Carrying out upgrades on your PC used to be a major job, and changing from one type of processor to another was the biggest job of all. These days your PC is more like a kiddy’s toy that snaps together in a matter of minutes, but of course some of us make it look like [...]
In the last few months, the world of graphics cards has seen so many leaps forward that now a 64MB DDR board - which would have been top of the range some six months ago - is considered to be a budget, entry level card. Graphics cards fitted with 128MB of DDR memory are now [...]
Once upon a time, you bought a new motherboard purely as a home for your shiny new processor, and although that may still be true for most people, today’s motherboard designs have so many features that it’s possible to keep your old processor and completely upgrade your system just by swapping the motherboard for one [...]
When Intel originally launched the Pentium 4 processor, the market was slow to embrace the new chip. Processor prices were relatively high and the new processor required an entirely new platform. Components all the way down to the power supply had to be replaced.
Compounding the situation was the new processor’s reliance on expensive Rambus memory. [...]
At the time, a Pentium III motherboard running at 350MHz may have seemed all you’d ever need, just like 640KB of memory was once ‘more than enough’. But things have moved on. It’s time to upgrade.
Buying a new motherboard and processor will not only give you the opportunity to improve your overall system speed, but [...]