Recent content by CircuitDaemon

I'd say there's no precise anwer here. I've experienced both situations, where sometimes I do not have any performance impact by just having the extra monitor enabled as an extended desktop but others where I do notice an impact. I've concluded that this comes down to certain GPU drivers and it...

Don't get any video card for that machine. It's really not worth it at all, and I mean it. You could get a complete used system that's better en general for less than what a decent GPU could cost you that fits that case. The 1030 will fit and the power should be enough, but it's just a waste of...

Do you have the latest AMD Graphics driver? Where are you setting the refresh rate? It should't be an issue but it sounds to me like it's driver related or that windows is setting the refresh rate for you instead of the AMD driver.

If Windows is not reserving the RAM on MSCONFIG then it's the BIOS that's grabbing it. What's your motherboard's model? Just go into the BIOS and look for any integrated graphics settings where it will usually reserve RAM for them. Unless your motherboard doesn't have integrated graphics, then...

There are mostly correct in what you assume. Except for the speed thing. M.2 is the form factor but it depends on your manufacturer how it's "wired" into the motherboard. There are M.2 slots that have a direct interface to a SATA port and thus, the same speed limitations. Most of these...

What brand is it? Try hitting F8, F12 or F9 during boot and see if it shows you the boot menu, then choose the hard disk. It's probably that your CMOS battery is dead and the configuration died with it too. You can replace it yourself, just make sure the boot drive is working. One way to make...

If you don't hear any clicks or weird movement from it, you might be able to recover it yourself. There's a tool called TestDisk that might be able to extract your stuff easily if it's not an actual physical problem, it might even restore the partition. But it's not too user friendly. I could...

In theory there shouldn't be any difference as they are both digital signals. I would be more inclined into believing you have something wrong with the monitor's configuration, be it resolution, refresh rate or some sort of weird color setting in the display itself. Have you confirmed that the...

I would need your full specs to make an estimate of your power requirements, but I believe it's safe to say that you need a new PSU. Running lower resolution means less processing power from the GPU and thus, less power draw from the PSU. If it's now happening without playing then it will soon...

Well then there's nothing else left, there's really no point in doing anything else to that pc as it won't really improve much. Sorry if it wasn't what you expected, that's how it is with OEM pc's.