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I have a pair of HD558s and I recently built a pc. I am not quite satisfied with my mobo audio and looking to upgrade a buy a sound card. Any recommendations under 50 bucks. I was THINKING Creative Xi-Fi Titanium or Xonar DGX. It has to be under 60 on eBay (I have a coupon)

This is mainly to do with CS:GO. Basically my FPS gets to a max of 100 then goes down to like 60. I've seen other people with a 960 getting over 200 FPS with max settings. Also, even if i change my graphic settings, the FPS doesn't change. I have put it to the lowest resolution and the lowest...

I bought a desktop computer a while ago, and am looking to make it a gaming PC, firstly by adding a graphics card, which it has a PCI-E slot. It is a Lenovo H50-05. Problem is, my current computer only has an AC adapter (the ones used in laptops) and i believe has 65W of power, but i might be...

Hi guys, can choose between the two, not sure which is better. The thing that really confuses me is that the i7 non-k can still OC the multiplicator which nets a 4.3ghz and I've been told that the i5 also overclocks in the 4.2-4.4 ghz region, so what is the benefit there of the K version? Ah and...

Apologies if i put this thread in the wrong place, im new to TH I recently bought a Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 380 graphics card and I am very happy with its performance. However, my computer has a see-through case and I can see mid-game that the fans are running very slowly. When I take the case...

Hi guys i have question AMD Phenom II x4 965 will bottleneck a gtx 960/radeon 380 without oc thanks for anserws.

had it 1 week and its started flickering all of a sudden in the desktop! could it be my NVidia driver?

where could i find graphic card driver software for geforce 8600gt

After installing windows 10 my laptop either dies or resumes with a black screen after I open it from sleep mode. I have no choice but to force restart the laptop and it is very frustrating as I have never had this experience before installing windows 10

hello guys I just changed my fans in my case and I removed my ram 2x4 gb 1600 MHz so I change lanes and instead of putting them in 2 blue lanes I put them of the black lanes and when I opened speccy to see the timings it was 11-11-11-29 instead of 9-9-9-21

I need some help, I have; Msi 970 gaming Fx8350 1tb ssd Msi r9 290 4gb 16gb samsung 4x4gb ddr3 pc3 12800 Cool by corsair for the cpu And 850 psu Now I have installed the ram on the board and it shows 16gb and the it shows me 7.95gb useable, now I have tried everything on the Internet to change...

Just wondering what you guys think this computer is worth. Doesn't include OS, just 1tb hard drive and has about 2 years of use. I am going to be selling this computer but I am not entirely sure what to price it at http://pcpartpicker.com/p/XddsQ7 Be aware PcPartPicker doesn't have prices for...

A recent hard disk failure (see here) has pressured me into upgrading my system. I no longer have a 1TB secondary, so I'm going to do a fresh install of windows on a new SSD and turn my current windows drive into storage. At the same time I want to replace my GTX 275 with something that isn't...

Hello all. I am looking for a new GPU for my gaming rig. I will be playing mostly new games such as Dying Light, Call of Duty, Sims, and many more. I have a dual monitor setup (No surround gaming) and I am looking into a Geforce GTX 780ti. It was during my research that I came across the Radeon...

I've recently been thinking of upgrading my computer and have about £200 to spend. I was wondering if I should upgrade my CPU (and motherboard) or just my GPU. Upgrading my GPU would be much less of a hassle as I wouldn't need to reinstall windows. I was originally going to upgrade everything...

Here it goes... I've been researching on the issue for months and still hasn't decipher what the real problem is. All I know is it happened around 2 months into building my computer. My house's floor is carpeted and needing to state this because I'm not sure if it gives some sort of static...

Hey I am going to buy a Medium-High gaming build.Help me guys... I have a Monitor,A 4gb Hyperx stick(will want one more) I want 1.Processor(confused between AMD and Intel)(Preference i5 4570) 2.Motherboard(No idea according to your preference) 3.Graphic card(R9 270 or gtx 660 whichever is better...

This is my first time actually building a computer myself, and it won't boot for some reason. Can you guys help me? When I try to boot it, nothing happens. No fans spin or anything, however the motherboard light is on as well as the graphics card light. Specs: i7 5930k, asus rampage v extreme...

So recently I got a new CPU and it came with the stock cooler, a friend of mine said I should get the CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo because its good and quiet. However after some research i found out that the 212 Evo is 159mm tall (http://www.coolermaster.com/cooling/cpu-air-cooler/hyper-212-evo/)...

Gigabyte N770OC-2GD WINDFORCE 3 GTX 770 i5 4460 i'm playing GTA 5, that is normal for this gpu ? temp. 65 - 75 degrees fan speed 37 - 47%

I've made up my mind to go with Gigabyte for a mo/bo for my new build. I do a lot of intensive graphics design and I want the option of building up to having 32GB's of RAM. I want to use DDR4 modules. I'll probably install 16GB's at the beginning. I prefer AMD for the CPU and the capacity for...

I have a Gigabyte Z97MX board and I bent 1 of the pins slightly out of position on the board. I just want to know, would the computer start up if the certain pin wasn't touching the cpu?

Earlier this year I built a new PC gaming rig with MSI's X99 SLI Plus motherboard and Intel's i7-5820K. I went this route so that I would have Intel's latest chipset. Right now I know there are only three X99 CPUs and in the future I would want to upgrade, but wanted to know if we will see more...

ive been told that this is possible but i dont know how to and i was wondering if anyone knew

Hey guys, newbie here! I am shopping for a new laptop that I will primarily use for school and occasionally gaming. I was thinking of building a new gaming desktop, but I am constantly moving places so portability is a must. Anyways, I was checking this laptop out on Amazon and was wondering if...

are there any sites or programs that scan your motherboard for problems and hopefully fix them if not just scan it

Hello, I have my laptop for about three years now and have been experiencing a problem a few months ago and It's starting to irritate me. I'm on Windows 7 and on Acer aspire one. My internet keeps disconnecting and it would have that little x on the status bar. My power options are set to...

WHAT IS THE BEST BROWSER FOR ONLINE FPS GAME? MY COMPUTER WINDOW VISTa 32 bit

Hey guys here's the deal, I currently have the G3258 with a R9 270X both overclocked. I just recently was gifted a used i5 2400. My question is are the 2 extra cores worth me swapping out CPU's? I know the i5 was released in 2011 which makes it 2 years older, and it isn't the unlocked version...

INTEL: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zYhJZL AMD: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xbxQYJ Although the AMD comes out more, but what do you all think about it? And comment is welcome. Thanks

Hi there, UPDATE: I guess I didn't make it clear originally that I am ready to do a FRESH install today but need some advice to be sure I do it correctly. I've had nothing but problems with this motherboard. Recently I did a clean install of Windows 7 Professional 64bit, but still running into...

Hey all! I have my pc build list complete, and I've ordered every piece except for the motherboard and keyboard. I want to go try out keyboards in a store to see what switch type I'll prefer, but when it comes to the motherboard I'm a bit stuck. Here's my list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/G2hRhM...

Hi, My main hard drive (Windows) shows some bad sectors, the number of sectors hasn't changed since I discovered them 2 months ago. I have another identical drive which is in good condition. Should I move my data to the second drive or ignore it and continue with my life? Current bad sectors:

I'm currently looking for a 144hz gaming monitor, but i dont know which one to get. I have been looking into 3 different, and read some comparisons, but im still in doubt. The ones i have been looking at is the AOC 2460PQU, which overall seems the best, and i probably would have already chosen...

Dear Everyone, I have the following problem (see pictures below). I have a gateway that connects me to the internet (by fast Wi-Fi and Ethernet) but is not configurable at all. See picture 1. Furthermore it seems to isolate all clients. As this gateway is entirely non-configurable, essentially...

This the what I have been thinking so far: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/FhsBYJ PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor ($286.88 @ OutletPC) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($28.98 @...

So I have a r9 290, the problem is that when I plug it in and fire it up, the fans spin, and everything looks good, but there is no display output, I have used both DVI and HDMI on 2 separate monitors, but still no output? I have now put my 270x back in and it is working fine... My PSU is a...

Hi all, A few weeks back I had a problem with turning on my PC. I then found out that unplugging the power off of my GPU solved the problem. I posted on the forum here and someone highlighted to me that moving my GPU to other PCI slot might work. I did exactly that and my PC was running...

I'm building my first gaming rig and I want to know if it will be good for me. Desktop: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/P3RDTW I'm really only worried about the motherboard, because I don't know if I would like to overclock (I think I would have to get a new CPU) and/or do the Crossfire thing with...

the title says all, can you guys help which is better. i'm planning to buy next week. hope to get my mind clear. and if there's other kind that you can suggest im all ears. do i need a sound card if yes, what sound card. i think dac is out of budget, currently im using my msi z97 gaming 5 on...