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How would this 1070 build: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/vPyXvV Do against this 1080 build: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/YHKZf8 Is it worth saving the extra bucks by downgrading on the cpu cooler, motherboard, and graphics card?

If not could someone give me a quick summary as to how pairing graphics cards works? Thanks!

Recently received a message from Windows saying that there were disc driver errors that needed to be fixed with a restart. After putting it off for a couple days, I finally let the computer restart, and now I come to a screen with a frowny-face :( and a message telling me that there is a...

Hi, i am a new gamer looking for a cheap pc to start with. Just looking for a pc that can run cs-go very well. The pc must include the operating system as well.

i have 32 bit running graphics card with windows 10 64 bit. Will the graphics card work ?

My Specs: Motherboard is an Asrock FM2A58M-VG3+ R2.0 Processor is an AMD Athlon X4 860K Black Edition CPU Quad Core FM2+ 3700Mhz Old graphics card is a Zotac geoforce gt730 4gb Trying to upgrade to XFX R7-265A-CN 2gb I plugged in the graphics card and saw no picture, i put the old graphics...

hey guys! so i took apart my dell XPS 8700! and i was wondering if i could modify it to sell it :) CASE modification is no problem! i will be ofcoarse overclocking the cpu! http://www.findlaptopdriver.com/dell-0kwvt8-mainboard-specifications/ it is a z87 chipset type so i should be able to...

So i have a JBl creature II whose speakers don't work anymore...

Hi all, Hey, i have a similar problem where i get no video, no POST beep and fans keep running. Also the power and reset button do not work when this happens. I have to shut it off by unplugging the main AC power cable. It wont start after repeated attempts like this. Then after 3 to 4 days of...

Hello folks! I'm finally putting the last pieces toguether about buying my PC's parts. I wanted, however, more opinions about whether or not this build looks good. I kind of need a quick reply about the RAM, CPU, GPU and Mobo because I found them in a limited time offer which will expire in less...

Okay, so I just bought a laptop, a fairly expensive laptop, like, several times as expensive as a PS4, in the hopes that it would be able to play any game with no problems. It has 16BG RAM, 4GB VRAM, I7-6700HQ Processor, which are common specs for a gaming laptop around $1000. So, then, why is...

Just built my rig 10 days ago and everything has been going smoothly, except i just encountered this (look at the white background and the start menu... especially the weather tile) : It started while playing Rainbow 6 Siege. I'm a total noob at this, but I immediately closed the game and...

with the gaming computer I have the ethernet is vary slow >100Kb/s, so I tried a different computer and the speed was 50-60Mb/s. I have no idea when it began but nothing I have tried is working, but it was working 1 or 2 weeks ago. (motherboard ASRock Z97) It is running windows 10, fully up to date

Well this is a weird one ... So I built my PC about a month ago and everything was fine: Intel i5-4690k CPU Gigabyte Z97P - D3 EVGA GTX 970 FTW + 8GB of HyperX RAM 2x 1TB of seagate 7200RPM 120Gb Kingston SSD with Windows 8.1 installed After a few weeks I decided to get the Widows 10...

So am interested in buying the kogan 144 hz monitor https://www.kogan.com/au/buy/kogan-24-led-144hz-gaming-monitor/ what I am worried about is if it will be supported by my GPU AMD 7970 http://www.msi.com/product/graphics-card/R7970_TF_3GD5OC_BE.html#hero-overview . The monitor says it comes...

Hello community, First of all I have modem and ethernet cable connected to my PC with up to 300mbps but I'm planing to use the other slot in modem to hook up router for my laptop and other devices. Preferably I'm looking for gigabit router although it will be used more for internet and maybe...

Hello ... i currently have amd radeon hd 8470d and I want to know what I should upgrade to. (for gaming)

Hi is there still noway to obtain 4k movies/tv shows on PC rather than TV atm? If there is can you link me?

Before this happend, i cleaned my computer with a vacuum..... What happend next is, when i started the computer i heard some eletric shocks. (English is not my primair language) Also this thing (see the picture above) is now broken because of the electric shock!! My computer works for the...

So i format my windows because there's a problem. When im done formatting, it tell me to activate my windows, when i activate it says "activition error description not found". please Help. Im using a VAIO laptop

I have had two laptops in the last two years and lost harddrives in both of them within 6 mos. The first laptop was a Samsung (lost HD twice) and the second on now is a Dell and just lost the HD in it in less than 6 mos. I find this very hard to believe. It just doesn't pay to get these huge...

Today I had my computer on when the screen suddenly went black. It was completely unresponsive, so I shut it off. When I turned it back on, it got to the bios screen then asked if I wanted to start Windows normally (the usual stuff). But then the screen went black again for a few seconds and the...

Im a bit of a tech noob myself, but how can I upgrade to 64bit from a 32bit pc for free. I've checked and my processor is 64bit capable. My computer has bad specs and im not bothered about any data loss. I just want to upgrade my RAM to 8GB and do not want to be limited on the applications I run.

I have both the heat pipes of my gtx 970 and cpu cooler touching my side panel fans. I just noticed today and was wondering if that is safe to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello I live in Indiana and I used a VPN for a couple of hours then I turned off the VPN and now my ip is showing that I live in New Jersey and now the internet is slower speed with 166 ping is there any fix for this? I use comcast

So when i overclock my gtx 970 strix all is well but when it hits 60c it decides that its done with everything and down clocks itself and will stay on 1113.7MHz unti i ramp the fan speeds up to 80% and let it cool off to 55c then it will overclock back up to my stable 1488.7MHz and then ill...

The title says it all, I've had terrible performance ever since building my gaming rig. Specs: 16gb Corsair Vengeance LP 2x8 Amd FX8350 r9290x (watercooled) (good temps) Asrock Fatal1ty 990fx Killer Corsair CX750m WD Blue 1tb 120gb Kingston SSD

I am not sure if i am misunderstanding this but looking at the origin's website https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/free-games/game-time here are Battlefield and Titanfall game time for free.... Does that mean you are paying a monthly service like the Xbox live subscription or is this only for...

Okay currently i have HyperX kit of 2x2GB dual channel sticks. My MOBO has 4 slots, two marked black and two marked yellow. I Have two sticks in the same colored slots. Now the time has come and its time to upgrade. Im most likely getting a Mushkin 2x2GB dual channel kit to add to this set. The...

So I'm trying to get into my computers bios, and of course I need my keyboard for that to press the delete key. Problem is the keyboard doesn't work when the computer boots so I'm unable to access it. Any help?

Hi guys, Have a bit of a problem with my ASUS GTx 770 card, I can't get the DVI-D port to display when I connect a monitor to it. What I try and did was connect my 1st monitor to the DVI-I port and the second monitor to a DVI-D port, the DVI-I port works perfectly but not the DVI-D port, no...

So guys, i have the chance to buy any of this two cards, both used but i know for a fact they are like new. The Galaxy is complete in box, while the Matrix is OEM. Also price wise the Matrix is quite more expensive. Not having looks into consideration because they are both sexy cards (the...

which cpu cooler my build http://pcpartpicker.com/user/smilo850/saved/LzzFf7 fans \/ http://pcpartpicker.com/part/noctua-cpu-cooler-nhd14 or http://pcpartpicker.com/part/noctua-cpu-cooler-nhd15

Hi there, I rescued Matshita Bluray burner from my old laptop and would like to put it to use in my desktop. The drive has a pata connection I believe. Does anyone know of a 5.25in adapter chassis that might work for me? Maybe even one that can incorporate a 2.5in SDD also? Thanks in advance

I have bought DR-600M router. I connected the ethernet cable and the existing cable that was connected to my desktop to the router. Now i need to configure it. But when i logged on to http://192.168.0.1 (as written in the quick start up guide), the web page did not open. But when I tried to...

Hey guys! I have a Dell Inspiron laptop, and whenever i start it up, log in to it, it starts to be really buggy and the whole laptop screen stops responding. I am forced to restart it all the time and it never works. I even tried to do a system restore and it failed, twice! PLEASE HELP ME ASAP...

I was playing Garry's Mod today and yesterday with a friend and he started placing a ton of turrets down. After a bit, my game started lagging just due to the turrets being there. It dropped me down to maybe 50 fps, but it wasn't too bad. As soon as he activated the turrets, my FPS went down to...

I have an i5 650 at 3.2GHz, and it technically is only a little bit worse than an Ivy Bridge i3. Why I say technically is because people have said that these chips overclock great, but the problem is I've never looking into overclocking, and the farthest I've gone is "Intel Turbo Boost" and...

I'm shipping some components by air but only have very big antistatic bags, like motherboard size, that I also need to use for things like RAM, the HDD and the wireless card. I'm worried that because the bags are so big the components will move around in the flight too much, and I read somewhere...

hello guys, i m going to upgrade my gpu from gtx 650 to sapphire radeon r9 270x 2 gb oc... will my psu cooler master gx ii 550w bronze certified be enough to run my machine...