Recent content by Andrew Leeseberg

I reformatted my hard-drive today and my Windows 10 is no longer activated, so in order to fix this I need to roll back to windows 8 and perform the upgrade again. The issue is that in the format the Window.old file was deleted and the option has disappeared, I still have the original Windows 8...

I just spent over $500 dollars upgrading my computer from the 2012 FX 8350 to the 2015 flagship i7 6700k, and in the first game I test, Assassins Creed: Unity, my performance was identical. Not even 5 fps difference 45 fps AVG with Fx 8350 and 47 fps AVG with i7 6700k. What is happening what...

I am going to upgrade to the i7 6700k soon and for the RAM I am going to use this: http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0452485 If in the future I wanted to upgrade to 16 GB RAM, would I be able to buy a second pair of these and plug them into my Motherboard or...

After I finally decided to upgrade to windows 10 I have been having issues with Directx 9. After about 1-2 hours of play the game will suddenly freeze and change to a single color, typically this color is consistent for a each game but is different between games. Ex: Rocket League (Orange...

If you are unfamiliar with overclocking you should avoid it, because you need water cooling to get a decent overclock on AMD chips (they produce a LOT of heat), and a decent water cooler can run you $100. You may as well get a better CPU at that point. Also if you upgrade the CPU take the time...

I currently have a fx 8350 in my gaming rig and have considering jumping teams from red to blue with the disappointing performance it gives me. But I have been waiting for skylake to drop to make the jump, and now that it is here it is extremely underwhelming to say the least. So I have settled...

I'm using a ThermalTake TR2 Series 600 Watt ATX Power Supply for the PSU And pilot plangy I expected higher frame rates because others on the Tomshardware website have clamed to have superior performance on inferior hardware (EX: fx 6300 + R9 280 was outputting better performance in Arkham...

System Specs: GPU: GTX 980 G1 Gaming OC @ 1500 mhz CPU: Fx 8350 OC @ 4.7 Ghz MB: Crossfire V formula Z RAM: 8 GB ram @ 1333 mhz PSU: 650 W Hard Drive: 1 TB I need help this system by all means should be able to handle anything that I throw at it in 1080p, and most that I do in 1440p. Yet, my...

This is my current build MB: Crosshair V Formula Z CPU: FX 8350 @ 4.7 Ghz GPU: Gtx 980 @ 1500 mhz PSU: ThermalTake TR2 Series 600 Watt ATX Power supply RAM: CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333 Hard-drive: 1 TB 7,200 RPM, 6 GB/s

Before I begin I want to preface this that I have already set the system wide power setting to max performance, and every one of my games power setting is set to max performance in the NVIDIA control panel. Also I have tried using the task manager to increase the games priority, with all of this...

Using the 2.0 usb port on the back instead of the 3.0 port on the front fixed the problem, thank you

I am using the Crosshair V Formula-z, with Bios version 2002

Windows 8 Xbox One PC controller After installing the drivers for the controller it connects and remains connected (the Xbox symbol light remains on), but the controller only works in specific games (Dishonored, Batman Arkham City, Batman Arkham Origins) and the steam big picture mode will...