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    News Eight-Core CPUs Come to Laptops With Intel's 9th Gen H-Series Processors

    What type of cooling can we expect. Dell & Apple and many other manufacturers have failed to provide adequate cooling at the cost of CPU throttling when things run hot. Especially these days with thin laptops with 3 main heat sources inside being CPU GPU & battery (Charging & Discharging)...
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    Build first gaming PC from scratch, please help (Australia)

    Hi, I assume you will build the system yourself. I use MSY for all my parts https://www.msy.com.au/home.php If you live in Sydney I can help you with the build or MSY will build it for you. Rule of thumb is put a great Motherboard & CPU in the rig as all other items can be updated along...
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    Which laptop should I choose?

    Hi, I have never come a Gaming laptop that at full tilt runs cool. This link will give you some hints about the Dell G7 https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/90gmh0/dell_g7_overheating/ The problem with most Gamimg laptops is using a standard heat pad, pipes & fan across the platform ie i3...
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    Upgrade Current PC or Get New PC

    Hi, The only thing that could cause your system to fail is the stock Dell power supply. Whatever Video card you put in you need it's peak power draw and the peak power draw of your system as well. My system was running nicely on a 500 watt power supply until I did an upgrade to the video card...
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    10 yr old desktop: upgrade or replace?

    Suggest you price Antec water cooling kit as your CPU can be overclocked to around 3.8 GHZ. Also if this works for you then you could up speck your ram to 1600 MHz modules and gain a boost there as well. Google over clocking Intel Core i7 920 on a ASUS P6T DELUXE you will find all the settings...
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    Overclock 2600K or Upgrade?

    Definitely. I have a Q9550 normal clock 2.83Ghz over clocked to 3.8Ghz using Antec Water Cooling and it has run that way for 3 years with no problems. Simply look around the net for your i7- 2600k and find out the best settings for air cooling & water cooling but remember each CPU is different...
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    Please just take one minute and look at this, if you even have a heart.

    Hi, I once did an upgrade and it wouldn't boot. Turned out to be the power supply. Simply the new hardware required more power than my power supply could deliver. I borrowed a mates bigger power supply and it booted and ran well so I purchased a replacement power supply and have had no...
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    Acer lack of suport for Aspire 5745G. Win 8 Drivers

    I have an Acer Aspire 5745G i5 laptop with NVidia GT330M and their are no Win 8 drivers available and no new video drivers (switchable) available since 2011/11/10. Acer says that the laptop is to old to deserve new drivers. ie unsupported. I purchased it in 2010. Any one had the same or...
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    Acer Aspire 5745G

    Mine is an i5 with GT330m NVidia. If yours is the same there in a manual push button switch just above the PgDn button marked with a P
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    Acer Aspire 5745G

    Go into the bios and turn off on board (Intel) graphics in the bios. You can then load the latest NVidia drivers direct from NVidia. They will notify you of upgrades as well. Unfortunately this does give battery a shorter life between charges. I have the same laptop and it worked for me.