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I do not know what to do when I play games on my rMBP with my battery. I have read a couple of posts, saying an unclear solution. I want to preserve capacity for 4 1/2 years (When I switch laptops again). I frequently game, so please, can you give me the care I should give to the battery, to...

Ok, so for the past 3 years i've honestly fought a miserable and pointless battle of trying to get my RAM to perform to it's advertised specs, I've had it there once, and for the life of me, CANNOT figure out the settings that were lost thanks to a power loss event. Info: So, here's a...

PCPartPicker: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Zzd87P I would like around the same performance, just if possible to lower the cost. Any help is appreciated!

I have windows 10 and i wont open the 192.168.1.1 i want to see the settings and who is connected and all that, i have tp link

Basically i want to upgrade my graphics card and i am wondering whether i could upgrate to a nividia 970 or higher i have a power supply of 500w and rest of my specs are Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz Manufacturer Intel Speed 3.4 GHz Number of Cores 4 CPU ID BFEBFBFF000306A9...

Hi everyone, I am new to the forum and I am in need with your help. I have purchased the item down below for my HP Pavilion Dv6 4023-tx laptop. http://www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-p-934367.html I have followed the manual and connected all the parts probably...

Hi everyone, I was wondering if I get a graphic card that needs, let's say, 750W PSU. The power consumption of my pc will always be 750W or it depends on what I'm doing, for example: hard gaming, watching movie or reading a pdf file. I ask this because to be honest I was planning to get a...

What are the disadvantages (or possible screw-ups) in using Mushkin Enhanced Redline 994206F Memory with a GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 Motherboard? http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5478#ov http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226666

So i was thinking about buying an r9 380 and i need to know if there is going to be a bottleneck with my cpu.I am playing games like bf4.

Hy. I'm looking for a new monitor, and i'm stuck at this 3, and i have no idea with which one to go. It will be used for gaming and movies 90% of the time. Gaming will be World of Tanks and MMORPGs, so i do not need 120/144 Hz. If anyone can give me other options to this tree monitors, i will be...

So I made this build to play csgo, league of legends and other similar games. I also hoped for it to be upgradable for the future and i just wanna get your guys opinion on it by the way. I live in Australia and I cannot go over my 880$ budget. Build...

I was told that if I remove the xbox app I would see better game performance as it wouldn't be hindering certain games. I do not have or use xbox but only pc and ps4. is this true to use the power shell and remove or does it have no effect?

I would like to purchase a non-reference GTX 970 for $250 or less. If anyone has one, please PM me your offer. Thanks

Hi!, I have TRS and RCA and aux inputs for my m-audio av 40's (older version of the speakers, don't have all the cool features of the new ones). I have asus Z97-A mobo with crystal sound 2: Optical S/PDIF out, 8-channel audio I/O ports which has all the wiz bang features below. What is the...

I'm gonna build a gaming pc, but I have a 1440x900 monitor. The setup is gonna look like this: i5 6500 ASRock B150 Fatal1ty Gaming K4 HyperX 2X4GB 2133MHz CL14 Seagate 1TB SilentiumPC M35 Thermaltake Smart Se 530W The problem is, that I cannot decide whether to pick r9 380, gtx960 or even r9...

Okay so I got a couple new parts recently. So let me list my parts and then i will get into the issues. CPU- AMD FX-8350 Mobo- Asus Sabertooth 990FX GPU(new) - MSI R9 390 RAM - 8gb G-Skill Ripjaws X Power Supply - 850w EGVA G2 HDD- 1tb Western Digital Caviar Blue (x2) SSD(new) - Samsung Evo...

Looking for a mobo and on a budget unfortunately so my specs are cpu: i5-4690k Gpu: Gtx 970 g1 gaming edition. Reply if any more info needed.

My laptop would appear to be running fairly hard(mildly warm and fan running fast) even without any CPU intensive applications(only google chrome and word). I have cleaned the dust out and it has not made any difference. When I use photoshop or solidworks it does not seem to be running too much...

Hi, I have purchased Bose companion 2 series iii two days back to connect with my TV. Due to lack of knowledge in this area I thought that would be sufficient for surround sound experience. Howver, the speaker does not give surround sound quality and bass effect is not as expected. The store is...

So i just got a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 120GB SSD, and I want to set it up as a boot drive and use my 1 TB HDD as my storage drive. Only a couple of things i had questions about. My boot disk is windows 8.1 and windows 10 is what's on my HDD. Will those have any conflict? Also when I put Windows 8.1...

Hi! Our vendors here only sell limited supplies of new ddr4 rams mainly consisted of only 2400 to 3200's. But i wont oc and i only aim to buy the H170 which only supports 2133 and will pair it on a non-k i5 6600. Will The motherboard Asus H170 pro gaming support the 2800 CL15 ram and i5 6600...

I put together a pc build with a pcpartpicker list, plan on ordering tonight. if anyone could please give me a compatibility check that would be great. https://redd.it/3y0tzq

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/liquidsnake/saved/mqKtt6 Let me know what you think.

A couple days ago I thoroughly cleaned my computer and replaced the thermal compound on my cpu. Upon booting my computer up the sound does not work on anything. If I try to play a video on YouTube the video loads but does not play and if I try to play a video from my hard drive it will play but...

I have an Xbox one, so does my brother, and my dad uses a 360. The problem we have is whoever gets on first usually gets the open NAT and the other two get a moderate or strict. I even have my xbox port forwarded. I have also tried UPnP. Nothing works. I am going to get a new router for the...

i have a gtx 970 not bought online there is a rewards but u need to enter coupon wtf? pls help me

Hello all I am looking to upgrade my system, and I am in a bit of a dilemma. I am getting good deals on these particular parts, so I can't really change them to for example, and r9 380 or 390. I play games at 1080p like Rust, The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, CS:GO, lots of open world survival, and...

So im looking for someone to tell me if any of these computers are good for playing games like cs:go, garrys mod, minecraft stuff like that since i know about nothing about computers and graphics cards and such. My budget is between 450-500 and i have 3 pc's ive been looking at so someone could...

What would be the best video card at a good price to make this computer play Fallout 4? what specs should i meet in the card?The one it came with is sufficient for games like w.o.w reference this link to see my computer...

Hi I know you guys get a lot of these threads, so I will make this one quick. Here are my specs: i5 4690k XFX PRO550W PSU GTX 660 OC With Black Friday coming up, I would like to upgrade my GPU, however I cannot decide between the GTX 970 or the R9 390. I have heard that the 390 requires more...

Hello TomsHardware, Today I was playing the new Call of Duty, Call of Duty Black Ops III. When I always play new games I like to keep my CPUID HWMonitor open on my second monitor to see how things are going. My Intel i7 4790k reached a whopping 90C, now is this safe? It wasn't staying at 90C...

When the 24 pin is plugged in, but the CPU 8 pin is not, power works. Lights come on, fans spin, obviously doesn't POST. If you try again with the 8 pin plugged in so that the CPU gets power, the fan spins for less than a second, and everything stops (no lights, no fans, etc). Does anyone...

new modem has no RJ 11 plug for phone

I'm going to build my first build soon (This month). I want a i7 4790k because im going to do editing, rendering etc, but its going to go over my budget. So i was going for the i5 4690k. Will it do the same Performance.? I know it will lack . Is there another CPU a little BIT more expensive...

Well my desktop is connected directly to cable internet. Note my desktop does have any WiFi hardware. What I looking to do is have have my desktop connected directly to the internet. However I want to be able setup temp WiFi that I use occasionally use my cell phone and any other future...

Hi guys I'm running Windows 10 and my onboard Ethernet that was working fine is now no longer giving me a web connection. It's still working to connect me to my NAS and strangely I can still connect to servers via FTP but windows reports no web connection. The cable works with my laptop and...

Hello I've just discovered a problem with my computer today. I turned to plugs on and pressed the power button, and it made sort of a revving sound, which it does normally, but now it is revving 3 - 5 times not once. All of the fans work, but my monitor is blank apart from a little box in the...

A friend of mine convinced me to build a pc instead of buying one my only issue with building a pc was that I had never done it before. We put it all together but it wouldn't post we called Support and they told us to take out the ram the Graphics card, We did that and got nothing it still...

Let's say I am playing a game with my GTX 960 and i5-3570k @4.5 GHz. There are other things going on in the background like rendering a video, streaming, etc, any cpu tasks. Will a 970 helps increase my fps in this situation?

Made it all the way Phoenix-award work station BIOS CMOS Setup utility without software ! What can we do now ? Thankfully Determined.