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TQA Weekly Show Notes for Season 5
Max Bandwidth Available From PCIE for GPUs
What is really Bottlenecking your Graphics Card?
Steve Smith explains why the amount of bandwidth available from the PCIE Serial bus, is not the source of the infamous bottlenecking in games we all loathe.
Questions I Get Asked Often # 1
Answers to Questions Already Answered
Steve Smith answers frequently asked questions in this episode related to the mainboard, devices onboard, and other devices that connect to it.
RoboForm Everywhere Review
Helping You Be Safer Online with Multiple Strong and Random Passwords.
Steve Smith reviews RoboForm Everywhere, by Siber Systems, Inc. The positives, the negatives, and the many cool time saving features.
VRAM versus DRAM
What is the difference between the RAM on your mainboard, and that in your graphics card?
Steve Smith talks about the differences between the RAM on your graphics card, and your mainboard.
The File Synchronization Dilemma
Making File Synchronization Easier to Implement
Steve Smith explains how to implement several possible file synchronization paradigms, to make the processor easier and more logical. Included are file backup methodologies to prevent file loss.
The Multi-Terabyte Nightmare
The troubles of massive drive sizes, operating system support, and partitioning.
Steve Smith explains how to choose the right hard drive, how partition tables are important, which one is right for your drive, and how to partition massive drives easily, even after you already started playing with it.
Your Computer is Always On
An explanation to why your keyboard, mouse, cellphone, and tablet still have power, even if your computer is off.
Steve Smith talks about ACPI, USB Power, Power states, and why Windows 98 was the first commercially available Windows operating system, capable of turning off the computer itself.
Ten Dollar Cloud Drives
Examining Three Popular Cloud Drive Solutions
Steve Smith talks about Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive, the free space, the features, and what you can do for 10 dollars.
Plug it in, or Wirelessly Charge it
Tired of cables, want to charge your tablet, or mobile phone devices?
Steve Smith talks about induction charging for cellphones, tablets, and even medical devices. The benefits, the disadvantages, and how it works.
Do you need those fancy shielded cables?
Electromagnetic Interference versus Shield Cables
Steve Smith talks about whether, or not, you actually need to buy really expensive cables for your devices.