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What Tom is telling you is to check if you mother board is reserving RAM for use with its onboard display adapter. If your motherboard supports integrated graphics (most consumer boards do these days) then there should be a setting in the BIOS for allocating some of your RAM for use as video...

I've used Mushkin before and didn't have any problems with them. This was back in the day though, so I'm sure if their quality has changed. Those sticks you linked have good reviews on New Egg, so it might be worth pulling the trigger. If you're still not sure, these Crucial sticks are only 5...

PCs sometimes have trouble detecting that TVs have been connected. Make sure both TVs are on and set to the correct input. Then go to display settings: Windows 7: right click on the desktop and select "Screen Resolution" Windows 10: Start > Settings > System > Display The display settings...

As the others have said, it's likely an installation issue. You might have put too much thermal paste or too little, or just not secured the cooler correctly. I'm not going to add much to that conversation. But, in response to your fan noise question, fans on a desktop are always spinning, so...

Is it possible that your mobo may need a BIOS update to support the 4690?

You might want to take noise into consideration as well. Watercoolers tend to run quieter.

Try searching vogons.org. They're an old games forum, and might be able to help you out.

Monitors basically work by displaying a series of still images on a screen. A Monitor's refresh rate is rate at which that monitor can change the image being shown. This is measured in cycles per second, or Hertz (Hz). A 60Hz monitor can change it's display 60 times per second. A 144Hz monitor...

Are you sure that 3.5mm port isn't an input? My guess is that port is to take sound in from a PC connected via DVI or VGA. If that port is a sound out, then check your Monitor's menus to see if there's some setting you have to enable, or a separate volume meter, etc. As for hooking up your...

HDD/SSD should have 2 cables, 1 for data and 1 for power. Since you are using a laptop these may be combined into a singe connector with 2 cables coming out of it. Anyway, you need both the data and the power cable connected for your HDD to work.

Just because the PSU runs doesn't mean it's running well. The power supply could still be faulty.

Does safe mode work? Can you boot into the USB drive from the bios? If worst comes to worst, assuming you don't have a second computer handy, you'll just have to ask a friend for help making a bootable flash drive.

Sounds like it might be a PSU issue. Try testing your PC out with a different PSU.

It should be mentioned that s/pdif, either via optical toslink cable or coaxial cable, does not have the bandwidth to output uncompressed surround sound. This means that s/pdif can only output 4.1/5.1 sound that has been compressed or encoded, usually in some Dolby or DTS format. Why does this...