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Hey guys! So this will be the first time i overclock my PC and add another GPU to my system. As of right now I only have a 600W PSU. Would 750W be enough for just overclocking the CPU and not anything else? Here's my system: Asrock Extreme 4 Z77 MSI GTX 970 8GB Kingston HyperX Ram 600W OCZ PSU...

Certain keys aren't responding . example: I push n and the two Ctrl buttons light up. Anyway to fix this problem?

ok. I updated my system. I don't wanna get into my steps of overclocking but...i've been spending more time playing with bios and p.x. then games. Dealing with crashes, blue screens, overheating and all that sh*t..is it really worth it?? or should I put precision x away and stay away from bios...

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/Y32vCJ I plan on doing heavy overclocking to the CPU and GPU QUESTION TIME!! 1. How Long Would This Build Last Me At 1080p/60FPS 2. would this build be good for heavily modded Skyrm and Fallout NV 3. Would the 970's VRAM be a problem in the future 4. is this a solid...

I'm wanting to build a new PC (for the first time) with some spare parts I have along with some new parts. What I have: 700watt power supply (new) AMD HD 7870 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance Ram 120GB SSD What I need: http://amzn.com/w/3218QTWIHBMCE Optical Drive CPU Motherboard Cooling Fans (for...

im building a gaming pc. i guess im kind of on a budget. i already have the new gtx 960 ssc. i was gonna get an i3 4160 which is about 130$. the amd fx 4300 is 95 new on amazon. it also has 2 more physical cores and around the same amount of ghz as the i3 4160. will using the fx 4300 with the...

I mean the most. CPU/RAM/GRAPHICS/HARD DRIVE? All?

Hi ,Everyone im currently joining the pc master race :P, I want to make a computer with around a 1000$ us or 1250$ can budget do you think i could make a pc that would max out graphics on battlefield hardline? with said budget and what cpu/gpu would you go with or hey it you want to try and make...

I put a pc together today with ubuntu. It's an old emachine Gt 630 Celeron 420 2 gb RAM I tried to play some cs:go and I was getting horrible preformance. At first it was because it was using on board graphics. I updated my gpu drivers and it is using the gpu but with no better preformance. Is...

I have attempted everything I can to fix this issue with no success so I really hope someone in the community could shed some light on the situation. When my computer boots I have 1 explorer.exe running that would seem quite normal using a few megabytes of RAM but after a few minutes a second...

So what I am trying to do is move my laptops hard drive to an older desktop I have to use it instead of my laptop. Laptop is Windows 8.1 and desktop was purchased in 2010 with Windows 7 on it. I did a test swap just hooking up the hard drive with no luck. Started to boot up but didn't go very...

When i crank up my fans all the way up and K-Boost is on for my EVGA SC 970 Card, it always seem to stay at a temperature of 35-45. Is this a green flag for me to allow it to be on K-Boost the whole day or am i missing something?

So, I'm not a complete idiot, because I know some things, but it's basically just the surface. So just explain things to me as if I was completely new to the pc-building-scene. I want to know the ins-and-outs of building a computer; every nook and cranny. I want to know everything, from what...

I had an AMD before upgrading to Intel. Everything was working fine. Specs: Intel I5 - 3570K GTX 660 SC 8GB of Ram (HyperX DDR3) 650W PSU Antec EVO 12 Heatsink MSI z77a-gd55 before posting I did quite a search on how to fix this issue. I did the checklists several times (I'm talking about...

when i turns off my pc do i need to turn off the switch on the back of the psu

Title says it all. Thanks for any answers.

Hi guys. I im about too purchase a new processor for my computer since the current one (athlon x4 750K) is bottlenecking my Gigabyte r9 270x oc 2gb in some games like battlefield. So i want to ask: will the fx6300 bottleneck my gpu? I want to upgrade so i can play battlefield 4 with 64...

hie my pc config is Processor-AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 975 Processor, 3600 Mhz, 4 Core(s) 8 gb corsair vengeance ram 1tb hard disk WD 500w smps cooler master graphics-nvidia-geforcegt620 785g-e53(MS 7576) motherboard i think its quite good? i mean its not the best but it is fairly good. its been...

Hi, I am looking for a new graphics card to upgrade from my radeon hd 4850. i mainly play counter strike GO but have a Samsung sync master on the way so would maybe like to venture out to 3d viewing i am looking at the following 3 cards. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB 384Bit DDR3 £52...

Hi everyone! I have a big problem, when I opened my PC, I realized that the upper taskbar and the left taskbar of Ubuntu was gone.. It's the first time it happens to me. I have Ubuntu for almost a week and everything seemed fine... What can I do? Help please!! *I'm currently writing with my...

I am going to be buying a new computer and I selected the Asrock 980DE3/U3S3 motherboard I posted my build on a forum to make sure my build was ok and a few people said that this motherboard isn't good or its old etc. and I should get the Asus M5A97 R2.0 instead. It is more expensive by about 30...

hi, i have a desktop with benq monitor, several years old. when i start the pc the monitor shows the usual startup for a few seconds and then reports no signal. i had issues a few days prior to this where monitor would be covered in white rectangles randomly distributed. i have tried to connect...

Hi there, I am trying to diagnose a faulty computer for my friend, she has a apple mac a1226 that's not charging once the charger has been plugged in, because I have tested another charger so its not that, im guessing that it would probably be the logic board? does anyone agree with me? thanks

Ok, when I built my computer. I came across this connector, but I was not sure what it was for, so I ignored it... I have case USB 2.0 ports, but I attached the connector straight to the MB, and I had no problem using them. (It was basically one piece of plastic with holes in the same place as...

After recently upgrading my gpu and psu, I've decided that I want to upgrade both my processor and my motherboard. My pc is used primarily for gaming, but also recording as well as editing/rendering videos. I currently have an i5-2320 processor and my motherboard is some variation of the H67...

Computer: HP Pavilion P7 1126s Motherboard: AAHD3-HB Well recently an update from HP updates came up. It included a BIOS update. Normally I don't do those type of updates, try to stay off them, but this computer was getting old (2-3 years), and was slowly lacking even in speed. I gave it a...

Was wondering if you guys could help. My computer has a ssd with some games and windows on it. I have one wd 1tb black(G). I just bought a new wd 2 tb black(F). I cloned the G drive to the F. However, all my paths are to the G drive. But I want to change them to the new F. Is there a simple way...