How to avoid common PC building mistakes

Few things in life are as satisfying as building your own PC. Cobbling together a softly purring, fully functional computer out of disparate parts offers a true sense of creation. Even better, rolling your own results in a cheaper and more personally tailored PC than what you can find at big-box stores.Building a PC sounds daunting, but it’s actually pretty straightforward. Still, a few key details can trip up even seasoned...

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Defective RAM can cause all sorts of problems. If you're suffering from frequent crashes, freezes, reboots, or Blue Screens of Death, a bad RAM chip could be the cause of your travails. If these annoyances tend to happen when you're using a memory-intensive application or game, bad RAM is a very likely culprit.But that doesn't mean it's a sure one. You still need to make sure that the problem is with your RAM, and if it is, you need to identify...

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