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As the title suggests im curious what Intel has planned for the next year or two. Im trying to make my i5-4690k last until mid 2018 ish if possible and im thinking about what my options will be by then. Since AMD just released their 8 cores and Intel isn't really doing much more than price...

Hey guys what's the best way to approach this? I was trying to open the lever and themn I think my hand touched one on accident. I bought this on eBay this week what should I do? http://imgur.com/ugl4S5D

Ok so I have a Lenovo y50 with the Intel i7 4700hq and the nvidia gtx 860m no touch screen. It worked for a while and then it did the "checking media," "edit network 0 for IPv4 boot failed" and same for IPv6. I went and got it "fixed" then it ended up doing the same thing. Some times it would...

Hi guys, first post. I've been building my own systems for 20 years and have never had a problem so bad I need to ask for help from people smarter than me, but here goes.... I recently built a new system after deciding to upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10, and bought a new Gigabyte G1 gaming...

I noticed last night when I was watching a movie that my GPU was throttling which was resulting in dropped frames - something that I have never experienced ever since optimizing my MadVR settings. Upon further inspection it seems like there's something wrong with the GPU's fans - the readings...

Hey guys! I'm at wit's end here! I got a new GPU for my PC, it's the XFX GTR Radeon RX480 8GB Black Edition, and it's a great card! But when I play an intensive game for about 10 to 20 minutes, my screen goes completely black and the GPU just out right fails! Forcing me to shutdown my PC and...

System Specs: CPU - Intel i7 6700K CPU Cooler - NZXT Kraken X61 Motherboard - Asus TUF Sabertooth Mark 1 Ram - 16GB Ripjaws DDR4 2400 GPU - Asus 1070 Strix Storage - 120GB samsung M.2 - 500GB Samsung SSD - 5TB WD Black HDD PSU - 1000 EVGA P2 Supernova Case - Phantex...

Hi. I've got a couple of issues with my pc, i just spent most of sunday switching out mobo, cpu and ram, plus switching out cooler to watercooler. so, the reasons i switched them out was that they were old and i had lots of issues with the ram and ram slots and stuff. the issues are coil whine...

Hi guys, my 7970 card died so i need a new one! My budget is 190-230 usd aprox. My system specs are: Display Devices Make and model, connection/adapter in use, resolution and refresh rate; e.g. Acer V246HLbmd 24" @60Hz adapter vga to dvi Motherboard Make and model; e.g. Asrock Z87 Pro3...

Good afternoon! Recently I scavenged an FX-8350 out of my friends all computer, and put it into my own. However, the fan is extremely loud (significantly louder than my Arctic Freezer 13 LE), so I bought a CM Hyper 412s to replace it as my old CPU and heatsink is being used elsewhere. I've been...

I was looking for a .nfo reader and I stumbled upon this one. After I installed it I noticed that I cant open the file explorer (it refreshes, the icons dissapear and then reappear), I cant uninstall it (doesnt even appear in control panel and in the apps tab the uninstall button is greyed out)...

Hello, I am currently using two monitors and would like to set up the third. My graphics card is a GTX 1070 and has these slots: - 1 x Dual-link DVI-D (Main monitor, 144hz) - 1 x HDMI 2.0b (Second monitor, 60hz tv) - 3 x DisplayPort 1.4 My third monitor is a bit older and only has DVI/VGA...

Hello, tom's Hardware friends and family! I posted this morning regarding a separate question entirely. Post #2 today, and I hope you can provide some input. Lengthy post ahead, so I ask for your patience. My 850w PSU was about 5 years old before I just upgraded to a 1000w. I put everything...

Hi there. I've built a new pc over the weekend. Last night after the build I was able to start it up install windows etc. I powered the pc down, woke up this morning and haven't been able to power it up again. Nothing has changed and I can't figure out what the issue is.. Firstly I've noticed...

Hi all, My Rig: CPU: AMD OCta core 64bit MOBO: Asus ME97 SE 2.0 RAM: 32 GB Corsair vengence GPU: Asus Strix Radeon R7 370 OC PSU: Corsair V550 Audio PCIe: Creative Audigy SE 7.1 Speakers: Creative 4.1 M4500 Cabinet: circle cc830 I am having this Card from past 4 Years. Its been a long and...

Hi All, My computer turns on as normal and runs for 10, 20 30mins or if I am lucky an hour, but then I get this message pop up - Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key. From reading other entries it seems this is happening to other...

i built my pc myself, its been working perfectly until now, i can usually play any game on high/max settings with very decent fps.the problem started one day when i slid my pc out to plug in a new set of headphones, after i pluged them in, i saw that my pc has crashed and there was a message on...

I tried to unistall, install my smart gesture, and also try to repair, but still it won't work, and the icon on the down right side of my screen has no touchpad icon, i don't know what to do anymore? Do i need to reset my laptop? i'm using asus x555LN and also updated to windows 10. Please help...

No bookable device restart system how do I do that

I've been backing up files to my external hard drive but part way through the process it stops and all of the so far through and the dialogue box and the File Explorer windows suddenly close. I'm on Windows 8.1 with a Seagate hard drive. Any ideas?

Currently running: Intel i5-4690k @ 3.50GHz 2x4GB DDR3 @ 800MHz Asus Maximus VI Hero (Socket 1150) EVGA GTX 970 Got some extra money, don't mind upgrading, just want the most bang for my buck.

Hello! So yeah, I got an ASUS PCE N15 network card on my rig and I need to bring up the Control Center but I'm not sure how. All I did so far was run the install wizard on the disk, and restarted my computer. Can't find any form of shortcut anywhere. Thanks for reading Edit: Windows 8.1 64b

Core I5-2520M 2.49 ghz 8.00 GB of ram Windows 7 Nvidia nvs 4200m

So I recently re-installed Windows (kept my files) and since then the keyboard works fine but the mouse only works in the bios. There isn't even a pointer on the screen. It doesn't appear in the device manager either. Not sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated

im in need of some new components and i was thinking of this: https://gyazo.com/5ea204f9af0848d3aac477a4822a4167 but do i need to reinstall windows with the new motherboard? i currently have windows 10 pro

Okay so I've spent around £300 so far, and I've only got £250 left for a graphics card, CPU & motherboard. It's not a lot, I know. I would ideally like the R9 380 4GB but it's £185. However, I do currently have a spare Phenom ii x4 965BE and ASUS AM3+ motherboard lying around which means if need...

I realize that there are similar threads regarding these two GPUs, but my question is which one will give the best overall performance with a Q6600 Oc'ed to 3.6 Ghz? I'm upgrading an old E6600 system with a PCX 5300 (I know) and I haven't bought the parts yet, because I was going to wait until I...

When adding subtitles and converting 1080 mp4's, sometimes the final file doesn't play all the way through, suddenly stopping and refusing to playback more. Any ideas how to solve that? Thanks!

Please read entire post before commenting. MY PC is a year old, 9 months in my first PSU, an EVGA Supernova B2 had been started making a high pitched tick. So, I freaked out and swapped it out for the platinum model, then, 4 days later, I heard it again. It's become a once in a blue moon...

In the midst of building a new pc and wondering how much ddr4 and psu would be the best. Pervious pc specs: Operating system - windows 10 Graphics card - 2047MB NIVIDIA Geforce GTX 750ti Motherboard - MSI 760GM-P23(FX) (MS-7641) (CPU 1) Processor - AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 (4cpus) ~3.0 GHZ 8.00...

Hi, thanks for taking the time to read this thread! I have a couple of questions, but I don't think they'll be hard to answer :) So, on December 21st, I built my first computer, even though I don't technically have all my pieces because 2 were backordered and 1 was lost somewhere by CanadaPost...

I am looking for a game I think late 80s or 90s . A lot of small creatures coming out one by one on a line. They walk and you have to save their lives by giving them tools or stoping them and make the change directions. I think they were yellow. It is a old memory cannot remember just remember...

This is the link: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/26Q9kL Please keep the PC under the price of 1200$ also is the Z97 motherboard compatible with the whole build? And is that powersupply enough to power the whole build? Thank you please answer fast

Anyone have a similar 920 @ 3.5 with a 970 gtx and play at 2560x1440? Thoughts with the gpu being able to pump good fps. Gonna wait on skylake to mature

I believe is a software issue with win 8 disk i had for years. I replaced nearly all hardware mb mem cpu video card psu a hard drive. The only i had not replace is my win install disk which i had problems installing everytime. I took my pc to my local pc repair and said it could a number of...

Hello guys I have a GTX 960 2GB and a AMD FX 6350 CPU cooled by a hyper 212 evo, with 2 fans in the front sucking in air and one fan in the rear as an exhaust fan and one fan on the top rear as an exhaust fan. My computers idle temps are about 38C on the GPU and 40C on the CPU, while gaming the...

Bought a mxsb252 sound bar connected it to my tv with the rca cable and can't get it to work, not sure what I'm doing, can anyone help please

Ahoy Experts! I am new to this forum and off late I have been researching a lot on utilizing my old Creative 5.1 Home Theater with my LG TV. Since I am not too much into audio systems and all, I was getting confused on how to proceed with it so after researching a lot I realized that this forum...

My current laptop is breaking apart. (these are it's current speks(according to spekky) Operating System Windows 8.1 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 4200M @ 2.50GHz 65 °C Haswell 22nm Technology RAM 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28) Motherboard LENOVO INVALID (U3E1)...

Need suggestions for corsair psu i should use need to be modular so i dont have clutter http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zWwtyc.