Recent content by l337n00bh4x0r

Voted! Used to be a DIY techie, but got an opportunity through a lay-off to get my degree and now I'm getting paid to mess with computers! Thanks Tom's!

If you wanted to just game with one monitor at 1080p, a 760 is a pretty decent bet without dumping all your cash. The next step up would be a GTX 770 or an R9 280x. The 280x is a little more expensive, but runs a little faster. So if you wanted a faster GPU now, you can go with a 280x, or dump...

That's $1695.80 if somebody were to buy all those pieces at once... Seeing as that's already cheaper than a gaming PC from a vendor, and the hardware is still good, you shouldn't have to drop the price TOO much. Most gaming enthusiasts build their own PC's, so make sure you market it as GAMING...

No, there is no way to play that way, unfortunately. The xbox doesn't have the capabilities to "see" more than one screen, so you can duplicate the output, but you can't tell the Xbox to send different output to the dfferent screens. You can get a bigger TV, or a second Xbox. =\

Maybe try turning off cyberlink before you run games? Also, check the resolution in the games you're playing. Cyberlink does some really wierd stuff, and I find that it often mis-registers drivers as bad, old, or incompatible, making it seem like you have bad drivers / bad hardware.

You can try to do a full reset of the PC. In Windows 8, open a command prompt and type "shutdown /r /o", which will "restart" the computer and go into the advanced boot options. From there go to "Troubleshoot", then reset it and have it delete all your files. BACK IT UP FIRST! This essentially...

Blue screens are usually an indication if a bad driver, or a different kind of hardware failure. It could be any piece of hardware on the system. Sometimes the blue screen will give you a little line or message about what caused the crash, but if you bought the whole computer from them, I'd put...

I moved to Windows 8 / upgraded it to 8.1 to learn it, as I need to support it. I'd say it took me about a week to really nail everything down in it, but it seriously isn't bad. I now like it, alot, and all my games run fine or better than they did before. The ONLY reason to NOT go to windows 8...

PC MASTER RACE!! ... In all honesty, I loved my 360, because the community was huge, the services (for me, anyway) always seemed to work, and I loved the controller. The PS4 will look *slightly* better, and is cheaper, so if you already like the PS4 exclusives, there's no reason to go with the...

The 8320 (overclocked) looks better, at least on paper, and overclocking is easy to do. Also, for gaming, your graphics card is usually more important, and I feel that a 760 isn't a good pair for either of those processors. I say do the 770, as that's the biggest determining factor, and if the...

Somebody recently came to me with a similar budget, but just looking for a gaming laptop. He's in the Navy, so they HAVE to use laptops, as they can't have a bunch of desktop computers taking up space they don't have while they're on the boat. Everything pointed to needing the 780M being if you...

Yeah, there's no real way to do this, AFAIK. Mice and keyboards have specific IRQ's, and they can't really share them. So even if you had the hardware to run two instances of a game in windowed mode on two monitors, you could only control one at a time. If the game accepts it, though, you can...

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/modern-ui-metro-windows-8-microsoft-ux-designer,26057.html This is a good explanation of why Windows 8 looks / feels different ... it took me one day of getting used to it, and now I like it. It's fast, and it keeps all of the new stuff out of your face unless...

I don't play anymore, but if I did, I might pay for this. The game is what, 8 years old now? I've got a lifestyle now where $60 out of my paycheck is woth a LOT less than a MONTH of my time trying to get from 1-90.