Recent content by Caleb Campbell

No problem. Glad I could help!

I have to go to class so I won't be able to reply for some time, but good luck.

Well speed isn't nearly as important as people think, and you most likely wont notice additional performance. RAM speed plays mostly into integrated graphics. So my advice is just buy what is in your budget and whatever your motherboard supports.

Those parts are old but you should be able to run less demanding games at medium-ish.

Try enabling XMP first, and if that doesnt work then you will have to manually enter the timings. I'm not sure about the last number though.

You are correct saying that those are goods temps, so overheating isn't the issue. The only other things I can think of is a driver or a power supply issue. A friend of mine had a rig doing the exact same thing and we had to replace his power supply. But before you go and buy a PSU try...

Yes it should work with an external drive just as it would any other. You should be able to fit a ton of backups on the drive before it needs to overwrite them.

Can you boot into safe mode without networking and successfully plug in the router? If that works maybe you can go into device manager and manually uninstall.

Try right clicking on the the sound icon in the taskbar, go to playback devices, click your headphones, click properties, go to levels, and click balance. If left and right aren't the same, then make them the same. If that doesn't work then you can increase the volume in the left one to try and...

Well, considering that the only changes you made were cleaning out dust and reseating the cpu cooler, then it is most likely overheating from bad thermal paste. Try slapping some new paste on and see.

If you run the installer that you originally used, is there an uninstall option?

Western Digital drives are very reliable. I have a 1tb WD passport that I've used for the past year or so with no issues whatsoever. I think the drive you listed is a fine choice.

Open task manager and try to find what is using so much disk and RAM.

If you are talking price/performance ratio then the 7750 blows the 6790 out of the water. The 6790 uses about triple the wattage and has only slightly better performance. They both have their strong points, but I would go with the 7750. http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-7750-vs-Radeon-HD-6790

It should be able to. The power supply is 460 watts. The CPU is really old and might be a bottleneck in games, but yes you should be able to install a 750ti without a problem.