Recent content by xeonight

well when the latest Micro$oft Winblows 10 update basically DISABLES certain internal technologies that older hardware rely on (ex. HPET), people just go buy a new computer because they don't want to deal with the problem, ESPECIALLY when a full OS Reinstall has the same problem after it...

when i've seen this happen, it's usually either the motherboard is bad, or the power supply is bad. I think the CPU is fine because if the problem were the CPU, it wouldn't be shutting off after 2 seconds. Try this: Take a flashlight and look at the top of all the capacitors you can see, are...

"I fight for the Users" - TRON

if you have a spare hard drive (40gb would be enough) remove your main drive, and basically fresh-install windows on the extra drive, and then just the basics like video drivers and one or 2 games, then test again, i had a friend with a micro-lag problem that we tried to fix for the better part...

just something to see if the 'auto-turboboost' is part of the problem: Go to Control Panel > Power options > choose High Performance this will make the cpu stay at 100% clock, where windows normally downclocks it when things aren't using it let us know if this has ANY change Edit: also i've...

Where's Battlezone II: Combat Commander when there's a "Test of Time" award to be had...

very welcome, it was a P.I.T.A. to find this problem on my friend's board too, lol, but that feeling of "Finally found the little sucker" is just too good to give up searching :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3stmh1/psa_you_can_fix_the_high_ram_usage_issue_caused/

2k Gaming on the 1060 may not work as well as you hope, have a look at this: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-review/1100-6441925/ it's about a 33% loss of framerate just from 1080p to 1440p, if it were a 1070 or 1080 i'd probably say you're fine, but you should probably...

something you can try: remove CPU and RAM completely (and all other cards, drives, etc.) and just have power, and motherboard, then turn on the power, it should provide power to the fans steadily, but nothing else will happen since there's no CPU etc, this should tell you if the mobo and PSU are...

i haven't used ASRock any myself, but i've heard that they're pretty good motherboards, and the "extreme" part USUALLY means it's meant for overclocking, so yes, that looks like a good one :)