Recent content by hapkido

I can't wait for this $10 DLC to come out for BF4.

290X isn't pointless, it's just that the 290 performs nearly as well and is significantly cheaper. The reference coolers are reportedly very loud on each at stock settings. I would expect the 3rd party coolers to not only perform better but be quieter. If you want to know specifics, it's...

There is no such thing as a future-proof build because we can't predict the future. Don't buy a pre-built -- you'll get a lot more value building your own. Even if you insist on buying pre-built for some reason, you'd be spending $271 on a GPU that costs $260 and not getting the 3 free games...

A 770 by itself needs about 20A on the 12V at 100% load. How much your entire system needs depends on the rest of the parts. Offhand, I would say a 520W SeaSonic PSU would be fine, but I can't say for sure without knowing exact parts.

Huh? Just plug the out on your laptop to the in on your TV.

Yes you can lower resolution and/or settings and you will probably have to with 3x 2160p monitors in most new games. It's best to run games at native resolution if you can, and lower settings until you get an acceptable framerate.

Your motherboard is "double booting" because you have improper overclocking settings. Revert everything to stock settings and don't even think about overclocking unless you have a decent aftermarket cooler installed. Then read two or three overclocking guides for your CPU and take it slow...

You are usually going to be better off building your own.

It's really unlikely that your case fan is causing it. Are your CPU and RAM running at stock speeds?

MAC filtering isn't effective because MACs 1) aren't private, and 2) are easily spoofed. MAC filtering will only stop the laziest users. It was never meant to be a security measure and is therefore a terrible security measure.

You can't crossfire 5450s, but it wouldn't solve the problem of connecting more than 2 monitors to a 5450 without a displayport, anyway. For 5000 and 6000 series at least, crossfire treats 2 or more cards as one card, you can only use the connectors on the first card, and if you connect more...

You need a DisplayPort to connect three monitors to one 5000 series card, which that particular one doesn't have, but you can connect two monitors to any of the three ports. So 3x1 Eyefinity is out of the question, but it's primarily used for gaming anyway and not needed for adding screens to...

I don't think this is possible. g930s have their own sound card on the USB connector and I don't know of any way to have two different sound cards active in Windows at the same time.

As long as everything is setup correctly, yes. Just be aware, MAC filtering is tedious to maintain and it's not effective anyway. A more secure solution would be to only give the key to a couple trusted individuals, and access requests are granted by them physically typing it into the new...