Category Archives: Technology Commentary

William is one of our most knowledgeable sales consultants.  He works with customer requests full time every day, and his opinion of hardware is usually shaped by his thorough understanding of customer needs and requests.

Overclocking Done Right

Posted on January 25, 2012 by William George

One of the services we offer here at Puget Systems, aimed at high-end gamers and enthusiasts, is overclocking.  It is a practice that has been around for quite some time which involves pushing the processor in a computer beyond its … Continue reading →

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William is one of our most knowledgeable sales consultants.  He works with customer requests full time every day, and his opinion of hardware is usually shaped by his thorough understanding of customer needs and requests.

PCI-Express Performance and nVidia’s New Warning

Posted on July 21, 2011 by William George

Puget Systems has been in the business of building computers for 11 years now, and we know what we are doing when it comes to assembling top-notch custom computers. It is a bit insulting, then, when a parts manufacturer puts … Continue reading →

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William is one of our most knowledgeable sales consultants.  He works with customer requests full time every day, and his opinion of hardware is usually shaped by his thorough understanding of customer needs and requests.

H67, P67, and Z68 – Which one is right for you?

Posted on June 9, 2011 by William George

Intel’s Sandy Bridge processor architecture is turning 6 months old in July, and has been a major seller in the PC market in these few short months. There was a slight hiccup a month after it was released, when it … Continue reading →

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William is one of our most knowledgeable sales consultants.  He works with customer requests full time every day, and his opinion of hardware is usually shaped by his thorough understanding of customer needs and requests.

Custom vs. Closed Loop Liquid Cooling

Posted on March 29, 2011 by William George

As a custom computer manufacturer, we’ve sold liquid-cooled systems from well before I joined the company. A water-based coolant is able to transfer heat away from hot components like the processor (CPU) and video card (GPU) more quickly than air … Continue reading →

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William is one of our most knowledgeable sales consultants.  He works with customer requests full time every day, and his opinion of hardware is usually shaped by his thorough understanding of customer needs and requests.

Windows 7 64-bit: Running 32-bit Applications

Posted on January 13, 2011 by William George

Windows 7 has taken root in the PC community over the last year, a great improvement from the little-liked Windows Vista, and we’ve made the 64-bit version the de facto standard on the computers we sell – to the point … Continue reading →

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William is one of our most knowledgeable sales consultants.  He works with customer requests full time every day, and his opinion of hardware is usually shaped by his thorough understanding of customer needs and requests.

Home Theater PC – William’s Approach

Posted on October 15, 2010 by William George

I’ve always been a proponent of using computers and technology to make our lives easier and more enjoyable, and one place I’ve focused on implementing that idea has been in relation to entertainment. I remember watching DVDs and listening to music on my computer as early as the mid 90s, and by the late 90s I had a TV tuner in my computer. I’ve owned several brands and models of tuners since then, but I didn’t make that type of functionality the focus of a dedicated computer until I got married. Continue reading →

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William is one of our most knowledgeable sales consultants.  He works with customer requests full time every day, and his opinion of hardware is usually shaped by his thorough understanding of customer needs and requests.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 – Mercury Playback Engine

Posted on September 1, 2010 by William George

Traditionally, over at least the past 15 years, the main role of a video card in a computer has been to accelerate 3D graphics. That is a large part of what has made modern computer games possible, and it has … Continue reading →

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William is one of our most knowledgeable sales consultants.  He works with customer requests full time every day, and his opinion of hardware is usually shaped by his thorough understanding of customer needs and requests.

Core i3/i5/i7 Processors – Making Sense of Intel’s New CPU Line

Posted on January 15, 2010 by William George

When Intel first debuted the Core i7 processor line, code-named Nehalem, in late 2008 it made perfect sense.  This line of quad-cores brought several new technologies: Turbo Mode, integrated memory controllers, triple-channel RAM, and Hyperthreading (making a comeback from the … Continue reading →

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William is one of our most knowledgeable sales consultants.  He works with customer requests full time every day, and his opinion of hardware is usually shaped by his thorough understanding of customer needs and requests.

TV Tuner Update – 2010

Posted on January 7, 2010 by William George

It has been almost two years since I last wrote on the subject of TV tuners in computers, and a lot has changed since then.  Over-the-air TV signals have finally gone all-digital, and many cable providers have reduced or dropped … Continue reading →

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Jon is the president of the company.  He is frequently exposed to opinions of the managers from all departments, so his comments on parts frequently come from the perspective of overall worth to the company.

OS Trends Over Time: XP vs. Vista, 32-bit vs. 64-bit

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Jon Bach

This weekend, Puget Systems updated many of our preconfigured systems to default to Windows Vista 64-bit. This is in direct response to a dramatic increase in popularity of 64-bit over the last few months. As part of my research in … Continue reading →

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