As you may have taken from the photo above I did indeed get a Microsoft Surface RT in the end! That’s my surface and I sitting in Heathrow T5 waiting to head out for the weekend, this is also me using the tethering on my Windows Phone 7 to get to the internet to type up the post I am… Read more
Category: Hardware
Processors, graphics cards, solid state drives and much more is all in this section of the site!
How much power does a PC use?
Before I go much further into this article I will say – there is no one answer to how much power does a PC consume. You have to take into consideration the internal components (particularly the CPU and if the PC uses a HDD or SSD), the age of the PC, the efficacy of its PSU and also how far… Read more
The one possible failing of Surface – No 3G or 4G (as far as we know)
Please Note – Microsoft have now confirmed that there will not be 3G/4G in the Surface through the complete specs which can be seen here. As the momentum builds for a midnight release of the Microsoft Surface (thanks to the Reg) Microsoft are still keeping very quiet about a lot of key things – most notably will it have a 3G/4G connectivity. Even… Read more
Media Suite PC
Buying powerful PCs pre built is all so well and good but the fun comes in when you build them yourself! That’s just what we have done at work with some media suite PCs which use 6 core processors, modular PSUs and all other kinds of fun things – full specs and photos to come after the video.
TP-Link TL-POE150S PoE Injector Review
Ok I’ll admit this is a pretty weird thing to do a review on a PoE injector but its one of those things that I wish I had to reference when I was first looking at these. First things first if you are looking for a basic PoE injector that can run power at about 15W max then this injector… Read more
Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm – Stress test 2 – How many users per server?
Its looking like we got our sizing for our custom RDS servers right and we may well have answered (at least for own internal use) ‘how many users can you get on a RDS server?’. The video shows our RDS farm under normal load with 24 clients remotely logged in (excluding the admin session I was using) with the CPU… Read more
Gaming PC for £350 – take that Cnet!
UPDATE – This article has been replaced by this one (link), with a newer, faster A10 APU! A few days ago an article posted on the so called consumer tech blog Cnet.co.uk (link) seriously annoyed me; they claimed that for a little less than £350 you could build a gaming PC. The things that got me about their article were Use of a… Read more
Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm – Case close up
Well its taken a little while but the light at the end of the RDS Farm tunnel is in sight! After heavily modifying two X-Case RM 206 HS cases we now have our first batch of cookie sheet style servers ready for use. The video above goes around a bit of a tour of the case and the photos below… Read more
Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm – Stress test 1 – Disk IO
While waiting for the cases/power supplies to arrive for our RDS Server Farm I thought we might as well fire one up and do a little stress testing, the first results (which look at application load times) can be seen below. Here you see pretty much the entire Office 2007 and Adobe CS6 suite (with a few other programs thrown… Read more
OCZ Vertex 4 won’t update/flash to version 1.5
I’m quite a perfectionist when it comes to making sure that hardware runs with the latest firmware, quite often these software updates bring improved stability and features. In SSDs though it quite commonly brings about performance boosts. However when trying to update the Vertex 4s I recently received to build a Custom RDS Farm I would go to update the… Read more