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Yeah my card has a backplate on it. I'm just worried about the pci-e connector.

Am I screwed?

I packaged my GTX 970 w/ backplate using a white paper shopping bag and then some clear bubble wrap. Should I be ok/im just paranoid or can this actually lead to problems.

So I heard from some forums that using paper bags [not plasticized] were ok for packing gpus with and i used a white paper shopping bag to pack mine, though the fan end of the card is sticking out just a little. During some more research I saw some people saying that paper is terrible for...

It shows on the boot menu too but not This PC.

Hey guys, i'm building a PC this December and i'm gonna get some of my parts on Black Friday. So should I go Haswell or Skylake? I'm thinking of getting a 6500 for Skylake but if i'm going Haswell, then it might be the 4590, 4690, or 4690k.

Can I reuse my old i5 3470 from a Dell Optiplex as part of my next build? I'll change the motherboard and cooler.

I took a typing test and got 332 CPM (Characters Per Minute). Is that good for jobs like Computer Hardware/Software Engineering and Networking?

Hey guys! I'm looking at monitors and I wanna see how big the size of the monitor should be if my eyes are 22 inches away from the monitor.

Hey guys! I just wanna know if I could install Win 10 for free on my pc with the Windows 10 ISO on my flash drive.

Hey guys! I'm just wondering if I could use the product key I got from the free Win 10 upgrade and use it for my Windows 10 USB Drive instead if paying $120 for an OS.

My setup is primarily black and blue but my keyboard is red and my mouse is blue. How would that look?