Recent content by bama_boy_2f2f

Hello wvwryone! So I recently bought the Arctic Alpine 11 Plus CPU cooler for a retro socket 775 PC project (https://www.arctic.ac/eu_en/alpine-11-plus.html), and I mounted it on the CPU (a Pentium 4 650, 3.4Ghz) with the preapplied thermal paste that came with the cooler. I fired up the PC and...

Thanks, I will replace it then. I'm from Romania, unfortunately we don't have thermal grizzly here, but I bought some Arctic Cooling MX-4, which is one of the best out there.

Hello everyone, I recently bought a new Geforce 8600 GTS gpu (Point of View) for a Windows XP PC project. The GPU is brand new, never removed from its plastic cover. The question is, being about 11 years old, should I simply stick it in the PCIe slot and run it, or I should first change the...

Hello, everyone! The title pretty much says it all...I built a gaming PC and, unfortunately (because of my job), I can only open it on week-ends (friday night, saturday and sunday). Which means, the majority of time it just stays closed (sometimes I open it for at most 1 hour for some web...

So i want to build a Windows XP machine for playing old video games, such as Max Payne, GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas, Harry Potter games and so on and so forth (I miss them so much). The thing is I want to go all new: new motherboard, new ram modules, new gpu etc, because I am afraid of buying...

After I hit PLAY, the screen goes black for about 5-10 seconds, and then this message appears: "a problem has occured with your display driver. Your system may not have enough resources to run the game at the selected settings....bla bla". This only happens in DX12. When playing in DX11, I...