Recent content by Ltsmith4

Hi, I currently have a LG 24GM77 24-Inch 144Hz monitor. I have been using it since November 2015. Well, being the idiot I am, I was trying to take off my wrist rest on my Corsair k70, really close to my screen. It came off but my keyboard went into my screen and put a lovely scratch right in the...

Games that I have already downloaded on steam, often disappear. I have downloaded one game probably 7 times now as occasionally when I go to play on it, it starts a download rather than opening the game. I also just had a windows error, blue screen shut down. Could my drives be going bad? My OS...

Volume all the way up? And what's this friction you talk about? Do I need to loosen something?

I just bought another psu as my last one was fried in a brownout. The replacement seems to work fine but I get a buzzing or electricostatic type sound similar to what you hear by power lines. Do I need to be concerned with this? My PC seems fine except when I first load a game it gets noisy and...

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How do I check temps? My thinking is my psu might be damaged therefor my graphics cars isn't getting enough power causing the coil whine and lagging when starting a game. Could this be possible? How could I check it?

Last week we had a brownout or blackout while i was gone for a few minutes. I left World of Warcraft running as I just needed to go walk the dogs and come back. I ended up being gone longer than I thought and when I came back my PC was off. When I turned it on I got the "windows did not shut...

The high pitched noise went away, however when I start a game, like world of Warcraft, the first 30 seconds to a minute it's runnining, it skips like how a scratched dvd will skip. Is this the GPU? It sounds like something is struggling but after 30 seconds or so it's fine

My house has its power go out often. Recently I left without exiting a game and while I was gone there must have been a brownout or something. My pc was off and when I turned it on it gave me the Windows did not shut down properly screen. I shut everything down for the night but there was an...

Not sure how to reply on here, I just joined but thank you all for answers. Thinking about my budget I think I want to save up for a 1080. Just not sure if I would have to upgrade anything else for it to work

I want to upgrade my graphics card and looking for suggestions for my rig. I'm still relativey new to the pc world and could use the help. My current setup CPU - i5-4690k 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4gb RAM - Corsair Vengence Pro 2x8gb Power supply - EVGA 120-G1-0750-XR 80 plus...