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I have the same Gigabyte card, base clock 1033 boost 1111. I use MSI Afterburner to overclock to Core +325 and benchmarked using Unigine Valley. How do I stress it? Just leave the Unigine Valley running for several hours? The benchmarking is quite fast, 18 tests.

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I recently bought an Acer 13.3" laptop with Pentium N3540 on 4GB memory. It's not a powerful machine, gave it to the kids to watch Youtube videos and do homework on MS-Word and MS-Powerpoint. No gaming. It comes with 30-days free trial of McAfee LiveSafe. But do I really need to pay for it...

I have a 3-year-old Acer Aspire TimelineX 5830TG-2434G75Mibb with Core i5-2430m and GT 540m. Do you think I should send it for cleaning and re-apply the thermal paste on the CPU and graphics chip? Does the fan and thermal paste go bad after 3 years?

I have a similar 3-year-old notebook, Acer Aspire TimelineX 5830TG-2434G75Mibb with Core i5-2430m and GT 540m. I researched the websites and found that my i5-2430m is still comparable to the newer i5-4210U processor. The GT540m is a problem as there are newer and more powerful GT 750m and...

Good enough. My notebook is an old Acer Aspire TimelineX 5830TG-2434G75Mibb from 2011 and it can still play Sims 3 with 6 expansion packs. Do note that Sims 3 has a bug where it will play slower and slower even if you have the most powerful CPU/graphics, that's why they released the new Sims 4.

I know you don't like this answer, but it's time to upgrade your entire system. I have a similar setup: Pentium E5200 with Nvidia Geforce 9400GT, both from 2008-2009 era. Technology has moved so much that there is no point for me to upgrade to Q8600 from that generation. You might have to...

I'm currently using a 2011 Acer Aspire TimelineX 5830TG-2434G75Mibb 15.6" notebook. It has Intel Core i5-2430m with 8GB memory and Nvidia Geforce GT 540m graphics adapter. The notebook is still doing fine, but occasionally I experienced shut-downs because CPU temperature hit above 92 degrees...

I noticed that almost all the Dell monitors only accept DVI-D cable (without the 4 extra pins). But on most graphics card with twin DVI ports, they usually have one DVI-I and one DVI-D. So what is the use of a DVI-I 24+5 pin cable if it cannot be connected to Dell monitors? I understand that...

I'm curious about how my 8GB memory is being used. I loaded all the applications I normally use, and watch the Windows 7 Resource Monitor below. What is that 56MB reserved for hardware? I turned off IGPU Multi Monitor in BIOS already. Is that 56MB related to the discrete graphics card...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html Look up the hierarchy chart for the two cards. GTX 650 Ti is about 2-3 times faster than GT 630. Both are compatible to your PC on the PCI-Express (or PCIe) slot. GTX 650 Ti is PCIe 3.0 while GT 630 is PCIe 2.0, but...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html As you can see from this hierarchy chart, the Q6600 is down at Tier 5. I just sold off my Q8200 system so I know how buyers are fooled into thinking that these 6 years old processors are still "good". Sellers will tell...

The default configuration of HD 6850 is 775MHz GPU clock and 1000MHz memory clock. I managed to overclock it to 920MHz GPU clock and 1130MHz memory clock. Can't go any higher because my screen start to freeze, hang, artifact, or reset to 775MHz/1000MHz. GPU from 775MHz to 920MHz is +18.7%...

Don't understand what you mean. You don't provide details so we are answering all over the place. Are you using integrated graphics for 3 monitors? Are you using discrete graphics card for 3 monitors? Are you using AMD Eyeinfinity configuration? Are you using 1 primary monitor and extended...

I have exactly the same question. So hoping to hear from others too.