Recent content by Christopher Gonzalez

"a rainbow across the keyboard" HA GAAAYYYYYYY

Hey guys! Been a while since I've been on Toms. Anyways, my PC, built in December, with the specs in sig, turns itself off after ~15 minutes of inactivity. By inactivity, I mean just idle on the desktop or downloading a game off steam. If I have a game open, though, and leave it without...

PCI express gen 3.0 port will support a PCI express gen 2.0 card

You could also take a look at some of the new GTX 750s. They're supposed to perform well and have very low power consumption. They're also right in there around $100.

The processor (whether its a CPU or a GPU) or memory (RAM) has a certain clock speed,or frequency, measured in Hz, that it operates at. Basically, the higher the clock speed, the more stuff it does in one second. When you overclock a processor, you send more wattage to the chip. When you do...

Sorry on the late reply! For some reason I was signed out of Tom's so I didn't see your update. You won't have any problems with that graphics card! Temps will be fine!

Good choice. Even if I was doing graphics design and such, I would still value the better clarity from DVI. Maybe it's not as bad with other monitors, but with my old one, it was just night and day.

It would really only help if you were using the monitor for any type of intense professional graphics designing or such. Assuming you aren't, either one would be fine.

Don't know much about either monitors, I just know that simply using VGA for my graphics output on my old computer made everything look just horrible and smudgy and it sucks. I would just go with the one for DVI, especially with a relatively decent APU like that.

It wouldn't affect your performance, but it could affect your thermals... It depends though, does your graphics card have a blower style fan or not? Blower style basically means it sucks air in more from the side of the card rather than from the direction of the other PCI slots. Its used in SLI...

Hey Guys! I leave my PC on for hours sometimes, like I'm doing now, while I download Steam games. I go do something else while I wait and I shut the door to the room with my PC in it so my dog doesn't trash it. I was wondering if doing that is hurting the airflow in my PC case... Would it help...

Hey Guys! I want to move the drive with the OS on it from one PC to another PC that has completely different specs. Is it as simple as just installing the hard drive in the other PC? Or what do I need to do to do this? Thanks guys!

Hey Guys! I want to replace the C drive on my PC with an SSD, the Samsung 256GB 840 Pro. Whats the best way to do this? My plan was just to wing it with the device manager in Windows... Thanks guys!

Hey Guys! I want an open world, racing/sandbox game with car customization for the PC. I know GTA 5 is coming soon, but I saw Need For Speed Undercover and it made me really want to play something like it now. So yup. Thanks!