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Christmas 2017 PC Hardware Buying Guide: What to Know

The Founder’s Edition GTX 1080 Ti

Christmas is just around the corner, and incredible sales are undoubtedly coming. If you haven’t been following the PC building scene for the past year or two, then some things may seem daunting at first. For instance: What’s up with crazy high RAM prices? And why are some CPUs and graphics cards out of stock?

If you’re planning to build a new PC this Christmas, then there are some important things to know about. Consider this your Christmas 2017 PC hardware shopping guide.

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Four Practical Alternative Uses for Empty 5.25” Drive Bays

Icy Dock Expresscage - 4 practical alternative uses for 5.25

Icy Dock’s Expresscage Tool-less Hot-swappable 2.5″ Drive Enclosure

While there are a great number of options these days for good-looking PC cases that entirely lack 5.25” drive bays, the majority of cases still offer at least one of these spaces. And efficient builders won’t want that space being used for nothing.

Don’t get me wrong: Many builders stilldowant to use those spaces to house intended utilities, including disc drives, card readers, extra USB ports, and even floppy drives. But that doesn’t mean there won’t still be an unoccupied bay sitting around at the end of the day. (I personally havea Pioneer Blu-Ray/DVD/CD playerin my tower, and for the time being, it sits above an unused 5.25” bay.)

So, here are a few ideas for what to do with those bays instead of leaving them as cavities in your build:

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Types of VRAM Explained: HBM vs. GDDR5 vs. GDDR5X

Video RAM: What’s the difference between the types available today?

SEC VRAM - Different Kinds of VRAM Explained—HBM vs. GDDR5 vs. GDDR5X

Some Samsung VRAM

All graphics cards need both a GPU and VRAM to function properly. While the GPU (GraphicsProcessingUnit) does the actual processing of data to output images on your monitor, the data it is processing and providing is stored and accessed from the chips of VRAM (VideoRandomAccessMemory) surrounding it.

Outputting high-resolution graphics at a quick rate requires both a beefy GPU and a large quantity of high-bandwidth VRAM working in tandem. For most of the past decade, VRAM design was fairly stagnant, and focused on using more power to achieve greater VRAM clock speeds.

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Newegg’s 2016 Christmas Week Sales

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The craziness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are long behind us, but Newegg has Christmas Week sales! Though less extensive, these sales are great for some last minute pre-New Year shopping. There were no monitors on a good enough sale to include, so we were forced to abandon the “What is your new year resolution?” joke opportunity.

Please note: The best deals are dependent on rebates. Such rebates are reliable, butonlyif you follow the instructionsexactlyand submit everythingon time, so better be careful!

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Amazon’s PC Hardware Cyber Monday Deals

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Amazon has a few nice deals on its PC components for Cyber Monday. To be totally honest, Amazon has some amazing deals, but most of them are not related to PC parts, so we are sad. If you know of any good deals that we missed, let us know in the comments section!

Please note: The best deals are dependent on rebates. Such rebates are reliable, butonlyif you follow the instructionsexactlyand submit everythingon time, so better be careful!

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黑色Friday 2016: Best of Amazon US Black Friday Sale

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Happy Thanksgiving! Amazon has some great Black Friday deals this year. We searched through all the PC hardware deals to find the best, and they’re all listed in this post.

Expect many more deals every day between now and Cyber Monday. Of course, if you see anything here that you really like, we suggest grabbing it while you can. We do not expect the deals on these particular products to get any lower than this. If you’re looking for some comparisons for your new gaming rig then you might want to check outProductExpert’s gaming laptop recommendation for Indiato get some ideas on how to upgrade.

Note: Retailers often like to list a “normal price” that is higher than what they normally sell it for. We have done our best to list theactualnormal price for which the product has normally sold.

Have at it!

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