Recent content by Armadillo2001

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    Games running better when laptop is running on battery power?

    Check your windows power management settings.
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    PLEASE HELP: cpu at 60c on iddle, but pc case doesn't feel hot

    Have you made sure that the pump is running? Oddly I sometimes have the same trouble with my 120V.
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    Black screen, usb dead, overheat in a second.

    If it is an overheating issue, I'd try reapplying your thermal compound. The CMOS battery shouldn't be an issue. It could be an issue with the motherboard itself, but I'd try the thermal compound first.
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    Looking at upgrading my MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB?

    This should give you a general idea of the framerate improvements. You're looking at ~10-20FPS increase. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1752?vs=1748 For £280 on Newegg, however, you can get a Fury X which will give you ~30-40FPS increase. This will be quite noticeable...
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    850w Tier 2 or 1000w Tier 3 PSU for a crossfire 290 system?

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    850w Tier 2 or 1000w Tier 3 PSU for a crossfire 290 system?

    Hi interweb, I am considering crossfiring my r9 290 with another, but my evga 750g is not powerful enough. As I want to keep my budget low, I have decided on a PSU in either of these categories. I plan to overclock which is not recommended on a Tier 3 PSU, but since 1000w is more than I need I...
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    Weird problem with USB ports - Help PLEASE!

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    Weird problem with USB ports - Help PLEASE!

    Wait I still kind of have that problem. I ended up getting a USB card. What did you do?
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    USB ports fail upon entering windows 10

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    USB ports fail upon entering windows 10

    Recently I bent my motherboard USB 3 header and straightened it out with a metal screwdriver. This may have shorted it out. Now, the USB ports work fine in the bios, but as soon as win 10 loads they stop working. Connected devices act as if they are connected, but I can get no input from...
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    USB ports provide power but no USB connection

    I realized that in fact devices connected to the USB ports do behave mostly as if they are connected to a host device. However there is no response on the computer that devices are connected. Please help.
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    Hyper 212 Evo fan not spinning

    If that is the case then it is almost certainly the fan.
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    USB ports provide power but no USB connection

    Hello, For some reason, all of the USB ports and headers on my motherboard (an Asus Z87-A) have gone dead. However they still provide power to connected devices. The last thing I did was to straighten out the pins on my USB3 header with a metal screwdriver. Could I have shorted it out even...
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    Can I SLI the geforece gtx 980 ti extreme windfore with the waterforece?

    Yes you will. You can always sli the same card with the same amount of vram.
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    Can I put at GTX 750 Ti 4GB GPU in a PC with a AMD Athlon II X2 235e?

    A bottleneck will not "damage your computer". However, you might have a problem with the power supply, so I'd wait.
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