Apex Gaming PCs Blog

May 20, 2022

Do You Need an Optical Drive for Gaming?

Gaming has gone through multiple forms of storage, from cartridges containing a few hundred KBs to digital downloads with over 200 GB of raw data. In our last decade, we switched from DVD-ROMs to digital downloads as internet speeds have...

May 13, 2022

What’s the Difference Between Gaming Monitors & Regular Monitors?

The world of peripherals understates its importance for a seamless gaming experience. High refresh rates are second nature to PCs due to needing the hardware to reach those frames. With incredible work done by manufacturers like ASUS, Gigabyte, and others,...

May 06, 2022

HDMI vs. DVI vs. VGA vs. Type C vs. DisplayPort

Over every decade, a new standardized display connection slowly replaces a more established one. While there will always be adaptors, new display connections offer new features for more refined displays at higher refresh rates. Let's go through the most popular...

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...