So you’ve bought a shiny new 16 GB memory kit with two RAM sticks and full-on RGB features. Excitedly, you install the new RAM sticks in the motherboard and boot up your system. Everything seems fine till your PC starts stuttering. Your games start taking significantly longer to load and your FPS are taking a …
NVIDIA RTX 30 series and the NVIDIA RTX 40 series graphics cards are some of the few rare devices that actually utilize the PCIe 4.0 protocol. Not many devices use the newer 4.0 standard at the moment mostly because the majority of the PCs and their motherboards out there still conform to the older PCIe …
The short and simple answer to the question “do laptops have PCIe slots?” is a no. Unlike desktop motherboards, laptops DO NOT have PCIe slots. While laptops do use the PCIe protocol for communication, they do not have physical PCIe slots for adding more cards into. As such, the expandability aspect of a laptop is …
RAM is perhaps one component that we have all thought about upgrading as the first line in boosting the performance of our PC. As such those who are new often wonder, what to do after upgrading RAM? Do you have to install drivers, update your PC etc? Fortunately though, once you have installed a new …
Whether dual monitor uses more GPU or not depends upon what kind of work you are performing on your PC. As far as gaming is concerned, according to several tests conducted by users, as well as by myself, there isn’t a whole lot of difference in performance when using a single monitor or two monitors …
Yes, it does matter what RAM slot you use. When building a new PC, there is a ton of do’s and don’ts that you need to be aware of. One such big caveat is when installing RAM sticks on your motherboard. So which RAM slot to use first? Well, essentially, it all depends upon what …
Let me make it clear from the get go. There is no such thing as Intel or AMD RAM. People new to PC building and components often get confused regarding whether an AMD RAM would be compatible on an Intel PC and vice versa, and whether there is a comparison between Intel vs AMD RAM. …
If you have an AMD processor, then that naturally means that you have an AMD motherboard as well. Given this fact, the answer to the question “can I replace my AMD processor with an Intel processor?” is a NO. Unfortunately you cannot. CPUs are perhaps the only hardware components that are not compatible across brands. …
You absolutely can use AMD GPU with Intel CPU. There should literally be no conflicts or issues here when running an AMD graphics cards with an Intel processor. Often people assume that since AMD and Intel are rivals in the microprocessor segment, that their products would be incompatible with each other. Fortunately, this isn’t Microsoft …
If you have ever accessed the Device Manager on your Windows then you may have noticed that a tab for RAM is missing. So where is RAM in device manager? Well, the simple answer is that RAM does NOT exist in the Device Manager at all. Hence, you cannot find it listed in there. There …