SYS_FAN or SYStem FAN headers are some of the few fan headers you’ll come across on a consumer motherboard. These headers are used to power the case fans of your computer. Case fans are typically mounted on your PC’s cabinet and are responsible for providing adequate airflow to various components. Let’s take a closer look …
It’s easy to fall prey to marketing when purchasing a laptop for college. Some companies boast about design, while others claim to offer record-breaking performance. But, the lesser-known secret to getting the best out of your laptop lies in choosing the right size. An average college student travels to class pretty frequently. Cramming a large …
Update: YouTube has officially rolled out PiP to all iOS devices. You can read the unedited version of the original article below: Although YouTube officially ended its PiP experiment for premium users on April 8, 9to5Google noticed that the feature continued to be supported for signed-up users even after. Our tests yielded the same results, …
Over the past couple of years, 14-inch laptops have slowly gained popularity, with Apple, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Asus adopting the form factor. As 15 and 16-inch laptops still dominate a significant chunk of the market, is a 14-inch laptop too small to use today? Let’s find out. How is a 14-inch laptop too small? We’ve …
Apple changed the wireless charging landscape when it announced its MagSafe wireless charger with the iPhone 12 in 2020. A wireless charger that firmly snaps on with magnets, it separated itself from standard wireless pads and stands sold by other companies. MagSafe’s wireless charging design claims to improve wireless charging efficiency through an array of …
Graphic cards can get pretty toasty when pushed hard in games and professional workflows. Using thermal interface materials like paste and pads is essential to their operation. However, GPUs run in poor conditions tend to build up gunk and dirt inside, which degrade thermal pads and affect their ability to conduct heat from critical components …
Looking to pull data from an old HDD? Trying to repurpose an internal drive for external use? Want to connect multiple hard disks to your laptop? In each case, you’ll need to identify how to power a SATA hard drive externally. A SATA connector splits into two parts. The first section, with six pins, transfers …
Most SSDs in the market today her categorized on the interface or the markets they are targards. Both are equally important to consider when shopping for an SSD. NVMe vs. SATA NVMe or the Non-Volatile Memory Express is an interface that connects the NAND flash of an SSD to your computer’s PCIe bus. This is …
Whether training a deep learning model or rendering a complex scene, scaling your workload over two GPUs can significantly decrease the time taken over just sticking with one. A preferred approach for most readers would be to insert two GPUs into a regular consumer system with sufficient expansion slots. After all, most of the recent …
You can often find cheap SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives online, thanks to their use in enterprise environments, where drives need to be upgraded periodically for better reliability. However, one downside to buying them is their lack of compatibility with consumer hardware. It’s easy to mistake these drives for more common SATA (Serial ATA) drives …
