Recent content by CaptainCretin

Price is now 416.99 Canadian, so possibly a stock update error, or a hack paid for by a rival seller.

There appears to be fraying on the woven sheathing around the pcie power cable, as it comes out on top of the mobo, can be seen in the 2nd and 3rd photo; it is worth closer inspection. Lights flashing on and straight off would suggest you now have a short circuit somewhere.

First off, 150Mb in your dreams, a micro dongle like that has not got an antenna big enough to do the job unless it has a clear, unobstructed line of sight on the router and is within 10 metres. 2nd, you cannot trust the link speeds given by the system, they can be wildly inaccurate, often...

I am guessing the guy had it overclocked to death, then sold it to you. I expect the VRAM chips are cooked. try one of these methods to check the card out https://www.raymond.cc/blog/having-problems-with-video-card-stress-test-its-memory/

http://enbdev.com/download_vramsizetest.htm Give the above a try, see if there is a system issue.

WMP Classic comes as part of the CCCP codec pack, although they have changed the name to Media Player Classic; however having checked, there is no m2u creation option, at least not in recent versions. There are plenty of free m3u creation tools you could try, just search google.

Dang it!" I should have been post #3, but got sidetracked by my daughter refusing to go to bed.

x86 commonly refers to 32bit cpus (anything directly compatible with the coding for the original 8086 cpu), and also for 32 bit operating systems, regardless of 32 or 64 bit cpu. x64 technically refers to AMD 64 bit cpus, but is commonly used for any 64 bit cpu in a 64 bit operating system. If...

You removed the cover!! It quite clearly states you shouldnt!!!! Oh dear, you are going to get in trouble now.

Check the task manager to see if a process is max'ing out one or more cpu cores, you might have an infection such as a coin miner. As it affects USB as well, try unplugging everything using USB as possible, and see if that stops the issue; it might be a usb device is developing a fault, or...