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Awesome - guys thanks so much for these resources. I will keep looking at them. Basic logistics - lets say I get a brand new SDD to basically make a brand new computer - can I plug in my old SDD boot drive to pull stuff off of it after? Or is it best I format that before it ever meets the new...

Windows 10, just need to get the chip to cool - none of my peripherals are firing and my RAM light is saying it's no good (never had a RAM problem, I tried booting it up with each one solo and I got the same thing) so I think it's just the fact the chip knows its temp knows is going to skyrocket...

As I digest a lot of that, I mean I can buy them today if something looks cool and affordable and feasible that I may have time this week to work on it... otherwise I'll wait more towards black friday/cyber Monday for some deals I'm sure that will come from that. I've used Newegg and Amazon...

Good morning Tom's hardware system experts. I went to go ahead and maintain this 8 year old beauty (she ran great for years) yesterday and a couple original errors I made installing the liquid cooler and it's mount have finally come back to bite me in the behind. I can no longer get it to...

Will give it a try if someone else doesn't have anything quicker to check out. I'm a bit of a novice with building and systems in general - I've used Linux like 4 times in college - all of 10+ years ago, so forgive me for not rushing into this. If I don't hear anything else from anyone - I'll...

While I had some time - I pulled my two monitors for exact specs in case there's a savant out there who needs it: ViewSonic XG2702 27 Inch 1080p 1ms 144 Hz Gaming Monitor with FreeSync Eye Care Advanced Ergonomics ColorX Mode HDMI and DP for Esports (won't wake up) ASUS VS228H-P 22-Inch...

Appreciated - and one of the things I found googling this as well. However, I've closed out all applications to assure myself it wasn't something I was running at the same time.

Hey guys - I've found a ton of threads tackling this in general, but my situation seems a little unique. I recently set up a nice dual monitor display using my old (5+ years) ASUS 21.5 inch as a secondary, and a brand new ViewSonic 27 inch monitor as the primary. When the computer goes to...

Fans are configured push/pull. The overheat is the CPU for sure going on whenever I've stressed it and checked the temperature apps - they always read it the highest (although 75-85C is the highest I've seen at worst - should not be a fail from what I read - and I promise you it doesn't get...

Hey guys, first off - my current build is at the bottom of my story here. I appreciate everyone taking the time to read this. As you can probably tell from my lack of activity here, I'm THE casual of casual PC builders. I am coming up on the 5th year anniversary of my first build (of which...

Newbie move here - please correct me if wrong. I picked "any old on sale" 16 (2 X 8) DDR to upgrade the machine (because why not, I needed to kill some time this weekend anyway)... and sure enough, I'm not able to boot. After doing some more research, I see that my 1150 motherboard may not...

Hey everyone. I'm running into either RAM incompatibility with my motherboard OR an overaged graphics card? My screen blacks out and my GPU needs to recover (according to windows 10). What do you think would be the best (while budget given of $400 max) way to upgrade this build and maybe put...

Thanks guys - I'm probably just going to have them invest in a new Dell. Unfortunately my own research was right. I really like the build vs. buy price point estimation, so I had to go with that as my answer, but thanks to everyone for chipping in.