Recent content by Trapt In A Jar

Simple question I think. Is there any way I can force my gpu clock lower when I'm not playing a game? I run 300mhz normally, but I really want my second monitor connected and do not like the idle temp increase when idling at 500mhz. Edit: I meant to post this in graphics and displays, Idk how...

Yes, sir.

My bad. Meant to put in brands but forgot to go back. Its an Asus gtx 780 6gb paired with the Z97-c mobo.

When you say nothing appears on the monitor, you're saying that its not even detecting a connected pc correct? Not even the greyish blackscreen? What I'm kind of asking (which adrenalizer may have been asking as well) is have you tried hitting all the bios keys, F10, F12, Delete, etc.. to get...

Hello everyone, Sorry for the slight wall of text for anyone who takes the time to read it. I helped a friend put together a pc today that had never worked on a pc before. This was all done over skype video as he lives across the country. Anyway, after all said and done, we fresh installed...

I'd like to clone if possible but I have 320GB on my current harddrive and only got a 64GB SSD. Cloning copies all files on the drive correct? What are the bare minimum folders I can get my harddrive down to before doing to clone and still be able to boot into my OS.

Hey guys I just had a couple of questions regarding getting a new SSD and transferring my OS (8.1) to it. I built a pc awhile back and have my OS on a 1TB HDD. I'll be receiving my SSD later today and I'm not quite sure how to go about swapping the OS. Do I have to remove it from the HDD? Or...

Make sure to take into account the OS price since this is your first build I'm assuming you don't have one on hand.

Yea I didn't even notice the 4770 not being the K model. He said he has no interest in OCing anyway so its good.

A buddy of mine just impulsively bought a pc after I explained the advantages of pc gaming over consoles. Just wondering what you guys think of this pc in terms of future games. Side note, he says he's like me and not really looking to max everything on ultra, just looking to have smooth...

I'm running an 8350 + 280x in BF4 and get an average fps of 64. My friend has the 4770k and 770 and he gets an average of 69 fps. The difference (in our case) doesn't justify the extra cost.

This may be a dumb question but I just got my new pc built and running and noticed the cpu clock speed fluctuates wildly at idle. Is there any positives or negatives to forcing it to run at a steady 4.0ghz even at idle? Or should I just let it do its thing? 8350 btw. Thanks guys.

Well I cap my fps whenever possible. try not to go over 60. Because of this theory. lol.

I was just wondering what you guys think of hardware stress due to gaming. Simply put, do you think running your pc maxed out vs dropping graphics settings to reduce cpu/gpu usage has any effect on your PCs overall lifepan? Or is the effect basically unnoticable?

Gotcha. Makes sense. Appreciate the input.