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I have had a PC with a i5 6600k and R9 390 for close to a year that, up until now, has been giving me no problems. Recently however, I have been getting extremely low frame rate whenever I start a game and load times clock over 2 min (ex: CS GO). For some reason though when I run fraps in the...

Recently I have been trying to back up my old computer by creating a system image and saving it to an external hard drive to boot from. After many hours I discovered making an external USB drive mimic a local disk is a lot more complex than I originally thought it would be. Therefore, what is...

I received a Gigabyte Z170-HD3 motherboard for Christmas and, among other things, it is compatible with M.2 and SATA express. After some research I still have three questions about these technologies and how they interact with my motherboard. First, can all M.2 cards interface with PCIe (and...

To what extent does a new video card impact a game graphically and to what extent is the game itself a limiter on visual effects? For example, if two graphics cards were ruining a game on identical settings would there be any differences visually besides frame rate?

I'm looking into buying my first motherboard, and i'm wondering why in the specs section the number PCI x16 slots is not a single number but instead lists two slots, one with 16 lanes and another with 4 (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gigabyte-z170-hd3-lga-1151-intel-motherboard,4279.html)...

It depends on what kind of performance you want to get out of your PC. If your motherboard is 10 years old than at best it's utilizing PCI-e 1.0 and DDR2, both of which could be serious bottlenecks on high preforming CPU/GPUs

This Christmas I'm building my first computer with a i5-6600k and a MSI r9 390, and to avoid any overheating problems I am going to be using 4 fans to ensure good airflow. However, I do have a few questions about tackling this because I am using a MSI Z170A PC MATE motherboard and there are...