Recent content by Chicken-Select

Adding an SSD would be your best bet. They are coming down in price all the time so it shouldn't be too expensive and you'd think you got a whole new laptop when you put it in. There could also be a bunch of bloatware pre-installed by Lenovo from the factory causing some slow downs and hiccups...

Hey everyone! A buddy of mine is having some PC issues as of late. He has a custom built PC and its *seemingly* randomly keeps hard locking after about 10 minutes of use. It will "hard lock" and won't return to normal until forcefully being restarted. We've done many a trouble shooting tips such...

Nope, I've got a Logitech G pro and A Corsair K65, both with their respective drivers installed. I've noticed there is 0 input lag with the mouse on the desktop if that's any indication of anything

Hey everyone! I have an old AMD XFX R7 360 2GB that was given to me by a friend because my GTX 1070 died on me. I completely reinstalled Windows so the drivers aren't conflicting or anything like that. I feel a significant input lag on all games I play (Overwatch, CSGO, H1Z1, ETC) and it's...

Hey everyone! I've got 3 monitors total but my 2 side ones that I don't game on are actually smaller HD TV's. Both about 19 inches and 720p. They are both cheapo TV's. One's a Sanyo and the other is a Sansui. Both connected to my GTX 1070 VIA HDMI. No adapters or converters. I was wondering if...

Hey everyone. I've got about a 1 week old Ryzen build and I believe one of my RAM sticks have gone bad but I'm not sure. The RAM I have is the G.Skill TridentZ RGB RAM 2x8GB Sticks @ 3200mhz. I haven't overclocked or anything and I have the most up-to-date bios. What happened was I was playing...

Oops seems I didn't read your original post correctly! You're forced to upgrade ram to DDR3. Didn't see that you had ddr2. You might be put a little over budget but I think it's worth. You could likely sell your current mobo, ram, and cpu to make up for the loss though. I wouldn't go under 8GB.

You're right about it most likely being a CPU bottle neck issue. GTA5 hates anything under quad core. If you want to stay under budget I'd recommend going for an Intel Core i5-4460. They go for around $180. That'll leave you just enough ($60~) to squeeze and a basic motherboard and since your...

Hey everyone! I was given an older system to fix up for a relative. It's the ibuypower gamer chimera lx3. i7 920, 2x GTX 275, 12GB RAM, 1TB HDD. The power supply is a Xion 1000watt and the fan on it is so hard to spin it hardly moves at all when the system is running. Due to these cards being...