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My question was answered elsewhere. This thread can be closed. Thank you very much!

So, I know this is a pretty old-school and outdated thing to put in a brand new build, but I got a case that has space for an optical drive so I decided to put one in there. Now, it's been quite a while since I've actually had a PC with an optical drive, and I know they tend to make a bit of...

Well, it appears AI Suite lied to me. It said there was no need to update my BIOS, but checking the page for my motherboard revealed I was actually three versions behind. I was still on a revision from last year and one of the update logs specifically mentioned that it reduced CPU stuttering. I...

Sure I can! According to ASUS it's the latest BIOS. Also, this is a brand new drive so I didn't have any install carried over. It's Windows 11. I can remember three specific instances where I can remember what I was doing when the issue occured. One was setting up Microsoft Mail for the first...

So, I just finally finished the biggest nightmare of a build I've ever experienced, and now that I've gotten it to POST I'm having some issues. Rarely, but often enough for me to notice them, I'll get random audio/video stutters. The mouse will slow down for about a half a second or so and the...

Hello everyone! I just have a simple, hopefully easy to answer question today. I just purchased a small internal motherboard speaker just in case I ever need assistance with beep codes. It looks a little something like this. I already know where to put it onto the board, but I am a bit...

It’s definutely not IPS glow. It’s bleed right at the very bottom corner. Though the glow and the bleed definitely team up to make it look worse than it is. I’ve read that a lot of the cheaper monitors have a lot more bleed than their more expensive counterparts. For the price I paid, which was...

Hello everyone. I have a few questions regarding a new monitor I just purchased recently. I didn’t want to have to do it, but it was time for the good old AOC to go, but her passing couldn’t have been at a worse time. I had just lost my job and needed to get something nice but as affordable as...

Hello everyone! I just have a quick question regarding a new replacement SSD I received from Amazon today. It's a Silicon Power Ace A55 128GB SSD and I have a few concerns regarding the readings I got from it in the Silicon Power Toolbox. It seems strange to me that simply installing Windows...

So, I just got a new SSD in the mail today, sealed in the box and everything. No it's not the best SSD in the world, but it will work for my applications. But I do have a bit of a concern about it. After installing windows and everything, I did a few CrystalDiskMark benches, probably more...

Hello everyone. This drive is fairly old now, I got it in early 2015, but I have never really had any issues with it. I noticed tonight while doing a UserBenchmark that my SSD score was lower than expected, and upon running an actual SSD benchmark on it I got some numbers which appear to indeed...

So, this is a rather awkward situation. I just installed a new FX 8370 in my main PC, a bit behind the times I know but it's the best I can do for my AM3+ MOBO. Anyway. The first time I installed it I found out that two pins had gotten bent, no big deal, I got out my tweezers and got them...

I was trying to find an image which conveyed the way that the cooler itself fastens to the brackets rather than a picture of the actual cooler itself. It's pretty much a similar design, just a fan on top of an aluminum heatsink albeit mine is much beefier and well...better. That photo above is...