Recent content by John Q Publik

Its nice to know that it will at least scrape by in terms of lanes- I don't want anything above 2-way SLI, so that's what I wanted to hear.

I'm a first-time builder, and I'm trying to make a gaming/rendering build that I can keep upgrading in the future. Here's my parts list: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($362.95 @ SuperBiiz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S...

I want a system that is powerful now and will continue to be relevant for 3-5 years- I tried to come up with a build with future expandability, flexibility, and somewhat reasonable cost in mind. I don't need to buy an OS as I have been using Linux (Mint and Ubuntu) for about a year now and I...

I think I know the solution now, in case anyone needs the information- the flickering lines were actually a hardware issue, but Alienware replaced the motherboard and nothing changed in Mafia II, so I did some more research. Apparently the GPU throttles once it reaches around 65-67° C (my new...

So, this week the FPS drop happened again, and a line is flickering every few seconds... I'm guessing that this means it's a hardware issue?

I turned it on today and the lines were back- I still have a hunch that it has something to do with temperature (it's 62° F in the house right now). However, I tried doing something that I should have done before, and took it into another room and plugged it into a monitor (HDMI). The picture...

No, I haven't... how exactly do I go about doing it?

The temperature while idling is usually around 42° C, I tried the benchmark in Mafia II and the highest temperature it got to was 65° C at 99% load. Here is the log from the start of the benchmark to 2 minutes afterwards, idling: http://www.pastebin.ca/2330838 I have tried GPU-Z when I'm having...

The lines happen when I start it up, so they happen through everything. However, the FPS slowdown, as far as I can tell, only happens when I'm gaming. The drivers are up to date, and I have tried reinstalling them and restoring the computer to before it started happening, but neither worked.