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    My PSU makes this weird noise

    I used an air blower to clean my PSU last month (I now know that was a mistake). Since then, it's been making this weird noise. At first it was just after booting and then it would be mostly silent until I shut down and restart. Now, it got more frequent and annoying. It didn't sound alarming...
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    Need driver for old PCI Card wtih serial parallel ports

    @Tom Tancredi A) I have an old printer and UPS B) both of them work fine with another Windows8.1 PC that has those ports C) As I said it's a cheap generic card I can't find a website for D)Might try upgrading if all else fails
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    Need driver for old PCI Card wtih serial parallel ports

    I just bought a PCI card (a very cheap generic one) and I can't find any compatible drivers. I get PCI Serial Port and PCI Parallel Port in other devices in Device​ Manager. I'm using Windows 8.1 x64 and ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen 3 motherboard. EDIT: On the card it says PCI 2S1P GP 323B6617G...
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    APC UPS proprietary serial cable

    Hi, I have an APC SU620INET UPS which connects to the computer via a serial cable. I know APC uses proprietary serial cables with their products but I want to know if this older model uses a normal one. Also, are all APC serial cables the same? or did they make different cable for different...
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    GA-P75-D3 rev 1.0 with XFX GTS 250

    I have a Gigabyte GA-P75-D3 motherboard (rev 1.0) and I recently bought a used HD 5750 to replace the GTX 550 Ti installed and it didn't work at all An expert in this forum suggested that the the motherboard's to blame for not supporting older graphics cards so I sold the card Now I have a...
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    [APU] Is upgrading from 1600mhz RAM to 2400Mhz worth it ?

    RAM speeds affect the graphics performance directly for the integrated graphics on APUs
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    [APU] Is upgrading from 1600mhz RAM to 2400Mhz worth it ?

    I have an A10-7870K APU with Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X motherboard and I was wondering if upgrading from 1600Mhz to 2400 will give me any real world difference in gaming performance edit: I'm using the integrated graphics on the APU