Recent content by chris11d7

Greetings again to the intellectual group of tech-gurus known as the Tom'sHardware forum. I just upgraded the parts in my home ESXi server to socket 2011 (from 1366). Anyhow, I am having the STRANGEST problem I have seen with a system. I have installed a CPU in socket one on the motherboard...

Am I dumb? What did you search to find that? Any USB 3.1 versions?

This should run fine, just make sure you have the pins on the power supply; a big card like that may need 2 8-pin connectors!

The system is running on a mechanical (spinning) 1TB hard drive. Your "bottleneck" would be this drive (this is the bottleneck component in most computers older than 3 or 4 years). Your options are to get a new (or used, no shame in saving a few bucks!) solid-state hard drive (SSD), and move...

I was just curious why I can't get a simple 4 port USB Hub with 4 Type-C ports? It would be nice to plug in my 3 type-c devices in to my one type-c port on my Thinkpad T470... I know that Belkin one exists that has 2 type-c and 2 type-a, but to daisychain multiple of those would be bulky..

I don't think you can go wrong with a mechanical keyboard, besides maybe battery life. I currently have a lightspeed mouse, the g903, and it works wonders. For a keyboard I went for a Corsair k63 wireless, and having a wireless keyboard is awesome because I work in different locations in the...

I got mine on Ebay for cheap, just make sure you get one with the install CD and case with the product key for legal reasons. I got one for about 12$ around 2 years ago. I heard there are also some websites that sell legit keys for under 30$, which is still like ~70$ under MSRP for pro Windows.

Make sure your drivers are up to date! Even try uninstalling them and manually installing the latest from NVIDIA. You could download software from your GPU reseller, (normally Asus, EVGA, MSI...) and lower the voltage a bit if you are nervous of the GPU breaking, the voltage is normally a lot...

Honestly depends on what games you play and your price range. I personally would never buy a TN panel, I'd go for an IPS, or even VA panel. TN has awful color, but has the benefit of being very cheap, and is easily capable of 120+ Hz; I think this...

Personally, I've had an Intel 4930K run at 1.4V just fine since mid-year 2014, and I leave the thing on all the time (40+ hours a week); From my research, 1.5 is the absolute maximum for Ivy Bridge E without causing long-term damage, although I do not know how different Devil's Canyon played...

Did you say you can enter the BIOS to the section where you can change settings? Is your only problem that it won't boot in to windows? Finally, did you install Windows on this hardware, or did you move the boot drive from a different system? If booting in to the OS is the only problem, I'm...

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So it seems like you are experiencing micro-stutter, where FPS can equal (for say) 60 FPS, but really it's "freezing" for half a second (0 FPS for half a second) and then getting like 120 FPS for the second half of the second; so the average number of frames is still 60/second, even though it...

I 100% agree, but I could only find sets of 4. I got 2 sets of 2 sticks of cl9 2400mhz, and 1 set of 4 sticks of cl9 2400mhz, so they are all the same make and model.. Buttttt the thing is, I had a quad channel set of corsair vengeance pro lying around (4x8gb cl9 2400mhz) and put JUST those in...