Recent content by amorenn

I've used this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119160 a few times, no real problem with it. Feels a tiny bit cheap but it's within budget and it's full tower. It's a coolermaster HAF full tower, be warned a v10 cooler will NOT fit in this.

On your rig. Stick with the 920, it's still more than enough to rip through most games. Overclock it to roughly 3.6 -4ghz. It should take it if it's d0 stepping. Add 3 new sticks of ram, 24gb can be bought now for ~120 USD and it would take advantage of triple channel. On hers, I'd upgrade...

New monitor time, after you check that all cables are secure.

What are the rest of your components? Any overclocking? Any driver modification? When is it locking up? Is it crashing or freezing?

Look at a Zalman z9 plus. This is honestly, a great value. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811235027 It's got 2 but in SSD mounting points, one 2.5 inch cage to be mounted normally, and one 2.5inch cage below the motherboard. Excellent quality for 50 dollars.

Dedicated graphics at all? Go to device manager -> audio devices and disable the AMD integrated through HDMI. It's incompatible with some games.

Biggest bottle neck is your processor/Hard drive.

Look into your power supply, could be going. I suffered similar problems when mine began to go. If you can find a PSU tester to check voltages etc that would be optimal.

Look into a UPS if you can, uninterruptable power supply. That way it evens out power surges if that is the actual case.

Was most likely a phone port yes? Is there any way you can run the cable at all? And for wireless card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320040 Will do you just fine. This will not be optimal for first person shooters as you will suffer lag.

Are you sure you plugged the CPU fan into the CPU fan slot on the motherboard, and not a chassis fan socket? It's a driver, will be included on your motherboard disc :)

Off the top of my head http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121472

SSD, you can get a solid 128gb for 100 dollars now :) If not an SSD, get RAM.

Merry Christmas faceroll :)

Find a surge suppressor somewhere in your house, plug your PC into that and see if it evens everything out. Or plug it in with just your PC, monitor and router/modem, whatever is necessary.