User:Edwin298

Bio

About me

Hi my name is Edwin Pacheco, I am currently a junior in high school doing running start. My hobbies are playing Basketball, working out, and playing video games in my free time. I have done track and field for 2 years, I did the 4x4 relay race and the mile run. In basketball I played as a point guard and rarely a shooting guard unless my coach told me to, and during football I played as an outside linebacker. My current plan as of right now is to graduate high school with an AA and then transfer to a 4 year university. Thank you for visiting my user page I hope you enjoyed reading about me.

Fact: Playing basketball helps develop self discipline and concentration due to all the things your doing at once.

My Wikipedia interests

Honestly I find myself scrolling on Wikipedia from time to time whenever I have nothing else to do and just read about some stuff I never knew about. I have used Wikipedia to learn how to play sports, videogames, and how to edit videos. If I were to do Wikipedia long term as a content creator, I would like to write about something that would benefit the person reading it. My one goal though is to write a biography over a famous person and maybe publish a book right after.

Article Evaluation

Over the last 2 years PC building has really caught my attention, especially gaming PC's. Before I built my own system not to long ago, I really wanted a PC building simulator to help me decide what to get and test out the parts. And now that I have a PC I wanted to see Wikipedia's coverage on PC building simulator and how accurate and reliable it is. I visited the PC building simulator on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: lack of brands, its lack of information on the risks of overclocking, and its lack on what to do after your done building your computer.

Brands

While I was reading through the article I noticed that it had left out a lot of brands that are very reliable. Some well known brands in the PC community that were left out are Nvidia, Intel, Asrock, Western Digital, Thermaltake, Logitech, and Xfx. Leaving these companies out takes away from their credibility since Intel is like one of the founding fathers of CPU's. On the other hand Nvidia is a very well respected graphics card manufacture that has had a big impact on today's GPU's.

Overclocking

When I stumbled upon the overclocking section it shocked me to see how little information they gave on it and the risks attached to it. A little overview on overclocking is that it is the practice of increasing the clock rate of a component to exceed that certified by the manufacturer. But my main concern on their article was that they didn't cover the risks of overclocking such as it voiding your warranty, high voltages, killing your CPU entirely, and one of the most important details they left out was that overclocking reduces the lifespan of your parts. In my opinion the article could really use this information and add more sources and citations that would really help add more credibility.

Booting Up

After you've done everything and turn your computer on for the first time, you ask yourself what now? Well, that's another thing the article forgot to mention. The first thing you have to do is go into your bios and make sure everything is running fine, then you have to install windows. And the final step is to download all your drivers and you are all setup.

Summary

If I were to rate this article from 1 to 10, I would give it a solid 7 out of 10. Overall it covers what you need to know, the only reason I'm taking three points off is due to the lack of information on what I deem very important subjects. If the Information I gave were to be put into the article I think it would benefit everyone who's getting into PC building.