Recent content by bennylava

Thinking about tweaking the video BIOS lately, and I know BIOS flash can always be a risk. I am trying to understand the risk. Under what circumstances would a BIOS flash fail? I know it's probably going to fail if you unplugged the power cable during the flash, but what if everything was...

Like title says I am looking for a case fan that's quiet. This fan will be connected to the psu directly because I ran out of pins on the motherboard, I tried a 2000 RPM fan directly connected to the psu and it was very loud. Can you guys suggest a fan that does what I need? Thanks.

I found out what happened with my setting, I changed windows' power options to high performance mode, which must have disabled the throttling. I have no other questions.

Hi everyone, I recently finished a new build and decided to do a little bit of overclocking since I have a 4770k, since it's my first time doing this I figured I would just go for a conservative OC, at about 4.2 or 4.3Ghz. I went into BIOS and set the intel turbo boost multipliers for the four...

Thanks guys for the fast replies!

Hi everyone, I just finished my first build tonight, booted it up and installed OS. So far everything works fine. But I'm a little concerned about the CPU. When I installed the CPU cooler I may have screwed the heatsink on too tight, I tried to loosen it a bit afterward, but I'm just a little...

got it thanks! I just heard from a friend that the system speed on MB's is for overclocking purposes rather than for compatibility, is this true ?

Hi everyone, I'm building a desktop for the first time ever, I have a good idea about what I want for most of the parts but I'm having trouble picking a motherboard. As I browsed around for MB's I saw information like Asus - ATX Motherboard 2600/2400/2200/2133MHz (Socket 1155) and GIGABYTE -...

Hi everyone: I have a laptop that I bought about 10 months ago. It has a NVidia 675m graphics card. Everything was fine until two days ago; I started getting random freezes, the freezes don't last long. Sometimes it would give that notice saying "video card driver has recovered", sometimes it...

Hi all, long story short I am trying to turn my laptop screen into a display for my ps3. I have done some research and have tried some solutions but they all have some sort of drawbacks that make them undesirable. My laptop does not have a HDMI in port so I understand that to do this I will...