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Although its quite a simple task when shown, finding out the capacity of your Macs Hard Drive can cause some frustration when your not going in the right direction. You might be looking for the size of your hard drive after your Mac has been running slow for a while to see if the space [...]

Intel’s new platform, which is known as Sandy Bridge, has finally showed up on the market and we’re really not sure whether we should be excited or disappointed. According to Intel this platform is meant to perform between the 1156 and 1366 sockets, but more closely to 1366. In many ways it really does sit [...]

The CPU and motherboard I chose come as a combo deal. The AMD Phenom II X2 545 processor has a stock clock of 3.0GHz and has 2 cores. This processor is an excellent choice because it contains 2 more cores that can be unlocked for a total of 4 cores and it has an amazing [...]

Welcome to Fast PC Mods ‘Budget PC Build’ series! Every Thursday for the next 7 weeks we will be posting a piece of our 7 part guide on building a budget PC. In these difficult economic times, budget is a word that everyone’s familiar with and budget PC gaming has never been better! The market [...]

With around $500 to spend, the mid-range gamer is going to be looking at a higher level of processing power than the budget gamer and will be in the market for a native quad core with some good overclocking potential. The Intel Core i5 750 quad core is an excellent choice. Pair it with a [...]

Are good processors necessary for a faster gaming experience? When it comes to PC gaming, most people only think of graphics cards when a game is running slow, but the graphics card can only run a game as fast as the processor powering it. When a computer has a fast graphics card but a slow [...]

In the world of PC building for enthusiasts and gamers, one of the most commonly asked questions prior to starting a build is what processor should be used? This question is something that should be asked before you even start the planning process of a build because it determines the other main components you should [...]

Solid state drives have become a very popular item for PC builders recently, so what’s the big deal? Well, solid state drives provide many advantages to users over the standard hard disk drive that uses magnets and platters to store data. The first advantage being that a solid state drive has no moving parts. This [...]

We all know that Call of Duty: Black Ops, the latest game in the Call of Duty series, will be hitting shelves on Tuesday, November 9th and it’s time to start thinking about your current gaming rig. If it’s been a while since you’ve given the graphics portion of your computer a tune-up then you [...]

Newly released games are requiring more and more powerful graphics cards every day and installing a new card can make your gameplay much smoother and faster. Finding the cheapest and best performing card might be a problem, but physically installing them definatly shouldn’t.

Today we’re going to be installing a