Recent content by dvdrns123

I did not mean to mark this as solved by the way.

Hi everyone, So my CPU temperatures skyrocketed today when I ran a stress test. At idle, my CPU sits nicely at 30C. However, today I ran a stress test, and the temperature skyrocketed to almost 100C. I immediately stopped the test when I noticed this. The temperatures got this high very very...

Ok thank you! I just wanted to be sure I didnt need to plug it into the same SATA port, or plug my SSD with my operating system on it into the motherboard before I plugged in my other harddrive. Thank you for the help.

Hello, I was not really sure where to put this, so I put it here. A few years back I built my first PC. Unfortunately, I did almost zero cable management. Now that I feel comfortable, I want to overclock my CPU, and I want better airflow in the case to keep the temps down. Are there any...

So as PsyKhiqZero said, the pins are very easy to break. The fan will not remount, so im guessing that was probably the problem originally and it wasn't mounted well. The pins are messed up. With that said, any suggestions for a new CPU fan? Preferably a cheaper one that is not extremely...

I recently just built a new computer, and thinks have been going good so far, however my CPU temperatures are very hot. When idle, the temps are to my limited knowledge, fine, being around 30-40 C. However, when running games the CPU gets to around 85-90 C, and when I ran a Prime95 the...

Well, I do not know how I fixed this problem. Earlier, when I made this post, your advice was not working, however after taking a break, windows prompted me to restart my computer. When i did this, it was there. I did not do anything but now it is working. Thanks.

So I have just recently built my first computer. I purchased 2 storage drives. A SSD, and your standard hard drive. I installed my OS on the SSD, and that worked well. however when I try to partition my second drive, it does not show up in disk management. It does however, show up in my BIOS...