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    Question Asus TUF series, preinstalled Windows or a clean installed Windows ?

    Hey, I was looking for a new laptop and stumbled on the TUF series. I saw on a few threads talking about the ROG series that a preinstalled Windows is recommended as there are tweaks that Asus does that increases performance or allow certain customizations. Is this also true of the TUF series...
  2. Aidan B

    [SOLVED] Mass of SVCHost.exe processes running at once, bogged down drive

    Hardware: MSI GF63 8RC running an i7-8750H, GTX 1050, and 32GB of RAM on Win10. This laptop has always been slow. Like since day one, always sluggish to do much of anything, open programs, new windows, login, play games, etc. Once it gets going it does decently, but it doesn't run like its got...
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    Question Brand New Laptop and Bloatware

    Hi I just bought a new HP Envy laptop. I'm thinking of doing a clean install of windows 10 to remove all the bloatware and stuff running in the background. Is this advisable?... or shall manually I uninstall the unnecessary programs?
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    New Build Need Advice on Parts and Compatability

    Will be using for everyday stuff and a lot of AutoCAD/solidworks/mastercam and some occasional racing games. Can you please take a look at these parts and give me your opinion and any changes/ recommendations. Its going to have to be a HTCP case since i only have roughly 9" height for the case...
  5. noyaus

    Surface Pro 4 Issue

    Hi Guys when i log in into my surface pro 4. the screen goes black for 2 minutes then the desktop shows up. I can use ctrl+alt+del and log off and login it works but sometimes it doesn't. Also sometimes the taskbar freezes for a couple of minutes then it loads. i am not sure why this is...
  6. xxxlun4icexxx

    GTX 1080 SLI Not Downclocking causing hot cards

    Hi All, I have 2 GTX 1080s (1 zotac amp, and 1 evga ftw). Both cards when not gaming seem to not be downclocking. I open nvidia inspector and I see the clocks still running upwards of 1600 Mhz. I googled a bit and saw that chrome can cause this but even when I exit the application I still seem...
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    acer e5-411-p1cr Standard VGA Graphics Adapter

    Yes i want to it
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    Need your help

    I don't know what to upgrade first..a little lost. I've weighed my options but I don't know what to do. Any ideas would help. I have 300 to spend as of right now. Specs: CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.50 GHz Six-Core AM3+ CPU 6MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core Technology HDD: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache...