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Building a personal computer – selecting a hard disk

Any computer needs a hard disk to hold the operating system and any other types of work that you do. As recently as a few years, ok perhaps 10, the only question was how large of a hard disk do … Continue reading

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Building a personal computer – selecting the ram

Selecting ram for the computer is actually very similar to deciding on a graphic card. You need to know what will you be using a computer for and how much memory is needed for that task. Depending on your motherboard … Continue reading

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Building a personal computer – selecting a graphics card

Picking a graphics card depends on what you are planning on doing with your computer. Play games Mine bitcoin Play super intensive fast pace games Surf the internet Watching youtube videos Once you have answered which one or more of … Continue reading

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Building a personal computer – selecting a CPU cooler

I already discussed some about the CPU cooler. There are essentially three different choices you can make Air cooled All in one Custom water cooled The aircooled cooler is pretty much just as it says. It is a fan that … Continue reading

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Building a personal computer – selecting a case

Picking a case is to a certain extent a decision based on your preferences. The CPU or GPU won’t go any faster by having a larger or smaller case. The only limitations are that the case you purchase does support … Continue reading

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Building a personal computer – selecting a motherboard

Deciding on a motherboard is less of a religion than finding something that you can afford and that supports your processor. The question of the motherboard is more complicated depending on how high end of a CPU you are planning … Continue reading

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Building a personal computer – selecting a CPU

Building a pc tends to be done by enthusiasts and so it is done by people who know the difference between ram and the hard disk. With that in mind selecting a cpu tends to become more of a question … Continue reading

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Building a personal computer

My experiences of building my own pc’s has been somewhat mixed. I had considerable help building the last two machines I have had by my friend Mikhail. When I say I had help building that means I created the requirements … Continue reading

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Artificially Intelligent or Creepy

I guess it happened a few years ago when I became a bit more cognizant that those helpful computers were a bit smarter than they first seemed. Perhaps smarter isn’t the right term, perhaps intrusive. The exact incident was when … Continue reading

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Gatling and file variables

At the same time you might wish to replace some of the hard coded values (ie usernames and passwords) with variables as well. It is possible to create lists of values which will be used by Gatling. These feeder lists … Continue reading

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