The best cases for the computer
Ladies and gentlemen, we continue our series of materials about assembling a gaming PC. Let's see what we already have: a monitor, processor, video card, keyboard, mouse and headset. Well,…

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The computer does not turn on: reasons
It is probably hard to imagine a more terrible start to the working day: you sit down at your computer, press the power button and ... nothing, but only a…

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System Admin Tools
A brief overview of several sets of system administrator tools, why they are needed and how they can be useful to a regular computer user. Every user whose work is…

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Capacitor Replacement

In the element base of the computer (and not only) there is one bottleneck – electrolytic capacitors. They contain electrolyte, electrolyte is a liquid. Therefore, heating such a capacitor leads to its failure, since the electrolyte evaporates. And heating in the system unit is a regular thing.

Therefore, replacing capacitors is a matter of time. More than half of the failures of motherboards of the middle and lower price category are caused by dried or swollen capacitors. Even more often, for this reason, computer power supplies break down.

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Modernization of old PCs
Immediately, I note that the article is not one year old and it was left on the site for a change. It is clear that now on the market there…

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Installing a cooler on a processor
Background to the experiment: CPU cooling (LGA775 socket) was provided by the CNPS7700-AICu cooling system. Intel Pentium D930 processor, was purchased in 2005. At that time, quite powerful and expensive.…

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The best graphics cards for mining cryptocurrencies
The hysteria surrounding cryptocurrency mining still does not subside, despite the general unstable bitcoin exchange rate. But if your desire to get crypto money in the usual way is quite…

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