So, it happens to the best of us. You know, when you come back to your PC and turn on the monitor and find this lovely message: “Boot device not found.” Well, it happened to me tonight. When I wanted to just relax and play some GTA V, I am greeted with this ugly message….
Category: My Build
Living with the AMD RX570 in 2020
I admit that I am a sucker for video card reviews and might be somewhat jealous from time to time, but I am not a high frame-rate snob and a budget gamer at that: so these seem to be a good match. I thought I’d go over the numbers from my personal gaming system with…
Gaming on Windows (on an iMac and Custom Built PC)
First thing is first, we have to dispel the “Apple Tax”. Let’s look at the 3 systems below. System 1 (iMac i9) is the reference Mac in this article. This is the high-end model with the Core i9. Of note, the machine at this price has only 8GB of RAM. I upgraded to 24GB. System…
Rebuilding my Personal Build…
So, why did I decide to rebuild? I wanted to re-do the cable management. Since I did my original build, I upgraded the RAM and purchased a video card. RAM has dropped dramatically over the last few months. I picked up a 16GB kit (2×8) for less than the 8GB kit (2×4) I purchased when…
My Personal Build
Why did I build a PC when I am a Mac Guy? So, one can only build PC’s for others, well customers, for so long before you want one for yourself. That being said, this is partially an entry-level gaming system and also a system for me to reacquaint myself with VB and VBA and…




