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Top 10 Ways to Save Money When Building Your Own Computer

Take a look at my top 10 tips on building a cheap pc that I've picked up over the years. Profit from my experience with these top ten money saving ideas.

How to Overclock Your Computer 101

Even amongst computer hardware enthusiasts, overclocking is a subject that is not always completely understood. At the most basic level, overclocking is merely making hardware such as the CPU or RAM run at clock speeds that are above stock. This allows the user to achieve an increase in performance without spending extra money on faster parts. Follow our guide and learn the basics about overclocking.

Top Ten Green Tips for Your PC

Join TechwareLabs as we help you to turn your mean machine into a green machine through a few simple and easy steps that can help to make your computing more eco friendly.

5 Ways OS X Lion Will Increase Productivity

Apple announced a slew of new features to Apple’s upcoming operations system OS X 10.7 Lion at their recent World Wide Developers Conference. Apple actually showed off Lion last November, and the developer preview has been out since February, but that of course didn’t stop Apple from showing it off some more. With all this time to think of it’s new features, and it’s July release getting ever closer, I thought I’d talk a little about how I think 5 of Lions 250+ new features will increase your productivity.

Building Computers for the Weekend Geek, part 2

In this followup to part 1, we'll be going over the remaining components that are essential to building a system from scratch. Grab your thinking cap and your anti-static wrist strap, and let's get started!

Building Computers for the Weekend Geek

The face of personal computing is constantly changing and evolving. There are more terms out there than ever before, which makes it harder and harder to keep everything straight. Is the i7 really better than the i5? Why are some computer packages so much cheaper than others? Is that barebones computer for $300 really worth it? What should I really look for when I look at the details of a “PC Bargain”? What does all of that stuff DO anyway?? I’ll try to answer some of those questions, and in such a way that even the Weekend Geek (if there is such a thing) won’t walk away scratching their heads.