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A Tour of the Thoroughly Modern Motherboard If you haven't looked inside a PC in the last year or two, you may not recognize everything there. Here's a tour of today's motherboard.   |
PC World
August 2006
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New Uses for Old Hard Drives Avoid the frustration of burning DVDs, and save money on long-term storage... Adjust audio with your mouse... |
PC Magazine
March 16, 2005 |
Upgrade: 35 Ways to Create Your Own Multimedia Desktop Helpful tips for improving desktop performance or purchasing a new one. |
PC World
January 2004
Stan Miastkowski |
Step-By-Step: Burn Your Own DVDs for Backup or Video Playback Here's how to install a DVD drive and transfer videotape to DVD. |
PC World
August 21, 2006
Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Plan Ahead to Extend the Life of Your Hardware Buy new computer equipment and peripherals with an eye on the future. |
PC World
September 2003
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Step-By-Step: Boost Your Hard-Drive Speed With Serial ATA Serial ATA drives offer serveral advantages over parallel drives -- including speed. |
PC World
December 2003
Richard Baguley |
DVD Burners: The New Optical Choice Rewritable DVD drives are fast replacing CD-RW models as the optical drives of choice. They offer a fast, cheap, and convenient way to store large amounts of data, and they let you burn your own movies or recorded TV programs to DVD to be watched on a standard DVD player. |
PC World
June 2004
Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Get the Hard Drive That's Right for You and Your PC There is a whole lot more than size to consider when shopping for today's hard drives. Here's advice on purchasing the right one for you. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2005
Anthony Verducci |
Build An External Hard Drive How to assemble an external hard drive for a lot less than buying a new one. |
PC Magazine
September 27, 2006 |
Transferring Mirrored RAID 1 Data Mirroring data from an old drive to a new drive. |
PC Magazine
April 4, 2008
Loyd Case |
What's Wrong with SATA 1? Why default to SATA II when SATA I has more than enough oomph? |
PC Magazine
August 1, 2007
Loyd Case |
Can You Copy From IDE to SATA? Is it possible to hook a drive to the SATA and perform a disk copy from IDE to SATA? |
PC World
January 24, 2007
Kirk Steers |
Useful Upgrades That Will Outlast Your Aging PC Peripherals to buy to make your old computer act like a new one... Setting up simultaneous audio channels... a USB/FireWire hub that offers plenty of ports... |
PC Magazine
April 19, 2006 |
SATA and PATA Hard Drives You can use a SATA drive alongside an existing parallel ATA. |
PC World
August 26, 2002
Tom Krazit |
DVD Recording Finds Its Place -- in the PC A stand-alond DVD recorder will do the trick, but using your PC could save you money -- and offer you access to a host of extra features. |
PC World
December 2003
Jon L. Jacobi |
Prime Drive Time Sleek, capacious hard disks are making a new place for themselves in the home and on the road. We look at what's here and what's next. |
PC World
September 2002
Melissa J. Perenson |
Buyers' Guide to Rewritable DVD Drives Of the competing drive types, DVD+RW copies data and formats discs fastest, but DVD-RW is more compatible. |
PC World
February 2006
Jon L. Jacobi |
Keep Your Data Backups Safe, Simple, and Fast Follow these instructions to create your own easy-to-maintain backup plan. |
PC World
March 2005
Ramon G. McLeod |
Recycle Your Hard Drive TrayDock lets you turn an old internal drive into an external one perfect for backups. |
PC Magazine
September 16, 2005
Cheng & Domingo |
Aleratec DVD/CD Copy Cruiser Pro LS If you need to copy CDs and DVD quickly, this combination disc duplicator/disc printer from Aleratec is all you need... Sony DVDirect VRD-VC20... 400GB Seagate External Hard Drive... |
PC World
September 2004
Dahl & Baguley |
Your Ideal PC Whether you're upgrading your PC or building one from scratch, we show you how to choose the right parts and put them all together. |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2004
M. David Stone |
CMS 80GB Velocity SATA Automatic Backup System Back in the twentieth century, the only alternative to SCSI for external hard drives was a parallel port, which was deadly slow. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Glenn Derene |
The Cable Guide: Know Your Computer and TV Wires The different wires that are needed for your home entertainment equipment are listed here. |
PC Magazine
August 1, 2007
Loyd Case |
Identify The Devices That Slow You Down For a motherboard that does not support SATA, is there any advantage in replacing the PATA hard drive with a SATA drive connected through a PCI adapter card? |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006
Jason Cross |
The Best PC for the Money Build a PC for $1,900 using parts found at the nexus of price and performance. |
PC World
March 2005
Jon L. Jacobi |
Give Your Storage a Boost Lower costs and higher capacity make hard drives a great bargain right now. |
InternetNews
May 17, 2004
Paul Shread |
Sony Bets on Blue Lasers Sony debuts a line of storage products based on blue laser optical disc technology. |
PC Magazine
December 24, 2003
Jamie M. Bsales |
First External SATA Backup Drive With the CMS Velocity Series drives, you really have no excuse for not backing up. |
Home Theater
March 2005
Chris Chiarella |
Sony PlayStation 2, Intel Pentium 4 Processor, and Intel D915GAV Desktop Board Redesigned PlayStation 2's features a jaw-droppingly slender form factor... 3.6-gigahertz Pentium 4 processor with Hyper-Threading technology to more-efficiently allocate the processor's resources on multiple programs running simultaneously... |
PC World
June 29, 2001
Anush Yegyazarian |
Recordable DVD Wars Heat Up With New Entries Prices drop as three major camps ready consumer recorders and PC drive, but a DVD Rewritable standard is still elusive. |
PC World
December 2002
Jon L. Jacobi |
DVD Burners Hit Prime Time Though the format wars continue, rewritable DVD finally has mass appeal. We test 13 drives, starting at $250. |
PC Magazine
April 7, 2011
Matthew Murray |
How to Build a Mini Fusion PC AMD's new Fusion APU technology makes it easy to construct a small home PC that pack big media-processing power, but require only a minuscule amount of your green. Here's how you can build one. |
InternetNews
January 7, 2005
Marty Foltyn |
CES Becomes Enterprise Storage Showcase With Comdex gone and consumer electronics driving storage trends, enterprise storage vendors are flocking to Vegas. |
Home Toys
December 2002
Cheryl Currid |
Gateway Plasma TV As you start pondering technology "toys" to add to your holiday list, consider putting the Gateway Plasma TV at the top. You'll get a great alternative work location, and your family will enjoy the best game station, TV and DVD room. |
CIO
November 15, 2003
Christopher Lindquist |
Next on the Menu: A New SCSI Standard In 2004, a new SCSI standard, called Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), promises to take the venerable storage technology to a new level -- or at least empty some systems of all that cable clutter. |
PC World
August 2003
Christopher Null |
Mega Storage to Go There's a new removable storage option for every job, from key chain-size USB drives to humongous external hard disks. We examine 15 portable, affordable contenders. |
PC Magazine
January 1, 2008
Loyd Case |
PC to HDTV the Right Way The typical home PC is no longer just for homework and accounting. It's now the entertainment hub of the household. |
PC World
October 2003
Kirk Steers |
Is It Time to Upgrade to Rewritable DVD? Determine the right DVD format for you; make sense of speed ratings; lighten up on power adapters; install a keystroke logger. |
PC Magazine
September 12, 2007
Joel Durham |
Get the Most PC for Your Money Our Bang for the Buck PC won't be the fastest rig at the LAN party, but it's not a bargain-basement Linux terminal, either. If you are looking to build a solid PC with the components that give you the most value for your hard-earned dollar, this is the story for you. |
InternetNews
March 9, 2009
Andy Patrizio |
Seagate, AMD Double Down on SATA Speeds AMD and Seagate today discuss the next leap in hard disk performance, a doubling of Serial ATA throughput. |
PC World
February 26, 2007
Jon L. Jacobi |
Motherboards: Power at the Right Price If you want the newest CPU, graphics, and storage technologies, you need a motherboard that can support them all. Our lab tests reveal great boards that won't break the bank. |
PC Magazine
November 28, 2007
Griffith & Kaplan |
The Ultimate Unusual Upgrades Offbeat PC additions to supercharge your system. |
PC World
July 2006
Scott Mueller |
To Get Just the PC You Want, Build It Yourself You can construct your own fully equipped system for about the same amount of money as an off-the-shelf configuration. |
PC World
September 2003
Jeff Bertolucci |
60-Minute Upgrades Get new PC power in an hour -- or less -- with these speed boosters, storage add-ons, and more. Plus: Tune-up tips to keep your system going strong. |
PC World
August 2005
Jim Aspinwall |
Reinvent Your PC Ever feel like your system's being left behind by today's technology? Here's how to make any machine run faster, store a lot more data, and serve as your entertainment hub. |
PC World
July 2004
Jon L. Jacobi |
DVD's Next Big Leaps DVD is picking up speed and storage capacity--but format wars and high prices may mean a wait for the most advanced new technologies. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Davis D. Janowski |
Tying It All Together If adding multimedia to your home network seems daunting, read on. |
PC World
May 2004
Sean Captain |
The Outsiders: Disks That Do More An external hard drive gives you lots of storage space, as well as a safe place for backups. |
PC Magazine
November 25, 2003 |
Media Center PCs: More Appealing Running the new Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 OS, these living-room-bound boxes from Dell, Gateway, HP, and ViewSonic represent a big improvement over those from the first generation. |
PC World
January 2005
Carla Thornton |
Entertainment PCs Take Center Stage PCs are getting better than ever at tuning in TV, burning movies, playing music, and showing off photos. We test nine versatile new Windows Media Center machines. |
