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My Psu pretty generic, im embarrassed to say, the brand is coolmax, and it has dual 12v rails. It has worked for me so far with my very low-end GPU. and amd fx 6300, 8bg ram, win 7-64bit. Also, I've heard the term "bottle-necking" when playing games. Is that something i should worry about with...

Hello, I'm wanting to get a new graphics card and I am concerned that my PSU is not good enough. I'm on a budget and was looking at GTX 750 ti. The card requires like 400 watts, 12v *24a with PCI power connector My PSU is 500w but only 12v *17a (would have to use an adapter for pci power)...

Thanks a bunch. I will be getting the parts and new OS this week. May sound like a dumb question, but can I enter BIOS settings without a Hard Drive plugged in? I was thinking that maybe after installing the new Hardware, but before plugging in my hard drive, I go into BIOS to make sure that...

Hello, I'm on a tight budget and wish to upgrade my computer starting with the CPU, motherboard, ram. and wish to use my current HDD to save money. I will be doing clean Install of a new OS and don't care about saving data. Currently have: -500gb SATA HDD -winXP 32bit -intel cpu -motherboard...

Ok so i just ran the Western Digi Diagnostics tool and tried to do a Quick teston my drive. I got this error: "Quick Test on drive 1 did not complete. Status Code=07 (Failed read test element, Failure Checkpoint =65 (Error Log Test). SMART self-test did not complete on drive 1." So is my Hard...

I even tried re-formatting my HDD, but it didn't help.

Hello, I've had this computer for over a year and no problems at all. I put it together myself just buying all the parts in a bundle. It has a 250 gb Sata Hard drive, 450w power supply, and a Nvidia PCI* E graphics card and WinXP pro. It has been running smoothly for a very long time up until...