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    How to Downsample and Increase Refresh Rate using CRU to overclock your monitor for Gaming

    Before we start the tutorial, let's cover two things; the first is that Downsampling is a very GPU intensive anti-aliasing technique, so you're going to need a very powerful card to get good mileage using this technique, however if you play older games you can still use this trick and get...
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    How to speed up your boot time (for the non-technical person)

    In this tutorial I am going to go over to speed up your boot time using a single program. Note that the boot time can decrease by a large amount or a small amount. It just depends on how many programs you run on start up. Required Items: (Details on how to get these below) 1. Soluto Soluto is...
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    How to speed up your boot time (for the non-technical person)

    In this tutorial I am going to go over to speed up your boot time using a single program. Note that the boot time can decrease by a large amount or a small amount. It just depends on how many programs you run on start up. Required Items: (Details on how to get these below) 1. Soluto Soluto is...
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    How to update your BIOS (Windows only)

    This tutorial will go in depth on how to identify your motherboard, and using that information you can then update your BIOS. In this tutorial I will be using my own motherboard an asrock z77 extreme4 as an example but the process is the same! All these steps assume there is an installer for...
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    How to recover deleted files (Windows only)

    This is a tutorial on how to recover files you may have accidentally deleted completely removed by the use of the recycle bin. Before we begin this tutorial something you may want to note. Check your Recycle Bin first! You won't have to go through a lengthy process just to recover a single...
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    How to clean out and maintain your personal computer (Windows Only)

    In this tutorial I will go over the steps to cleaning out a PC (aka getting rid of all those useless junk files your PC accumulates from regular usage) and then maintaining your PC. This is a two part tutorial on how to use two different programs to keep your PC running smoothly, for ccleaner...
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    How to rid your computer of a virus (Windows 7 & 8)

    Before you start you are going to need a couple of things to begin the process. You will need the following (instructions of how to obtain these are below): 1. A copy of AVG 2014 Free (You can also have the full version, but this one works just as well) 2. An empty and available USB Now to...
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    System Upgrade (GPU Decision)

    Approximate Purchase Date: Within the month Budget Range: $300 - $500 System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming Are you buying a monitor: Yes (The Asus VS247H-P) Parts to Upgrade: GPU Do you need to buy OS: No Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg & Amazon Location: Texas...
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    Time for an upgrade!

    Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: Within the month Budget Range: ~$450 System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming Are you buying a monitor: Nope Parts to Upgrade: GPU Do you need to buy OS: Nope Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, Amazon, and Fry's because I have one close...
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    Task Manager no longer does a live update?

    So today I noticed that when I opened task manager it would no longer provide detailed information throughout a period of time, as in the data would stay the same, this includes everything until I change it to a different tab, I'll come back and it will have changed but again will not show me a...
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    Game of Thrones Season 3 - Where can I get it?

    So I have been looking online for game of thrones season 3 for a bit now, It's been 2 weeks+ and you would think they would have some form of place you could get it. (BTW this is 100% legit no torrents etc.) Does anyone know where you can find it online like itunes or amazon instant video...
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    New Pre-Built for $750

    I have an assignment were I have to find a prebuilt computer (which must include a monitor) for $750 that has to run Maya. It must have these minimum specs: Windows® 7 or Windows 8 Professional, Apple® Mac OS® X 10.7.x or 10.8.x, or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.2 WS operating system 64-bit...
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    Revamping an Older System ($500)

    Approximate Purchase Date: This month Budget Range: $400-500 Tops System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Browsing Are you buying a monitor: No Parts to Upgrade: Any parts that would benefit the system the most Do you need to buy OS: No Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Cheapest...
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    AMD vs. Intel [The Coming Years]

    Recently I've been looking at a lot of benchmarks for CPUs in the game Crysis 3. If anyone has noticed the AMD FX-8300 is at the top of the list while the intel processors linger at the below the AMD processor. This is the first time I've seen this happen in a long time, so what do you think...
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    $300-400 Programming Build

    Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: Sooner or later. Budget Range: $300 Max System Usage from Most to Least Important: Programming Java, C++, Python, etc. Are you buying a monitor: Possibly Do you need to buy OS: Yes (unless linux is recommended here?) Preferred Website(s) for Parts...
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    Sub $300 Programming Build

    Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: Sooner or later. Budget Range: $300 Max System Usage from Most to Least Important: Programming Java, C++, Python, etc. Are you buying a monitor: Possibly Do you need to buy OS: Yes (unless linux is recommended here?) Preferred Website(s) for Parts...
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    40k Workstation Build

    Approximate Purchase Date: Within the month Budget Range: 40k ZMK System Usage from Most to Least Important: Video Rendering, Gaming, Browsing Are you buying a monitor: Yes Do you need to buy OS: Yes / Preferred Website(s) for Parts: What you people trust! Location: Zimbabwe...
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    7870 vs 660 vs 2x6870

    I'm planning on playing more game such as GW2, PS2, BF3, maybe C3 when it comes out, I was wondering which gpu i should get. I currently have a single 6870 and i run 2 1680x1050 monitors, and it can run some games max and others only on medium. Which gpu or gpus would be better for this...
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    Which 7870 would you recommend?

    So i want to upgrade from my current 6870 card i got 2 years ago, it's an asus dcu hd 6870 if any of you care, and I'm pretty sure on snagging a 7870 because they are relatively cheap and can be OCed to the performance of a 7950 which is without a doubt a nice card. I was curious what...
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    System Upgrade (500$)

    Approximate Purchase Date: Black Friday ;) Budget Range: Tops $500 System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Minor Editing, Web Browsing Are you buying a monitor: No Parts to Upgrade: CPU, GPU, Motherbaord, RAM (if 8gb 1333mhz is fine) CPU Cooler, SSD (or better HDD) Do you need...
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    CPU Cooler

    I have an i5 2500k right now using stock fan, i'm running a GIGABYTE h67m D2 B3 micro board in a mid tower case. Not sure what CPU Cooler to get i would prefer to stay away from liquid cooling. I Have a budget of about 50$ and I do plan to OC the cpu with this new cooler. Please give me...