21 January 20253 November 2025GuidesBy Olin Coles

Microsoft Money Plus Sunset Deluxe Download

Welcome to the free download page for Microsoft Money Plus Sunset Deluxe, a powerful user-friendly personal finance software solution that helps individuals and small business owners manage their finances with ease. In this article, you will find everything you need to know about the software, including its features, what it replaces, how to install and use it, as well as detailed system requirements and specifications. This Microsoft Money Plus Sunset Deluxe free download was sourced from Official Microsoft Download Center. Microsoft Money Plus Sunset Deluxe is designed to be an end-of-life replacement for expired versions of Money Plus Essentials, Money Plus Deluxe, and Money Plus Premium versions. Note: Microsoft Money Plus Sunset versions come with online self-help only. See Overview […]

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16 February 20218 March 2021GuidesBy Olin Coles

How to Mine Cryptocurrency in 2021: Beginner’s Guide

Cryptocurrency mining can be a lucrative opportunity for people to earn money by using an idle gaming computer while to work while they sleep. This activity has become popular, again, because Bitcoin has just reached a new high of $50,000 USD. In this tutorial guide, I share the steps needed to quickly configure a gaming PC to begin mining one of the favored cryptocurrencies.

15 September 2015Computer Technology GuidesBy Olin Coles

Keeping Hot Laptops Cool and Running Fast

Back in the day, before everybody started checking email on their smartwatch or shopping online with their phone, mobile users did their work on laptop computers. These days tablets and smart devices get most the attention, but notebook computers are still beating them on performance and productivity. Unfortunately, all that power generates heat, which slows down the system to maintain stability. But what if it didn’t have to? That’s where notebook coolers come in, such as the Cooler Master NotePal Ergostand III used as our example in this article about keeping hot laptops cool and running fast.

11 August 201511 August 2015Computer Technology GuidesBy Olin Coles

Preparing System Image for Windows 10 Upgrade

Microsoft has generously offered Windows 10 as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users, and so far the response has been very positive. In this article Benchmark Reviews details the steps needed to successfully complete a full backup of Windows 7 or Windows 8 to a System Image, prior to upgrading to Windows 10. This process preserves everything on the drive, and may be used to restore back to your previous installation without losing any data or applications. This guide may also be used to create a Windows 10 backup System Image, or for creating a hard disk image that can be restored onto an SSD.

9 December 201415 December 2014Computer Technology GuidesBy Julian Duque

Game Realism Via NVIDIA Enhanced Effects

Earlier this year, NVIDIA introduced the Maxwell architecture and a lot of upcoming features that Benchmark Reviews briefly talked about on the review of the GTX 980 by Olin Coles. These features were demonstrated in detail, but were still pending to be released on actual games, that is until Assassin’s Creed Unity was released earlier this year. Thanks to NVIDIA GameWorks, game developers have the ability to use NVIDIA’s sample libraries and SDKs as well as implementing some of the features mentioned that allow for a more realistic game-play experience.

21 April 201425 April 2014Computer Technology GuidesBy Dominick Intorre

PC Gaming on Ubuntu Linux

In this article I’m going to be talking about PC gaming with Ubuntu Linux. I will discuss several areas that at the end I hope will give you a better understanding of PC gaming on a Linux based OS and how it compares to traditional Windows PC gaming that you may be considering moving away from or to try something different. While I will give examples and basic instructions within Ubuntu. This article is not meant to a full guide on using Ubuntu, and as such, if there are sections that you have trouble understanding or want more help or information, askubuntu.com is a great place for help with specific problems or questions you may have with the OS. That being said, let’s get started!

15 March 2014Video Game GuidesBy David Shields

Caught Between Worlds: Elder Scrolls Online

Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) is the next iteration of the Elder Scrolls video game series, set to release later this year. Unlike most previous iterations of the series, the Elder Scrolls Online is an MMO game, not an RPG. Furthermore, development of ESO was given to Zenimax Studios as opposed to Bethesda, who normally develops the Elder Scrolls games, although both companies are owned by Zenimax media.

7 December 201318 December 2017Consumer Electronics GuidesBy Meng Vang

Considerations When Buying a New Digital Camera

It is not easy going to your local electronics store to purchase the perfect new digital camera just for you. Sometimes, it is possible for you to come back home just to find out that the item you purchased does not meet your expectations. So, you are forced to drive back to return or exchange your product for something you should have purchased in the first place. No body likes to waste their time like this.

1 December 201330 November 2013Mobile Technology GuidesBy Olin Coles

Tutorial How to Jailbreak iPhone 5s Apple iOS 7 Unlocked

Owners of the Apple iPhone 5 series smartphone with Apple iOS 7.0.4 and newer versions want to safely jailbreak their smartphone, but need instructions on how to do this. Apple supports unlocking the iPhone, which allows you to use your phone with different mobile carriers, however the Apple App Store places many restrictions on the software allowed to run on iPhone. Once you jailbreak iOS 7 iPhones, they gain access to new applications not allowed in App Store, plus add new settings, tools, and functionality to the phone. In this tutorial guide, we explain how to jailbreak iPhone 5s Apple iOS 7.0.4.

18 September 201316 April 2018GuidesBy Olin Coles

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5 August 201316 April 2018Mobile Technology GuidesBy Olin Coles

How To Send Free Multimedia SMS Text Messages From Email

Wireless carriers continue to raise the price for sending text messages from your cellular phone, even though Short Message Service (SMS) has been around for twenty years and creates very little load on their infrastructure. Network carriers such as AT&T charge $.20 per text message or $.30 per multimedia message unless you add their optional $20/month unlimited messaging service, which may not fit into everyone’s budget. International texting creates additional charges, which could also be avoided. This guide offers an alternative, and shows you how to send simple text and multimedia picture messages through any email account.

29 September 201217 June 2013Video Game GuidesBy Olin Coles

Borderlands 2 Defeat The Warrior Mission Farming Guide

Borderlands 2 is an exciting game that pulls you into a fantasy world that’s been done a hundred times, but finds a way to give it to you like never before. While the game itself is a hybrid creation with familiar ingredients that taste of Eve Online, World of Warcraft, and Fallout, then seasoned with hints of Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty. Players assume the role of a “vault hunter” in one of four combat disciplines: Commando, Gunzerker, Assassin, and Siren. The character then fight bandits in first-person shooter format across a vast array of maps, but unlike most FPS-styled games, each level means better loot and tougher enemies. In this article Benchmark Reviews explains how to easily beat ‘The Warrior’ end boss within ‘The Talon of God’ final story mission, then we show you how to farm him for XP and legendary purple weapons over and over again.

29 March 20123 January 2015Computer Technology GuidesBy Olin Coles

Intel X79 Motherboard Overclocking Guide

This Intel X79 Motherboard Overclocking Guide is meant to assist and outline aspects of overclocking parameters as well as the experience of overclocking on the ASUS X79 series of motherboards. I have detailed our recommendations to maximize the overclocking potential / scaling on ASUS’ X79 series of motherboards. This guide has been developed after extensive internal testing across multiple boards, multiple UEFI builds and a high sampling rate of C0 CPUs and limited sampling of C1 stepping CPUs. While this guide is not definitive and will not contain every possible overclocking combination or guarantee results, the information detailed has been consistently duplicated and yielded repeatable results in our testing. Of course the quality of the CPU and cooling is very important but overall we think the results on our boards should exceed those of others at like settings.

10 October 20103 January 2015Computer Technology GuidesBy David Ramsey

Turning PC into Apple Macintosh: Hackintosh Computer

A “Hackintosh” is a computer that runs Apple’s OS X operating system on non-Apple hardware. This has been possible since Apple’s switch from IBM’s PowerPC processors to Intel processors a few years ago. Until recently, building a PC-based Mac was something done only by hard-core hackers and technophiles, but in the last few months, building a Hackintosh PC has become much easier. Benchmark Reviews looks at what it’s possible to do with PC hardware and the Mac Snow Leopard OS today, and the pros and cons of the building a Hackintosh computer system over purchasing a supported Apple Mac Pro.

21 April 200818 June 2013Computer Technology GuidesBy Olin Coles

Best Thermal Paste Application Methods

Over the past several months, I have read an unreasonable number of discussion forum posts which offer inaccurate and often times incorrect information. It’s not really all that surprising to read poorly conceived information on the Internet, which seems to be an anonymous means of passing off opinion for fact. As a general rule we don’t let too many things go untested, and the advice of wanna-be experts is not doing the hardware enthusiast and overclocker community any good. In this article, Benchmark Reviews dispels myth and establishes fact on the topic of proper application of Thermal Interface Material.