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Features are not always selling points

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 by Jon Bach

We all seem to like our products with lots of features, especially when it comes to computers. After all, the personal computer is supposed to be the most versatile piece of electronics that you own, right? How can it be versatile without a long list of features? ...

 

Adobe Flash 10.1 – Big News for Home Theater

Thursday, November 19th, 2009 by Jon Bach

When we began development of our Echo PC, we quickly saw how NIVIDA ION would bring a new life to home theater PCs. The small form factor, low power draw, and near-silent operation are the perfect makings for a computer in the living room. As more content is ...

 

Minor Hiccup on New Intel SSDs

Friday, July 24th, 2009 by William George

It seems like everyone has been excited about the recent release of Intel's second-generation solid state drives (SSDs) this week. I am the proud owner of one of the first-gen models, and the idea that more affordable models will help more people to adopt this technology is just cause for ...

 

Windows 7 Release Candidate – Awesome OS, free for 10 months!

Saturday, May 9th, 2009 by William George

Earlier this week Microsoft made public the release candidate for their next OS - Windows 7. It is available as a free download from them, which will be good until March of 2010 (with limited usability for a few months after that)... so like many other tech enthusiasts I downloaded ...

 

NVIDIA GTX 295: Bad choice for liquid cooling?

Sunday, April 5th, 2009 by Jon Bach

I've always had a rocky relationship with dual GPU video cards. Our first bad experience was with the NVIDIA 7950GX2, which we found over time to suffer from higher shipping damage rates. The NVIDIA 9800GX2 was even worse. Now the NVIDIA GTX 295 is the major NVIDIA ...

 

Intel Core i7 Temperatures

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 by Jon Bach

There has been quite a bit of talk recently about Intel Core i7 CPUs and what temperature they should be running. The Core i7 CPUs have a TDP of 130W, and run quite hot compared to the Core 2 Quad CPUs we've used in the past. How hot is too ...

 

The New Puget Office! – Construction Video

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 by Jon Bach

I'm very happy to be writing this post from our new offices, where we have been operating now for two weeks. When we bought a new warehouse last May, I can honestly say I had no idea how much time and effort it would take to get the construction ...

 

Our experiences with memory manufacturers

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 by Jon Bach

When it comes to memory manufacturers, we've been around the block...a few times.  We've learned a lot in the process -- too much to keep to ourselves!  For each memory manufacturer we've used in the past, we have thousands of sticks of memory out in the field, and that gives ...

 

The New Puget Office! – Tour #1

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 by Chris Bristol

It's an exciting time at Puget!  Due to increased sales and growth, we have outgrown our current facility.  To meet the new demand for space, we purchased a new building in Auburn, WA. To show off the new space and the progress that is being made during the build process, I ...

 

Budget Power Supplies

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 by Perry Azevedo

I realize that this is basically repeating Jon's recent post, but I found it too hilarious and pertinent not to post! Now, I realize that this video is total Corsair marketing. But! The reality still exists that, while the example "Brand X" PSU's they use are an extreme case, budget PSU's have too high a mortality rate ...