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    Mobos that support newer CPUs and ddr3 ram?

    i'm afraid not. usually there is a bridging generation supporting both, but that's a few years ago already.
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    CPUs: GHz or Cores?

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    Toshiba Tecra 730CDT BIOS damaged.... help?

    Hey all, So i got this old laptop, a Toshiba Tecra 730CDT, Pentium MMX, windows 95, all that good stuff. i bought the thing in a thrift shop, with some stuff like a external floppy reader en mouse ect included. got a universal laptop adapter recently that supported it. but once i power it on i...
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    OpgenGL GSL support not working anymore?

    Hey all, So i got this old laptop (Acer Aspire 5630) of a friend of mine, he wanted a new OS on it (went from vista 32bit to 8.1 64) and disable all the not-needed stuff to have it run better. Anyway, It uses a Intel GMA 950 as GPU. Now i installed W8.1 i checked the specs, (the laptop is 64...
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    Will my core i7 860 bottleneck a GTX 970 if I upgrade?

    i got the same CPU and a GTX 960, it works fine, and the CPU itself is strong enough. however, the chipsets (the smaller processors on your motherboard) are not good/new enough to support PCI-E 3.0 and so not offering full capacity. the basic answer, no. at normal settings your GPU will run...
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    can i run a PCI-E SSD with a P7P55D-PRO and I7 860?

    so i got this older board and CPU as a "upgrade" because my older motherboard died half a year ago and cost too much to replace at the time (combined with my RAM set ect i needed a expensive board). i know it's an older system, but i am still planning on using it for the upcoming 1-3 years until...
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    Older GPU's for bitcoin/litecoin mining?

    so i got a few older cards laying around here, for example, a ATI HD 5870, a AMD HD 6xxx, a GTX 460, all older cards that are too weak/don't got enough RAM to game on and are too power hungry/noisy beasts to put in a simple desktop pc. basically, 2007-2010 mid-high end GPU's. next to that i have...
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    [SOLVED (sort of)] HELP! windows 10 won't boot

    yeah i'm afraid i am. again.... cheers guys
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    [SOLVED (sort of)] HELP! windows 10 won't boot

    well, i found out what it was. the recovery tool kept poppin up so i checked the boot priority. it can't see the SSD anymore. and the way windows 10 struggeled to work, is exactly what happens in that case until it dies completely. i remember, from the first time it broke down, the PSU was...