A while back I made a PC stats display using a Raspberry Pi and some free software from Modbros. Conceptually I loved it as a solution, I just wished it was a little bit more flexible and allowed you to display different images outside of the templates featured in the software. Enter Aida64. In this …
Sometimes a piece of junk is JUST a piece of junk. A while back I picked up a couple of PCs on the Indian classified website olx.in One of those machines was my Pentium Pro PC, but the other turned out to be a much more modern Pentium 4 machine made by Asus. Unfortunately, as …
Floppy disks were a massive part of the computing landscape in the 80s and 90s. Back in a time before high speed internet and USB drives, if you were moving data between two PCs the chances are you were using a floppy disk. The problem with using floppies on retro PCs in the 21st century …
Yeah, I know, I have way more money than sense. There was absolutely NOTHING wrong with my AMD Ryzen 3900x based system, even with its cautiously optimistic Radeon 5700XT GPU. But, I’m a man with needs, and I needed a much faster system Surprisingly, I was able to pick up the GPU at more or …
Way back when, Intel needed a product that would bridge the gap between high-end server machines and ordinary desktops. They came up with the Pentium Pro not long after the original Pentium, in 1996. The idea was that its 32-bit performance would excel past what even the Pentium could achieve, and it wasn’t the only …
Back in winter 1994 I remember spending one wet and windy evening sitting patiently in the aisles of PC World in Northampton as my dad spoke to a salesman with about as much focus as I’ve ever seen from someone. With hindsight it was easy to understand why, as later that evening my dad parted …
Last summer I was bored while my wife and daughter were away visiting family, so I began to look into the Retro PC scene. The problem was that where I am (India) there isn’t really a retro scene and it was very difficult to actually find a marketplace where I might lay my hands on …
Seeing as my main gaming rig is also my video editing PC and it now sits in my workshop, I’m in need of a “basic” gaming PC for the living room. Check out my video build vlog to see what components I chose and how it performs.
The Portege Z930 can be picked up dirt cheap on auction sites these days. They’ve gotten long enough in the teeth that companies are getting rid, but they’re still workable machines with a couple of tweaks, namely the storage and the RAM. In this video I show you how to upgrade both:
The PRIZM Matrix from antec is a pretty unique concept. These days pretty much all cases can accept a multitude of fans with the bare minimum on even a small form factor case being two 120mm fans next to each other. It’s no surprise then that this has become the go-to form factor for all-in-one …
