Recent Posts Tagged With 'building a gaming pc'

• 1 Terabyte Hard Drive

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 21:59 in seagate, pc hardware, hard drive, terabyte, building a gaming pc

  I’ve upgraded my rig again. Now I have twin 500 gig hard drives. Here’s the specs: Seagate ST3500320AS, 7200RPM, 32MB cache, SATA (of course). Couldn’t pass it up when I saw it at Newegg for $65 and free shipping. Merry Christmas t...

• How To Apply Thermal Paste to your CPU

  Posted on Saturday October 4th, 2008 at 15:56 in thermal, paste, temperature, pc hardware, cpu, compound, mx-2, building a gaming pc, arctic cooling

  If you want to overclock your CPU (something I plan to do in the coming weeks), it’s a good idea to have an aftermarket heatsink/fan and high quality thermal compound to facilitate adequate heat transfer away from the processor. I am using the ...

• Building A Gaming PC — Part 5: Disassembling for Upgrades

  Posted on Thursday September 18th, 2008 at 23:09 in gaming, tutorial, upgrade, building a gaming pc

  Part 5 of the series is a video tutorial on how to disassemble your gaming PC to upgrade the graphics card and CPU. If you have any problems viewing the video, please leave a comment so that I can fix it. . . Untitled from Jon Anderson on Vimeo....

• Building A Gaming PC — Part 4: Starting Up for the First Time

  Posted on Wednesday September 17th, 2008 at 23:56 in gaming, tutorial, building a gaming pc

  Part 4 of the series is a video tutorial on how to startup your Gaming PC after you’ve assembled it. Make sure you click the “HD is OFF” button after you click ‘Play’ which will take you to the Vimeo website where you ca...

• Building A Gaming PC — Part 3: Building the Rig

  Posted on Sunday September 14th, 2008 at 22:49 in gaming, tutorial, building a gaming pc

  Part 3 of the series is a video tutorial on how to assemble you gaming PC after you’ve purchased all your parts. If you have any problems viewing the video, please leave a comment so that I can fix it. The video is about 13 minutes long. Bui...

• Building A Gaming PC — Part 2: Selecting the Hardware

  Posted on Saturday September 13th, 2008 at 20:39 in tutorial, guide, pc gaming, pc hardware, build your own, build pc, building a gaming pc

  Selecting components is one of the most daunting tasks involved with building your own PC. Enthusiasts love this challenge, because they follow the industry and know what hardware is popular, performs well, gets good ratings, etc. But for those who a...

• Building A Gaming PC — Part 1: Deciding to Build

  Posted on Thursday September 11th, 2008 at 21:51 in DIY, pc gaming, build computer, pc gaming industry, building a gaming pc

  The internet is flooded with “how-to” videos on building your own PC, but is this necessarily a good thing? Yes, many of them have good advice, but for the average Joe (or Jane), deciphering between professional counsel and amateur ego ca...