CPU upgrade is a breeze, only if you know how

I want to update my pc config to use a more powerful cpu (from Ryzen 1300x –> Ryzen 3600). Watched a few videos and it didn’t look complicated enough, so I order the new CPU and plan to install it myself. Things didn’t go exactly to plan. To sum up relevant things I didn’t know from watching “how to install AM4 CPU” videos: on some motherboard, you need to “support” the backplate from under the motherboard so the socket would protrude far up enough to “lock” the CPU fan....

December 20, 2020 · 2 min · Karn Wong

There are caveats behind every statement

You may have come across news headlines with something like “woman diagnoses herself with rare disease.” If you take this statement at face value, you might think “hmmm so this woman, out of the blue, just diagnose herself with a rare disease.” What most people don’t often realize is that for a rare disease to be considered, she must have gone through many different doctors who diagnosed her with various diseases, but she feels that neither of them accurately describe her symptoms....

December 1, 2020 · 1 min · Karn Wong