Recent content by Harrison

Much appreciated. Mostly I'll be doing word processing, with occasional forays into web browsing. Oh, and CAD. Lots and lots of AutoCAD and SolidWorks. I can probably get away with 8GB for a while, but eventually I'll need the memory. ASRock's manual states that all four DIMMs must be...

What's getting to me is that out of the entire three pages of RAM choices on the QVL list, I've now managed to find exactly two of them. Newegg shows 194 possible choices for PC1600 DRAM, and TWO of the choices on the ASRock list actually exist in their stock selection. TWO. Maybe other...

Howdy, I'm trying to put together my first new build in about ten years, and am having trouble selecting memory for it. I decided on the ASRock 770 Extreme3 motherboard for Linux compatibility and price/features. Memory is supposed to be good for 16GB, and it handles DDR3 1600 without...

I was surprised not to find any "motherboard roundup" articles in the motherboard section -- lots of single-board articles and reviews of some new SFF things (what the heck is an "Ion", anyway?), but nothing where the author is comparing twenty motherboards to each other. Is that a thing of the...

Don't buy into the media mob mentality, guys. Foxconn isn't doing anything terrible to its employees, it's just bad luck.

Howdy, My old box is having disk controller problems, so I'm looking to build something new. Been a while (ten years) since I put together a box from components instead of buying a barebones, and from reading comments at Newegg, it looks like not all motherboard chipsets and controllers are...