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
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
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
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
PC cases are getting smaller at a time when GPUs keep getting bigger, often resulting in people needing to buy GPU riser cables to squeeze everything into their PC build. But if you’ve started having bad performance or FPS rates, you might be wondering whether your riser cables are to blame. Let’s dig into whether … Read more
This video is a (totally invalid) PSA from “Tristan’s Terrible Tech Tips”: where I discuss why you should never buy expensive power supply units. I argue (with totally incorrect reasoning) why “gold” and “platinum” PSUs are a waste of money. Please don’t follow this advice at home! You can view this video at: Video Transcript … Read more
As PC gamers, we’ve probably all booted up our favorite game, only to be distracted big time by our graphics card sounding like a Boeing 747 getting ready to take off. This noise is called coil whine, and while many people say that it’s caused by electromagnetic interference (which I’ll discuss later), there’s also another … Read more
Before I started working for myself, I worked as a software developer for a decade. And pretty much everyone kept their computers on overnight (and over the weekends, too). It was just too much effort to constantly close down a dozen or more programs a night, only to open them back up the following day. … Read more
Every few months (or weeks..!) I have an issue where my computer powers on and the fans are spinning fine, but no output appears on the PC screen. This is a confusing and annoying issue, especially because I always double check that all cables are correctly inserted into my computer and monitor. Luckily this issue … Read more