Processing and Customising Online Videos on Your PC

With the likes of YouTube, fast Internet and modern video camera recorders, sharing and customising video content can be made easy via a semi-decent computer. If you are looking at buying a PC that can process videos, you want something similar to a gaming PC, with a decent amount of RAM (16GB), a decent processor […]

What Specs Should I Look For When Purchasing a New Computer Today (2021)?

The industry standard for computing changes quite quickly, considering back in the early 90s, having 32MB of RAM (Random Access Memory) and a 100MHz processor was once considered a great computer. These days, processors can reach 4GHz in Turbo/Boost mode, that is 4000MHz, FORTY times quicker than the PCs of the early 90s. These days, […]

Optimisation Is Necessary In Software To Be At The Cutting Edge

Through-out the history of computer software, to be at the cutting edge, and at the state-of-the-art, software optimisation has played an integral part to push the boundaries of what is possible on the hardware that was available at the moment of the software’s release and to be commercially successful. This may involve smart algorithms that […]

Some Handy Windows Features (System Info and Increasing Performance)

As an IT Technician there are a range of features that can help you access information such as how much RAM you have physically installed, your model of CPU, the graphics card that is installed and modifying what services and programs start-up when your computer starts. If you find your Windows computer running slow, you […]

CPU Feature Sizes, from 10,000nm in the 4004 to 7nm in the i7 in over 50 years

There was a general trend in the CPU offerings since the Intel 4004 (the first mass produced microprocessor released in 1971 with a feature size of 10,000nm) called Moore’s Law. Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors that make up a CPU (or other Integrated Circuit) doubles every two years. The original 486 CPU […]