Recent content by wrightcolin

Hey all, here's a curveball. My friend had a Phillips HTS3371/3372 home theater system that was destroyed by a power surge. However, the subwoofer still works. I bought it off him for $5, thinking I would install it in my truck. I then ran into a problem. The sub is next to inaudible without an...

Hey all, here's an overclocking question I've had. My newest rig (i7 4790K, 32GB DDR3 1866, GTX 1060) quit on me, and I've had to roll back to the older has-been badass. This one has an FX 8300 with 16GB DDR3 1866, and while I was screwing around in my BIOS, I began to wonder what the most...

Hey everyone. My brother came to me with a problem that I can't seem to solve. His problem is simple. He has a 160GB hard drive, and 6 different people use that computer. Recently he's been complaining about how slow it is, and sure enough, when I went to check it out, he had less than 20GB...

Me and a friend have been in a competition we know as "Build wars" for years. Every couple of years, we both go through a major upgrade. This time around, we've had a disagreement. He believes that his 16GB kit of DDR4, clocking at 2133 MHz will outperform my 32GB Kit of DDR3, clocking at 1866...

Hey everybody... So about a month ago I bought myself an AMD FX-8300 to replace my shitty old Pentium E6700 *Snort*. That thing was a joke... Anyways, I bought a Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 to go with it, which only has 2 fan headers. Not that my case is big enough for more than 2 fans. My fans now run...