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Alright everyone - crazy plan time and I need someone to talk me out of it. I am looking at a gaming laptop for sale - Alienware 15 with a 980m, 4k touch display, all the bells and whistles of its day. Great laptop, amazing price. Only problem is the screen has a crack in it so the touch...

Turns out it was a bad graphics driver, got this on craigslist for a really good deal because the guy thought it was a very serious problem. Uninstalled the driver with DDU and reinstalled the latest drivers from Nvidia and it works perfectly, Thanks!

I have an alienware m17x r4 that, after between 20 seconds and 10 mins of gaming the display goes black and is non-responsive. I used open hardware monitor to check the temps and it shut down after about 30 seconds of Unigine Heaven, but it was only at 65 degrees. Here is a screenshot of the...

I added an ssd with windows 10 to my parents older vista desktop. It has 4gb of ram, a core 2 duo CPU, 640gb hdd in 2 partitions, intel gma x4500 graphics. I installed windows and the ssd but the partition of their hdd that had windows on it wasn't accessible for some reason. All it said was it...

A 970 will work fine on a 600w? It is only a 145w card and nVidia recommends a 500w PSU. a 430w would be pushing it, a 500w will be enough, and a 600w will be plenty for a 970. Corsairs CX power supplies aren't the greatest, but it will still be plenty for that. On another note, that PC with a...

just to make sure, you enabled crossfire in crimson right? Sometimes it disables itself, or at least did when I had cf 7950's.

I would go with a 750 or other higher end discrete gpu... With the dual graphics you will have some games that dont support crossfire, and in the games that do you will still be getting better performance with the 750 over r7 + 250.

I use 10 and it works fine, Whatever version you like the feel of the best will work good.

you can burn it to a USB stick on another computer then install it just like from a DVD. You can use this program to put it on the USB, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool. You will need to download the ISO for the version of windows you are running and then...

IMO ram is ram, as long as you get 8gb it won't really matter what brand it is in gaming. Get corsair if you would like it, it will work exactly the same. That is just the cheapest kit for sale currently.

Yep, that will work great!

Yep, it will all fit in a mid tower case and a good quality 550w PSU will be sufficient. Do you know the make of the power supply?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($174.88 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($70.98 @ OutletPC) Memory: *Mushkin ECO2 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($31.99 @ Newegg) Storage...

If you are interested in overclocking then you need to get a K series CPU and a z97 motherboard. If you don't want to overclock, get an h97 motherboard that is not micro atx... I reccommend getting one by gigabyte, asus, asrock, or msi.

pcpartpicker.com is what you are looking for. It shows all the cheapest prices for a bunch of retailers for pretty much all the products they carry.