custom pc

I'm trying to build a computer capable of Running Maya, 3Ds Max, Adobe after affects without having to wait for hours or days to final render a piece and a little of gaming. This is the setup I have so far, did I choose good so far or am I mistaken? If so please help? Spending limit $1,000-2,000...

my graphic card is a xfx r7870 double d tahiti (le) and i need help on adjusting my card. on most games i set the fans temperature to about 60% to 70% and my card's temperature stables around 47 to 55 degrees rarely hits 60 degrees. the problem is tat sometimes when i play games my gpu usage...

Hey guys, i was just wondering if anyone of you knew the speed differences and maybe like a chart between a PCI ssd and a SATA ssd.. Is it that significant? and if anyone has found some 128GB pci ssd's that are worth it that would be greatly appreciated as well.

I am currently looking for a new network cable to buy and i am really getting desperate. The cable will be 30 meters long(100 foot). I have a internet connection speed of 150mb. I was thinking of a cat6 cable but read that a cat5e should do the same thing. Obviously I don't want to lose any...

So I just switched from a really old ATI Radeon HD 2400, and I purchased a Nvidia GT 610. I have already installed the card and installed the hardware, but I forgot to uninstall the ATI drivers before putting the new card in. What would be the best way of removing the old drivers?

Hello, I have an ultrabook which came pre-installed with windows 7 but, using a cheap upgrade from microsoft was quickly upgraded to Windows 8 and then on to 8.1 just recently. I have just attempted now to install Ubuntu 13.10 alongside Windows 8.1 which all appeared to go smoothly. However...

So Currently I have Dell Studio XPS 435MT Intel i7-920 Processor (8MB L3 Cache, 2.66GHz) Memory 3GB2 DDR3 Tri-Channel SDRAM3 at 1066MHz - 3 DIMMs Hard Drive 500GB5 - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache Video Card ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB2 I am noticing this machine starting to slow down. - THE...