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Well, Trump added more sanctions on Iran. This time on their leader, Ayatollah Khomenie, who controls about $200 Billion in wealth. That's whole lot of money that Iran can no longer access. Iran can't keep up it's sponsoring of terror in the region and continue it's military aggression when...

I would re-seat you CPU cooler with an addition of fresh thermal paste. Get some isopropyl alchohol (90% works best) and remove all the paste on the cooler and chip. Re-apply the thermal paste (about a pea-sized glob) and tighten down the cooler onto the bracket. The speed at which you are...

I think it's funny that the non-RGB variant will come in larger capacity and faster speeds. Are there really people out there that will sacrifice performance for aesthetics in an M.2 drive?

I know we need to wait for official tech-reviews and benchmarks but it seems this is an RTX 2080 with no ray tracing, but priced the same as an RTX 2080... That basically means this is a GTX 1080Ti with too much overly expensive VRAM. The GTX 1080Ti was $700 over 2 years ago, but they want to...

One way to use to the dedicated instead of the integrated graphics is to disable the integrated graphics in the device manager. You simply select it and hit "disable". Your screen will flicker and your dedicated graphics should kick right in.

Had this happen to me last night. It told me I had Windows 10 Pro installed and that I had a Windows 10 Pro key... but for some reason it couldn't be validated. The solution for me for was going through the troubleshooting steps and "upgrading" to pro. This restarted my computer with the...

I use one of these as well. Mine's at 4.4Ghz with 1.33 vcore. Yours is running like a reliable Ferrari. Very impressive. No good for folding?

You'll be able to use faster DDR3 Ram with the i7 3770. So, if you ever found some cheap DDR3 2400Mhz Ram you'll be able to use it. If you had a GTX 1080 or 1080ti then the PCIE 2.0 vs 3.0 would probably become a factor. But, not with a 1060. However, if you plan on upgrading your card in...

Definitely not. You may squeeze a few more FPS out of the Rog Strix if you get lucky. Most likely they will perform exactly the same.

I use an ASUS P8Z77-V Premium. It's an absolutely fantastic board, but unfortunately it's also pretty rare since it was a $500 mobo 6 years ago. The only drawback is the older technology with no M.2 NVME SSD support. The ASUS Z77 Sabertooth boards are also very good. The overlockability will...

The tv will work. It just may not display it's optimal 4k resolution if your streaming bandwidth isn't good enough. You should be able to swap out your DirecTV box for a newer one that is 4k capable (not sure if they will charge for that).

I'd remount the cooler. It seems to me there is a problem with heat transferrance if your idle temps are that high. I don't know your experience level, but there are many videos on youtube showing thermal paste application and how to mount the Ryzen cooler.