Recent content by Warpspasm

I mostly play shooters games like Borderlands, adventure games like Dishonored and just started Elder Scrolls Online. They all play well with what I have. But, I'm looking to get Baldur's Gate 3 and just barely make the minimum specs. I ran the cpu-z bench for single thread and it only came in...

The thing is, I'm not sure I want to do an entire build again (I'm 72 years old and don't enjoy it anymore). I really don't play games as much as I used to, but there several where I barely meet the minimum requirements. I'm just looking to bump up the performance a bit.

Thanks for the link. It appears the 3060 is compatible. I also looked up the compatible CPUs and see the Core i7-4790K will work as will the Core i7-5775C and several others. I read an earlier thread where someone swapped out their GPU and CPU, but ended up with a situation where the CPU still...

I'm currently running an i5 4690k CPU and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 GPU on my Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 motherboard with 16GB of RAM. After more than a few years, I really need to upgrade my system to allow me to run some of the newer games I want to play. I'm thinking about getting an i7 CPU and a...

By the grace of God.

OK. I got everything up and running. I decided I would take a chance and remove all of the power cables from my drives and use the ones that came with the new power supply. The system booted up fine and everything seems to running great. Thanks!

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I think I'm losing my mind here. It as been a long time since I built this PC, but I just looked at the power cables to my drives. I have 5 drives (including an optical) and they are daisy chained with power by 2 different cables. NEITHER of those cables end in a plug that would plug into a...

Thanks. So, the questions I’m now asking myself are: Do I buy a used mobo and see if that fixes it? Find a new motherboard that will be compatible with my chipset, GPU and DDR3 RAM? Replace everything? I don’t really need a faster machine, as this one met all of my needs. But, I don’t want a...

I had a good power supply, it lasted at least 7 years. It was a 650W Corsair. When I turn on my PC everything lights up, all of the fans come on, including the ones on the GPU and the CPU heat sink. I'm weak when it comes to understanding BIO, but I think it sees my memory and CPU. Could the...

The other day I turned on my PC and it made an pop and blew a circuit breaker in the house. Flipped the breaker back on and PC wouldn't fire up. It's a unit I built about 7 years ago with a GA-Z97X-GAMING 7 mobo and a Intel Core i5-4690K . I bought a new Super Flower 750W Gold power supply and...

I built my system back in November, but lately I've been having an intermittent problem with my graphics system. I'm not sure if it's the card, the mobo, the cable or what. Every now and then the monitor will go black and give the No DVI message. I tried quickly plugging the PC into a different...

How do I go about installing the driver if I can't get past the failure to boot? I'm not getting a BSOD either. The PC goes right to the Startup Repair utility during the boot process.

My son's computer won't boot and after it scans for the problem it says "C\windows\system32\drivers\jraid.sys is corrupt". I've tried everything I can think of to fix the problem. Booting in safe mode hasn't helped. I even booted the Windows installation disk thinking the "Repair Window" there...