Building a PC is a many-step process, but one in particular stands out as being intimidating to first-timers: properly mounting a CPU and cooler. Heat management is important to consider when constructing or maintaining your computer. Application of thermal paste is essential to keep the processor cool and happy. With processors working at increasingly higher clock speeds, concern with thermal dissipation is necessary because the higher the clock used, the higher the heat produced. A good contact between CPU and heatsink is crucial yet it is something more people get wrong than anything else.
Arctic Silver 5 is still one of the most popular thermal pastes
Buyer beware: The brand Arctic Silver is not the same as Arctic. Due to the unique shape and sizes of the particles in Arctic Silver 5’s conductive matrix, it will take a up to 200 hours and several thermal cycles to achieve maximum particle to particle thermal conduction and for the heatsink to CPU interface to reach maximum conductivity.
The Best Solid State Drive (SSD) For MacBook Pro | 2016
There are, with most MacBook Pros (exclusive of the Retina display models) only two modifications that you can make without voiding your Apple warranty or AppleCare extended warranty – upgrading the RAM and upgrading the drive in the hard drive bay. If you’ve already upgraded your RAM and simply want more speed, you may want to consider upgrading your old hard drive with an SSD (Solid State Drive).
The Best Heat-Sink Thermal Paste For CPU Cooling | 2016
It’s no secret that modern high-end processors have exceeded many limits concerning speed and performance to the extent that they can now handle multiple heavy resource-demanding applications simultaneously instantly without a noticeable performance hit. But that’s not for no cost. Regardless the electrical power consumption, these processors produce big amounts of heat during their data processing times, specifically when these prepared-for-processing data are complex enough to compel the processor to dedicate more-than-usual resources to expend in order to accomplish these tasks, which eventually increases the thermal emission rate. Dissipating this generated heat has been a major concern for both CPU manufacturers and end users. As for the manufacturers, they keep improving the currently-employed electronic circuits to produce less heat, and developing new ones that better achieve this purpose.
The Fastest & Most Powerful High-End Gaming Laptops | 2015
With so many games lately that require supercomputers to run at max, it is tempting to get a great gaming computer to run them. Desktop diehards and the Reddit build-it crowd might scoff at the very concept of a portable PC gaming machine, but the gulf between gaming desktops and gaming laptops has narrowed considerably over the years. Laptops have come a long way in the last few years, and good gaming laptops, which once sounded like an oxymoron, are now more widely available. Today’s laptops can play modern games at 1080p and higher with few to no compromises in graphics settings. And that’s not bad.
The Fastest & Most Powerful Graphics Cards | November 2015
The graphics card is the part of your computer that controls and enhances how graphics (pictures, videos, programs, animation, 3D) are displayed on your computer screen. All graphics cards, from cheap consumer-oriented cards to professional cards costing thousands of dollars, enhance a computer’s graphics processing by offloading that task from the CPU. By devoting the power of a video card to the task, the computer can complete it faster and without using up other system resources. In addition to speed, graphics cards offer a number of customizable options through their drivers, which enhance the appearance of 3D graphics.
The Best 500gb & 512gb Solid State Drives (SSD) | 2015
Also known as a solid state drive, the SSD is one of the most well-known alternatives to an HDD. The latter is, however, the typical storage component that most computers and laptops come with – a hard disk drive. A solid-state drive is a device created to store data on your computer. Some tend to confuse it with a flash drive, but this only happens because it looks like a bigger and much more complex version of the more familiar USB stick. There are some similarities between the two of them, since they both have no moving parts, as opposed to an HDD.