Recent content by madmax15

I have been using PIA for the past 2-3 years and I am still thinking whether or not to renew my subscription, the reason is that PIA is low-key stopping their support for Win7 but otherwise the service is okay. I am well aware of the shortcomings of Win7 but for the foreseeable future I am going...

how about buying 2 (2x4) identical kits? should work fine right?

well the bios is already reset, that is not currently the problem, the problem is that it won't accept the old sticks even with the reset bios

So here is my setup: i5-4430 Haswell B87-G43 MSI gaming Mobo GTX 650Ti Boost 8GB Kingston Hyperx blu (2x4) CL9 I wanted to add another set of 2x4 sticks, bought the closest sticks on the market to those, both have the same speed but the new ones have a CL10 timing, all four...

So my PC just got infected with this **!! from what I took from Linus's vid about the topic and Acronis, such programs are just for preventing the threat not rolling it back right?, I have the most important stuff backed up but not everything, if anyone knows how to decrypt that thing to get the...

Found it, was hiding somewhere in advanced control, called wireless access control

I have a D-Link DSL-2730U router with firmware version: ME_1.01 I am looking for MAC filter but cannot find it, all the guides on the internet seem to be on another software version

I've had that card for 4 years or so, served me very well and still does however, one of the fans sounds like it's giving up, sometimes it makes some rattling sound, I think it's the bearing or something, it's also running slower than it's double next to it and it immediately stops turning when...

I have a gigabyte g31m-es2c motherboard and im about to buy a 2tb HDD for it, will it work? is there any kind of risk im taking by installing the HDD on that mobo?

just bought the Hyper X Cloud II today and its terrific, fortunately i didn't get the popping or crackling thing, seems like they fixed it however i had this very quite hissing but when i set the volume to about 60 it disappeared so i kept it there and raised the volume of the program im running...

so i read lots of threads here on tomshardware about the Hyper X cloud II making crackling/popping and hissing and all sorts of things but still it features the detachable sound card and mic which makes it very versatile but when i read the full specs turns out the Total Harmonic Distortion is...