Recent content by bluejayek

Many laptops these days don't come with disc drives. Most softwares nowadays can be downloaded, or installed from a USB flash drive, so they just aren't needed. If you are buying a laptop and want a particular feature, be sure to actually check the specs for it before buying it. If you find...

I'm looking at the same laptop. Does anybody have information on the battery life of these beasts?

17seconds: I don't think your discussion works out to the 10% increase you quote. 1) Cards don't scale perfectly in crossfire, so dividing the crossfire performance by two doesn't give you the original cards performance. This example of benchmarks I could pull up...

SSD looks a bit small to me. Maybe think about a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB instead for 130$ from the same website? 8GB of RAM might be enough, but on a high end build like this I would go with 16GB, 2 x 8GB so you have the option of adding two more sticks in the future. If you are spending 500$ on...

Happy new year everyone! My current PC purchased in February 2010 has been dieing for over a year and I think it is finally time to replace. The current relevant specs are: ASUS P6T ATX Motherboard (some of the RAM slots are probably dead), i7 960, GTX 660 (from December 2013) 6 x 2GB OCZ...

Hi, it looks like you may have forgotten to include a link in your post.

If you want AMD rather than Nvidia you could also look into Fury or Fury X for a price and performance closer to the 980 Ti.

Hi guys! Canadian here, quoting everything in CAD not USD. Prefer newegg.ca or amazon.ca. I am thinking about upgrading my computer, possibly in the near future. Current specs are: Radeon 5870 Graphics card HP ZR24w 24" 1920x1200 IPS Monitor i7 960 Asus P6T Motherboard Corsair HX 750W PSU 4 x...

It also depends on the type of game. High response times are typically most seen as bad for FPS games. For RTS type games? Not really a problem.

I'm sorry, I misvoted. I read that you were looking at a 980, not a 780. The 780 uses about 200W of power peak. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-780-ti-review-benchmarks,3663-17.html The TDP of a 4670 is 86W, and it looks like a system under CPU stress test using a 4670 might...

Since nobody more knowledgeable then me is replying, I'll try to pitch in my thimble of knowledge. 1) Does this problem only happen with the new monitor? 2) Does it only happen with the 260x card? Switching from 1050 to 1080p shouldn't cause a card to fail like this; at worst the card should...

I was considering the PNY blower card, but I don't know much about PNY cards as per quality control, RAM etc. Can you say anything to convince me they are decent to deal with?

It probably would just throttle the speed of the GPU and CPU to avoid increasing temperature too high. Checking the temperatures is super easy though and once you've done that it's ruled out.

Sorry.. Bad double posts today.

For checking the PSU health you might try downloading HWMonitor to check the voltage of the 12V and 5V rails. http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html If they are 10% or more off the PSU is probably failing. These voltages can also be checked in bios, and I would trust the BIOS numbers...