With the growing competition among top gaming laptop manufacturers, it is easier than ever to purchase a great gaming laptop for less than a grand. These are laptops that possess enough power to comfortably accommodate most of your multimedia and any other gaming needs.

As such, you can get impressive laptops with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 as well as 1600 x 900 within this particular price range. Other features you’ll likely get with such devices include up to 8GB RAM, quad-core processors, up to 1TB SATA drives, and a good video card. read more

The Haswell architecture refresh from Intel hasn’t subsided. In fact, there has been a lot of excitement around Intel, and for good reason. The new announcements have grabbed a lot of attention. Though the Z97 chipset brought some excellent new motherboards from your favorite manufacturers, Intel just seems to keep improving. Though the chipset doesn’t offer a ton of new things, major corporations like MSI, GIGABYTE, ASUS and ASRock have introduced some great motherboards with the new chipset. read more

Just like other computer components, the power supply (PSU) of a computer will fail at some point. There are many causes of power supply failures such as the age factor, electrical interference, the presence of dirt or foreign matter, overheating and ventilation failures. In some cases, people will find it very hard to know whether the power supply has a problem or if some other part of the computer, such as the motherboard, is the issue. However, there are some symptoms that can guide you to know the exact components that have failed in your computer. Here are the common power supply failure symptoms: read more

If you are considering getting an SSD (Solid State Drive) for your Laptop or desktop, there are some important things you should keep in mind before you take the plunge. Generally, for those who don’t know, solid state drives are hard drives that do not have any moving parts. These drives are very much like memory cards used in digital cameras for example. The lack of moving parts allows information to be transferred at much faster speeds when compared to a traditional hard drive.

Some people think it is expensive and are unwilling to upgrade, oblivious of the improvement it could bring to your computer. You may also think that the 256GB or 128GB capacity is not enough for all your files and programs. Whatever your concerns are, here are some things you should know about the SSD (Solid state drive). read more