Recent content by crblakely

When i turn my pc on it will get through POST (sometimes) and then restarts. Sometimes it won't even make it to the BIOS screen and sometimes i can make it to the login screen. But 99.999% of the time i cannot get that far and about 50-60% time it never gets through POST. Ive tried checking...

I plan on getting a new motherboard and CPU soon. I will most likely get the Asus Crosshair Formula V mobo and the AMD FX-8370 cpu. I have read a couple of comments on youtube that concerned me a little bit. The comments said that the 8370 would bottleneck a R9 290. Is this true? I ask this...

I am thinking about doing a new build. Even though i havent even had my current one for a year.... I cant decide if i am going to go with the FX8370 or the FX8350. Is there reallly that much of a difference. I will be using it mostly for gaming and multitasking. I will most likely get the ASUS...

This is my dad's brand new computer. It is his first one so he is a little bummed out that it is shutting off randomly and last night while I was using it it gave us a new problem. Blue and Black striped lines. This happened only once. It will turn off very randomly. Sometimes it will last a...

It was working fine not even ten minutes before. The port doesn't show up in device manager and the led doesn't turn on.

I figured this was the problem. Thank you. I was considering getting the MSI 970 and the 8350. Thank you.

So. This is my build. Mobo: Gigabyte Ga-F2A88x-UP4 CPU: AMD Athlon X4 750k Graphics Cards: 2 MSI R9 290's Hard Drive: 2tb Ram: AMD Radeon Memory Performance Series 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 1866 Power Supply: CX600 Case: CM Storm Enforcer. And then 3 120mm case fans and 1 200 mm case fan. I have...

I am kind of new to gaming stuff with pc's. So i was wondering if i can crossfire my current msi r9 290 with my old radeon 7850? Can you crossfire two different cards or does it have to be the same card for both? I'm sorry if this sounds really stupid but I just want to know.