Recent content by dushky

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    Motherboard options, high-tier (Z170)

    Hi, so I'll be building my first new PC soon (had gaming laptop due to travel/work, gonna be less mobile now), and essentially looking at getting high tier stuff and so would like to get a fancy nice high tier motherboard with all the bells and whistles. Will/want to have an i7-6700k, nvme ssd...
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    Water Cooling Push/Pull and Intake/Exhaust (What's best or most efficient for sound/cooling)

    Hi good-day, my question is this, I wish to get the Corsair Hydro Series H110i GTX AIO to cool my CPU, with regards to installation as top exhaust or front intake and pull/push I'm just not sure which would be best or most efficient for both sound and cooling. I will be cooling a i7-6700k (and...
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    Building a new solid gaming PC (first-time, future-proof, to purchase/build in around 6 months time)

    Oh okay, not set on the XPOWER, I just would like a socket LGA 1155 motherboard, so I am very flexible in that regard, thanks for your suggestions, didn't know about the CPU cooler requirement, again thanks.
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    Building a new solid gaming PC (first-time, future-proof, to purchase/build in around 6 months time)

    Hi guys, thanks for any help in this regard. So firstly budget, anything up to $2500, the cheaper the better of course, this is my first gaming pc that I'll be building and owning (I've had gaming laptops up till now due to travel/work so I've had to be mobile). I would like it to be...
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    Windows 8 laptop using too much ram on idle

    Hi guys after more research I found the reason for the memory problem, apparently there is a memory leak for desktop windows manager in windows 8.1 which causes excessive ram consumption if you play a game with a different resolution say 1366x768 as compared to desktop of 1920x1080 setting to...
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    Windows 8 laptop using too much ram on idle

    Ah ok cool thanks, is there anyway to remove those warnings them?
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    Windows 8 laptop using too much ram on idle

    Hi guys, recently got a new laptop, and it has windows 8 and uses a rather alarming amount of ram in idle mode. Sooo was wondering what could be the cause of it and if there's anyway to reduce it since it seems way too high from past experience. I've read up on some other articles and tried to...