Who writes here
Marek Halloran
Marek writes the socket-mod and Xeon pages. He likes boards with too many jumpers, keeps a drawer of LGA 775 chips sorted by stepping, and reads Intel spec updates the way other people read box scores.
Tessa Quinlan
Tessa covers BIOS images, microcode and firmware recovery. Her rule for every flash: two backups of the original image, a known recovery path, and nothing else running on that power strip.
Corey Thornton
Corey handles cooling: thermal paste, pads, delidding and liquid metal. He explains where the heat goes in plain numbers and is suspicious of any cooler box that prints a wattage without saying how it was measured.
Ananya Kulkarni
Ananya writes about builds and upgrades: power supplies, storage, memory and the order to do things in. She has a soft spot for reviving family PCs and a firm view that the cheapest upgrade is the one you can return.
Ben Tidwell
Ben keeps the web design corner: beginner HTML, CSS and JavaScript lessons with code you can paste and run. He also writes the general tech notes, usually after untangling something that should have been simple.