Recent content by Jacob McIntosh

Double check that your case's power/reset/led headers are plugged into the correct pins on the motherboard- often times these are a tad confusing so it's very possible you just connect them to the wrong spot. Also double check the power switch on the back of your PSU is in the on position, it...

No, laptop GPUs are soldered onto the motherboard.

Yes, it supports cards up to 40cm long, yours is 26.9cm.

Is this your personal Chromebook or a school/work owned machine? If it is, your network administrator could have disabled changing the desktop background, and there's no way around that.

Have you tried updating the BIOS to the most current version?

You certainly could, I'd imagine (don't have the numbers, but I'd bet they're out there somewhere) a USB drive wouldn't have the life expectancy or the data transfer rates compared to an SSD (although it would be faster than an HDD). If you kept the USB drive inside your computer it should be...

I'l attempting to upgrade from Windows 7 Pro N to Windows 10 today, and keep running into the same issue in the Upgrade Assistant. Each time, it downloads 10 and tries to start the installation process, failing at 0% every time and giving me error code 80070057. Googling the problem has only...

The GTX 970 is a good choice. Someone else asked a similar question just the other day.

You might be better off putting an ad in Craigslist looking for local case moders. Like I said, all I could find was that two person team on Newegg from 2005.

The only thing I can find is a couple of names of people from Maine who won a Newegg contest forever ago. http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/newegg-announces-august-case-mod-competition-winners.32747/ Click on the August tab...

I'll see if I can find anyone, but Maine's a big state. Do you care if it's someone on the other side of the state from you?

It sounds like you could have some kind of virus/malware/etc. Download CCleaner, AVG, and Malwarebytes and run them to see if they catch anything.

It's hard to find just like a list of displays that OC well, the best I found was this webpage, but all the monitors are 1440p and expensive, not for sale anymore, or just generally not reliable. Unless you can find someone who owns a specific monitor that says they OC'd it to x frame rate, I...

As far as I know you can attempt to OC any screen, but I doubt you could go from the 70ish Hz this is to 120Hz+. LTT did a video on overclocking your monitor.