Recent content by hudsonroot

A friend of mine recently gave me a Samson C-que8 headphone amp, but he doesn't have the power supply. It requires a 19V 1A AC input. I found two power supplies laying around: one rated at 12V 1.2A AC output (correct amperage, wrong voltage) and one rated at 18V 0.5A AC output (more or less the...

SPECS: gigabyte-ga-z97x-gaming 3 mobo MSI nvidia gtx 970 GPU Corsair cx 500m PSU Intel i7-4790k CPU Kingston hyperx fury 16gb 1866 MHz RAM It all started a few days ago when I downloaded the game "rocket league"(Which has apparently fried some other people's PCs). A few mins into the first...

It should work as long as they aren't in Crossfire

I looks like Broadwell won't be much of a performance improvement over Haswell, as Intel seems to be looking to shrink the processor and improve battery life for laptops and tablets, rather than beef up desktops. The integrated graphics will be better, but thats useless for anyone with a GPU...

Don't get the GTX 980. It's only slightly better performance than the 970, for a lot more money... the 970 is probably the best value card on the market. Also the i7 is overkill for gaming, the i5 would be better for the price. As for the mobo, take a look at the MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition Intel...

So I'm going to be building a new rig for video editing, and I have a few questions before i order parts. It'll replace my 2012 Macbook Pro with an Ivy Bridge i7-3820QM @ 2.70 GHz and a Nvidia 650m w/ 1gb of VRAM. I'm planning to get an i7-4790k @ 4 GHZ and a Nvidia 970 (I know the 970 is...

I'm gonna be building my first pc, a gaming/video editing setup. I'm planning on getting an Intel i7-4790k and a Nvidia GTX 970. I suppose I'll probably want to OC a little. So i have a couple of questions; what price range/brand of motherboard would work well? I don't want to spend a whole lot...

I installed boot camp on my MacBook Pro a week or two ago and it had worked perfectly... Up until I updated the USB driver through DriverMax and it bluescreened (I had updated several other drivers already like this without any problems). I restarted the computer and now it won't let me use...