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Update: New PSU installed and my computer sounds... different. Maybe it's my improved cable management, or that I vacuumed my Cryorig H7 heat sink for the first time in maybe four years. Or maybe it's the RM750 not running its fan at 100%. Let's hope i get another decade-old PSU in ten...

I'm putting this PSU to bed for good! I got a Corsair RM750 PSU from the local Best Buy that I'm going to install tonight. I'm also taking the opportunity to thoroughly vacuum out my case and improve my cable management, especially where the cooling fans are concerned! I think I spent about...

Today my 600 watt modular OCZ PSU died. It was 12 years old and powered two systems and five GPUs across CAD work, video editing, and gaming. It was a ModXStream-Pro 80 Plus unit. I hit the power button as I usually do every morning, the lights flashed for half a second, then nothing...

My old external hard disk drive somehow got corrupted to the point that I needed to reformat it to get it working again, so I'm in the process of backing up my files again. I recently upgraded my Windows partition from 7 to 10, and the file transfer speeds from the computer's HDD to the...

So I upgraded from an old Gigabyte AMD board to an Intel board. Of course Windows 7 blue screens at the Windows logo during boot. So I took another thread's advice and loaded the new board's drivers through the command prompt. I restarted the computer and now I'm at startup repair. About six...

I ultimately decided to order components around DDR4. While, based on my research, RAM speed doesn't seem to make a big difference at this point with my gaming habits (Armored Warfare, MechWarrior Online, World of Tanks), I do see that LGA 1150 is obsolete in the way there won't be any new...

Is that still true with the higher latency on the current DDR4 RAM?

Black Friday is upon us and I have decided to take advantage of that to upgrade my system. This is what I currently have: AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition OC'd to 3.7 GHz Cryorig H7 CPU Air Cooler Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2P Mini ATX Board G.SKILL Ripjaws 2x4 GB DDR3-1066 RAM MSI NGTX760 Twin Frozr...

I did a little research and found that some users who replaced a motherboard in their Windows 10 machine were able to call tech support and got their license reactivated. Has anyone here had experience with that? It seems like a crap shoot with CSRs.

I know my hardware can handle Windows 10 with the proper drivers. I'm just weighing whether or not I should perform a motherboard and/or CPU upgrade now before taking advantage of the free upgrade especially if I risk invalidating my Windows 10 OS in the process. But it sounds like there's a...

I waited almost a year for Windows 10 to mature before trying to decide whether or not to upgrade my Windows 7 Home 64-bit OS. I mainly use my desktop computer for gaming, and I am attracted by the potential performance gains by just upgrading to Windows 10. I feel that the main thing holding...

I didn't realize my thread got more replies. Guess my subscription turned off :( Anyways I went back to my stock clocks and undervolting. I might need the board and CPU to last another couple years. If I didn't have to worry about my board holding up to the 3.8 GHz OC I had I would keep it...

Boy that's a bummer. When I bought the mobo back in 2010 that's all I could afford and held on to it since. At this point I'm probably better off upgrading both my board and a CPU instead of getting a better full ATX AM3+ board, yes?

I'll start with system specs: Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2P Mini ATX Board AMD Phenom II 965 BE 3.4 GHz stock clock speed 2x4GB DDR3 RAM (G.SKILL Ripjaws) OCZ 600W 80+ PSU MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr I decided to take advantage of my new Cryorig H7 CPU cooler and try and overclock my PC. The chip is a AMD...

I ran it at about 45 degrees C for 10 minutes. I guess that wasn't hot enough!