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I want to upgrade my GPU but problem is my motherboard really really old. ( m4n68t-m v2). I'm looking for RX 460 or GTX 950. These cards supports 3.0 PCI express and my card supports only 2.0. Can i run these cards in my motherboard? Do i have to upgrade my motherboard? And what is difference...

Hi there, I am willing to upgrade my computer from an AMD FX-8320 to an Intel Core I7 6700K (I have a GTX 970 graphics card). From what I've read on the Internet, the Asus Z170 PRO Gaming seems a valid choice for MB. However, I'm still wondering about RAM. Should I keep my 16GB DDR3 10-12-12...

Hi all, I am very noobish to cleaning my PC and mine was bought from Cyberpower so I didn't put it together. Anyway I noticed my CPU temp reaching around 85 deg C under load and around 40C idle so I thought that my CPU needed cleaning. I haven't cleaned it in since I bought it other than...

so ive got this pny xlr8 gtx 970 and when i start a game (ive tried several different games and none have worked) the screen goes black and on my second monitor which is connected to the graphics card in the mother board it says that the nvidia drivers have crashed so i need to restart my...

The motherboard I'm getting has 2 dimms for memory. I want to be able to upgrade the memory to 16 gb next weekend so I was wanting to buy one 8gb stick for now and then buy another of the same memory next weekend. Will this be okay, or should I go with two 4gb sticks and hold out on the 16gb of...

My friend gave me a old pc from his dad's office and told me that it is just taking up space in his dad's office and it is ProLiant ML310E Gen8 v2 and my younger brother wants to convert the pc to a gaming pc and he has a total of 150$ budget (he is 13) and he just wants to play minecraft...

Not sure why this is happening but my computer tends to restart itself when im watching videos online via youtube/netflix/twitch. I have updated all my drivers and when i enter event viewer i get event id 6008 "The previous system shutdown at 7:05:51 PM on ?5/?11/?2016 was unexpected." does...

what water cooling should i buy for i7 4790k planning to get it to 4.7ghz and right now with the normal fan it gets to 100 degrees with what i use it for (its not an issue with the cpu i just load a lot of stuff on it)

How Can i measure Video Card's Memory Bandwidth? i mean the formula? in my Experience..... if i have a Video card with 1800MHz Memory Clock & 128bit of Momory interface. i'll multiply 1800 with 128 and then divide with 8 to get Bandwith on MB/s or GB/s... now my question is that means that has...

I have an acer e 15 e5 574g laptop which came with windows 10. Due to some issues I installed back windows 7 without any back up. to my surprise there are no drivers for windows 7 for the laptop. I some managed to install the ethernet and wireless lan drivers as some of the other latops had...

Need help figuring out where my google went. I can’t download it because it is saying I already have. I looked through my laptop and can’t find it anywhere. Please help, thank you!

I have the Lg 34" freesync monitor with a resolution of 2560 x 1440. I would like to know how good a R9 380X would do on it. (what frame rates to expect, how high I can have the detail, etc) It is paired with the fx 8320. Thank you!

I am wondering if adding another graphics card to my rig will ultimately slow it down. I know that as far as installing new RAM, it is always best to just replace the entire kit so that everything is identical and meant to work together. Obviously graphics cards are very different from RAM, but...

Hello i once in a while try and stress test my cpu and it looks like its getting hotter than usual, last time i check its temperature was in the kinda winter and it was around 20c~ idle and stress testing it was at 60~ max So i stress tested it again and for some reason it went all the way up to...

There is nothing scarier than installing Windows 10 on your machine and coming up with an error message. If you see error 80240020, it means that something in your Windows 10 installation folder is either corrupted or didn't complete. Here's how to fix it. 1. Go to...

I want to buy a chassis.I have 2 choices but there is a difference between them. One of them has a solid transparent side panel (I mean without place to add side door fan)and it has 1 front intake,2 roof and exhaust . But the other has 2 extra place for adding fans on side door. In my opinion...

Will a GA-78LMT-S2P Motherboard work with a AMD FX8350 Black Edition 8 Core Processor? CPU - http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-FX8350-Edition-Processor-4-2GHz/dp/B009O7YUF6 Motherboard - http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4125&kw=GA-78LMT-S2P5.x#ov

Hi all , i need some advice on a problem i have encountered , i have a fx8350 cpu unclocked, m5a97 pro mb , msi r9 285 2gb gpu , 8gb of ram , 700w psu . I have a real odd problem of when i start a game after about a minute the pc turns itself off and i have to switch the psu off or pull lead to...

for example many people are having a crash with battlefield when exit the game since last patch battlefield 4 has stopped working crash can that error for example affect windows if it keeps happeneing

I want a setup for gaming that can run all games at ultra 1080p with monitor and peripherals

Ever since I installed everything on the graphics card, it has not shown the colour red. Everything is installed correctly and the cords are tight. I have tried with VGA and DVI. Can someone help me?

Hey, so i bought a gigabyte 7950 today and just hooked it up about 3 hours ago. since ive hooked it up the HDMI port has not worked. Now i know theres nothing wrong with the cable and monitor (but still i tried with a different cable and monitor with no luck) but it seems like the whole computer...

Hey everyone,while i was playing Warcraft suddenly i got a blue screen :( and the error was (The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000003b (0x00000000c0000005, 0xfffff960000fcb47, 0xfffff880083c4070, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP...

Which processor is better in heavy games (Watch Dogs, Battlefield 4, and so on.), Photoshop and simple operation)? Support your answer.

Ok, so i am going to buy a CPU off amazon UK so i was researching the newest I7 4790k. I was hearing that the L3 are the old ones and they aren't as good overclockers as the L4 which came out in 2014. The thing is the batch number on the 4790k of amazon is a L3, should i stick to a 4770k or...

i recently upgraded my computer with a new radeon R7-260X card and a huntkey 700w power supply and my computer randomly freezes up when idle. sometimes when it does there's a sharp screech like sound for a second and everything freezes up. i have to reset the computer when that happens. on my...

I've always been curious, are there actually any differences between the different versions of i5s (particularly the 4440 vs 4670)? I mean other than clock speeds, the two CPUs seem identical. Are they engineered to have different IPCs or support more/less instruction sets or something...

Numerous reviews are popping up on the new Z97 mobos if interested: ASUS http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2014/04/28/asus-z97-motherboards-preview/1 GigaByte http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-z97-motherboard-details,26627.html#xtor=EPR-8886 ASRock...

I've been looking at the RM750 by Corsair and I've seen really good reviews on it. I'm also looking for a fairly quiet one. My budget is around 120-140 USD at the very most. Thanks for the help.

I am making a budget entry level gaming computer for a friend for around $500 but I don't know much about APU's or Intel CPU's. I was wondering if the better option would be to get the APU and use the extra money to make other parts better or grab the Intel i5 with GTX 750 Ti and just have...

Hi, When i bought my computer i created a partition from the main disk(D: ), but recently i deleted it and i cant reatribute the free space to the C: drive. Im using windows disk management. Anyone knows a workaround?

Hi guys, I just recently assembled my very first rig. I apologize in advance since it's a very cheap rig. Original intention was to replace my laptop since I fried my GPU. Now I use this to practice my modding skills and cheap custom water cooling. By the way, I'm from the Philippines and the...

Hi, Looking to see what kind of memory I should use with Asus Sabertooth Z87 motherboard, 4770K overclocked processor. I wanted to use corsair CMZ32GX3M4X1866C10. Does anyone have any recommendations for memory with this config? I will be using my system for MMO gaming. Oh and it says on the...

I am building a computer for the first time, and I will not be receiving my graphics card for at least a week. I would like to now if I could boot it up and test all of my other components without the graphics card. Any help would be great! My motherboard is: MSI Z77A-G45 Thunderbolt LGA 1155...

Hello everyone! I am wondering what type of fan/heatsink cooler I should get that will be compatible with my set up! For my case I just bought this... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133210 The Mobo is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131981...