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Hardware

Included With Every Computer

The four main PC series we have available come with a variety of CPUs, motherboards, hard drives and case combinations however there are many similarities between them all as well. Here are the standard features and optional upgrades that cover all our computers: 1. Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Microsoft Windows 7 is the latest [...]

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Testing, Testing, Testing – 6 Steps To A Working PC Out Of The Box

It’s important to us that you receive your new computer in the best possible condition, the last thing we want is annoyed customers and machines being sent back. This is why we go a step further than most with our pre-delivery testing to ensure that we weed out as many teething problems with your new [...]

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Multi Monitors & Laptops?

We often get enquires asking how to connect a multi-screen array up to a laptop, unfortunately there is no easy answer to this question. Laptops are only really designed to support one external monitor, this is through the VGA or DVI port usually located on the back or side of the machine. Often laptops will [...]

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Why We Limit Our Upgrade Component Selection

Very occasionally we get asked why we don’t offer a greater range of components to customise our computers. The main reason for this is we want to supply you with the best performance and reliability from our computers and we use our experience and extensive testing to offer only the best components available. For example, [...]

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The 5 Key Aspects of a Top Trading Computer

Our expertise in multi-screen computer systems means that we serve customers in a few different markets however our largest sector has to be the trading / financial area. We have supplied specialist trading computers for over 4 years now and have spoken with hundreds of trading professionals in this time. Listening to their requirements and [...]

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Why Eyefinity Cards Are a Poor Choice for a Trading Computer

ATI Eyefinity graphics cards are gaming graphics cards which tend to have a high number of monitor outputs on the back of them. This leads many people to believe they are a good choice for a professional multi-screen or trading computer, unfortunately this is wrong. At Multiple Monitors our livelihood depends on us being experts [...]

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Solid State Drives – Big Performance Increases

Find out why we recommend solid state hard drives for ultimate computer performance. Solid State hard drives have been around for a while now however there is still not a great understanding of the benefits of using them in PC builds amongst many of our customers. What is a Solid State Drive? An SSD is [...]

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Sandy What? – Explaining the new Intel CPU’s.

Intel have just released (Jan. 2011) their latest generation of CPU chips on to the market, this new family of chips is codenamed ‘Sandy Bridge’ and they are pretty amazing. The new chips are confusingly badged up as i3, i5 and i7, the same as the previous generation of chips, however you can identify the [...]

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