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Help Me! Which 4K Video Editing Laptop Should I Buy? I have been weighing up purchasing a Windows workstationlaptop for 4K video editingon the go, and I’ve narrowed my choices down to six laptops: This video explains my current thought process for each choice, and also asks if there’s any good alternatives that I’d forgotten. Video Transcript & Guide Initial Thoughts Hello, I’ve recently been considering whether to buy a workstation laptop for when I need to do some programming or light 4K video editing on the go – or simply, away from myupstairs study & PCwhich gets really toasty in summer!...

Do GPU Riser Cables (Extension Cables) Reduce Performance? PC cases are getting smaller at a time when GPUs keep getting bigger, often resulting in people needing to buy GPU riser cables to squeeze everything into their PC build. But if you’ve started having bad performance or FPS rates, you might be wondering whether your riser cables are to blame. Let’s dig into whether they can reduce performance or not. Recap: What Are Riser Cables?...

GPU Sag Causing Coil Whine: How To Easily Fix This Once & For All! As PC gamers, we’ve probably all booted up our favorite game, only to be distractedbig timeby our graphics card sounding like a Boeing 747 getting ready to take off. This noise is called coil whine, and while many people say that it’s caused by electromagnetic interference (which I’ll discuss later), there’s also another potential cause: GPU sag....

Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (9315) vs. Surface Pro 9: Which premium Windows tablet is for you? Dell and Microsoft have both made fantastic large format Windows tablets, but which one should you buy? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Dell is once again making a premium Windows tablet, and the resulting XPS 13 2-in-1 (9315) is positively gorgeous and checks all the right boxes on paper....

Warning: You Should NOT Use WD Green Drives For Your NAS Western Digital produce some great quality drives: from massive 22TB hard drives to super-fast NVMe SSDs. They also make a drive that sounds fairly eco-friendly: the WD Green range. Unfortunately using this drive in your Synology NAS can have some big consequences. Here’s why. What Makes The WD Green Drives ‘Eco-Friendly’ WD Green drivesclaim to be “earth-friendly” and “energy efficient”, using a range of power saving techniques to use less than 4 watts of energy during read/write cycles – compared to WD Blue HDDs that often use above 8 watts ina like-for-like test....

Why Windows Isn’t Booting After A Power Outage – 8 Easy Fixes PCs work well… most of the time. However in rare cases, Windows computers can have major problems after a power outage – even resulting in the PC failing to boot up. This is because modern PCs are actually quite complicated: a range of PC hardware, BIOS options and operating system layers all have to work well together for a PC to successfully start up....

Is Running Your Computer 24/7 Safe? Can It Be A GOOD Thing? Before I started working for myself, I worked as a software developer for a decade. And pretty mucheveryonekept their computers on overnight (and over the weekends, too). It was just too much effort to constantly close down a dozen or more programs a night, only to open them back up the following day. Equally I have a couple of computers at home that I run 24/7, including a ‘test PC’, my Synology NAS and my Chromebook....