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I recently got my hands on a Toshiba NB305 It has 1GB of RAM that i could upgrade to 2GB. Originally it came with Windows 7, but the OS eats up 70% of the memory even in idle. This makes the device run super sluggish. I'm looking for lightweight distro recommendations that will make this...

Currently have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 with 560.35.03 linux drivers

I understand that different monitors yield different results. What I'm surprised by is the VGA displaying better contrast than the HDMI on the same monitor.

I recently got myself a 2nd monitor. An ACER GN246HL. I hooked it up through HDMI. Compared to my AOC G2260VWQ6 (on DisplayPort), I immediately noticed the differences in color intensity and later the difference in contrast. The new ACER monitor had a huge problem with dark colors. Everything...

any suggestions on the replacement GPU? I have a GTX 950 in my current rig but i think that would be too weak to sell in that pacage

This week i just bought a PC for a serious bargain. I'm not crazy about the parts but it was cheap. This is the build in question: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GnTdXR The full build comes to about $900 new. The part prices might not be accurate. Some of them are a guess and others based on the...

It's a Toshiba mini notebook NB305-N410BL. Older model. Got it recently from a relative that doesnt use it any more. Runs really slow with win7. I was planning to install a lighter linux distro and see if i can lighten the load and get it working a bit faster.

What does the red indicate in the cpu usage in task manager?

My friend has issues with his PC and as someone who is not completely foreign to diagnosing and repairing issues i offered to take a look at it. I have never seen anything like this so i'm out of my league here. At first couple of attempts, the pc would turn on for a couple of seconds. Fans...

A week ago my PC wouldnt boot up. It would turn on, the fans would spin up for 2-3 seconds and it would turn off then on again. It would be stuck in this loop untill I pressed the power switch on the PSU. I disconnected it from the power socket, removed the motherboard battery, and left it...

The drive is going to be running my OS, gaming and just casual usage. I don't do a whole lot of media editing, I don't store much documents/pictures/videos/music on my PC.

Ive been looking to upgrade to an SSD as my current HDD, after 7+ years of use is showing signs of aging. Its slow to load, startup, even running 2 things at once feels like its suffocating at times. Since my rig is old, ill have to get an SSD with a SATA interface. Ive been eyeing the Seagate...

I used to have the classic razer naga mouse with the 12 extra buttons on the side. A lot of people find that too clumsy, but after i got used to it, muscle memory made the whole experience seemless. Absolutely loved that thing, it was so useful. Especially since i was into MMORPGs at the time...

Fun story. My mother picked up a Wi-Fi repeater from some e-shop for $20. I set it up for her. It works fine. After everything was done i noticed there was no way of me identifying this thing. The packaging is fairly well designed, it has the products features printed out on it, the manual is...

I fresh installed for 2 reasons. The PC was being generally slow and my 1TB disk had barely 100gb left free on it. No power plans were adjusted after the reinstall except power management mode in the nvidia control panel which is set to "prefer maximum performance". Ive tried to change windows...