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    Windows 10 usb install keeps looping back to setup on hp laptop

    I have an HP laptop with 6gb ram and 7th gen i7 cpu. I don't remember the model. It came with Windows 10 preinstalled. I wanted to clean install and formatted everything(including recovery). I downloaded windows 10 using media creation tool on my Desktop. Then i used Rufus to make a bootable usb...
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    Dota 2 download keeps getting restarted to 0%, please help?

    Putting the pc on standby during the 30 minutes power cut did the trick
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    Why are core 2 quads listed that high in the gaming cpu hierarchy chart?

    The Q9650 is on the 3rd tier while the pentiums are on the 5th tier, with the core 2 duos. Doesn't make any sense. Aren't the pentiums viable for budget gaming builds while the quad's time is over? I heard the pentium cpus can run games on med - high settings. I have a Q9550(which is maybe 5%...
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    Doesn't tdp mean maximum power consumption?

    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sapphire-vapor-x-r9-290x-8gb,3977-5.html I know it is total system power consumption, but there is little difference between the gtx 970 and the r9 290x 4gb on the review, while the actual tdp of the 970 is 145W and the 290x have 300W, which is a huge 155W...
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    Dota 2 download keeps getting restarted to 0%, please help?

    I live in India. The internet is extremely slow, only ~50 Kbps. And there are frequent power cuts and failures which prevents me from downloading the whole game in one go. On the first attempt, i downloaded around 25%, and next time i started, it went back to zero. The same thing happened at the...
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    My graphics card is not getting detected, please help?

    It worked after i tried placing it again. I can't find an option to delete this thread.