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I'm going to sell my PS4 so I can upgrade my PC, because currently it cannot run GTA 5. My budget is about £300 and my specs are Gigabyte GTX 550 Ti i5-2400 Kingston 4gb RAM 400W XFX PSU What would be the best upgrade so I can run GTA 5?

Good day, So i got my eyes on a 1tb SSHD from seagate my HDD is acting up and i want to replace it. Is this any better than a typical HDD or no?

Hi everyone, I have changed my xeon cpu thermal past and i appliyed it with pea method but its getting very hot when i launch a game after 20 seconds. i've tried 3 times and now i dont know what is the best method to apply it. Can someone help me please. thank you

I'm new to PC, and I planned mainly on using one to play games so I of course decided to buy a decent GPU. I bought a Radeon R9 280 off newegg. It just arrived today and not knowing much about installing it, i went very straightforward with it. I removed my current GPU, an Nvidia GeForce 720...

i am having a problem with my internal hard drive i have a hard drive of my previous laptop and it is encrypted by a password for that hard drive i buy an external case to run it on my new laptop but the hard drive is not showing in my computer also when i search it on computer management it...

My camera looks as if the lens is blocked on the left side. There is nothing that seems to be visibly blocking the lens but it won't show full lens and the pictures show the same when a picture is taken.

I am running windows 7-64 bit, and my computer keeps turning off. The tower lights go blank, led's turn off, everything goes black. It doesn't go through shut down process. Here are specs: Processor: AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Proecessor 3.50 GHz RAM: 8gb (ballistix or something) HD: 1TB...

I'm trying to do some upgrades on my son's older Dell system. He has an Inspiron 580s, CPU is an Intel core i3, 3.2ghz Chipset is Intel H57 I can't find the actual mother board info anywhere in the docs, or from the Dell support site. It detects his system fine, but no mb info. I had to...

I have an amd fx-8350 cpu, my vrm overheats and throttles.. I there any way to fix this problem?(e.x. Maybe adding custom heatsink?)

I bought Sims 3 and four expansion packs. Now I just need a laptop to play it on. What are some good laptops under $500-$600 that will run the game on high settings? Thanks so much.

Hi everyone Would it be possible for me to overclock an AMD FX-8320 with these specs? CPU: AMD FX-8320 CPU Cooler: CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo RAM: Kingston 8 GB 1600 mhz RAM GPU: Visiontek AMD Radeon R9 280x PSU: Cooler Master ELITE V2 550W If I could overclock it, to what extent could it do...

I have some Meanwell SE-450-12 an SE-600-12 PSUs. I want to use them to power some bitcoin miners I have that require 4 6 pin PCIs and run at 580w max power. I can clock down to work in the range of the PSU, but how do I get the PCIs on? Is it removing the molex end and splicing onto the...

Does R9 270x support Directx 12? please help.

The title says it all i am looking for a good mech keyboard out of those three or a keyboard you would recommend.

After getting lucky and finding a half built pc thrown out i am finally motivated to buy a GPU to go with the asus p8z68-v LX. The card i want to buy is a Gtx 970 as it will only cost me around 400 AUD. The problem is, i don't know a lot about the motherboard and i am not quite sure if it will...

So ive been building a computer and all thats left is the graphics card at first i was all for building this till i realised none of my friends are intrested in it so i will constantly be torn between getting a game on pc for good graphics and maybe mod compatibility and then xbox for playing...

Are these temperature normal for i7 4790k http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img538/8954/RLtvJF.png

Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP motherboard, i5 4690k processor, nvidia asus gtx 760 gpu, 8gb corsair vengence ram, corsair vs 650 psu with a 2tb and 500 gb hard disks.. is this a good config to what i am affording??

Hi, until now i thought i was going to get the EK Water Blocks EK-XRES 140 D5 PWM incl. Pump however i found out that apparently the tubing which it uses, the 1/4 is "extinct" is this true is there a reason for this? i was keen on getting this pump however, am not so sure now. Is it still fine...

will my zotac geforce gtx 650 synergy edition 2gb ddr5 supports for dell optiplex 960? And i don't want to change my power supply

I have just attempted to download a new program onto my computer when I realized that my storage space was full. I looked at my Disk space and I noticed that my OS_Install (C: ) was almost full, while my Data (D: ) was totally empty. Is there anyway I can get my laptop to start using the 918 GB...

also if they do come with thermal paste is it already applied or would i have to apply it?

Guys, I saw that the Lollipop update is 405MB. Does the update use the internal memory or external?

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I have a GTX 770, 'EVGA GeForce GTX 770 4GB Superclocked w/ACX Cooler' to be precise, and I was thinking about picking up another one while they're cheap and still available on the market. People are selling the 4GB superclocked versions used-like new for $300-$320 which is a pretty awesome...

I have a Corsair RM 750w PSU that I want to do a custom sleeving job on. Does anyone have any experience doing something like this? I'd appreciate any advice and tips because I understand this will be a big endeavor. Are there any good places to start doing research on what tools and materials...

I should know this by now but I just wanted to be sure.;) I plan on buying the MSI GeForce GTX 760 Twin Frozr 4GB GDDR5 so I shouldn't be worried or should I? I also have a Intel Core i7-4770K but that's quite obvious.

Welp. Here I am again, having issues with my build. I'm just going to go through a huge story of my build to see if any of you guys can spot an issue. First off: The components. I bought, at first, these items: FX 6300, 7770 ASUS 2GB GDDR5, Biostar a960d+ (ugh), Rosewill RedBone, a random 500GB...

Hi, I have a problem where my laptop will turn on (power button lights up) but the screen will remain black and it will be frozen (Caps light on doesn't change if I press the button) if and only IF it is plugged in. So I have to make sure my laptop is not plugged in when I power it up...

So my computer has had a few problems the past few weeks but I believe I've narrowed down the requirements to cause said shutdowns. Basically whenever I play a high end game (most recent example being Alien Isolation.) or any game that causes an odd whirring sound from my computer (guessing...

I have a hard drive that has lots of videos and music, and when the computer crashed, that hard drive had to be checked for error by Windows, and after it it was checked, most of the media file became corrupted. When I try to play any file, it would actually playback a totally different file...

Hi, Im getting the asrock f2a55-m-vg3+ motherboard soon. I looked at their website for drivers and one was called "AMD all in one". Others were SATA RAID utility and others i know what they are, Is the AMD all in one driver the chipset driver if not were do i get it from ( cant find on AMDs...

I have a dell xps 8300 with windows 7 and after installing a new pci e network card the computer didn't boot. when I remover card all is normal.

Hello everyone. I've been on the forums quite a bit lately, asking for advice on which laptop I should get. During my search, I realized that what I wanted in a laptop was changing based on what I was reading. So, here's a new FAQ with my new wants/needs. Background info: I will be going into...

Hi Experts, I have a need for a Hard Disk or a SSD. I'm building a server for my own use. With 32 GB RAM, 2 CPU Quad Core 3GHz processors. I'm trying to find a better SSD, since they are lot faster than traditional Hard Disks. Can anyone, please suggest me, which SSD is better when it comes...

Hi, I have recently encountered a some issues. As the title says, I will be watching Netfilx or Youtube and then all of a sudden my two screens turn black, as if the DVI cable had been disconnected, and the 770 fans hit 100%. Once this happens, the keyboard and mouse do nothing and the only way...

Just read the title. Please no more than eighty, it's already more than I should be spending

Quick question..I have an fx6300 and want to upgrade to the 8350. I have a sapphire 7870 graphics card, 550w psu, 16ram, and an asus m5a97 mobo. Will i be ok and what is an easy effective liquid cooler for the 8350?

Hello people, Well this is my first thread on Tom´s hardware... so here´s my situation... I recently bought a MSI R9 270 to start upgrading my PC, i installed it with recent drivers from AMD website and a clean installation of Win 7 x64. After i boot up my system i noticed that windows...