Recent content by retrop3

In every single online multiplayer game I attempt to play my ping is between 300-400 and has ping spikes to even higher ping. I checked my ping with a pingtest website and it is always around 30ms. I am not downloading anything, have even went as far as turning all my other devices off wifi and...

I bought a WD blue 1tb hdd to use as a secondary drive and when i power on my pc and go to BIOS the new hdd shows up but in disk management and device manager its not showing up. can someone help me get this drive setup? im on windows 8

About 2 weeks ago I decided to clean out my PC, without knowing I took off the stock Intel heat sink and fan off and dusted it out then placed it back on without reapplying thermal paste. I noticed very high temperatures so I ordered some Arctic Silver 5, and it arrived this morning. I cleaned...

My gaming PC that I built around Christmas time had become to get dusty so I decided to clean it out. I have a default Intel CPU cooler that was getting full of dust so i completely took the cooler off the CPU and sprayed all the dust out with a can of compressed air. After I set the cooler back...

PC Specs: i5 4590, R9 280 windforce edition, 8gb ram. I'd also like to add I have the latest AMD drivers I was playing Chivalry Medieval warfare a game that 2 months ago i could easily run on ultra settings with 60 fps now lagging on any graphics setting i put it on. I've noticed things like...

So i just now got my pc running with windows 8 but i dont know how to connect to wireless internet. When i click networks on the desktop it says no connections are available.

So i built my first computer last night , and began trying it out this morning, everything looked good but my gpu a Gigabyte R9280 isnt being detected by the motherboard and the fans are not moving. Does this mean that my gpu is faulty or maybe a motherboard problem? I fsomeone could help figure...

I have an R9 280(non x) from gigabyte and a Corsair CX600w PSU is this enough or will i need to buy a better one?

I was wondering if I will need another case fan if I buy the Corsair Spec 03, it comes with two. One front intake and 1 back exhaust. My rig has a R9 280 and an i5 4590 if that matters. If i do need another front fan it would be really helpful if you showed me another one that would look the...