Arlen thermal paste have many names. One also calls it thermal compound, thermal fat, heat transfer pulp, thermal gel, fat for CPU, heat sink compound and thermal interface material or TIM. It does not matter as one calls it, the task that it does stays the same. thermal paste is made up of heat transfer compound … Read more
The Nintendo Switch is a game console created by Nintendo. It appeared around the world March 3rd 2017. The device launched in the eighth era of home consoles and successfully replaced the Wii U. It competes with the PlayStation 4 of Sony and the Xbox One of Microsoft. The main feature of the Nintendo Switch … Read more
The Laptop Hard Drive is one of the main parts in every such device. Hard drives, or HDDs, for a long time stayed the favorite choice for storage in laptops, because they proved themselves reliable and cheap. It operates by means of spinning magnetic plates together with read and write heads that save and pull … Read more
SATA; Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, simply said is the usual interface that lets Hard Drive communicate with the motherboard of your computer. That technology physically binds your storage to the circuit board, allowing the move of data. Over years it stayed one of the mainstream kinds of interfaces for computer Hard Drive. The technology progressed … Read more
NAS hard drive are built differently than average desktop hard drives. They work with lower energy, create less heat and vibrate less because of design. Moreover, those drives usually spin more slowly than typical desktop models. A main feature is that NAS hard drive do not rearrange sectors inside. They skip built-in data guard and … Read more
The PS4 includes a standard 500 GB hard drive with 5400 RPM and SATA II. It is not very fast. Many users do not change the internal hard drive so everything stays a bit slow, until Sony launched support for external hard drive in system update 4.50, which allows to play games directly from it. … Read more
CCTV hard drive recordings are special storage devices, designed specially for video surveillance systems. They are not like average recordings, they are meant to handle the heavy demands of surveillance applications and offer various options to match your needs for security. Internal DVR and NVR recorders use them, storing videos constantly. Between the most popular … Read more
LaCie does not make Hard Drive units itself. The company for a long time fills their cases with Hard Drive units from Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba and Hitachi, before they appear in stores. It mainly offers outside Hard Drive units that have nice looks. Because of that, part of the cost goes to the brand … Read more
UPS, or continuous Power Supply, is a device that delivers back-up energy to connected devices when the main electricity fails. It works as an outside battery with a switch for devices, so that during a power outage everything stays working for a bit of time. Three main parts find themselves in UPS: rechargeable batteries, an … Read more
**Note:** The info in this article come from actual experience and discussions in the community about reflow of GPU. The reflow of GPU are made up of heating up the GPU for melting the solder bumps under it. On purpose one heats the cracked or breaking solder joints so that the chip repeat firm tie … Read more
RAM is short for memory with random access. That type of computer memory allows to read and change information in any order. Usually computers use it to save working data and machine code. A random-access memory device means to read or write data almost equally quickly no matter its place. Think of it as the … Read more
Whether a GPU used for mining will last between 5 and 8 years on average. This amount changes a lot based on the way one uses the graphics card. Also some GPUs live much more than that. For instance, cards from the year 2005 still work for playing video games today what makes them almost … Read more