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While you are right about this being a problem, many people upgrade their mobo when they upgrade their CPU. Read more

This issue isn’t with installing the CPU. It’s with removing the cooler. Which you have to do some what regularly for maintenance or upgrades. Overclockers and reviewers tend to do this more often than most.

I typically end up pulling my cooler off at least once a year for one reason or another. You have to take it… Read more

Who’d have thought that a patchwork on mini-monopolies wouldn’t result in the best possible service?

Are these your marbles?

To be honest, they are all on similar levels as so long as you know what you’re doing. The Yeti works just enough across all platforms easily and quickly. Easy and friendly controls will get you quite far in life. Read more

Seems crazy and stupid for 99.9% of us, but I’m sure there are some PC builder nerds out there with deep pockets who would rather dump money into a currently rare bleeding edge graphics card instead of putting that towards a supercar. I could picture Henry Cavill eyeballing this bid thinking....”if I sign a contract… Read more

I’m very tempted to upgrade my current PC, but I’ve got a GTX 1070, and a small-ish case. So I’d definitely have to get a new motherboard, too. I ordered separate parts and assembled my current build. Read more

No the assertion is correct. the plan includes Xbox Ultimate and Xbox Series S. Read more

I think you’re missing the 24 months of Ultimate game pass @ $14.99/month ($359.76) which is included in the $25

Imagine if Microsoft said right now that they only way to add software to Windows was to go through their app store and they wanted 30% of whatever you charged for the software.  Their is no way anyone would stand for that.  Why do we let Apple do it?

I love when you guys do more personal stuff like this! Thanks so much for sharing a look at your family, Joanna—it was a great read.

It’s not like the format’s obsolete though. It fills a niche that streaming decidedly doesn’t.

Hi son I’m dad. Or at least we would have gotten along.

Thats a good compliment from a dad from that era.

And see my dad was the opposite. We had a PC even though my dad was not a fan of them we had a Mac, we had every neat new thing our teachers salary could afford (which wasn’t much). Prodigy? We used it, Same with pre-Windows AOL when it was Amiga/Mac only. My dad being a huge camera geek and having taught it is also… Read more

Heh. I like your dad. Read more

Look at me now, Nicole! Read more

You are oversimplifying the human condition.

It can be true that someone has the open, adaptability traits in some aspects of their personality, yet also be stuck with irrational, stubborn personal hangups for specific things (many times stemming from negative experiences they’re not ready to heal from).

As you gain… Read more

My first computer was a Packard-Bell running their tweaked version of Win95 with that bookcase-type shell over it... What a crap computer, and way too expensive. When I got a real standalone copy of 95 it was better.. not much but better. And better w 98 & better w 98se. It wasn’t until I got Win2k on the thing it… Read more

Ha, good read. I gotta say, as more of a software person, my personal tech journey has certainly been more flexible. The funny thing is OSs/computers have a been a cycle for me. My mom was a teacher and used to bring her Mac home during summers and I would mess around on it. Through high school I was a Mac user by… Read more