hardware

I recently upgraded my CPU to a Core i9-14900K. However, it came with an unwanted problem: freezes during gaming. These freezes occurred only when XMP was enabled. They were complete lock-ups, requiring the power button to be held down to turn off the computer.

There was a good deal on a 14900K during Black Friday weekend, so I decided to buy one as a fairly low-cost upgrade from my non-K 13900. Did I get a good one? Asus motherboards give these CPUs a silicon prediction (SP) score, and

Here’s a picture of an Intel AX210 card: And here’s a picture of an Intel BE200 card: If you’re observant, you may have noticed that the connector is slightly different. The AX210 is both A and E keyed, while the BE200

I had been using an Intel Core i7-8700K since October 2017, patiently waiting for a good opportunity to upgrade. Fed up of waiting, I ordered some new parts: The exact parts (along with the prices I paid, inclusive of 20% UK VAT) are: * Intel

I recently noticed that the audio player I use, foobar2000, was refusing to play a certain song in my media library. It complained that the file was corrupt. In fact, it wasn’t just one file – there were four files in a row that

I’ve had the Asus XG-C100C 10Gbps Ethernet card for a while but only really started making use of networking speeds faster than 1Gbps when I recently bought a QNAP QSW-1105-5T 2.5Gbps switch. Since then, however, I’ve been having repeated network connectivity