Recent content by Natebubba

I have been reading about how to prevent static electricity from damaging your components when you are building a computer and I don't understand it at all. People say that you can touch your case all the time in order to stay grounded. How does touching your case ground you, when your case...

I've been getting some stutter/lag in some games on PC (a broad spectrum of games, but not all). It's just enough to be game breaking in some and not enough in others. I think it may have to do with accessing the hard drive because of what I have associated it with, but I don't know if that...

Now I'm certain that it is caused by the game accessing the harddrive, as in certain games it is obvious to see the correlation between loading in stuff and stutter, so.. what do I do? Also, the PS3 stutters always occur when the PS3 makes a noise (it's either reading from the hard drive or...

If that is true, I would have to assume that a lot of games are just poorly coded, and it's kind of hard for me to believe that. I mean, flash games stutter as well, and they work for other people... And games, for example Red Orchestra 2 and Metro Last Light would have stuttering problems to...

My computer has had a problem with video games, including flash games, and videos stuttering for some time now. I believe it may have started in February. I didn't really notice it at first since it only shows up in certain games and in certain videos, and I didn't realize how widespread it was...

How do you test all your computer components to see if they may be damaged?

My power supply recently was shorted out in a storm and I need a new one, but the local stores only carry them up to 600W, and I was wondering how much I need for an ATI 5970, 4 gb ddr3 2000 mhz ram (high quality), and i5 750 cpu, it also has to power 6 fans, sound card, harddrive obviously...