Recent content by Sjoness

Well I have had some issues with memory leaks and was wondering if updating would help. Earlier this week my system was consuming about 80% of my RAM when idling. (I have 16gb) I updated a few drivers and it helped, however, system still idles at about 30-38% RAM useage. (4-5gb) I have a few...

So I recently built my first rig and I am pretty excited about it. I am using an MSI Z170A Gaming M5 motherboard and after installing the basic drivers from the CD, MSI live update prompted me of many different updates. One of them being a BIOS update. I have looked online on how to flash...

Thanks all, turns out it was an outdated driver leaking. Got malewarebytes also just to be safe, thanks for the help!

Wow malware would be infortunate, the build is like 2 days old and I haven't been to any "dirty" sites ;) lol. I will install bytes and check that tonight though and get back to you. Thanks!

So I have been experiencing something strange lately with my new build. I set up my build with 16 Gb RAM (2x8) on Win 10. I notice that my RAM usage when the computer is idling is extremely high. Rainmeter and task manager both say that I am using about 78-80% of my RAM when the system is...

So I just formatted my old partitioned hdd. I want to remove the partition and use the hdd as one whole storage device, how do I do this?

Will I have any problems if I have the old hdd plugged into the system. The old hdd has windows 8 installed on it but I am setting up the ssd and new system to be on win 10.

So I am building an all new cpu but want to carry over my old 1tb hdd onto the new build. On the new build I am going to put my OS, graphics drivers, etc on a new ssd. I want to use the old 1tb hdd because it has all my games, music, and pictures. The thing is this 1tb hdd was partitioned...

So, I bought a pre-built rig a while ago and over the past year I have slowly gutted it and replaced it with custom parts. So far I've only replaced simple parts, GPU/tower/cooling system. But now I am ready to upgrade the mobo/processor/RAM. A process that I am finding out is a bit more...

Hi there, I am fairly new to building computers and have been slowly upgrading components on an existing computer. I am trying to complete a gaming computer and currently looking to upgrade my cpu and motherboard. I plan on buying an i5 6600k but don't know which motherboard I should get to...