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I have been building gaming computers for myself mostly for about ten years. I just finished a new build and have tested it and have had no issues. I bought a 550w evga g2 and thought because I wanted a little more headroom I replaced it with a 650w g2 and will keep the 550w for backup. Its...

HELLO IM PLANNIG TO BUILD A PC WITH A BUDJET OF ARROUND $5000 IM PLANNIG TO USE THESE PARTS, BUT IM NEW PROBABBLY IM MISSING SOMETHING I ACCEPT YOUR RECOMENDATIONS PLEASE Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E 8-Core 3.0GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W Desktop Processor BX80648I75960X LG WH16NS40 Super Multi...

Can i overclock the 7600?? many say that the "K" on the name means OC ability.. Others not.. And what about its igpu??

So about a month ago, my hard drive broke and i turned in it for warranty, after i got the computer back, i wanted to install a new graphics card, but i plugged in PC; no internet. It was pretty strange because my computer had internet normally before the warranty, but i though it was just that...

LAPTOP DON'T START UP FIRST TIME.I HAVE TO TAKE 3 TEMPS TO MAKE IT START.I HAVE NO VIRUS OR MALWARE. ANY HELP THANKS GUYS

Hello, I am new to PC Gaming, and have a question. I am looking to upgrade my GPU, and with my current PSU the best card I can install is the 750 ti. I have found both 2GB and 4GB versions. Which is better for gaming? The most demanding game I play is Skyrim with mods, and would like to max out...

Hi, i just ordered a new pc two days ago. It costed me around 1850$. (I am aware that the price for what i am getting is high, but in Denmark we have high taxes on electronic components, and because i do not want to risk building it myself i get the online store to do it.) I bought the MSI gtx...

Hello! I'm building my second PC, and this time I'm aiming for a budget build for gaming. I thought I should check with the community to make sure my component choices are wise and there isn't anything that could be improved. My build is as follows... Motherboard - MSI A68HM-E33 V2 Micro ATX -...

i was wondering if i could change my amd a8 6600k with an amd a10 7870k if not what would be the best thing to upgrade to?

Hello gentlemen, after years of service my old PC is starting to slow down and under-perform on recent games, nothing too serious but I'd like to step up and build an entry-level gaming PC. Since I cannot afford to buy everything in one go I'll start with the graphic card. I was thinking about a...

Simple question. I bought my pc-rig with one 8gb DDR3-1866 ram, and wanted to upgrade to 16, but this ram was nowhere to find to buy in my country, so I decided to order a kit of two 8gb Hyper X DDR-3 1866, when this idea came to my mind. I saw that a lot of people dont recommend mixing...

Is there a reason that Up/Down voting is disabled on a post that has been selected as "Best Answer"? I appreciate that selecting best answer is the prerogative of the OP, and should not be interfered with, but I think it would be useful if one were able to Upvote a particularly good Best Answer...

Hey everyone ive been really hyped for fallout 4 pretty much like everybody else but after today seeing benchmarks of the console version was quite a let down... so today im asking if you think it would be a better idea just to get fallout 4 on my PC with my Gtx750ti and amd fx8350 in terms of...

hello i am building high end gaming computer....i have bought 750w sesonic power, sabertooth z87, 16 ram, ssd 500gb, and so on....now case and video card is left... well i have old empty case (not gaming just random stock one) i have not enough budget to buy borth good case and high end video...

i should buy new Graphic Card and on my Budget i can get GTX 960 i really like gigabyte edition but there are 3 editions i dont know which one is the best and why ? the 3 editions http:// http:// http:// the one with 4 Gb Memory is the cheapest i dont know why and is it good or no . and also i...

Hi, I know there's plenty of threads regarding this but I couldn't find an answer concerning this specific version of the GTX 780ti. I've been offered a GTX 780ti Matrix Platinum for £40 less than a GTX 970. I know this card is older and only has 3GB of VRAM but I have been looking at the...

Hey guys I just threw a gtx 970 into my older pc. Overclocked my 3570k to 4.4 Ghz, and have 8 Gb DDR3 1600 ram. I was going to sell this setup but am considering keeping it for my girlfriend. Would this run the new Asus PG279Q? Its the new 1440p, 144hz IPS monitor. Would be running at high to...

Hi Folks, I am not a gamer, but do like my computer zippy with multi tasks / multiple browsers open at the same time. I got myself 16GB of 1600 DDR3 RAM (2x8GB), but, I never considered DDR4 assuming it was for gamers and the like. I also assumed it was expensive, but I've seen it's actually...

Hi, I have an HP pavilion dv4 laptop running windows 10 and I've had it for 3 years. Recently my laptop has started to have problems connecting to wifi. When it first was unable to connect to wifi, I went to Device Manager, uninstalled the wireless driver software, restarted my laptop and the...

A few days ago I did a speedtest (ookla) and suddenly today I tryed again and it says 10 times less. I have a CAT5e connection and at first it worked but now it is very slow. I am using windows 10 and I have no idea what is the cause of this issue.

I currently have an i3-3240 and I am wondering which is the best CPU to get. I will be emulating games(PCSX2), editing and uploading videos on YouTube, and overclocking my CPU.

Hello community, I'm pretty sure I am able to do this, but I want to double check before trying. I have 2 SSDs. One is currently plugged into SATA0 in my desktop, running Windows 7, and is my everyday OS. I want to use the other one as a computer lab SSD to try different OS's, but I only have...

I know this question has been asked a lot around the web but need to find a definitive answer from the ones who have actually used a non sine wave ups with an Active PF Correction PSU or atleast tried to. I have a microtek ups(you may call it a generic one) which outputs a step approximated sine...

I am new to building and built my first custom pc last October. I have the Corsair h100i liquid cpu cooler and have ran into a cpu fan error on boot up. My motherboard and and h100i are updated to the latest bios (Asus Maximus VII Formula). This happened a few times early on and I was able to...

Recently bought new ram sticks, but when i tried putting them in the 3rd and 4th slots they wouldnt fit in my iMac 2011 21". So, i tried swapping the original ram sticks out (2x2GB) and the new rams fit just fine in there, but now the original ram sticks cant fit in the 3rd or 4th slots either...

Hiya, Recently bought a new geforce Gtx 750 ti 2gb, upgrading from Gtx 550 Ti. When booting up i get horizontal lines like this - https://goo.gl/ebnL1B as well as when going to a higher resulution than 800x600 - https://goo.gl/5kH1T7 Only one of my two screens is working right now, geforce...

Currently i have got i3 3220 , 6gb ram , H61M-D2H motherboard , Zotac GTX 550ti , PSU 500W I am gamer of all FPS games and MOBA too , also i am a 3d modeler.I was checking out some parts and found out ASUS Z170-A ATX Motherboard - $163.99 Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0 GHz Quad-Core Processor -...

So yesterday i was using my computer and noticed that the cpu usage was sky rocketing so i took a look in the process to find many of these javaw.exe processes running in the background. I was hoping someone could help me with the removal of this problem. From what I have read this virus is a...

After much thought I've decided to upgrade my current pc (which is pretty out dated). Im trying to spend as little as possible and buy just one or two things at a time for right now. I"m going with the athlon 860k and asus A88XM-A motherboard. I have a old geforce 9500gt that I want to use intil...

I used the safeboot method to switch win 10 from ide to ahci. It's now using ahci, but is the standard drivers fine? Do I need to get the intel ahci drivers?

New build with I 5 6600,Asus mother board. I'm working on new build and want to use my current video card nvdia GTX 260. Mother board Assus z17-A which has PCI express . Is the on board video equally or better that my GTX 260?

I had a gtx 260, just upgraded to a evga 4gb ssc gtx 960, now all my games stutter. Singleplayer games, multiplayer games, and i even tested it out on Awesomenauts a game that any computer can run easily and it still stutters there. Games might just freeze every 40 secs for 2 secs. all of my...