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Don’t Pay New Prices for Old hardware
Latest Update: 25 August 2021 If you’ve ever taken a look at the prebuilt PCs available on the market, you might have noticed something. You can see two computers being sold side-by-side, and they’ll have different generations of CPU. Even if they’re the same generation, they might not be the most current generation. Does Special



Why Peripherals Matter for your Workflow
Having a Modena Computers workstation on your desk will already give you a much better time at the office than you would ever have otherwise, but if you really want to get the most out of it, you really should think about how you’re going to interact with it. The keyboard and mouse are a
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Laptops vs Desktops: The Potential
We’ve taken a look at how much it would cost to match the performance of a top-tier laptop in a desktop. Now, let’s see what kind of desktop we could get for the same price as that laptop. For a bit of a refresher on our last article on this topic, the form factor of



Laptops vs Desktops: The Costs
Over the past year or two, we’ve seen a shift in the work environment. Working at an office just isn’t the standard anymore. While this means more freedom to work where you want, it also means that workers need to be more mobile and flexible. With this in mind, portability has become quite an important



Modena Computers Hydra vs Hydra XL
We recently launched our Hydra XL Workstation, which has the capacity for some crazy specs. It allows for 2 CPUs, 4 GPUs, and up to 2TB RAM. This is considered a step up from our standard Hydra Workstation, but it’s not always the ideal choice for the job. There are some very specific use-cases for





Don’t Pay New Prices for Old hardware
Latest Update: 25 August 2021 If you’ve ever taken a look at the prebuilt PCs available on the market, you might have noticed something. You can see two computers being sold side-by-side, and they’ll have different generations of CPU. Even if they’re the same generation, they might not be the most current generation. Does Special



Quadro vs GeForce
Latest Update: 25 August 2021 Quadro has recently dropped the “Quadro” name from their workstation GPUs. These cards can now be identified by the RTX x000 naming schecme, such as the RTX A4000 16GB GPU. For the sake of simplicity, we will continue to refer to Nvidia’s workstation GPU product line as “Quadro” in this
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