Recent content by JackrumMadthing

First thought is the evil that is Win10/11 being bloated and having fits. Second obvious thought is something is dying. Seeing as you have fixed the problem for now (btw mark as solved :] ), the above posts do set you up for a bit of preventative maintenance but I'd go further. Bracing for...

I have a different order altogether. I build PC's sourced from local importers in South Africa: MSI - Never had a single MSI unit fail ever, and its cheaper than the ASUS with nearly the same features (Extra PCI, +5 USB, has a PS/2 port, -1 Fan Headers, 4800Mhz RAM) ASUS - The best overall PC...

I'd specifically like to have people share their complete hardware failures from age alone I couldn't find any official MTBF(Mean Time Between Failures) on major GPU's in the past decade out there, so lets presume a daily usage of at least 4hrs at maximum operating temperatures and that you...

As stated above, you cannot use DDR5 in a DDR3 motherboard...so... Check your local second hand outlets, be they actual stores that resell customers upgraded components, or newspaper/online/facebook market or whatever. First, however, you need to confirm if you CAN upgrade your RAM. Your...

WD = Western Digital, all benchmarks, performance tests, SMART records etc are as they should be. There is no hardware fault, and the drive functions without misbehaviour in a second identical system (apart form more memory and a differetn nVidia GPU). Well I think I've found it. Its seems to...

..I think through my walls of text you missed the bit where I was saying the problem does not occur in an identical sister PC (same motherboard etc) with that drive plugged in. So its either BIOS or Software... I mean it could still be Hardware and it just didnt roll the dice badly, but....my...

COOLER QUESTION: Personally I find the liquid cooling systems a hassle. What is not told to you is you will need to maintain that system, requiring amazingly complicated trickery for the average user to cycle cleaning solutions and top up the distilled water (much like old car batteries really)...

Firstly, I presume you meant 7680x4320...unless you have a bloody great big cellphone screen you are playing on....hehehe SO! It all depends on your financial situation vs your level of OMG ITS SHINY Syndrome. You do not mention what you are currently utilising, so I'm going to guess a 30xx...

I swopped the functional drives cables out already ya, no difference. I forgot to mention that as well as putting it in a near identical rig, my testing server, only difference is no M2 and 1650GT GPU and 64gb 3200ghz RAM.... ...benchmarks it flies, I can even leave it doing zip compression...

....to help see this properly, click the READ column heading, the actual word "read" to sort it. Obviously trying to end up with highest number on top. Do the same for Write if Read is marginal number (under 100kb is marginal/negligable) Furthermore, I highly recommend right clicking...

Your problem is very likely to do with Boot Partitions. Unless you have manually set the old HDD to NOT be the primary Boot, it will still think it is. You can fix this very simply....by moving the SATA cable that was in the "old" drive to the new one, or move the drives around in your BIOS...

Ya I know :) I'm just ranting, good old Base 2! :)

Hallo Toms Hardware Netizens, Lets open by stating ich bien kein noob! Decades of blowing up things and then figuring out how to put them together again from my BBC Micro days in the early 80s, to still building machines and being the general know it all. Apparently, I don't know it all...

Quick check, upper case fan is pushing air out &lower case fan pushing air in while the CPU fan is pushing on to CPU. There are arrow markers to tell you airflow direction. 80-95 centigrade under use with a stock cooler is normal. If you are going over 95 its time to get a little stressed out...

Get a "search by image" extension and then just smash away a single query to multiple engines. You will find results similar on a few, and wildly different on others depending on their indexing methods. Wonderfully, porn is the most prolific and has the largest content base and unsurprisingly...