Recent content by Plyman69

Let me try and answer your questions.. I currently have a Samsung S27E330 Monitor - works great may upgrade to something better when time and money allows... Display Type LED-backlit LCD monitor / TFT active matrix Aspect Ratio 16:9 Native Resolution Full HD (1080p) 1920 x 1080 at 60 Hz...

I am ok with buying last years technology since i am using technology that is at least 8 years old if not older... so if its an i7 and prices are dropping great... if its AMD great... just need more specifics please and thanks

very good points you all make.... so budget ... i would like to buy them in parts slowly over time... like 6 months to a year. I would like to keep it under a thousand so I am not looking at the best technology out there... what i currently have is an I7 930 at 2.8 4 cores, Running 16gb ram and...

So I have been using my current system for awhile and looking to have a custom build. However I really loved the versatility of my current board X58A-UD5. I am looking for another MB that is as versatile and stable as this. Not sure really whats the best MB at this time based on price...

oh yes it was defragmented... and still slow as molasses

So a year or so ago I bought a store based system for the kids. My main computer has no issues and connects via wifi and I can run almost anything flowlessly with 2 monitors going. One playing world of tanks while the other is running a HD movie from Amazon... Anyways the kids computer has...

Hi everyone... first of all thanks for your input... I do appreciate it. So, I decided to try replacing the fans on the GPU... It was the cheapest way to go as the 2 fans only cost $15 on amazon. At the same time I also picked up some Artic MX-4 thermal compound. So I found a video on youtube...

So tonight I was playing World of Tanks and i noticed that my fans were not working. I checked on CPUID monitor and sure enough 0 RPM. My temperatures climbed up to 104 degrees... way too hot. So I ran MSI Afterburner and manually set it to 100% and still nothing.. RPM still 0. So now I have...

not really looking to pay premium price for an upgrade.... In my research... i kind of figured that I was going to have to look for a new barebones kit.... any recommendations... looking for mobo kit that will be useful for awhile or at least have the ability to upgraded... thougths

hi all.... I am looking to upgrade some things on my computer and thinking of starting with my CPU...but wililng to take any suggestions you may have to offer. Here is what I have... Gigabyte X58A-UD5 64x i7 930 @2.8 ghz Nvidia GTX 560 Ti DDR3 SDRAM:24GB Samsung SSD 256 GB 840 PRO I want...