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Prebuilt vs Custom Gaming PC: Which is Best for You?

February 16, 2021 by Split.Shift Leave a Comment

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All hobbies have their major sticking points. Sometimes it’s about brand loyalty, sometimes it’s about styling (spaces vs tabs!), and sometimes it comes down to the purists fighting the rest of the world on ‘best practice’. Like any hobby that has more than one person doing it, the PC gaming world has their own debate: […]

Filed Under: Guides, Knowledge Base, prebuilts

How to Build a Mechanical Keyboard (Part 1): Choosing Your Components

December 1, 2020 by Split.Shift 3 Comments

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While building a PC is by far the most popular ‘DIY’ activity for gaming, there is another crafty adventure that is becoming more and more popular: keyboard building. Mechanical keyboards have been around for decades, in fact mechanical keyboards (or keyboards with a PCB and individual ‘switches’ to create electrical contacts to be read by […]

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How Much RAM Do I Need for Gaming in 2021? Overview of CAS Latencies, Timings & RAM Size

January 17, 2021 by PremiumBuilds Leave a Comment

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The release of Intel’s 10th generation ‘Comet Lake‘ CPUs, which are optimized for gaming, the release of AMD’s Ryzen 3 3300X and XT series CPUs, the soon to come Nvidia Ampere 3000 series GPUs, and, to top it all off, the release of new generation games for the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5, make […]

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80 Plus Gold vs Platinum PSUs: What are The Differences?

February 19, 2021 by PremiumBuilds Leave a Comment

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With the launch of Intel’s 10th generation ‘Comet Lake‘ CPUs, as well as AMD’s new Ryzen 3000XT and Ryzen 3000 WX Threadripper Pro series processors, now is one of the best times to build a brand-new PC. But if the CPU is the “brain” of your setup, the PSU is its “heart”, and in order […]

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PCIe 4.0: What is it? Do You Need it for Ampere Builds?

September 8, 2020 by Jon 8 Comments

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Nvidia has announced their next-generation lineup of Ampere GPU’s and it’s created a huge storm. These graphics cards will blow the outgoing Turing cards out of the water on both performance and price. One of the big features is that these new GPU’s support PCIe 4.0 standards, but what does this mean for you? Do […]

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