Recent content by BPTMatthew

Have you tried disabling SLI and trying? Some games don't get on with it so well.

It's almost impossible to determine, it depends on the brand/make of your drive, it's size etc. There is no way to tell for sure. Chances are defragging each drive twice won't make much of a difference in terms of it's overall lifespan - although continuous, weekly, defragging would.

I imagine this has very little to do with memory - but it wouldn't be a bad idea to check memory usage in Task Manager. Anything below 50% is acceptable. This sounds more like a hard drive issue to me, especially as you indicated it takes a long time to load to desktop. Does this computer use...

This is common in Windows, you must enter the Disk Management utility in Windows and assign the hard drive a drive letter so it is picked up by the OS.

I, personally, wouldn't want to stray much above 80C for the comfort of the card. MSI Afterburner works with most graphics cards, not just MSI branded ones. Overclocking reference cards can be a risky business, and I'm not sure you'd see any meaningful improvements before it started thermal...

Hi All, I have been messing around with my Dell XPS M1730 (Core 2 Duo T9300, GTX 9800m SLI) and have been having weird issues with frame stutter in Garry's Mod. The game runs at a smooth 60fps on the recommended settings, but will occasionally just freeze for a fraction of a second, which is...

Absolutely. There is no point pursuing a career you have no interest in, you'll be thanking yourself down the line.

Assuming it's paired with a reasonable graphics card, absolutely. It would go nicely with an R9 280/GTX 760.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-G2020-vs-AMD-A4-6300 The pentium is the slightly faster processor, although I would expect the A4 to outperform it in games being an APU, but neither is ideal.

I have the 1tb model you linked, and although the drive is fast, it's only fast when writing to the 8gb of flash storage on board, beyond that it's the same speed as any old 7200RPM drive. If you can afford it the most optimal combination is still an SSD for boot/regular use programs and an HDD...