Category: Computer Builds
Why do I have so Many Monitors and why you should too!
I have 10 monitors on my desk. 6 for play and 4 for work. They are not all powered by one PC, I have 2 PC, one Mac Mini and one with a dedicated Amazon Fire Stick for play, and a laptop driving 3 external monitors for work. Some say it’s too many. I could never have enough! There are several benefits to having multiple monitors on your desk at home: Increased productivity: With multiple monitors, you can easily view and work on multiple applications or documents simultaneously, which can save you time and effort when referencing or comparing information
Click for more / Podcast Player>SysAdmin Appreciation Day 2022
This Friday, July 29 is System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as SysAdmin Day! It is a day dedicated to celebrating the oftentimes unsung heroes of our organizations – the SysAdmin. It presents us with a great opportunity to thank them for keeping the servers up and running, the network traffic flowing, the databases backed up, and the plethora of other responsibilities on their plates. To celebrate this year, I reached out to a few industry leaders to ask them their thoughts. Brian Dunagan, Vice President of Engineering, Retrospect, a StorCentric Company: “System Administrator Appreciation Day reminds us how important
Click for more / Podcast Player>Bob and Ryan from ThinkComputers.org with Read Before You Purchase Reviews on Laptops, Motherboards and PC Cases – HGG526
How using RAID 0 Can Increase Your PC Performance
Nothing new here. Just wanted to document some of the benchmark results from a recent install I am doing with a Dell Precision 690 Workstation that I picked up from a sale at work. The full tech specs are at the link above and it came with 2 x Dual-core Intel Xeon 5100 series processors. It also came with no drives and no OS and 4GB of RAM. My good friend Kevin Schoonover was able to track down 32GB of RAM, 2 x Dual NIC cards and 4 x 150GB WL150GB SATA drives to add to the mix. I was
Click for more / Podcast Player>Mushkin Callisto 120GB SSD Install and Performance Specs
So last weekend I put and Mushkin Enhanced Chronos (MKNSSDCR120GB) 120GB SSD ($150) in my personal PC here at home and saw some amazing results. I posted about it here. Later that weekend, I was talking to the Worship Guy at our church and he had seen the post as ask if I thought an SSD drive could speed up the PC the church uses for video production. It is a Dell XPS 630i with (Core 2 Duo Quad Core, E8200, 2.66, 6MB Wolfdale, 65W) but came into our hands with a 500GB OS spinning drive and just 3GB of
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