Recent content by Carl Patrick

It's a bit of a vague question but what I really mean is when counting CPU usage are you supposed to be counting it with all background processes closed? I ask this because I was comparing my isdle CPU usage at around 20% idle and got a bit scared however, I realised that I probably shouldn't be...

what factors could possibly cause a cpu to have a high usage? is it purely up to the tasks running at the current time or can other factors of the cpu change this such as clock speed or temperature? honestly it's quite a basic question yet there are no easy to find answers as far as i can see.

i have a power adapter that i used to use but now dont need but i looked at it and i saw that it only had 5 pins on the "6 pin" part even though both molex cables combined have 6 pins. the adapter works just fine but i dont know why they have 1 cables from the molex going into 1 pin on the "6...

i currently have an i5 7400 and a gtx 1050 ti and i'm planning on upgrading to a 1070. ive seen some pre-built PCs that use this exact combination of a 7400 and 1070 so that would lead me to think that they would work perfectly fine however then i see a document that shows what CPUs will...

I have 2 identical ssds in my pc and I have set them up as follows: 50gb of storage put in 1 partition used for my OS and for small files and programs like chrome. the rest of the 396gb are put in a spanned volume between disk 0 and disk 1. I made sure that I would have enough storage in both...

im wondering if you are able to use an empty separate drive to add to the storage of your C drive. i know you are able to use 2 partitions from each drive to create a new drive letter e.g. D, but you cant use that method for this since you have to delete the volume from both partitions. if there...

im trying to merge 2 of my ssds together (both pny cs900 240gb). so far i have only deleted the volume of the second one (disk 1) however when i right click it to try and create a new striped volume it is greyed out and i dont know why. i havent put a single bit of data on this new ssd yet so i...

im planning on upgrading my storage as im running a bit low so my plan is to buy a new ssd and then merge the second one with the first. this is so rather than having little pockets of storage left empty in my C drive due to a program being too big to fit on it and have to be installed on my D...

i know how to disable Cortana and hide it and what not but I don't know how I can change the search bar. I want to get rid of the box so its just the icon because the box just annoys me. I used to have it exactly like that but I recently reset my pc so with that all my settings were set to the...

how come modern games from around 2013 onwards get more out of having a quad core cpu rather than a better graphics card? I've been told that if I'm ti play some older games a slightly better graphics card and a hyper threaded duel core cpu will do fine but if I'm to play more modern titles a...

MERGED QUESTION Question from Carl Patrick : "which CPU and GPU combo is best in your opinion?" so I'm going to use £300 to upgrade my pc which currently has 8gb if RAM, a Pentium g4560 and an evga 650 ti boost. I've been recommended the i5 7500 with a 1050 ti but quite a few people also use...

I'm looking to upgrade my GPU and CPU and I have £300 towards it. I want to make sure that neither component is bottlenecked and I'm honestly not sure what the best option is. I have a few ideas but I think I should make sure that I consider all options before spending any money. I have an...