Recent content by Subtox

First let me say emphatically that I am not trying to avoid activating Windows and I do not encourage piracy in any way! I am going to activate it. I just want to fully understand the process, limitations and timeframe. I had to get Windows on my son's home-built PC fairly quickly so I did a...

I'm a little late to the party but I am also having this issue and it is evidently Plex Media Server causing it. I don't know why it is using the recycle bin for housekeeping and there is no workaround that I've found yet, but at least we know that Plex is the culprit and it's not malware...

I am looking to buy Windows 8.1 (full version, not upgrade) and after much searching and reading I have a few lingering questions that I haven't quite found answers to... I'm aware I can download a Windows 8.1 image directly from Microsoft and simply purchase a key to install/activate it. Are...

I have a WDC My Passport Ultra 2TB external USB 3 drive plugged into a USB 2 port on my Windows 7 PC, which has been working fine since October. The other day it fell off my desk but has continued to work with no problems since then. However, today I went to copy some large files to it and kept...

Hey guys, when I first built my machine a few years ago all I could afford was a 2GB stick of 1333MHz Kingston memory. Since then I've added two 4GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz memory, same voltage (1.5v). The 10GB has been working stably for a couple years now but I've always wondered...

I am looking at a Gigabyte GTX 760 2GB to replace my Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 but I am pretty sure it will be bottlenecked by my motherboard and CPU. They are both obsolete -- an ASUS LGA1156 socket motherboard and an Intel i3-530 CPU. I bought these back in 2010 as a cheap way out of Pentium 4...

I'm looking at buying an EVGA GeForce GTX 760 graphics card. At Newegg the power requirements are listed as "500 watt or greater power supply with a minimum of 30 amps on the +12 volt rail." My power supply is 550 watts but I'm unsure whether the amperage is sufficient. Here are the specs: •...