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Working on trying the first one right now. (Just wanna create a backup beforehand.) I'm worried it might be a hardware issue but I hope it's not- I don't think anything could've caused it recently. The cooling is good on my GPU and the fans still work, and the computer does recognise it as a...

I have a R9 280, and today upon turning on my computer was greeted with a 800x600 resolution display on my 1920x1080 monitor. I assumed it was a weird glitch, as computers tend to have, but it turns out my display driver wasn't working. I tried reinstalling it through both the CD and device...

WOW i feel like a total doof. It was the drivers, upon installing them everything was fine. Thanks for your time anyway!

I built myself a nice computer & neglected to buy a wifi adapter, as I wanted to connect to ethernet only later to find out I did not have an ethernet port in my room. Until I could get one installed, I went to the store to buy a temporary USB wifi adapter, figuring I could also use this for...

I bought the parts of this build for my very first build- http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ym6CVn Everything went smoothly save for afterwards realising the power supply has 6 pin pieces, and my graphics card needs an 8 pin pieces. I've found an adapter-...

Alright, sweet. Thanks everyone! Seems like what I'll do is go with the i3, and I agree there's not reason to overclock if I don't have to. If I can afford it, I'll go with the i5, but more likely than not the i3 and then later upgrade to the i5 if I want/can.

@bossyfins Thanks! This seems pretty reasonable. @the_helper_guy I probably should have mentioned this will be my first time building a computer, so I would really rather not jump into overclocking right away, I'd really rather not if I don't need to, sorry!

I'm wanting to build this - http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1986391/good-gaming-build-700.html ( PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($109.99 @ TigerDirect) Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($94.99...