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Hello Toms guide I recently bought a laptop cooling pad with 2 moveable fans. Since i experience some overheating issues (especially while gaming) i need to target the important stressed areas of my laptop to prevent performance decrease. One thing to note, is that my dedicated graphics card...

I'm too scared to overclock because I live in a very hot area and I don't want my PC to explode. Please don't make fun of me.

I'm using a borrowed laptop so I haven't downloaded anything or been all over the internet. I use it for facebook, yahoo mail, and to fill out job applications. Earlier I was on facebook when the computer froze. After 10 min I had no choice but to manually shut it down. When I went to reboot the...

my games' performance varies with each startup and its weird. On one day, my games work fine and with no problem, but then some other day my game will freeze once for about 3 seconds or have fps drops. My rig is i3-4160, Nvidia GTX 750 ti OC, and 8 GB of ram. Can anyone tell me what might be the...

It's incredibly obvious that most movies are filmed at 23.976 FPS. They are "Okay" to me but certainly not as smooth as 60 FPS. I know what 60 FPS movies "may" look like, as I watch lots of 60 FPS trailers (on a nromal flat computer monitor). They are awesome. :D Anyway, I just got a Samsung...

Hello folks I've been experiencing blue screens of death and sudden shut downs since last weekend. Tride many diagnoses and notinhg seemed to explain it. Until I got Everest and Speedfan to see how my psu voltage is. Readings are almost the same in both programs. This is the big problem...

I have a 6970 and ive been using 2 monitors for years, now i got a 3rd monitor and bought a DP to DVI adapter... The adapter and monitor work fine, only when its connected alone... i tested it Now. I want it to work all 3 at the same time and it wouldnt work. Every single item works, but not...

Hey guys, so recently I've discovered that my PC was running on 3.98 gb out of 8gb RAM.You know ,i checked msconfig etc etc all that basic stuff but nothing helped me.I reinstalled windows by formatting all hard drives,ran the PC Fix option from windows that lasted a freaking night.Now,still the...

Which CPU is the best for audio editing and graphical editing? I want to buy a new CPU and not a CPU that support old technology. Thanks.

Hey guys, got into pc gaming a while ago and am looking for some games to play, I play the regular mulitplayer games like league, rocket league, cs:go and games like fallout 4, witcher 3, metro redux, borderlands, battlefield, blade and soul, I really like story driven games such as oxenfree and...

hi everyone got 2 sets of 4x4gb different brands iam not 100% sure what is the proper way to connect both to the motherboard (gigabyte x99 gaming g1) brand 1 red brand 2 blue opt 1: 1234 - 5678 opt 2:1526- 3748 relevant page from manual IMG manual PDF Thank you.

Does Zebronic 450w psu (here is the link for my psu sticker) https://plus.google.com/photos/photo/102344810227174939626/6249582184795122066 Support Zotac nvidia geforce Gt 730 2gb ddr5 64 bit graphic card???

My pc dell inspiron 5558 intel (i5) HD4400 gpu vga capacity 128mb shards memory 4600mb . what pc games can play

I've overclocked my Dell Dimension E520 QX6800 from 2.93GHz. base to 3.72GHz, stable. In 3Dmark my physics scores and overall scores improved as expected. But they are much worse in Unigine benchmarks with the overclock applied. I used Throttlestop 6.00 software overclock to unlock volts and...

Hi! This is probably a stupid question, but I'm confused about what the difference is between texture quality and texture resolution? What happens for example if I run a game with medium texture quality in settings, but with say 4k textures installed? Thank you in advance!

Hello, I'm missing Imaging device (integrated webcam drivers) from device manager of my LenovoZ580. Can some one please help me. Thanks a bunch in advance

I don't know where else to ask, I've had issues for months now and I'm going absolutely crazy without my PC.. It first started when I opened up my PC and put in another graphics card, but I made the mistake of wearing wool fingerless gloves as I did this, and I'm afraid I might have given off...

I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing green flickering at the bottom of the Samsung s5 screen when the brightness is set to 1/4 max or below. Both my s5 and my girlfriend's s5 both started doing even though we bought our phones ~6 months apart. If anyone had any insight i would be very...

hi,i have an asus eee pc 1015pem netbook and whilst migrating my os to a new ssd it failed and as a result i have lost my os(windows 7).will i need to buy a new os or can this be mitigated through microsoft? thanks in anticipation

Recently, I just built a PC for a friend with all newly bought and unused components except the HDD (with Windows XP installed) and the casing, but for some reason, the computer won't load past the windows loading screen after the POST sequence. I've tried installing another that particular HDD...

help me please i want to put it on desk then add leds but im scared that cat will push the case off or something!

Hello everyone. I have an OEM Gateway computer and I recently bought a new desktop on Black Friday. I want to revert my Gateway desktop back to Windows 7 and do a factory restart so I may sell it. However, when I try to download the iso from Microsoft, it tells me my key is an OEM one and to...

Is the msi H81M-E33 mother board compatible with the g.skills F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL ram?

I tested out an EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked w/ EVGA ACX Cooler 03G-P4-2884-KR graphics card today with a 4K TV and Battlefield 4 and it crashed the computer (computer restarted). Playing Battlefield 4 with the same graphics card works just fine on a 1080p monitor at 1920 x 1080 and...

Advice? Suggestions on what PSU I should go for? I hear good stuff about Seasonic. Debating whether to pay extra to get modular or not. If its not a necessity I don't think I'll get it. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4ybHHx

Hi, I am trying to build a mid-range gaming PC. I quickly put this together and am wondering if it all works together and some improvements, I don't want it to cost anymore than it already is and would love it if I could get it any cheaper. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VzsvMp Thanks

Hi Bros! I'd like to hear your input. What's the best bang for the buck GPU for my Rig? My Budget's around $200-ish Will only play CSGO / GTA V / NBA 2K16 and a lot of 60fps facebooking here's my current potato:

my hard disk formatted and reinstalled . i have recovered my all data. but now i am unable to open them. no any format is opening like JPEG, PNG, DOC, DOX, PPT ETC

As the title sais I would like to get more options when choosing category. This will make it alot easier. F/e under Software i havent seen any Server OS

Hi, I was using bitdefender 2015 till until a while ago when it started hogging on memory and slowed down the pc like hell. Once i uninstalled it via the control panel. It asked whether it wanted to uninstall and still protect and i clicked no. Once it uninstalled, I rebooted my computer and...

Hi, I was just wondering before i start buying the components if someone could just give it a quick look over, It's mainly going to be used for light game dev, programming and gaming =P, going to be using a 1080p monitor looking for around 50-60fps on recent games (not too bothered about ultra...

I am trying to decide if it is worth upgrading an old system that has been lying around for a while. This really came up when my son and I were loading up Civ 5 and my other son was watching us longingly. I realized I had the old box in the basement just sitting there and after a morning of...

I have a Dell 3847 inspiron using intergrated graphics and I think a 300w power supply. I want to put a gtx750ti graphic card to improve gaming. Do I need to upgrade the PSU also? How high is enough? Should the graphic card work OK with the 300w PSU? Advice? Comments How high a PSU should...

Would appreciate it if it would be under 100€ and if its from amazon.de Thats all thank you for your help!

My system specs are AMD Phenom ll x6 1075T, 8GB DDR3, GTX 650Ti WINDOWS 10, NVIDIA driver 355.60 No anti virus , system updated to latest patches. I couldn't play even GTA V which I played seamlessly on Windows 8.1. Even playing HD(not even FHD) videos causes to crash. And video stutters a...

So i took the advice from some people in this community, Reddit, TechGuru and EliteGamingComputers and this is what i came up with. All feedback is greatly appreciated. First build, want it to go smoothly. This is the most I want to spend on a computer. Monitor is included in the build. If you...

Decided to get 2 MONITORS: a 21:9 IPS (2560x1080) AND a 16:10 IPS (1920x1200). The ultra-wide will be used for Gaming (Metro Last Light, Witcher, Shadow of Mordor, Civ, GTA, NBA, Sim City, Rome, Fallout, Grid, etc.), Movies (DVD's), and Drawing (AutoCAD/SketchUp). The smaller display will be...

Hi, the fan inside the unit seems to be making clicking sounds. It isn't really loud, but still noticeable. Initially, I thought this was coming from my hard drive because the noise sounds a lot like a hard drive reading / writing data. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. I unplugged the HDD...

So I have never used a old hard drive and installed it into a new computer. My plan was to buy a new ssd and install windows on it. Once I had that done I was going to install 2 older hdd from previous computers into the new computer. My question is: When I put the older hard drives in will I be...

i5 4670k ( at 3.8 ghz) gigabyte z87x ud3h bios f9 (updated from f7) ram 4*2 vengeance at 1600 mhz at 9-9-9-24 in xmp 1 I have manually set the vcore to 1.164v (adaptive) and vrin to 1.76v and memory is in 1600 mhz at 9-9-9-24 in xmp 1 and everything else is in default auto. using prime 95 and...