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What are you doing with your computer? Editing? Gaming? What programs/games and what resolution/details are you planning on running at? What does the rest of your system look like? Thanks

Open task manager. Windows does a lot of security checks and background processes (especially on a new PC), this could be the issue and your computer may not be at a true "idle."

Not sure if this could be the culprit, but what kind of drive are you using? The system drive can affect overall system performance immensely. It could be a bad hard drive, this wouldn't affect that idle temp though.

Hello, Skylake does not officially support DDR3 as shown in this article: http://wccftech.com/skylake-does-not-support-ddr3-damage-ddr3l-only/ So it looks like you will have to buy some DDR4 RAM.

Hello (sorry for 2nd post), Good audio is a very underrated component to a good setup. Do you use headphones or speakers? If speakers, what kind of setup do you have? If you don't have a sub-woofer you NEED one. I got one a couple of months ago and it makes a HUGE difference in games and movies...

Not super crazy but everyone loves them, do you have LED lights behind your monitor? Here is what I use and they look great: http://www.amazon.com/LEDwholesalers-Changing-Flexible-Controller-44-button/dp/B0040FJ27S Or you could go the more expensive but higher quality Phillips Hue route. You can...

That power supply is not great, and the efficiency is not very good as I did not see an 80+ rating. You might consider an EVGA or Corsair option: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DGHKK7M/?tag=pcpapi-20 or a modular option...

What specific SSD are you using? I know some SSD's have some sort of security function, not sure if this would happen though...

Thank you! Can't believe I overlooked something as simple as that!

I have one Dell U2415h and an LG Ultrawide 25UM65. I was trying to daisy chain them and the Dell monitor has daisy chaining capabilities. When I hooked a display port cable from my computer to the dell monitor then another cable from the dell monitor to the lg monitor, I get mirrored displays...

Hello, short answer: probably not Long answer: it depends on how many PCI-E lanes you have available from your CPU. Which CPU are you using? do you have an Intel NVME SSD or M.2 SSD (they take up PCIE lanes)? The USB card you picked out looks like a 4x card. Most graphics cards do not see a...

Hello, Do you have both sticks right next to each other, or in the gold slots on your motherboard?

That seems to be out of stock and I cannot find it anywhere else... so sad :-( If you ever come accross a link to it that is in stock, post it on this thread. Any other suggestions?