Recent content by TechiGamer

Thanks everyone. I bought the 1650 Super. I wanted CUDA cores, and also seemed like the better/best option overall.

I can grab a 580 for around the same price as the 1650 (only $20 more). Should I go for the 580 then? Or is there another product you would recommend? The 5500 XT 4GB is the same price as the 580. The 8GB 5500XT is beyond my budget.

Hello, I'm building a new system with the Ryzen 5 3600, and the aim of the system will be productivity/work/school. I would likely be satisfied if the 3600 had onboard graphics. But it doesn't. So instead of buying the absolute cheapest GPU, I was thinking of just grabbing a cheapsish yet...

Hello, I am looking to build a Free NAS system ,and so I'm looking for a CPU in the $180 range, preferably less. Any recommendations? I don't have any hardware yet, so recommend any gen and processor you think is best. System will start off with 8GB RAM and 2x 8TB Red drives. Thanks

Hello, I am looking to build a system with a 3990x for work purposes. I need to connect twenty 8TB drives to the system and it needs to be fast with minimal bottlenecks. The M.2 slots will all have ssds occupied in addition. I will be using a PCIe to Sata card to accommodate all of these...

Awesome, thank you. I want to be able to access geo-blocked content which is why I have been wanting to subscribe to a VPN. It would be great to here some more opinions.

Hello, I have been shopping around for a VPN provider, but after reading some articles and forum discussions, I realized there are some different realities and sometimes sketchy operations that are hidden and not immediately known. I was about to go with NordVPN for example, but some forum...

Hey guys, I'm broke and so is my computer. I need to build a new one and want to cut corners to get the best hardware I can on my limited budget. Should I reuse my 7-year-old Antec Gold 750W Power Supply? I am guessing my build would maximum be 500W. As far as I can tell, the power supply has...

Hi, Lately, I've been having issues with my computer, and I've been able to narrow it down exactly to my graphics cards which are: MSI r9 280x Gigabyte OC 7970 The issues I was experiencing was that my computer would simply not boot up. It would either display "insert boot media and press...

Hi, For my XPS 13 9350 (1920x1080 resolution version), I bought Dell's USB-C adapter that allows me to connect an external monitor using HDMI. The purpose of this dongle is to connect the XPS 13 to my 2k Asus monitor over HDMI. Although I have set '2nd screen only' when "projecting" in Windows...

Hi, I've been having some issues with my pc in the past week or so, and I can't seem to find the problem, so I was hoping someone would help out. These are my specs: CPU: i5-4670k (1.5 years old) Motherboard: MSI Gaming 5 (2.5 years old) RAM: Patriot 8gb 2133Mhz (4 years old) GPU Crossfire: r9...