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Ten ways to speed up a slow PC

Ten ways to speed up a slow PC

...make sure that the heatsink is attached via mounting holes to the circuit board, rather than directly to the chip. If it appears as if... Read more

21 April, 2012 by Craig Simms
Vodafone Sure Signal: inside a femtocell

Vodafone Sure Signal: inside a femtocell

Can't get a Vodafone signal where you live or work? The company's Sure Signal femtocell offers a solution, but how does it work and is it a good deal? Read more

1 July, 2010 by Charles McLellan & Rupert Goodwins
A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

Another relic of the days of big iron, this small modern circuit board is emulating an IBM System/360. One of the kings of... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Asus UX21 ultra-slim laptop hands-on

Asus UX21 ultra-slim laptop hands-on

...speed Sata 3 solid-state drive, which is fully integrated onto the circuit board to keep the machine slimmer. It also has a special trackpad... Read more

13 June, 2011 by Philip Wong
HP's TouchPad: A teardown in pictures

HP's TouchPad: A teardown in pictures

...The HP TouchPad's main printed circuit board and battery (front).Photo credit: Bill Detwiler/TechRepublic Read more

1 July, 2011 by James Martin

Software with everything

...large. Each of those chips would have taken up space on a circuit board, or been part of a custom logic array that would have... Read more

25 May, 2012
Seven-day wonder: Inside the Promise TV

Seven-day wonder: Inside the Promise TV

...The main circuit board looks very similar to a wireless router, as it includes five... Read more

26 March, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

Raspberry Pi is the Linux punk ethic

...Monday 29th February 2012. Maybe it’s the sight of some raw circuit board that has elicited such frenzy, in the same way that a... Read more

12 March, 2012

Retrieving data from a corrupt Windows NTFS drive

...restoration service try to physically remove the platter. Sometimes, the PCB (the circuit board attached to the disk) is faulty and can be replaced to... Read more

18 January, 2012

Raspberry Pi £16 computer project nears lift-off

...sensors, motors and lights. The Gertboard will come as a 'virgin' printed circuit board, leaving customers to pick up their own components and solder them... Read more

23 December, 2011

Raspberry Pi: Cheat Sheet

...basic as a computer gets. The device is nothing more than a circuit board with ports to connect it to a TV or monitor, a... Read more

3 October, 2011 by Nick Heath
aCircuit Board Live wallpaper for Android 1.8.6

aCircuit Board Live wallpaper for Android 1.8.6

...like you don't have any wallpaper and just show the mobile circuit board but something lively happens inside. There are some touch events that... Read more

11 June, 2011
WinQcad 53.4

WinQcad 53.4

WinQcad is complete electronics design software. It includes schematics and PCB (printed circuit board) modules. The schematic module supports flat design, simple hierarchy, and complex... Read more

25 May, 2011

After silicon: What will power computing for the next 10 years and beyond?

...the shrinking game. Memristors could lead to a radical shake-up of circuit board architecture(Photo credit: Shutterstock) "The word itself - memristor - is a contraction... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas
Inside Intel's 50Gbps silicon optics

Inside Intel's 50Gbps silicon optics

...contains standard driver circuitry. Key points to note are the normal printed circuit board and construction techniques: one of Intel's key claims for this... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

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