Recent content by braigduck

To anyone who has this issue in the future, I solved it. The issue is Windows 10. The update tool they force you to use is only compatible with Windows 7. I installed Windows 7 just to flash this bios. The tool was useless in 10, as the bios would stay at 17.3. After using the same tool in...

Hey guys, any time I find a bizarre solution, I'm going to start posting here to help others out. Alright so today I got in two used XFX RX 480 8GB GTR's, which are supposed to be fairly high quality as far as the 400 series goes. So I go to put these cards into gaming rigs and both of them...

Hey! So this has bothered me for awhile and seems to be pretty much swept under the rug in PC discussions. When comparing hard drives of the same capacity and rotation speed (i.e. 500GB 7200RPM), what OTHER factors play a considerable role in the performance of a drive? For an example: I have...

Hey guys, this will be a bit weird so bear with me. Im not new to computers, just new to tackling this very specific issue. I have a media PC with an FX-4200 and a Asus M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard, cooler is a Hyper 212. The cpu, the FX-4200, has some kind of faulty temp monitor. In AMD overdrive...