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7 Barebones Computer Buying Tips

June 30, 2022   Computer Parts

7 Barebones Computer Buying Tips

Getting a new computer should be a cool thing, especially a cheap computer. After all that time struggling with you old machine, probably fighting with it to get the latest software to run, your new computer should be a ray of light for your computing future.

Oh, if it were that simple. If things were really that easy or simple when buying a cheap computer, life would be much easier, but just like every other thing, its not that simple.

Barebones computers have become extremely popular, and for good reason. Getting a barebones computer which does not include a monitor and comes with the bear minimum of parts makes them an upgradable, practical and cheap computer.

But not all things are rosy in barebones computer land…

1. Missing parts

Although barebones computers do come with the essential pieces, most people need at least one or two extras for their day to day barebones system. This is simply due to different applications people use them for. Don’t get caught missing that extra part from your barebones system that you then need to get later. You still need to do some homework and research to find out what you really need from your barebones system.

2. Super cheap computer deals

Beware, many corners can be cut to get those sub 0 dollar barebones systems. They can be great, but not always, carefully analyse the components of the package. Also remember that a barebones system couldn’t possibly include a monitor for that price, which adds a lot to the price.

3. Mismatched parts

This could become a problem if building your own computer, but it even happens in pre-assembled barebones computer deals. There is a chance that you get something that doesn’t fit with the barebones system. There are lots of different connections and speed ratings between parts. Make sure the ones you get match up to the other parts and your needs. Although not common, incompatibilities between parts are not unheard of.

4. Outdated components

To get super-cheap deals older parts are sometimes used in cheap computers. Although this can be a great cost-saver and some old parts are fantastic, there is nearly no chance of an upgrade without putting a major amount of money into your barebones computer again, perhaps as much if not probably more than you paid for your great deal.

5. Defective parts

Although this is another one that has gotten better as the competition has gotten stronger, there is a chance of defects in cheaper products. Your motherboard could be faulty, your power supply might give up after a month or two. These may not be intentional problems, but come hand in hand with “cheap computer stuff”.

6.Refurbished computer parts

Refurbished computer parts are a great way to save some money. Not always the biggest saver, but there can be problems with the updates to these computers in much the way as mismatches happen in barebones systems. Often the computer is slightly updated to meet needs, but is really quite an old model, just with upgrades. Can be fine, but the parts they replace might be replaced with something newer but inferior.

7. Claims of great warranty

To try and entice you into feeling safe, offers of long warranties are made. Most of the parts in the computer could have past their warranty dates, so the warranties are purely from the company that put the computer together. They can be hard to contact and take their time to get replacements to you as well as expect you to mail the computer to them so that they can do the repairs.

Barebones computers can be a great way to put together a second computer, build a computer for simple purposes, like writing documents and casual web surfing. Barebones fit perfectly as a second computer. Just keep these things in mind and you won’t get bitten by the bargain bin monster.

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Hook Up Your Game Systems to Your Home Computer with USB Cables

June 30, 2022   PC Games

Hook Up Your Game Systems to Your Home Computer with USB Cables

Presently, there are a lot of gaming systems coming out of the market with features that you never thought you would ever see in a game system. In the past, a game system is ordinarily just a game system with simple graphics and an even simpler game play. However, with today’s technology, game systems have evolved to a new level. Not only are game systems today used for games, but it can now be used as a medium for different entertainment purposes.

Game systems today can now play DVD movies, play music CDs, and can even play MP3s. The possibilities and potential of game systems being developed today are endless. You can now connect through the internet using your game system and play with other people from all over the world.

In the past, you may just imagine that a game system can only be played locally through two players. However, because of the advancement in computer and communications technology, game systems today now have the capability to connect to the internet wirelessly.

Now, you can even connect the latest game system available in the market to your own PC by using the USB port. If your PC has USB ports, you will be able to connect different game consoles in your PC.

For example, if you have a PSP or PlayStation Portable, you can plug it in your PC and download or upload MP3s, pictures, and videos. With this kind of feature, you can now have the capability to transfer files from one PC to another by just using your PSP. Another great thing about this is that your PSP will be able to charge through the USB port.

There are even USB cables that are capable of converting your gaming system’s controllers and use it to play with your favorite PC games. By simply purchasing this kind of adaptor, you will never need to purchase expensive controllers for your PC. All you have to do is purchase a USB adaptor for your game console’s controller and you can start playing your PC games by using the controller.

New versions of the game consoles that are being developed by game system manufacturers are now making use of the USB port to connect to your home PC for maximum features.

With all the different game consoles coming out of the market with USB capability, you could only imagine what these machines will be capable of after its release in the market. With what gaming consoles were before, you can see how short the evolution of these machines. You may even remember playing with the simple game systems that only consists of simple graphics and sounds.

Now, with USB capability, you can truly maximize the way you play your game and also maximize the use of your gaming console. Gaming systems are no longer limited to playing games; you can now maximize its use through the USB port.

In the very near future, you can most probably store MP3’s, picture files, and videos in your game system’s memory cards by just using your USB port. Maybe even transfer your computer files to a DVD or CD by connecting your DVD burning capable game console through USB and write your computer files on DVD by using your DVD burner integrated in the game console.

Internet connection through USB connection is now also possible. If you don’t have an online adapter installed in your game console, there are available adaptors that can take advantage of your PC internet connection and let your game system connect to the internet by just using the USB connector in your PC.

With the different technology now available in the market, you can now make use of your PC to benefit your game system or your game system to benefit your PC. Who knows? Maybe in the near future, game systems will be able to let you play head to head with PC gamers by just using a USB connector.

The possibilities that the USB offers are endless. You can download MP3s, videos, and even pictures from your PC to your handheld game systems, you can use your game system’s controllers for your PC and other benefits by just using the USB port in your PC to connect to your game systems.

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The Top Gaming Laptops

June 30, 2022   Gaming Laptops

The Top Gaming Laptops

Do you have the latest PC game that you love playing and want to play it while you is traveling? Do you want to play World of Warcraft while you is on a long boring road trip? Then you need to start looking for gaming laptops. Gaming laptops are specially built for playing PC games without slowing down. Now not any laptop will perform good enough for all PC games, because some games have very high graphics and need plenty of processor speed. This article review describes in detail about the top existing gaming laptops that you can buy.

Alienware Aurora mALX

The Alienware Aurora mALX laptop is SLI-based, 19 inched and weighs about 15 pounds. This laptop will dominate any gaming laptop in its immediate surroundings. The Alienware Aurora have dual HDD support up to 240 Gigabytes, 1680×1050 pixel display, and a 2.4-GHz AMD Turion 64 ML-44 processor. This laptop may be the best laptop for playing the latest action packed fly-by PC games released. The gaming performance is great, but the AMD processor is a little slower than Intel’s Core Duo chips. The Alienware Aurora maLX will use a lot of power, as the battery can be drained within just one hour. The price for this laptop will be in the range starting from 00 up to 00 (with configurations)

Hypersonic Aviator Fx7

The hypersonic Aviator features a 2.6GHz Athlon 64 FX-60 desktop CPA and has 2GBs of RAM, and a built in Webcam and a TV turner card. This laptop is built purely for your entertainment. The laptop weighs about 13 pounds and has a 17 inched LCD. The video display is excellent and can turn up to 85 frames a second for several PC games. The Hypersonic Aviator FX7 have a high score (8.5) among many gaming laptop fans. A downside to this laptop is that it can get hot pretty fast, and the cooling fans will make noticeable noise. The laptop price range is around 00.

Voodoo Envy U:734

The Voodoo Envy weighs 8.7 pounds and has a 17 inched display, so it is pretty light for a gaming laptop. The color display is very good but will darken a little when viewing from a 45 degree angle. The Voodoo Envy U:735 has four built in speakers which produce very good position audio sound. During two straight hours of game play the laptop generates about the average amount of heat most gaming laptops creates, but would do poorly for usages of regular laptops. The price of the Voodoo Envy U:734 is around 00.

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Gaming Laptops – The Five Essential Features To Consider When Buying A Gaming Laptop

June 30, 2022   Gaming Laptops

Gaming Laptops – The Five Essential Features To Consider When Buying A Gaming Laptop

Gone are the days when you would have been laughed at if you walked into an all-night LAN party carrying your trusty laptop and expecting to hang with the giant computer towers standing at everyone’s feet. The gaming laptop computers of today sport huge, crisp LCD screens, cutting-edge video cards and full-size keyboards. Not only can these gaming laptop computers hang with the standard clunky computer tower, but they can also be ordered fully custom to meet the exact specifications of any gamer.

Since there are so many customizable components in these laptops, a standard practice has been to create what some call a “system builder.” This is the page where you get to add and subtract components through drop-down menus in order to create the best gaming laptop computer for your needs and your budget. This type of page can be overwhelming to someone just starting the gaming laptop shopping process, but it is very manageable if you take it just one component at a time.

The Gaming Laptop GPU

This is the heart of a gaming laptop computer. The GPU – graphics processing unit – is a component that will make or break your gaming experience. If your GPU isn’t up to snuff, your games won’t play.

Without getting into specific models since they change all the time, the key is that the graphics card not share resources with the computer. A gaming laptop video card must have its own memory on board. Generally speaking, standard off-the-shelf laptops will not have this feature. The two current makers of laptop video cards are nVIDIA and ATI.

Without the Screen, You Don’t Have Much

What good is a gaming laptop without a screen that can actually render your games? Now certainly, you can connect an external monitor, but if you can’t actually play on your gaming laptop without that external monitor, then your laptop isn’t all that mobile.

While the technology and terminology for LCDs (liquid crystal displays) could take up an entire article in itself, there are a few key points to keep in mind when choosing from available LCD options for your new gaming laptop computer: native resolution, aspect ratio, rise and fall time, contrast, viewing angle, and size.

Native Resolution. The native resolution is simply the setting at which your screen will render the clearest images. Since games are constantly in motion, slightly soft edges may not bother most gamers, but keep in mind that while this is your gaming laptop, you will likely also use it for other things like surfing the Internet. If the resolution isn’t comfortable, you aren’t going to enjoy using it.

Aspect Ratio. As you probably know, a movie theater screen and a TV screen have different proportions. Likewise, there are widescreen format gaming laptops and there are laptops that have a standard aspect ratio – like that of a TV. A widescreen format gaming laptop has advantages and disadvantages. Many games today do not have a widescreen mode. This means that the game may stretch across the screen and become distorted or you may run it with black bars that fill in the sides. There are ways to get around this, but if you want an out of the box perfect experience, the widescreen format may not be for you.

That said, a widescreen LCD does offer plenty of screen real estate for web surfing and other type of computer activities, and a game played in a wide format setting offers an expansive field of view. For this reason, there are some very loyal widescreen-loving gamers out there.

Do your best to find a balance between current and future technology and what your computer habits are beyond gaming. Even with its limitations, the widescreen format is found on most of the best gaming laptop computers.

Rise and Fall. The phrase ‘rise and fall time’ is used to describe how fast the LCD can respond to changes. In the past, LCDs have been plagued with the inability to render images as fast as computer games can spit them out. This presents a major problem for laptop gamers because if they can’t see the images properly, they can’t play the game properly. This lag can mean the difference between playing to win and barely playing.

Fortunately, gaming laptop LCDs have come a long way and they are only getting better. While once it was impossible to game on a laptop screen, the gaming laptop LCDs of today offer 25 milliseconds or less rise and fall time while generally off-the-shelf laptops have 40 milliseconds or less rise and fall time.

Contrast. If a gaming laptop LCD has poor contrast, that means that the black areas aren’t quite as black as they should be and the white areas aren’t quite as white. This is important to a laptop gamer because you have to see the game properly – as it was intended to be seen – in order to compete effectively. Look for a contrast ratio of 400:1 or higher in a custom gaming laptop computer.

Viewing Angle. This is an often-overlooked LCD feature, but it must be considered if you are building a gaming laptop computer. Many high quality LCDs on the market are difficult to see clearly at any angle other than straight on and at the right height. This can be a big drawback to gaming on a LCD screen because a screen with poor viewing angles won’t allow others to watch the screen as you play and also hurts your view when doing something as simple as adjusting your seating, which can require you to then adjust to position of your laptop screen to see it properly again.

But gaming on a laptop does not mean that you are doomed to have poor viewing angles. There are LCDs on the market that have amazing viewing angles – up to 120 degrees. These screens not only allow gaming onlookers, but they also allow you to use that giant, crisp screen to do things like play movies and even make presentations.

Size. In a gaming laptop computer, size is everything. Most gaming laptops are large, robust pieces of electronics. Having a machine of this stature means you also get to have a large screen. The best gaming laptop computer LCD screens out there are at least 15 inches. A crowd favorite is a 17 inch widescreen (even with the challenges that widescreens present). Largr 19 inch laptop screens are just starting to be talked about with consumers expecting to see 19 inch or even large models on the market in the near future.

The best way to really get a feel for what laptop LCDs are all about is to take a trip to a local box store and play with the LCDs on the display laptops while keeping in mind what you have read here. While these laptops are not custom gaming laptops, you can see what the sizes really look like, what different resolutions look like, and what the viewing angles truly are so you can start to develop your own preferences.

The RAM – What Type and How Much?

The RAM (random access memory) found in laptops is called SODIMM (small outline dual inline memory module). The RAM is responsible for your processing power. If you are shopping for a custom gaming laptop, you will generally be offered DDR2 RAM with the choice of how much you want in your computer. Most high-end games being released today need 1GB of RAM for optimum, lag-free game play. Some people are going with 2GB to ensure that they can run multiple applications along with the game and not experience any slow down in response time. This is a large investment and you want to be able to use this gaming laptop for some time in the future. Most custom laptops are user upgradeable, but this should be left up to professionals.

The CPU – Not Just Mobile Technology

The CPUs (central processing units) found in many custom gaming laptops are identical to those found in desktops. These chips require a great deal of cooling power, which in turn can make your laptop louder than light weight, lower power ultra portables when the fans kick on and it can become somewhat warm to the touch. Don’t be alarmed by this – it is normal. And with these desktop processors comes screaming power! Don’t waste your money on the latest CPU release that likely has an inflated price tag (and that price will likely come down before long). Stick with a current CPU speed that is offered by a reputable custom gaming laptop reseller, and you really can’t go wrong.

The Gaming Laptop Hard Drive

This is the final component to consider when building a gaming laptop. Laptop hard drives come in a variety of speeds and capacities ranging from 4200 to 7200 RPMs and 40 to over 100 GBs. For the most part, this is user preference. Whenever possible, go for a 7200 RPM hard drive, but if you need a capacity not offered in this speed, it’s okay to go for the 5400 RPM drive. Take a look at your current computer, and buy your capacity based on this. Also keep in mind that with many custom gaming laptop manufacturers, you have the ability to upgrade or add another hard drive at a later date.

At the end of the day, gaming laptop computers are all about power. Don’t expect a twelve-pound notebook with a desktop processor, numerous fans, a giant heatsink, and independent video card to last on battery power all that long. But do make sure to enjoy the jawdrops that you’ll get as you walk into your regular LAN party location with your new, screaming-fast gaming laptop computer. Crack that puppy open, fire it up, and stand clear of the drool as you take on your favorite game with fellow gamers gathered around to take in the action. Gaming is not just for desktops anymore!

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Registry Mechanic: It’s Time To Get Your Computer A Tune-Up

June 29, 2022   Computer Parts

Registry Mechanic: It’s Time To Get Your Computer A Tune-Up

As the computer age continues to evolve at break-neck speed, it is becoming more and more easy for people to view their pc as a valuable tool in the home. Much like a vehicle it takes you places that you need and want to go and it is becoming more practically useful as you can shop, pay bills, and make important communications. It is also easier for people to understand that a computer needs maintenance too. So just like as you would take a car to an auto mechanic to service your car periodically you should get the analogous “registry mechanic” to service your pc.

The word registry in registry mechanic may have thrown you but it isn’t that complicated. You could think of the registry as the oil pan of the computer and just as you need clean oil for good lubrication in a vehicle you need a clean registry for smooth operation of your computer. If you have had a computer for any length of time you know that it will slow down over time, and you will start to notice that your computer will freeze and do spontaneous shutdowns that become a major hassle. These problems are almost always at least in part due to a cluttered and overloaded registry.

You see the registry is the part of the computer that contains all of the different settings on the computer. As you use it there will be more and more settings saved into it many of which are based on temporary internet files that you accumulate as you surf the net. These are for the most part unnecessary but the computer still worries about them each it is called upon to do a task. The more the computer has to worry about them slower it is going to be. What the registry mechanic does is go through and determine what is and is not necessary for the computer to run optimally and keeps the good and disposes of the bad. Of course you can do this manually to but unless you are an expert this is strongly discouraged, as you can make irreversible changes to vital code that has the potential to make your computer inoperable. The other benefit to this software is that just like anything computerized and/or automated it is so much faster and more precise than even the human experts that designed it.

So before you spend your money on a new computer because you are fed up with the faulty operation, or go out and buy more memory because you think that will speed things up, go to your nearest computer retailer and pick up a registry mechanic software package. If you have questions on anything just ask an employee they generally have a good idea of the latest computing news.

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