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    Need help diagnosing which part is faulty.

    I was using my PC one day when the screen went white for about 10 seconds, then it shut down. Upon attempting to restart, I get no display signal. Before I start I'll just say this: I've tried resetting the CMOS, I've tried reshuffling the RAM, I've tried breadboarding the whole system and...
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    Need a good cheap upgrade for my Phenom II X4 965

    This CPU is 5 years old now and performs pretty badly in WoW. What is the best cheapest upgrade I can get so I can get more fps in WoW? I'm looking at either an i3 4130 with some dirt cheap h81 board or an fx6300 but I don't think the fx6300 will improve my fps in wow at all and it's weaker...
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    Quake Live Launches as Standalone Client

    Why would anyone want to play military style death match anymore? It's been done to death and it's boring...
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    NVidia vs AMD

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    Which OEM partner does ACER use for their power supplies?

    My friend is thinking about throwing a Radeon 7750 into his shitty Acer S480G with a 300W power supply. Now I know 300W is probably fine for a 7750, but I just want to be safe so I'm wondering what brand the power supply is. I've physically opened the PC up and looked at the power supply but it...
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    GTX760 or GTX 770 for $65 more

    As long as that power supply has about 35 amps on 12v rail, you are a-ok!
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    Non-reference 290x or 780 Ti for Triple monitor gaming?

    The 290x is better at higher resolutions because of higher amount of vram and higher memory throughput due to its larger bus, however this isn't as large of a disparity as it as been historically as NV run their memory clocks higher to compensate a bit, but AMD cards are still ahead in this...
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    Low FPS on AC4 for no reason

    Game optimized for NV but it's not very optimized in general, here's what you do: -Don't enable HBAO, it's for NV, only use SSAO. -God rays are extremely demanding and AC4's implementation of the god ray effect is very poor and pathetic, not worth enabling in my opinion. -Make sure AMD Catalyst...
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    crossfire r9 280x

    its fine amd have improved crossfire greatly and by the time you get the second 280x it will be even more improved
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    Asrock 970 Extreme 4 suddenly stopped working

    randomly ceasing to function is a bit of a specialty for asrock
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    Crossfire 7870's with Antec HCG-520W

    ill bump this thread once then let it die