Apex Gaming PCs Blog

Apr 29, 2022

What Is Coil Whine? - How to Find & Fix Coil Whine in Your PC

Part of powering on a gaming PC is noticing all the changes to components over time or suddenly developing. One of these quirks of systems is coil whine. While coil whine is considered a defect by many first time computer...

Apr 27, 2022

What is GPU Scaling & Should You Use It?

With the new advancements in display connections, old aspect ratios and resolutions had become dated when classic games were released. GPU scaling fixes a majority of problems with this practice. GPU scaling is a practice implemented to better support older...

Apr 22, 2022

How to Tell if Your Graphics Card is Dying

Graphics card problems often stem from games not displaying correctly, odd fan noise, and ceasing to function entirely. Much like the snowball effect, once one thing goes wrong with the GPU, it's only a matter of time before a following...

1 comment · Apr 20, 2022

Your Complete Guide to Recommended Gaming PC Specs for 2024

While the performance of a new gaming PC varies from game to game, developers follow a constant trend for the minimum and recommended requirements for hardware as years progress. This trend of advancing hardware creates new “minimum requirements specs” for...

Apr 15, 2022

Which Version of Windows is Best for Gaming?

To the uninitiated in software, Operating systems are crucial to the user experience. In today's blog, we cover the benefits of the professional version and the Home version of Windows for Windows 10 and 11. The experience can be very...