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I really can't splash $200 on a new SSD (well, I can, but I'm trying to save). How can I make my HDD much quieter? I bought new fans and I can't tell if they are noisy or not :/

The before: http://h01i.imgup.net/torture2ee1.jpg 4 weeks of efforts to get past where I was, 4.7ghz, I switched from air cooling to water cooling & custom built my own loop out of nothing except for the cpu block. This week's testing has got me one more notch up on the water loop...

I have a Phanteks Eclipse(smoked window, black interior, white exterior), going for a black/white theme with a Krait mb, Corsair Vengeance black/white(2 sticks each, and this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127833 and am torn between Hue + or Bitfenix white. The problem...

Hi I am planning on upgrading to a gtx 970 asus strix. I have an i5 4590,gtx 760 and 8gb of ram my case is a zalman z1 so I was wondering if the asus strix gtx 970 can fit in my case. I've edited your link and post to include tags for the link and improving on punctuation for the community to...

Hello, after I custom built my own computer, everything was working amazingly until about a month ago. Now when I try and boot up multiple things like steam and skype, my computer will freeze for a second then continue to run. I wont notice anything until I play some games, where the FPS has...

So i have the gtx 970 its a new built pc. I had a problem with powering it with supernova evga 750w g2 thought it was solved. So the problem was i only plug in the 8 pin connector which was 6+2 pin but the gpu is 6+8 pin. So when the 8 pin is plugged in the monitor turns on. When i plug in the...

i am soon getting a new monitor (BenQ XL2411Z) and i wondered if my current hdmi cable would be able to display 144hz. If not what cable would i need? thanks in advance

hi!!if my psu goes dead when the pc system is working,will the ups protect my hardware or not?

Hey guys. So, a family friend has asked me to fix their desktop; it wasn't turning on. I opened it up, and it looked like it has never been dusted in I don't know how many years. So, I disassembled the desktop, dusted the inside and the components with a can of compressed air, wiped residual...

So hey, I'm planning to overclock an I5 4690k and i have 2 choices to choose from: 1. Asrock Z87 Pro 4 2. Asus Z97-P I would update the bios on the z87 so i could use my I5. Which one is better to overclock this CPU?

Hey, I made a build, and wanted to know if it is Fallout 4 ready, I do not however expect it to play at max res just saying http://pcpartpicker.com/p/MpHtcf

Hi everyone! I recently built a PC from some of my old components that I intend to use as a media center of sorts, for basic streaming and video playback. It's an old AMD quad core with 4GB RAM, nothing exciting. It has no graphics card though, so higher quality videos lag, as expected. I...

So basically the rundown computer decides to get stuck in a bootloop after a good couple of hours i fix it without having to reinstall windows anyway now I have no sound what so ever "it says audio service not runing" I use the troubleshooter that did nothing (of course it didn't) I go onto...

Hello everyone, I'm here trying to address an old and in-depth issue I'm having with my computer, my set up being as follows: Packard Bell iXtreme Windows 10 Pro Intel Quad Core 2 @ 2.5GHz 4GB DDR2 RAM-Under a month old 750W Supernova PSU Nvidia GTX 460 HDD 1 with System Files is 250GB...

what is recommended, for easy uploading of audio files to a website? preferably a free version

Hey guys i need some helping to build a gaming pc. Need recommend the best motherboard and which i7 processor is good and a case u guys will recommend and for cooling which brands. Thanks

I'm a musician that needs a new pair of headphones so I can hear what sounds I'm really making. I was planning on getting the Sony MDR-V6's, MDR-7506's or maybe even a pair of AKG K 240's as their pretty cheap right now. I don't know a lot about headphones, but I know for musical production...

Hi I have a 17" gigabyte laptop with a max resolution of 1600 x 900. When watching youtube which is the max resolution i should watch at 1080p or 720p? Will i see a difference between them?

Hey guys, please help me.. I have some problems with my pc recently.. The problems are: -Black/blank screen with frozen sound on Dirt Rally. -Black/blank screen with frozen sound but game still playing in the background on Assetto Corsa. (confirmed by shifting to 1st gear using my steering...

Symptoms: Audio keeps crashing. It seems to come from audiodg.exe. It may be a symptom and not the cause, so I cannot isolate the crash. I have been able to replicate it - when playing videos on Youtube, trying to stream, or when playing certain video games. Youtube appears to pause every 1/2...

My laptop: Asus N551 1 SSD 1 HDD Hey guys, two days ago my computer just restarted and automatically did go to Bios, and when I restarted the computer it just goes to Bios, I searched into that and I found that my SSD ( Windows Hard Drive ) sometimes disappear from Advanced Sata setting and...

Will the sims 3 work on a hp pavilion 15-ab150sa on curry's website wanted to know before I buy it for sister for Christmas

I have an Toshiba A300 (2007 +-) and its giving me crash every time I try booting any OS ! I've tried Windows 7, Ubuntu, Kali linux, and I could only boot into safemode (Windows) and Failsafe (Kali)! if I manage to boot normaly, definitly it will crash when opening desktop or while booting the...

My parents are divorced so I switch between their houses weekly, I have an issue where my computer has a memory leak somewhere on it and over the coarse of usually 2-3 days the RAM usage goes up to 94-95%. The odd thing is that this ONLY ever happens at my fathers house. Nothing is different...

I was playing with the vsync on in the NVIDIA CP with ~45 FPS and than i turned off and now i have problems again , i cannot go more than ~60 FPS in game, at the start of the round i have ~75 but than it drops to ~60 even if in the main menu there is ~95 FPS , vsync also turned off in CSGO. I...

I have core i7 4790 and gtx msi 970 and 16 gb ram and im running the game on ultra and i have 144hz screen and i set my fps to unlimited but when im walking there's stuttering how to fix this please? should i lower anything in my game?

Hey! I recently bought a Blue Snowball iCE microphone. I'm a rather soft spoken person and my intention was to use it mainly for skype and other voice communications, so I basically just wanted a mic that I could set up fairly simply and that could hear me easily. Unfortunatly, that's not really...

I am not sure if this is in the right thread, but anyway.... I am looking at buying a used Gigabyte GTX 980 g1 gaming for 600 AUD off ebay and was wondering if the warranty was transferable, the owner lists down that he has the box, the receipt and plenty of warranty left. Will this warranty be...

hello friends this is sai i have amd e-240 gpu processor and radeon hd 6310 graphics and 1.50 Ghz , but when i run games like

I'm upgrading my GPU to a gtx 980 and my PSU isn't very good At least that's what a lot of people have been saying on here and im wondering if i should upgrade my PSU also to something a little more reliable or just keep this one. It's worked so far for over a year. Current...

My mouse and keyboard were doing fine with Windows 7, but after I upgraded to Windows 10, my wired mouse and keyboard have been prone to just randomly stop working for a few seconds before working again. When it happens to my keyboard, what key I had been pressing would be typing over and over...

Hello I have problem. So I have win7 and my internet dosen't connect with pc but before was yellow triangl on internet icon but now there are just red x. what should I do? Does it make sence? what icon is better is it yellow triangl or red x? and how I get yellow triangl back to internet icon...

When editing the settings in a game to improve performance is a higher refresh rate better than lower? What's the difference?

There is some kind of weird blemish on one of the heat pipes. Is this a problem? It doesn't feel any different to the touch than any of the other heat pipes. Still, advice is appreciated. I did a quick google search and couldn't find anyone with the exact same issue. Here's a picture.

So just recently I upgraded to windows 10, but now my computer lacks performance so I want to back to windows 7, but im the future say I want to go to windows 10 again can I do that or is only once I can upgrade to windows 10?

So I got GTA V last night and I let my brother play it today whilst I was at work. Just got back from work and the computer is off, my brother says the screen just went off on him whilst he was playing. I check the tower and thhe power LED is flashing.. I didn't know anything of it and tried...

I recieved all my parts today, i ran the setup outside the case and the cpu fan turned on but it wasn't posting. There were no beeps either, I removed the ram from the mobo and tried again, but it still did not beep. My components : i5 4690k gtx 970 evga 750 watt 80+b psu b85m-ds3h-A gigabyte...

I upgraded some parts on my PC today and now the only thing turning on is the motherboard...really not sure what to do here.

i want to upgrade my gpu to a msi gtx 970 but i dont know if it will fit this is my build: http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c04337646

Someone said to get this http://pcpartpicker.com/p/G8GhXL instead of this http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZCXYZL or should I go with another build??? Please keep from 1000-1010 max.