Recent content by TomWare

My HP laptop's battery has stopped working. It does not hold a charge, and the BIOS alerts me that the battery needs replacing on every startup. The existing battery is an HP 919700-850 which is the original that came with the laptop. HP does not sell a replacement battery. A genuine HP...

I'm building a system with an Intel i9-10980XE CPU and an EVGA X299 FTW-K motherboard. The 10980, which uses an LGA2066 socket, does not come with a thermal solution, so I need to choose one. At its base frequency of 3 GHz it has a TPD of 165 W. I will overclock sparingly, if at all. The...

I have an unusual requirement for a graphics card. The usage will be text or still image display (no gaming). O/S is Windows 10. Available socket is PCIe 3.0, x16 electrical, x16 mechanical, and card must be full height, ½ length, and, can be no more than 0.7" thick (i e, cannot be double...