I have become obsessed with my PC Build. I love building PCs and upgrading my PC. I am a most of the time Mac user, but I do use my PC from time-to-time. Mostly for playing games. After 2.5 years at Fry’s and building over 100 PC’s, I had to have my own and it…
Author: Michael Molenda
Revisiting the Fry’s Past: Another Cool Rebuild
I think what makes this one unique is that the customer chose an AMD video card. The vast majority of builds I did were Nvidia cards. The card is an RX 5700 (reference card) which is still a decent card. I should know, my card is an RX 5600XT which is the card right below…
Office Tour Fall 2023
I think my office has come a long way in the past couple of years and I can’t resist sharing with my readers. So here goes… Work Setup includes a MSi Vigor GK20 RGB keyboard and a MSi GM20 RGB Gaming Mouse (I have the same ones a my desk in the office. I brought…
Review: 15″ MacBook Air
There is much to talk about. I have quite a few benchmarks to share that aren’t surprising if you have been following Apple Silicon at all. How Did I get here? Well, the 15″ MacBook Air is the Mac I have been waiting for Apple to make. It didn’t have to be Apple Silicon, but…
Office Tour Mid-2023
This is the ultimate tour of my office. From office electronics to sports memorabilia. So, let’s just dive right in with an overview… (Cheat Sheet to the models and specs here – What I use.). This may be a bit self-serving or seen as something negative. Personal blogs can always been seen that way, but…
Evolution of My Build: 2019 – 2023
Looking back, my build has been through many upgrades. There is barely anything left from my original build. I want to go back through time and look at my build through the years. I did my original build in April 2019. Here are the specs of my original build: CPU: Ryzen 5 2400GMotherboard: MSi B450M…
Review: MSi GF65 10UE-213 (2021) in 2023
Introduction This laptop was released in June of 2021. As of now, it’s almost 2 full years old. This is a review that if you were to find one used… is it good? The short answer is yes, but mainly for gaming. The GPU can game reasonably at 1080p at medium to high settings without…
Review: MSi G281UV
This is a 28″ monitor that I have not seen reviewed anywhere except Amazon. So, I want to give it sort of a full review. The Specs 28″ IPS Panel4K (3840 x 2160) Resolution60 Hz/4 ms GtG Response RateVESA HDR 400 Certified300 Nits (Standard)/4000 Nits (HDR)1x Display Port1x HDMI PortContrast Ratio 1000:1Dynamic Contrast Range 100000000:1Adobe…
Switching to Apple Silicon Part III: The Experience
Where to start? I guess in comparison to my iMac, it hasn’t been really any different. For the first couple of weeks, I haven’t really done anything extraordinary on the Mac mini. I have been doing menial tasks, some benchmarking, but no video editing nor photo editing. These may or may not change the experience….
Are the New Macbook Pros better than Windows PCs?
I left two comments today that I hope they address: My older, slower RTX 3060 laptop got an Open CL score of 81694 in Geekbench 6. So, I am not sure why this one is so much slower. You are showing in the capture I am looking at OpenCL vs Metal. So, that is wrong….









