Recent content by noobie_one_kenoobie

Hello there, I understand completely your concern with the PSU and after doing a bit of reading and self education on the matter on the world wide cobwebs I decided to wholeheartedly take your advice and change my old PSU for something much more adequate. Unfortunately, that Toughpower is...

Hello there, and thank you so much for taking the time and providing an extensive answer. I am glad you mentioned the RX 500 series discrepancy in price because I noticed the same thing. It slightly hurt my clarity of purpose on this undertaking. I feel it might be ridiculous buying an...

Well, of course it makes zero sense to put money into this machine instead of buying a newer one. I don't need to save for anything since I have a new computer. This one is something I thought I would experiment with and perhaps improve it a bit. And I was really under the impression that...

Hello there, I would like to apologize if this venue turns out to be inappropriate for asking this question. I did some research but a firm conclusion has so far eluded me. I have this PC that I would like to grace with a final GPU upgrade: Dodgy MS 500W Power supply unit. (I regularly oil...

Hello hang-the-9 I have checked the task manager and you are absolutely right, it does consume a lot of RAM in Windows, somewhere close to 1GB when idle, and 1.5GB to almost 2GB when on Youtube. It must be rather more when opening other programs on top of that. But I honestly never had any...

Birth of the Federation, Half Life and Need for Speed IV: High Stakes were , I think, the very first PC games that I have played nineteen or twenty years ago on a Pentium II. I did not know how to play the first two, I found them confusing but I wore out the NFS IV: HS CD-ROM. When I figured...

Thank you for your suggestion. I will most certainly give some thought to upgrading the hard drive to an SSD. As for the RAM, it is more than sufficient for my needs as I only do work in Word, email, surf the web and run Youtube. For these I find RAM more than adequate. I agree, it is an...

Hello there, I have an older laptop, an HP 6730s manufactured in 2008 I think, which generally works fine. But I have noticed that there are some issues related to heat. This is apparent when I watch Youtube or stream an online sports match. It works fine generally, and it usually runs a 720p...

Hello , thank you for that interesting advice. That pin trick for the fan sounds very ingenious. (I just realized that there might be a pun in there somewhere). I haven't really given this problem much thought lately since everything seems to be running fine, but I just might try that out of...

Hello there, I am sorry for the delay in answering. I did not overclock, I simply run the cpu at stock speed of 3.4. I haven't underclocked either, since I am still unsure how to proceed in my particular version of bios. Nevertheles, at gaming loads, when it sounds like it is doing a...

Indeed, Phenom II X6 processors seem to cost quite a bit more than four core Phenoms, regardless of their age. For me, that was also one of the main reasons for going with Phenom II X4 instead. I agree that SSD is an excellent idea, and will surely consider it at some point. Also, I am...

My motherboard is a M4N68T LE V2 model. If there is any other identifier than this, please let me know so I can provide a more complete information. Part of my confusion is that on the Internet when people overclock their cpus, there usually is a control option clearly labeled as 'cpu...

Hello Calavera87, yes I am really happy with the performance in a few games I've been trying out. The temperatures at idle are 37°C and when I tried out a Prime 95 program to completely load all cores the temperatures reached and hovered around 65-66°C during a 10 minute test. I used a...

Oh my, I apologize to you all for not participating in my own thread while all of you tried to help me with your advice. The last time I 'visited' here was well over a month. Thank you all for your suggestions, but I have already found something I am happy with. I bought a Phenom II X4 965...

I understand the problem and I agree that the current pc is obsolete for modern gaming. Still, I will keep it as I find it useful. Thank you and kind regards.