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Do You NEED TO Change Thermal Paste After Removing CPU Cooler? The thermal paste (also called TIM – thermal interface material) can seem scary. After all, the internet is FILLED with scary stories of computers crashing due to insufficient thermal paste, or CPUs being destroyed due to overly high CPU temperatures. As a result, when you come to remove and reapply your CPU cooler or heatsink for any reason, you might shy away from changing the thermal paste – hoping that your existing paste will be ‘good enough’ (despite removing the heatsink)....

How I Get Notified When Wi-Fi & Network Devices Go Offline My living room set-up has a BIG problem: there are two identical looking plug switches. Turning the bottom one off just turns my TV (and TV equipment) on and off – which is no big deal. BUT turning the top switch off will disable my downstairs Eero point, along with a network switch that ultimately supplies internet (and Wi-Fi) to my detached garage via some direct burial CAT7 cables that I have run through my backyard....

Living The Dream: My 6x PoE CCTV Camera Set-Up I always knew that ‘at some point’ I wanted a fully wired CCTV camera system, recording 24/7 instead of motion-only cameras that can often miss key events. So when I moved house in 2023, I immediately set to work on running Ethernet cabling EVERYWHERE – including into my detached garage, and also my attic. I then eventually evaluated and purchased a series of PoE (Power over Ethernet) cameras which are connected to my Synology NAS....

Top 10 Factors For Buying A Video Editing Laptop In 2024 If you’re looking to start video editing on a laptop, you can easily get confused – there is just so much choice out there! Should you buy a Dell, HP or ASUS laptop? And do you need anAMDorIntel CPU? While we’re at it, is 16 gigs of RAM enough or do you need more? I take a look at all these factors (and more)in this video, discussing the top 10 factors that are crucial when buying a content creation machine in 2024 and beyond....

Reviving My 6 Year Old Budget Laptop: Can It Do 4K Video Editing?! 6 years ago I invested in a £700 ‘budget’ laptop. I wanted to use it for video editing but all the ‘ready made’ laptop options with 16 GB of RAM were really expensive. So I purchased a customized laptop from PCSpecialist. While they did a decent job building it, they use Clevo for the laptop base – and it turns out that Clevo and Windows 10 seemed to hate each other!...

ASUS Prime, ROG, TUF, ROG Strix & ProArt… Uhm, What’s The Difference?! ASUS are a bit of a confusing company to buy from, because they have so. many. different. sub-brands. ASUS Prime. TUF-Gaming. ProArt. ROG Strix. Oh yeah, and plain ‘ol ROG. What’s the difference? Is one sub-brand ‘better’ than the other? I explore these questions and more in this video. I also discuss why ROG Strix has various letter designations at the end of their motherboard names (like “X670-E”), and whether youneed to buy everythingfrom a single sub-brand or not....

4 Awesome PC Builds For Under $1000 (Including A $350 ‘Console Killer’ – Cheaper Than PS5 & Xbox!) PC hardware is getting cheaper all the time, to the point that you can build a fairly powerful 1080p gaming rig for just $350 – which is LESS than the price of a PS5 or Xbox Series X console. So in this video, I cover four great PC part lists and builds at different prices ($350, $550, $850 and $1000)....