Recent content by cliffro

I looked, lots of reviews of receiving damaged parts. That’s a gamble I wouldn’t take just to save $15-25.

Was it in the Blue or Black PCI-E slot? and which one is it in now? The top blue slot is 16x, the bottom black one is 4x. If it's currently in the Blue 16x slot, maybe you damaged a pin on the card, or when you were dusting some got blown into that slot affecting its connection. Try removing...

As long as it's not a backlight gone bad, there should be F keys with extra functions, Find the one like these with a + or up arrow and hold the Fn key and press the Up one until its at the brightness you desire.

Your power supply should be fine. I have a 3770K @ 4.2Ghz, 980Ti, 2 spinning HDD's(one 10k rpm) and 3 SDD's. At MAX load(CPU/GPU) it pulls 475w from the wall according to my Kill-a-Watt. It's even lower playing games, under 400w. As to the PCI-E slots, no worries. 8x/8x shouldn't affect it...

If it happens again, check task manager see if a program or service is using a lot of CPU time, if one is particularly high other than System Idle it may be your culprit. Did your AntiVirus start working again? You can also test your memory as well http://www.memtest86.com

Try using a program to check the SMART status on your hard drive. This one is free and if your drive has issues it will display the health as bad. http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html It'll look like this and highlights the failing attributes. A good drive looks like this

I'm normally a fan of the Cryrig H5, it performed exceptionally well in a very warm environment on a friends build during benchmarks, granted it was just the i5-7500 but the room had no AC and it was summer. I read a review on the Enermax and came across another cooler that outperforms both, it...

I make no promises as I don't own either....... But according to a single review I found at your link, it should fit. 1 person mentioned using that GPU in a Dell 9010 SFF, MSI also has one that is linked to on the amazon page for the Gigabyte model that again a reviewer says they install in Dell...

I know write speeds can affect write quality, or rather increase the chance for errors. I always read back when Optical discs were used more, that to avoid possible issues to use slower write speeds. So I used 2-4x speeds when burning something important, like a Windows Install DVD.

According to MSI's CPU support list it is not compatible. It has no Godavari CPUs listed in it.