Recent content by JamesZhan

Thanks a lot everyone! All the answers were extremely helpful!

Hi, A week ago I built myself a PC for my recording studio; although it doesn't have a dedicated GPU, it is supposedly very powerful, which proved to be true as it handles huge studio projects with great ease (audio processing mainly consume CPU power and uses as many cores as possible)...

Hi, I have a 5TB external HDD connected to my tower via USB 3.0. Will it be affected by "Turn off hard disk after" or "USB selective suspend setting"? I just noticed that after it is not being used for a while, I heard it spinning up when I access it again, which took around a second or two...

Hi, I put a little too much thermal paste and i (inevitably) nudged the heatsink a bit when i installed it. So now there's some paste on the green part. Does that affect the performance? If I use isopropyl alcohol to clean it, can I dab the green part with the alcohol? My concern is that the...

Hello! I know this is asked over and over again, but this is my first time building a PC and I really want to make sure nothing is amiss. I have already asked tons of my friends, and friends' friends, to help me with the components. Now I just need to make sure everything is working with...