Recent content by edtheguy

Sorry for the delay in replying.. to your replies... but the input was greatly appreciated! A USB boot of win 10 did the trick, and yes, I need to start using backup. I have the OS on an SSD and all my files on a data drive so I only lost time and some incidentals this time, fortunately. The...

So I have a home built machine that initially had a OEM WIN 7 Installed on a 120GB SSD and most of my data on a separate 1TB HDD. I upgraded the pc to WIN 10 during the 'free upgrade' period and everything was fine until the August update which my machine could never complete despite trying all...

Pc Power & Cooling, Seasonic, Corsair, Rosewill's Capstone series are among the good brands. If its for a new haswell rig you want to get one that is 4th gen (haswell) certified as well (that is usually prominently marked on the product description). I'm not sure which brands are available in...

The Pro 3 is a good board. The 212 evo is very good and will do just fine cooling under normal use (high ambient combined with overclocking may want one of the water coolers mentioned earlier, but for the price it might be worth starting with the 212 and changing later anyways) And the 7850 is...

Yeah, makes sense now. It was my first build (joint project with my 15yr old son) and we were going from an 8 yr old hp with a hd x600 gpu so we could have connected the monitor with bailing wire and duct tape and it probably would have looked pretty good...... I can't complain though, this is...

I had the same thought, which was why I figured I'd better swallow my pride, admit my stupidity and ask for help.... We might have figured it out if we hadn't lost the dvi cable that came with the monitor.... Thanks for your help (and patience)!!

Duh, THAT's where we were being stupid! I suspected it was something like that. The dvi connection on the monitor is dvi-d right? We were thinking it would just use the dvi-i port which wouldn't help us at all......

Yeah, this is where we ran into problems. We got an adapter at radio shack last night and when we tried to use the second dvi port on the card the adapter didn't fit, which is when we noted that the cover we took off the 670's second port said 'dvi-d' and the adapter said it would not work for...

So we have this gpu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130787 and currently a 23" cheap monitor that only has vga and dvi connections which is connected to the dvi port on the card with a dvi/vga adapter that came with the card. My son would like to add a second monitor...

Thanks for the quick reply! That's pretty much what I thought, but every time I get overconfident I find out how little I really know....

My daughter is off to college in a couple weeks and needs an external optical drive for her Asus 'ultrabook' and since I've never bought an external before, I thought I would check to see if there was anything I should look for in a drive before buying. I believe her laptop is the v400ca, it...

YES. Get an I5-4670k and z87 motherboard and you will save a lot on price, move to current gen tech and you won't lose anything in gaming. The I7 is only a benefit for serious number crunching and professional video rendering. You don't need a sound card. The onboard audio on any modern mobo...

The #1 best place to start with any boot problems: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems

Those are all good parts and they will come with the cords you need and thermal paste, but you will need an operating system if you don't already have that taken care of.

Yes. Corsair makes fine cases, personally I prefer the carbide series to obsidian, but they are all good, and the 500's have plenty of room inside for all your parts and more. No, if you are not overclocking then the stock cooler would be fine. In fact, if you are not overclocking then you...