Recent content by Ignorance101

My budget max is $400. That laptop you linked actually seems pretty nice (not to mention a big step up from my current one) but I've heard sketchy things about ebay in the past, so I'm a bit hesitant to make a purchase from that site.

I have a laptop that only came with a celeron 900 cpu, which is totally inadequate for pretty much everything I need to use it for, so I've been thinking of getting an upgrade to a pentium t4400 dual-core. I know that the socket is compatible with the celeron cpu i have, but I haven't been able...

One thing you might be able to do to isolate the problem to the cooler is to feel the temperature of the exhaust coming from the radiators, just with your hand. If the temperature on the cpu spikes and the air heats up quickly along with it, then the cooler is probably not at fault. However, if...

Well there are a few possibilities here: 1. The thermal sensors on your chip are indeed malfunctioning, in which case you should at least be a bit more cautious, especially when overclocking, since the feedback is inaccurate. 2. Thermal compound is not doing its job correctly, either because...

I'm not quite sure whether you should go AMD or Intel, but I can tell you that regardless of which one you choose you don't need more than 4 physical cores, and often times you'll be totally fine with 2 hyperthreaded cores as with the i3 chips. It's sad that a lot of games don't take advantage...

Okay so yesterday I encountered a very strange issue while i was using my computer. I was playing Skyrim just fine, then all of a sudden both of my monitors went black and said that they were not receiving any signal. This happened without warning and windows didn't make a sound. In fact...

After digging through a bit more of the internet, I discovered that the "Maximum Memory" option in MSConfig provides very little benefit for very large memory usage. I unchecked that, rebooted, and it worked perfectly.

It all started when I closed Teamspeak. I clicked the X and nothing happened...I sorta ignored it for a few minutes, then my mouse cursor slowed to a crawl for about half a second then froze, and I saw my favorite oh-so-blue screen of death appear (which stayed there for 20 minutes trying to...

Remember that the Max TJ temp is the max it can withstand *Before* causing damage. If it doesn't go any higher than that then you can still use your system, but it will reduce the lifespan of the chip.