Monthly Archives: May 2008

Preventive Maintenance of the PC

Most people often ignore Preventive maintenance as they believe that it is not an important task. However, it is not correct to say that Preventive maintenance is a trivial task. If  problems such as overheating, dust accumulation or improper connections … Continue reading

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How to connect a scanner — the easy way

The Scanner is a computer peripheral device that scans a copy of the image from a magazine or a book and converts the same into electrical data, which is transferred to the computer and stored in the form of image … Continue reading

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CPU Overclocking

There are many CPUs in the market and each is trying to compete with the other as far as speed and other performance criteria are concerned. The more the speed the CPU can execute more instructions per second thus making … Continue reading

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Operating Systems

There are two types of softwares

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More Cores for More Power

Every application, every system level driver, every single feature of the operating system and your application suite use CPU time. As more and more software applications are opened, the CPU will attempt to service them all, eventually, there are so … Continue reading

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How to Troubleshoot a PC that is not working

One fine morning you might turn on your computer only to find that it is not functioning at all. In such a case, you might want to do your own repair job and get the Computer up and running again. … Continue reading

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Affordable Redundant Storage

Ok, before we start, let me come clean about something. I absolutely adore the product I am about to tell you about and it is now number 1 on my list of things to buy when I earn some more … Continue reading

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Understanding the Motherboard

The  Motherboard is the main Printed Circuit Board (PC of the Computer. There are many varieties of motherboards and it is not possible to explain each one in detail, hence, we will try to understand, in general, how a  typical … Continue reading

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Upgrade Your Network Adapter for Greatly Improved Gaming Performance

Yes you did read the title of this post correctly, and no it is not a joke, a network adapter upgrade can significantly improve your gaming performance. Sounds crazy right? Well let me explain why, and then maybe it will … Continue reading

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The Pros and Cons of Water Cooling

An Introduction to Water Cooling Liquid cooling has proven to be a most effective method of heat dissipation, used in a whole host of industries and with a huge number of applications. There is a reason that almost every production … Continue reading

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