Recent content by stielar

No one? Come on guys , the BSODs are getting annoying. Can someone at least tell me what utility I need to read the file and how to make sense of it?

I've been getting quite a few BSOD system crashes lately. I've read I should take a look at the dump file, but I don't seem to have an app that can read those files. I uploaded it online, could someone have a read at it and let me know why my system crashes regularly? My system usually crashes...

I didn't open the case... HWinfo is software.

I downloaded HWinfo because I wanted to measure how much of my cores on my FX8350 are used while playing Watch Dogs. I tried to run some tests and after I clicked on the button sensors my CPU fan started making noise (I have Noctua CPU and system fans so I don't hear a thing normally). Nothing...

Thanks so much everyone, I'm enjoying my new PC now. It was so hectic last night, it was the first time I built my own PC. I felt like an idiot when I saw that I had forgotten to take off the plastic cover from the heatsink. The PC is more silent than I could ever imagine. Sometimes I wonder if...

Actually it worked. I'm installing windows as we speak. I wonder about something else now: I had a 400GB SATA hard drive that was quite old. I run Vista on my old system. I want to add this 400 GB hard drive to my new system, but I wonder if Windows 8.1 will be able to see the files or if it...

It worked... 25 - 30 degrees. Thanks a bunch everyone. Now one more question: Now next question on my quest for a new PC. I had a Windows boot DVD, but I didn't get a new DVD player and my old DVD player didn't have a SATA connection so I can't connect it to the motherboard. I have an external...

By the way, thanks everyone for helping me out.

Crap, I have no alcohol at home and it's 5 in the morning over here. As you can imagine it's been a long night. Guess it'll have to wait for tomorrow then, unless someone can suggest some ingenious alternative to alcohol for removing thermal paste.

It seems that this was actually the problem, I had forgotten the plastic in the cooler. I feel like an idiot now. How do I clear the thermal paste now? I tried using a rag but it's hard to come off and I don't want to scratch anything there.

I've just received my new PC build and I spent almost all evening trying to put everything together - first time I do that by the way. Here are my specs: Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 CPU: AMD FX8350 4.0 GH PSU: Crucial RM550 Hard Disk: Crucial MX100 512 GB RAM: Gskill TridentX 1833 16GB...

Thank you volcanoscout. A follow-up question if you don't mind: I know you already said that I'd hardly notice any difference between the two cards, but since they are basically priced the same, which one of the two is the best, assuming that they achieve their maximum MHz each.

I could also get this motherboard: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 RETAIL and get 2133 MHz (OC) but as said previously, I have zero experience with overclocking and I assume that the overclock state allowing for 2133 MHz is not something that the motherboard goes into automatically, but I suppose I'd have...