Recent content by Sir_Herbert

The monitor apparently needed a firmware update. I sent it back to AOC and they fixed.

My problem started a month back without me realizing. I ordered the monitor on December 29th 2015. When I received the monitor I hooked it up to my gpu and set the refresh rate to 144hz. I was instantly let down. I thought to myself, "hey, this 144hz stuff isn't as dramatic and noticeable as...

I literally just finished building a computer and I went to into the BIOS to change the boot order so that USB hard disk is first. I then insert my USB and reboot. Upon rebooting with the inserted drive I get the "Invalid System Disk" error that tells me to replace the disk and reboot. This is...

So I recently just finished building my first computer and when I went to boot it up my monitor said no signal when it was connected to the GPU. The onboard graphics work just fine but when the computer is standing up and the monitor but when it is connected to the GPU it says no signal. When I...

I am going to be building a new computer soon and am having trouble deciding between 2 cpus. I was originally planning to go with the 4690K but then I started looking into the skylake 6600k and it got me interested in it. I know I will need a different motherboard and ddr4 memory, which leads me...

I have been looking into building a pc for a few months now and have been following the prices of the parts. I have noticed that the price of the Asus Strix GTX 970 card has gone up quite a bit. For starters it was on amazon for $325 for about 2 months until black Friday. The price then went...

Thanks you all for the replies!

When looking at PSUs, specifically EVGA, there were G1 and G2 versions of the same wattage PSU. I looked this up and saw that there were 2 different generations. I also saw that the PSUs have different makers in the different generations. So, my question is, what makes one generation better than...

I get to the advance boot menu of my windows 8 laptop, select boot from USB and go through putting in my product key and then I select UPGRADE not CUSTOM. it then proceeds to give me this message: "The computer started using the Windows installation media. Remove the installation media and...