by Ari Altman | Apr 6, 2021
Introduction Back in early 2015, The Tech Buyer’s Guru published a unique look at video card cooler performance, comparing two very different versions of the top-of-the-line GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB video card to see how they compared in terms of thermal and...
by Ari Altman | Apr 6, 2021
Introduction This article explores the effects of overclocking video card random access memory, or VRAM for short. VRAM overclocking may seem to be a bit of a mystery, and for good reason – the VRAM overclocking on modern graphics cards can lead to quite...
by Ari Altman | Apr 6, 2021
Introduction By now, most people have at least heard of “solid state drives” (or SSDs for short), but we might as well refer to them as “super-speedy drives” given how they’ve revolutionized personal computing. But what is an SSD, and how...
by Ari Altman | Apr 6, 2021
Introduction There was a time not too long ago when CPUs ran so cool that they barely needed heatsinks, but today’s high-performance PCs require users to pay a bit more attention to the cooling of their systems. Luckily, PC users have a nearly unlimited range of...
by Ari Altman | Apr 5, 2021
Introduction The impact of system memory on gaming performance is a topic lots of gamers are interested in, but finding in-depth analysis can be hard. Back in mid-2013, we published our analysis of how RAM quantity affects gaming performance in our article Does Memory...