window like pros."How is that a pro move? "Me pick up brick and throw it through window."Honestly...he picks the brick, he...

Tags: GPS, NJ Apple Store

Discussion threads 2009-09-02