Recent content by MrCookiie

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    Is my Graphics Card bottle necking?

    Specs Graphics Card: XFX R7870 CPU: AMD FX 8350 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Lately I've been trying to overclock my Graphics Card and I've noticed something odd. When I have MSI Afterburner and monitor the card performance while playing a game I notice the...
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    Astro A40 Mixamp Optical Converter

    So recently I got an Astro Mixamp for my A40's and when setting up I realized it uses an optical cable. Unfortunately my PC's motherboard doesn't have a slot for one so I was wondering about buying an optical to 3.5mm jack converter. I was curious to know if they're worth it, do they make the...
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    Does having a slow hard drive write speed effect game performance?

    Ok thank you, I think it's safe to say my hard drive is well and truly screwed? Considering it's crazy slow write speed.
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    Does having a slow hard drive write speed effect game performance?

    When I use Dxtory to run a write speed benchmark on my hard drive it only get's around 47mb/s on average. But when I do the same benchmark again while Skyrim is open I get around 15mb/s on average. I know this would effect loading times for my games which I'm not too bothered about, I'm just...
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    GPU Usage drops resulting in low FPS

    So I've had this problem for a while now were when I play BF3 after say 10 minutes my GPU usage drops low making my game have extreme lag. It also happens in other games such as Skyrim and Dead Rising 2. My computer is fine at running the games, I get about 60 - 80 FPS on Ultra while playing BF3...