While you might be thinking about the chipset, VRMs, expansion slots, and maximum RAM speed when choosing a motherboard, ...

21. When you boot the system (assuming that you’re using Windows), you’ll need to wait while Windows ac­­counts for all of the new motherboard devices.

Look For Ports On Your Case And The Motherboard Itself The easiest way to determine how many USB ports you have to work with on your PC is to simply count up all the ports you can find around the ...

Any non-junk device is capable of being charged at the rate a bog standard USB port provides (which is 500mA for USB2 and 900mA for USB3, not 1A, and 5V nominal, not 5.1V, though the range is 4 ...

I'm shopping for a motherboard and want one that will support more than 4 IDE devices. KT400 or nforce2 are the preferred chipsets. Some boards are very explicit about being able to use more than 4.

In part 1 of this story, "Inside the Hidden World of Motherboard Manufacturers," we examined the inner workings of the motherboard industry. Overall, the sector is healthy, but there are several ...

GIGABYTE shows off its new Thunderbolt 2 Motherboard as well as several new Brix mini PC devices. Charles Gantt TweakTown Published Jan 20, 2014 1:15 PM CST Updated Nov 3, 2020 12:19 PM CST 1 ...

In computer terminology, a device driver is a set of files that tells a piece of hardware how to function by communicating with a computer’s operating system. In this post, we discuss what is a ...

Both of these devices can produce high-pitched whirring sounds when they begin to malfunction, though the sound isn't a harbinger of compete device failure.