I was recently re-setting up my home network, and I noticed that all devices in my study were limited to 100 Mbps read/write speeds. This was despite the fact that I have a 500 Mbps up/down package from my ISP, Hyperoptic. So I went looking into this and I tested various ethernet network cables throughout … Read more
Okay, I’ll admit it: whenever I build a PC, the cable management ends up resembling Medusa’s hair first thing in the morning: What’s worse is that I sometimes leave it that way for months (sorry!). However having good, organized cable management brings a number of benefits: from better case airflow to calming our OCD tendencies! … Read more
Rocket League is a competitive game, so when you’re trying to eke out every little performance gain possible, you might have obsessed over your car’s wheels. After testing out different wheels, you might think that certain wheels perform better than others. But is this true? Key Points Do Wheels Make A Difference In Rocket League? … Read more
So you’ve just installed your shiny new graphics card – congrats! But after booting into Windows, you soon notice a problem: the music and audio cuts out a lot, or it keeps going out of sync with the on-screen footage. While this is a frustrating side-effect of a GPU upgrade, it’s often easy enough to … Read more
If your Synology NAS seems sluggish or it has slooow file transfer speeds, it’s possible that your data drives are being used too much. This is known as ‘high disk utilization’, and while short bursts of high disk activity is normal, sustained high usage can cause problems – including potentially damaging your drives. Key Points … Read more
I freely admit that my study (and PC) looks a bit… boring: The lack of sparkly RGBs or triple 4K monitors means that I won’t win any style awards. However I’m actually pretty happy with my home computing setup, which includes a fairly powerful 4K video editing PC (that has 12 cores and 64GB of … Read more
Whether you’re silver II or champion I, you’ve probably seen players start an aerial… only to start spinning around more than a malfunctioning helicopter! This raises a few questions: does randomly rotating in the air actually help? Or is the ‘air roll’ button on their controllers simply broken?! Key Points 4 Reasons Why People Spin/Rotate … Read more
All white PC builds look awesome. There’s something clean and refreshing about a build where the case, hardware, fans and cables are all white: (Granted the motherboard isn’t all white – a topic I touch on later in this article) But if you’re planning out a wintery PC build of your own, you might have … Read more
You know how – when a waiter puts down your plate of food and says “Don’t touch the plate, it’s really hot” – you kind of have to touch the plate? After all, whenever the universe gives us humans a massive “Warning: potential danger” type message, we need to investigate because we’re a curious bunch. … Read more
Ah, Windows Updates. When they work, they seamlessly keep our computers up to date. But sometimes they are the bane of our tech lives: randomly failing, or causing our PCs to restart at the worst possible time. That’s why Windows rolled out the ‘active hours’ feature a few years ago. This was Microsoft’s attempt to … Read more