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Is Your Computer Stable?

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Is Your Computer Stable?

Over the last twenty years, I’ve probably built around a hundred computers. It’s not very difficult, and in fact, it’s gotten a whole lot easier over the years as computers become more highly integrated. Consider what it would take to build something very modern like the Scooter

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The 2016 HTPC Build

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The 2016 HTPC Build

I’ve loved many computers in my life, but the HTPC has always had a special place in my heart. It’s the only always-on workhorse computer in our house, it is utterly silent, totally reliable, sips power, and it’s at the center of our home entertainment, networking, storage,

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24 Gigabytes of Memory Ought to be Enough for Anybody

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24 Gigabytes of Memory Ought to be Enough for Anybody

Are you familiar with this quote? 640K [of computer memory] ought to be enough for anybody. — Bill Gates It’s amusing, but Bill Gates never actually said that: I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that

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Dude, Where’s My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?

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Dude, Where’s My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?

Due to fallout from a recent computer catastrophe at work, I had the opportunity to salvage 2 GB of memory. I installed the memory in my work box, which brings it up to 4 gigabytes of RAM – 4,096 megabytes in total. But that’s not what I saw in

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The World’s Slowest Windows XP System

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The World’s Slowest Windows XP System

I’m not sure exactly why, but the guys at winhistory.de managed to install Windows XP on a 20 megahertz Pentium 1 system with 32 megabytes of RAM: That puts the XP in back in Windows XP – Xtremely Pokey: The CPU is working at 60% of full capacity at

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