Recent content by Arel Sickler

In the grand scheme of things, CPU's almost never fail, and their MTBF is much longer than their life expectancy for obsolescence. However they absolutely can be damaged in shipping and you absolutely could have gotten a DOA chip. When you say this is a new computer, do you mean that you just...

Hey just putting in my two cents here. You definitely want to get a better power supply. A lot of people make the mistake of buying an inexpensive PSU in their first rig to cut costs and spend elsewhere (I.E that extra $50 might be headed to a better GPU). This is a terrible mistake, when you...

That is surprising, I would think network traffic handling and audio compression might eat up enough of the CPU's clock cycles that it would be worth off-loading that work from the chip. Even if it isn't worth the money I wonder if there's a way for me to monitor input data on the registers to...

Something I've been thinking about for a long time yet surprising have been able to find very little information on the internet about it. The topic sums up the question, is there any benefit to using a discrete PCI-E network controller over the gigabit controller integrated onto my motherboard...

Thanks for the response but like I said I will buy a whole new cooling set-up before I deal with powercolor's RMA department, it will be months before I get my GPU back and that's not acceptable for me.

Hey everyone, I recently bought a Powercolor PCS+ R9 390 GPU from newegg, but unfortunately the fan closest to the edge of the case was DOA, the other two are working however. I do not want to RMA my card because that essentially means I'll be out of a computer for a month, the ambient...

If the "Restore to optimized defaults" setting on your motherboard is not working properly, and BIOS settings are not being reset, you may have to perform a hardware reset of your CMOS/BIOS. To do this: 1.Shut your computer down. 2.Turn your Power supply switch to the "off" position, and...

Hey, sorry for taking so long to reply, I had no computer! haha. Anyways, I figured out the issue by taking each of my components out and testing them in a known working computer, I arrived at the conclusion I actually had two bad RAM modules. Two of my G-Skill Rip jaws sticks had gone bad...

Thanks for your advice, later today I will try and put a different PSU in there to see if that solves the issue and let you guys know what happens. I tested this PSU with a multi-meter and all the voltages are fine and stable but perhaps there is some kind of damage to the PSU PCB or some kind...

Before anything, here are my specs. I will try to explain everything in detail, sorry for the wall of text, I feel it's better to get all the info someone might need to help me out there. Operating System- Windows 10 Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 Revision 3. AMD FX-6300, not overclocked right now...

Oh I also should add that it IS stable at 4GhZ without a change in voltage, I ran prime95 for about 2 hours (I hate running it for 12 hours at a time etc, makes me nervous.)

Hey there, I'm new to overclocking (first build, had it about 2 months now), and I'm looking for some tips on how to go about overclocking the FSB safely. My build: Case-Raidmax Smilodon (I have modified it with a steel drill to add extra intake fans, replaced ALL the stock fans with better...