Recent content by Bryan Harmon

My son's laptop slowed down to unusable recently. I took it in and the guys at the computer store told me the hard drive had gone bad. They told me it would be about $400 - $500 to fix it. I started looking online at hard drives and I can get a 250 gb SSD for not too much. I called and asked...

This looks too good to be true. Save $700 on this laptop? Anyone have any experience with this set up? The few reviews I've found seem good. Just looking for a second opinion. Thx laptop

My motherboard recently bit the dust in my Silverstone Raven Mini-ITX case. So I found, what I thought, was a great deal on Newegg for a Asrock mini-itx motherboard, open box for $100 bucks. It had all the bells and whistles I needed and was inline with my i7 processor. So I purchased it and my...

Thx. I found out the motherboard is an MSI ms-7636. I found their website an am trying to find the motherboard there but it may be too old to show on their site. I'm going to try and call them monday. Thx!

Hello! I'm trying to take my mom's old computer and upgrade it so my son can play his games on it. She has 4gb of Ram, Windows 8.1, 64 bit OS, I have taken my old gtx 645 gpu and installed it, the cpu however is very old. It is an intel pentium cpu G6950 @2.80 Ghz. My question is.. is all I...

Greetings. I have an Alienware X51 R2. I had been doing a lot of research online regarding upgrading the gpu. I found very helpful YouTube videos and threads here on this website about it. I felt confident so I upgraded my gpu to a gtx 970 and my psu to a 330W. It seemed to work fine for the...