Recent content by MechaTechie

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    Sound issue: no sound in games!

    Hi, In June of last year I built a Gaming PC whose specs you can find here:http://pcpartpicker.com/p/H2syjX. At the start of this year, I started having an issue where my games had no sound; while browsing with Chrome and watching videos on YouTube sound was fine. The problem was only...
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    Good stress testing utilities?

    Hi, I've recently built a gaming PC and I want to see if the system is stable and working properly, so I decided to stress test the CPU and GPU. I know that Prime95 is the most recommended when it comes to CPU stress testing but I don't know which one to use for the GPU. I was thinking of using...
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    Is my PC performing correctly?

    Hi, I've built a gaming PC around 11 days ago with an i5 4460 and an ASUS GTX 970 Strix and when I play Assassin's Creed Unity or Blackflag around High settings my framerate fluctuates between 45 and 60 FPS (with V-sync on, without it I believe it goes a bit higher around 70s) according to MSI...
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    Is an exhaust fan really needed?

    Thank you all for your help I think I'll just build it tomorrow and buy a SP120 from Corsair next week or something around that time Thank you
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    Is an exhaust fan really needed?

    Hi, So basically I'm going to build a gaming PC and I had everything planned and set up so I could build it tomorrow morning. My build includes an i5 4460 and a GTX 970, my case is the Corsair SPEC-01 which only has one intake fan in the front. I had planned to buy an exhaust fan by the time...
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    What drivers do I need?

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    What drivers do I need?

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    What drivers do I need?

    Hi, I´m building a gaming PC next month but I don´t know which drivers I need to install (Intel's website is a mess) . The system will have an Intel Core i5 4460, an Asrock Fatal1ty H97 Performance Motherboard and a GTX 970 (from Asus). The OS will be Windows 8.1 64-bit. Can someone tell me...
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    Haswell CPUs - Future Proofness

    Thank you all for your help
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    Haswell CPUs - Future Proofness

    Hi, I'm looking to build a gaming PC that has some future proofness, but this is also a semi budget build (1000€ max). My current two options for the CPU are: -Intel Core i5 4460 -Intel Core i5 4690k I would like to know long it would take for either of these two to start bottlenecking any GPUs...