I’m a big proponent of DIY PC building and I tend to describe it as “relatively straightforward.” For the most part, everything just plugs in where it should. But there is one aspect of putting ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Connecting wires have become a facet of everyday life, and humans have developed tons of ways to do it. Many of today's cables have connectors ...

We all like to standardise. But there doesn’t appear to be any pin number system defined for one of the most popular wire-to-board connector sets. Marking the PCB pin header isn’t so important, as the ...

On page 4, there is an "IDE Power" connector. It looks a lot like a 4 pin CPU fan connector, but it (obviously) provides different voltages that are appropriate for 3.5" IDE drives (5V, 12V) and the ...

As mentioned in a recent post, one of the motivations for my acquisition of a Google Chrome OS-based Pixelbook is that it’ll enable me to do a hands-on evaluation of its latest-generation external ...

TL;DR: DIY-APE has introduced a 50-pin power cable concept capable of delivering 1500W directly to the motherboard, eliminating the need for separate power cables for the CPU, GPU, and other ...