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I am planningto overlock my 4690k so it wont bottleneck my 970 would the evo 212 be alright. This is my build http://pcpartpicker.com/p/cn94Jx

Hi! I was wondering recently why some video editing was going so slow, I went into the system menu in windows to find only 4GB out of my 8GB amount of ram was showing. I tried to reseat both sticks and in doing so discovered that only the RAM slot furthest away from the CPU was working. Is my...

CPU: i7-4790K Cooler: Cooler Master 212 Evo GPU: Asus GTX970 Strix PS:XFX Pro 750W RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 2x4Gb 1600 Storage: Seagate 1Tb HDD + Crucial MX100 128Gb

This is a self built PC that was just built in May. Haven't had any issues until just about a week ago when I come home from work and I try to open up Firefox and it never opened. So I opened up task manager to see if it ever did and saw it in there but couldn't even end the process so I tried...

Hello, I am having trouble with a gaming build. I am using a B85M MSI gaming mbu, GTX 650, Core i5 with one 4 gb 1600MHZ stick of ram. The ATX case is the cooler master HAF. MBU lights up, all fans are on and use ports are okay, but nothing shows up on screen. I have no clue what's happening...

Hello pals, is hoorhay again with quicky question Trying to get many upgrade for friend very outdated tower he current rig spec are core 2 extreme QX9650 4GB DDR3 Gigabyte GA-G41MT-S2PT GTX 480 600 watt kingwin 2x 250GB HDD I look him for cheap upgrade to make play smooth again like time...

Hi all I'm having a very annoying issue which came out of nowhere. I'm connected to my modem by ethernet with my laptop, and all of a sudden today when I came home, everything looked normal, all the lights were flashing, the ethernet sends and receives packets, but can't connect to anything...

Just recently upgraded my gpu and feeling like to try to game at 144hz. I got 2x SLI 980, plenty to run 1440p over 60hz. In most games I play, I sit around 80fps at 4k without overclocking. 1440p around 100~150. These two monitors are what I am considering, if you know any 144hz better than...

Just wondering if 2 Gigabyte G1 GTX 970s will fit in my Silverstone FT02 case on a MSI x58 Pro motherboard? The card spec says its width is 2.5 slots but will this be the same on every motherboard or do some have their PCI slots positioned differently. If it wont fit is there any other 970s...

Hi there So here's what I want . I just want to buy a laptop which lets me to play few games,watch movies and I do a lot of photography editing. so i need my pic to be represented in a great manner. And also I need a good battery backup.so will it be good to buy a Mac book air.

My desktop computer will shutdown almost immediately, and my monitor displays, "power save mode". I restart it, the same thing over and over- shutdown. I kept it on long enough to change the settings in the control panel to never shutdown, but it still does this. How can I troubleshoot this...

Hi everyone, I have followed this page for years and this is the first time I write here. I have a little question about my GPU, I dont know if 730 is a normal score on Unigine Heaven 4.0, my processor is a 4690k Oced to 4.3 and I have 8 gbs of ram. Im already greatful for your answers (and...

Help please I got a small strand of the paste on my mobo and it's only on the flat part and not on any components but it is in this small silver crevice is this paste conductive with it fry any thing and do I clean it off please help hurry it's the paste that came with the coolermaster hyper 212...

Is a AMD A10 7800 FM2 R7 series compatible with a ASUS F2 A55-M motherboard. and if not what would be recommended with an ASUS R9 270x graphics card?

the title explains it the controller only changes the led brightness not the rpm pls help

Please help... I am building my first custom pc.. Core i5 4670k Corsair vengeance 1600mhz 2x4gb Mobo gigabyte ga z97x-soc force Corsair rm 650w power supply Corsair h100i liquid cooler And Seagate barracuda 1tb I m bit low on a budget right now so I cant afford any gpu or ssd right now.... Plz...

Hello, I have been studying about applying 2 monitors in gaming and I have bought a GTX 770 due to the fact I don need a second video card in SLI for 2d surround. However, yesterday I installed and didn´t work. I have two differents monitors, as Samsung syncmaster Z2233 and Samsung HDTV...

Guys!! Im really stuck here. I have received a laptop given by my client to downgrade windows 8 to windows 7. Everything seems to be haywire. I tried a bootable win 7 dvd and a bootable USB stick but none seem to be working! It's a HP 15-d008TU. I have already downloaded the drivers for win7...

Hi all, I am looking into a new laptop. I'm going to finish my summer job at the end of summer and by then I will have $2500 to spend on a new laptop. I am thinking about two models: the Alienware 17 and precision m6800. Fry's is selling the Alienware with a i7 4700mq and 780m 16 GB ram for...

Hello everyone, I have a bit of a story, so please hear me out. Awhile ago, I had a little system set up with an i3-550 and no GPU. For browsing the web and watching videos online, it was perfect. I was temporarily running it off of a cheap 300W PSU; I figured it would be okay since the i3...

CPU: AMD FX-6300 GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 1 GB MOBO: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 A few notes about the MOBO: It doesn't have an integrated GPU which means the GPU **IS** working. Also, the GPU is PCI Express 3.0 but the MOBO only has PCI Express 2.0 x16 although those should be backwards...

I am looking for a great Z97 motherboard to my new i7-4790k. I was looking for motherboards in Asus and MSI but didn't find exactly what I was looking for. I was looking at the MSI MPower motherboard because it had almost what I needed, plus a watercooled heatsink. I am looking for a motherboard...

I recently bought a pioneer s-slw500 subwoofer which connects using bare positive and negative cable and my amp connection uses one coax connector. here is an image of the rear of the amp http://www.hifidatabase.com/static/gallery/6/6006-sony_STR-DE875b.jpg. is there a cable i can buy or a...

Hey guys, Alright so I am on kind of on a tight budget and found I could build this for under 400. The specs of the computer would be the following. I am re using an old case, a 500w power supply and a sata dvdrw drive. The parts I would buy would be the following Gigabyte ga-78lmt-s2p me Amd...

I am a first time PC builder looking for some feedback about this PC that I am thinking of building in a few months. I originally looked a Cyberpowerpc to have them build it for me, but the many complaints and horror stories about them from this forum and others made me want to just build it...

Hello i wanted to ask if this build is going to work CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.4GHz GPU: ASUS GTX760 GeForce GTX 760 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600 MHz PSU: Antec HCP Platinum HCP-1000 1000W HDD: Western Digital WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200...

I recently tried to flash my BIOS. I downloaded the new BIOS from the Gigabyte website, the files I downloaded contained a .exe, a .bat, and a file named F22. When I ran the .exe it said that version of BIOS was incompatible with my system architecture, I run Windows 7 64 bit SP1. However I...

So this is my very first pc build and i hit the power button it runs for maybe 7 to 10 seconds than shuts off, it than starts back up in 3 seconds than does the same thing. When it runs it shows a 15 in the led debug screen in the manual it says pre-memory north bridge init is started. I have...

I made a mistake and initialized my 4TB HDD without putting it in RAID first. The hard drive in now sepperated into two partitions, one 2TB and one about 1.6TB (so it's not a full 4TB I guess) The format was MBR. I tried converting the partition to GPT, but it still only shows either the 2TB...

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Is that a problem with the game? Cause i know my hardware can run that game on low and on smooth 30 fps but it doesn't go above 15 fps at all. Is there a patch for this game yet to fix this? My specs are: Core 2 Duo E4600 (i know it is a weak processor but i am playing watch dogs on it fine on...

hi guys i have a msi n 760 tf graphic card when i OC it,it shows the clocks increased , but there is no effet in th games . SO is my gpu defected or ok because the games work fine everything works fine .its just that some times my moniter goes blank for about 2-3 seconds rarely but i think...

Spec: Asus p5q motherboard Intel core 2 duo e7400 2.80ghz OC'd to 3.5 Msi amd radeon R9 270 OC 12gb ram 320gb Hitachi hard drive Win power 700w power supply I was stress testing my GPU with the msi afterburner app and the temp was getting pretty high (80) so I decide to shut it down but...

After CONTINUALLY narrowing down my choices for a gaming mouse, I have come to 3 different mice. First off, I know it's not very important to most people, but the mouse I will be buying will be my mouse for a year or two. So, I narrowed out the mice with the green or blue LEDs, since my PC is...

Hi thanks for reading. I am building a PC for someone and I'm running onto a problem I have never had before. Specs: MS-Tech CA-0130 Minitower MS-tech MS-N550 VAL psu Corsair Value select 4gb 1333mhz Seagate barracude 500gb Amd A6-6400K 3.9 ghz and last but definetly not least: ASRock...

Hi, i've currently got a stock 2GB AMD Radeon HD 7870 in my rig and im struggling to find a second stock model at a reasonable price to crossfire this with. I was wondering then other than makig sure that both cards run at the same clock speed would I run into any issues if I installed a XFX...