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Fastsilicon's Internet Survival Guide PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 12 January 2007

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Ever wondered why your cousin ends up with 400 instances of spy ware EVERY-SINGLE-TIME you're called over to fix his mess? Ever gotten a virus and not been able to figure out exactly how you got infected? Does Paypal email you 10 times a week and you don't understand why? The Internet can be a mine-field for the unprepared, but it can be surprisingly simple to stay above the "noise" and "drama" with some simple tips, and something as simple as a change in mindset. With this in mind, we submit to you our Internet Survival Guide.

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FastSilicon's Guide To Storage Technology: Part 1 PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 03 January 2007

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Today we have an informative article, the purpose of which is to enlighten you on the topic of mass storage technology. Mass storage is an interesting technology, storing its data in a series of what looks like (to our eyes) as a bunch of pseudo-randomly situated magnetically aligned bits. Yup, you heard it. A bunch of little micromagnetic charges arranged in two different directions. Odd huh? Well my fellow geeks, shall we dig into the wonderfully diverse worlds of hard disks? Read on!

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AB9-Pro Dream Machine on a Budget PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 17 December 2006

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Intel's E6300 is the best CPU for the price. Overclocked, it outperforms AMD's current offerings and equals that of a $1000.00 processor in terms of performance. Long has it been since we've seen such an amazing overclocker, and the E6300 will certainly go down in history. It's the perfect match for our dream machine on a budget.
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How to shutdown multiple programs without using Task Manager PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 03 November 2006

beyondlogicOne of the most annoying aspects of playing games on PC is having to go through and manually closing dozens of background running tasks  you don’t want running when you're playing a game because they're sucking down memory and processing power.
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Watercooling 101 PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 27 October 2006

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The traditional heatsink is the preferred choice for most enthusiasts, but some enthusiasts take a more drastic approach to  cooling. One of the more preferred extreme cooling solutions is Watercooling. There are other means of extreme cooling including phase change and liquid nitrogen. In this guide we will focus on Watercooling.
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Layman's Guide to CPUs PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 19 September 2006

When we buy a computer, there is some thing that we certainly need to know about itsintroimage most significant part, its brain, its grey matter and that is the CPU. The Central Processing Unit, often called the processor, is where the brain of the computer is located. That is where every thing, every process of thinking by the computer happens. 
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System Backup 101 PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 01 June 2006

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To most, even computer enthusiasts, backup is considered a four-letter word. You know you should do it, you need to do it, you even want to do it, but you don't do it. When Windows crashes or that new game you installed causes error messages you didn't even know existed, you regret not performing that simple system backup.

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