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MSI motherboards are ready for Windows 11

Marvin Gabriel

[Manila, Philippines] As a world-leading motherboard brand, MSI aims to provide gamers and creators the most pleasant experience when using MSI motherboards. To fulfill our goals, MSI announces that selected motherboards are equipped with TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0 and are ready for the brand-new Windows 11 operating system. Here is the list of MSI chipsets that are TPM 2.0 ready. MSI TPM 2.0 ready motherboards Intel Platform AMD Platform 500 series (Z590 / B560 / H510) 500 series (X570S / X570 / B550 / A520) 400 series (Z490 /…

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Setting up Your First Smart Home

Marvin Gabriel

Setting up Your First Smart Home The demand for smart home devices continues to grow. It should not come as a surprise given how convenient it is to use such a system. For example, you can unlock a smart door with your smartphone, ask a virtual assistant to tell what the weather will be like in the next few hours. When you leave the house, a vacuum robot will do the cleaning for you, and when you return, you will notice that the place is looking tidy. A smart thermostat…

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Synology DS220+ NAS Review and Backup Setup Guide!

Marvin Gabriel

In this video, I have a special one for you guys. Some of you may have known about the issue I had a few months ago where I encountered a catastrophic failure of my hard drives docked in an external docking station. I’ve lost a lot of valuable files and it was a total disaster since I don’t have a realtime backup. Today, we’ll prevent that from happening again by using a network-attached storage device also known as a NAS, in the form of the newly released Synology DS220+. In…

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How to Build a Custom Keyboard – The EASIEST way! – Wooden GK61 + Mars Colony Keycaps

Marvin Gabriel

Today, I’ll share with you the easiest way to build your own custom mechanical keyboard tailored to your personal preference. This is good for both beginners and enthusiasts as it is super easy to achieve while having a ton of flexibility when it comes to further customization and improvements down the line. I’ll make it as simple as possible for beginners while providing enough details for our fellow enthusiasts out there.  Before we dive into it though, let’s take a minute and discuss why you would want to build your…

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Bykski FouSeries AIO 240mm ARGB Review – How to test AIO!?

Marvin Gabriel

Today, I’m finally giving you guys my full review of the Byksi 240mm AIO. We’re going to test this in various conditions and see how it performs in both stress tests and real-world performance. I’m also going to introduce to you in this article my methodology for testing AIOs so that you can get a better understanding of how I came up with my results. With that said, let’s get into it.

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Tenda Nova MW3 Mesh WiFi System Review and Setup Guide

Marvin Gabriel

One of the most overlooked aspect of a home office workspace is the quality of the internet coverage across all corners of the space, I know because for the longest time we’ve been using just the default modem-router of our chosen ISP. While the default device works and should suffice a small space, having a better reception around the house is a must. So today, we’re taking a look at a budget mesh WiFi system in the form of the Tenda Nova MW3. MY EARLY BREAKDOWN Pros: Affordable, Easy to set…

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Buying Graphics Card on NVIDIA Geforce Flagship Store on Lazada 12.12

Marvin Gabriel

Lazada’s 12.12 Christmas Sale is right around the corner and I think this is the best opportunity for those who are planning to build their own PC. Recently, NVIDIA Geforce Philippines launched their own Flagship Store on Lazada which gives consumers the ability to buy an authentic graphics card, monitor, laptop and pre-built system powered by NVIDIA graphics card. The benefits of getting a graphics card and other products through the NVIDIA Geforce Flagship Store is the convenience with nationwide shipping and a variety of payment options that includes cash…

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How to Replace Case Fans LED – No RGB!

Marvin Gabriel

I recently did a side project on my YouTube Channel and I figured, why not share that here on my blog as well for some of you that might have missed it. Basically what I did is I modified my old case fans which are from Coolermaster, the sickleflow series fans. These fans are performance fans rated at 2000RPM and were very popular back in the day when RGB case fans were not a thing yet. The color scheme of my PC as you may have guessed is yellow and…

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Securecam X1 Wi-Fi Review + Step by Step Guide

Marvin Gabriel

  It has been a while since I’ve reviewed a security camera, the last time was the Sricam SP017, it is decent but there’s one important factor that I don’t like about it, it cannot be accessed outside of our home network without fiddling with the router settings.   What we have here today will solve that one particular downside of a home security camera, the Securecam X1 Wifi from signal-vault.com which can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection. It’s also worth noting that there’s no subscription fee for…

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Ryzen 5 2600X Build with Nvidia 9500GT – ShopzadaPH PC Build 2018

Marvin Gabriel

Do you think pairing an old Nvidia 9500GT with a brand new AMD Ryzen 5 2600x is a good idea? Yeah, I don’t think so as well. On the other hand, do you think getting a cheaper Ryzen 5 2400G with built-in Vega graphics and then upgrading to the Ryzen 5 2600x down the line a better option? I’m not sure about that either. These are some of the questions that lingered in my mind when I was planning for this build. I don’t have a ton of budget and I…

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30K PC Build 2018 – Planning Stage – Ft. Pinoypartpicker.com

Marvin Gabriel

As I continue to grow my brand and my YouTube channel, I would like to explore more opportunities and further enhance my workflow and at the same time, be able to give you guys proper testing and benchmarks, so today, I finally decided to build my own gaming PC. My budget for this build is just around 28-30K Php at max and I’m building around the new Ryzen platform, specifically the second-generation Ryzen 5. We’re going to use the very intuitive part picker from pinoypartpicker.com and discuss all the parts as…

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Transcend StoreJet 25CK3 2.5” SSD/HDD Enclosure Kit Review

Marvin Gabriel

A while ago I released a tutorial on “How to Revive your Old Netbook” using an SSD and today, I’m going to do a follow-up content on that. I want to reuse the old hard drive that we’ve replaced using the Transcend StoreJet 25CK3 Enclosure Kit. This enclosure kit is an all-in-one upgrade kit and has everything we need for this project. It’s also shockproof and features the same one-touch backup capability as the other Transcend StoreJets that I own. MY EARLY BREAKDOWN Pros: Complete kit, Shockproof, Useful one-touch backup feature Cons:…

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Transcend SSD230S Review + How to Revive your Old Netbook

Marvin Gabriel

A couple of weeks ago I published a tutorial on “How to Recycle your Old Netbook Hard Drive” in 4 easy steps, and today, I’m back with yet another tutorial but this time, we’re going to actually use the netbook again, with the help of the Transcend SSD230S which I am also going to review. Transcend is one of my trusted brands when it comes to storage devices, I actually own two of their military-grade shockproof hard drives which I also made a review here, I use them to store…

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How to Recycle your Old Netbook Hard Drive

Marvin Gabriel

Netbooks were very popular back when it started in 2007 before powerful smartphones, tablets and Chromebooks became a thing. They were small, convenient, with long battery life and much more affordable compared to a full-sized laptop. However, after quite a while it proved to be impractical considering how the hardware wasn’t able to keep up with the ever-evolving software requirements. The netbook era started to crumble and fall apart, and the emergence of more convenient and more powerful mobile devices didn’t help its cause. Fast forward to today, many of…

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Laptop Cooling Pad vs Laptop Vacuum Cooler – Which is better?

Marvin Gabriel

We all know that heat is one of the nemeses of electronic devices such as your smartphone, tablets, personal computers, laptops and stuff like that. If you let your device heat up, it’s possible that you will experience degradation in performance, short battery life, and worst, device breakdown due to extreme temperature. One of the devices that are very much susceptible to heat issues is a laptop, because of its form factor and the limitation in terms of its cooling capabilities. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); There are two popular…

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WD My Passport Ultra 2017 Metallic Version Review – Sleek Design

Marvin Gabriel

Gone were the days where we need to burn our files on a compact disc for backup. Today, we are in an era where we can just pop out our external hard drive from our bag, connect it to our computer and start backing up our files. Technology brings us convenience and reliability, and we’re lucky enough to have a variety of choices when it comes to portable storage devices. Today, we are going to take a look at the WD My Passport Ultra 2017 Metallic Version, A refreshing new…

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Transcend Storejet 25H3 1TB USB 3.0 Review and Teardown

Marvin Gabriel

Portable hard drives are becoming more and more popular and readily available to us than ever before. Most of us rely on these portable hard drives to store our files and regardless on how important these files are, it’s still important that we store these on a dependable hard drive, because we never know when we will use these files in the future.  We now have a vast variety of different kinds of portable hard drives in different form factors. Some brands choose to go with the slim, smooth and modern…

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Anycast M2 Plus Dongle Problems and Solutions – FAQ

Marvin Gabriel

I’ve been getting a lot of questions with regards to the Anycast M2 Plus Dongle and today, I’m going to answer all of it to help you guys out. If you’re wondering what is this anycast dongle that I’m talking about, it’s a device that you can use to cast or stream local and online contents from your device such as a smartphone to your TV much like the popular google chromecast. I suggest you check out my review of it here if you’re interested. It’s fun and exciting to…

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How to Assemble a Softbox Light Kit + Unboxing and Review

Marvin Gabriel

If you ask me what’s the most important thing when it comes to photography and videography I would say without any hesitation that it’s Lighting. You can use the most high-end camera out there but if you don’t have an ample amount of light for your subject chances are the result will be mediocre. But on the contrary, if you have a good amount of light, natural light preferably, you can use even just your smartphone and get pretty decent results. See below example of the difference between a good lighting…

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My New YouTube Setup – Late 2017 – Shopzadaph.com

Marvin Gabriel

For the past few years, I’ve been shooting with my point and shoot Sony RX100M3. It’s a great camera, it can take pretty good still images as well as decent quality videos but, to be honest, it’s quite limited when it comes to some functionality like its inability to be used with an external microphone and the lack of flexibility when it comes to lenses as it only has a fixed lens on it which to be fair a decent 24-70mm equivalent f1.8-2.8 Zeiss lens. But for my purpose now…

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