I have a HP laptop (Pavillion g6). Its motherboard has some issue which is not repairable. A new motherboard is too costly. Can I create a new system using other motherboards like gigabyte or MSI mini-ITX motherboards? Answer Yes, possibly. Laptop processors are different than desktop processors, be sure you pick a motherboard with the … Read more
Specs: Bazooka motherboard, Gigabyte AMD rx480 GPU, Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5 GHz Processor Main Features: 64 bit Quad-Core Processor Cache Per Processor: 6 MB L3 Cache Memory: 8 GB DDR4 Storage: 2 TB SATA III 7200 RPM + 120 GB SSD Optical Drive: 24x DVD±R/±RW Dual Layer Drive Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB … Read more
I have a PC having Gigabyte motherboard with an integrated Intel graphics 2500, with only a VGA port. I have searched the Intel product specification site, but I couldn’t find any resolution mentioned there. So, I asked this question here. Will it support 1920×1080 resolution @ 60Hz over VGA ? Answer According to this user … Read more
Background: I am looking into using PS4 Remote Play and was comparing the system requirements with my laptop specs. PS4 Remote Play System Requirements: found here Laptop specs: found here. Hp Pavilion 14-a1062nr The bullet points I am curious about is the processor for both. Remote play recommends Intel Core i5-560M Processor 2.67 GHz or … Read more
Recently i planned to upgrade my old PC which has Intel DH61 WW Motherboard, it had BIOS version 42 earlier and after i tried to update it to current update version 120 the update was failing. After searching through internet understood that it needs to be updated to version 48, then to version 99 and … Read more
I am using a computer with i5 2520m processor and I am cocerned about the latest CPU vulnerabilities like TAA, MDSUM, MLPDS, MFBDS, MSBDS, V3a, V4. The processor itself was discontinued by Intel. As stated by Intel the risk or chance to exploit „classical“ spectre/meltdown is very low. How does it look with this newer … Read more
I’m using a Lenovo Legion Y530 with Windows 10 1809 (Intel i5-8300H) and I have noticed for a long time that my sound has a lot of crackling/popping. After weeks investigating it (I’ll provide more details at the end of the post for those interested) I found out that one setting in power plan configurations … Read more
I have been using a laptop with 2.3 GHz processor clock speed so far, which has been sufficient for my needs (which peak at some intensive programming, e.g. ML). I’m looking for a new one right now, and saw a laptop advertised as having “1.0 GHz, up to 3.6 GHz with Turbo boost”. I have … Read more
I’ve HP laptop and due to some sleep issues I was suggested to downgrade my Intel management engine Interface driver so as to resolve the issue and while running the setup I’m getting the error “This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software”, although I’ve taken the setup from HP site … Read more
I’m getting a new dev laptop, mostly on Apache/PHP/Oracle/Eclipse and VirtualBox doing web dev stuff. I’ve googled around and basically most people agree that i7 would be too much just for that. So I was thinking whether i5 with 7200 RPM HDD is better than i7 with less RPM. As I’ve read that most of … Read more
