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TLDR: Old PC is booting up fine with a GTX960 4GB graphics card yet fails to boot with an older GTX660 2GB I have an old computer that's used by some people in the house, and I have a fairly modern gaming PC to use myself. I need a second graphics card for my gaming PC to set up some stuff on...

Question regarding Intel DMI 3.0 (& 4.0) lanes on B series vs H series boards and help choosing the right motherboard chipset Hi all, :hello: I'm in the midst of sourcing components for my first new build in almost a decade (9+ year old i5 3470 represent)! For the new build, I will be using...

i want to be able to play newer games on my laptop but i do not have a thunderbolt 3 on my current laptop. so i was wondering if i could just run a thunderbolt 3 to a usb type a converter

I’m having problems with my i5 7600k (this has happened twice this year) what happens is the cpu just completely dies or breaks something like that. The first time it was the motherboard and the cpu because it just completely wouldn’t turn on at all and I ended up getting a new motherboard but...

Hello i just started to play my gaming comp again and was seeing what all of you think about my specs and if its worth upgrading or just buy a cyberpowerpc. If i do upgrade i would be upgrading my cpu and gpu. This is what im running now Window 10 64bit Asus m4a89td pro/usb3 Amd phenom ii x4...

**EDIT** This probably nullifies the whole point of the question - Comcast just confirmed they would charge extra for use of a second modem. Pretty lame... Thanks anyway - advice is appreciated, but I think I'm back to just standard home networking world. In that regard, can you access all of...

Also, which laptop has the best screen before the price return value starts to not be worth it? Thanks

When playing videos on my computer (not streaming) every 20 or 30 seconds it gets laggy for half a second then goes back to normal - almost as if the video goes into slow motion for half a second. My pc has a gtx 1060 6gb, ryzen 1600x processor and 16gb of 2666mhz ram. I play through an HDMI...

I'm almost done building my PC and I would like to buy a PSU. Specs: Processor: Pentium G4560 RAM: 2 x 4GB DDR4 2400MHz Mobo: Gigabyte B250M-D3H GPU: AMD Rx 480 HDD: 1x SATA 7200RPM Seagate 1TB I've also got 2 120mm fans + the standard intel CPU cooler. So my question is: will a Seasonic...

I have a mercury p1g31z motherboard can I use a zotac Nvidia GT 730 2gb ddr5 graphic card

hello guys. i wanna ask a question(s) about building full rig. for now, i'm planning to build a rig of these: 1 - intel i3-4170 2 - asus b85m-g 3 - hyper fury ddr3 1600mhz 8gb 4 - seagate barracuda 3.5" HDD 1Tb ( no SSD since i'm on tight budget for now ) 5 - asus gtx 550 Ti 1GbDdr5 ( will...

I'm planning on building my first pc and I would appreciate it if you could give me your opinion Intel Core i5-4690K (Boxed, LGA 1150 Haswell Refresh) Western Digital Blue 1 TB (3,5" SATA 3.0) ASUS DRW-24F1ST (DVD/RW) AsRock B85M Pro4 (mATX, LGA 1150, DDR3) Kingston HyperX Fury Black 2 x 8 GB...

hello, i recently bought an ssd with 480 gb but when i install it in my computer it only has 447 gb, my friend made a disk partition so it will be detected and then only 447 gb showed up, how do i fix this

So I keep on thinking about this and whether or not I wasted my money, but I recently bought an EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 which is serving fine and dandy here in DX11. That is until I read some news regarding Nvidia has trouble with Maxwell working with DX12 and not performing as well as AMD. Will...

Hi I am looking at upgrading my Acer Aspire V5-571G laptop, it has 8gb of ram as standard but websites like Crucial.com offer memory upgrades when I scan my system, however the upgrade is still only 8gb. How will changing the existing 2 memory cards that are 4gb each to the supposed upgrade that...

Hey, I currently have a GTX 960 2gb graphics card and was thinking to upgrade it to the gtx 980ti for those lovely graphics/fps! :) But now I was wondering if my comp can handle it as well, or if it is better to replace some other stuff as well My current set-up: 750 Watt Cooler /power...

I'm trying to create a cheap but nonetheless a good gaming computer. I'm thinking a gtx 960/70 with 4 gb DDR3 ram with one of the CPU's mentioned in the title. Would it be better for me to go with an intel core i3G3258 or an intel core i5 750? Or should I go with some other cheap but good CPU...

To start, here is my build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/hR6PrH My power went out recently while I was on my computer. Everything beforehand was working fine. When I turned it back on, it was stuck at the initial "A2" screen. This has happened before, unfortunately, so I guessed that if I took my...

so i have this weird electricity sound coming from either my gpu or my psu i cant tell i hear it at both but the sound is a tiny tiney higher at gpu but the thing is i've read about coil whine and it says when there is a load... i launched batman arkham knight maxed on ultra not even a beep ...

Greetings Tom's Hardware. I was web browsing while running prime95 when i turned on HWMonitor to monitor my CPU temps on idle when i noticed my i5 4460 was running at 100 degrees Celsius. I booted up XTU to see if it was faulty reading but it said the temps were also at 100 degrees and was...

The questions in the title.

CPU Intel Core i5-4690K VIEW FAN CM Hyper 212 EVO VIEW MOBO MSI Z97 PC MATE VIEW GPU MSI GeForce GTX 980 VIEW RAM Crucial Ballistix 8GB VIEW SSD Crucial MX100 128GB VIEW HDD Western Digital Blue 1 TB VIEW CASE Cooler Master HAF 912 VIEW PSU XFX Core Edition PRO550W VIEW ODD Samsung 24x...

Im currently running Zorin OS 9 (Linux) on my computer. Im looking to get the Windows 10 Tech Preview on my computer, but im not sure how to get it installed. I have the correct windows 10 iso, but My disk drive broke a while back. I have a 64gb flash drive that i would like to use. I was...

Just bought a new case for a very good price. Antec Three Hundred Two. It comes with 2 case fans intalled w hi/low speed controlls for each ouside the case(nifty feature). The new board inside is a Gigabyte fm2-a88xm-ds3h ( i believe) with 2 fan headers that are 4 pin. (GRRR) I cant seem to...

I am looking to buy a LG 25um55 or LG 25um65 monitor today and am wondering what input I need to get the full benefit of the monitor. the 55 series has HDMI while the 65 has HDMI and DVI Dual link. Both models have the above specs. At present I only have a single link DVI cable. Long trip...

This is more of a 2 part question: First part is I am stable at 4.5ghz at 1.23 Vcore, with the temps being around 80-81º C under full load. While Idle it is around 27-30º C. This seems a bit high compared to what i see other people. I have 5 fans in my case, and i assume i set up the swiftech...

For my sins I work on Trucks as part of my Job and use 2 dedicated diagnostic computers that cost like 8,000 Euros between them :( Mini rant over The older one is a touch screen windows 2000 box that unfortunately has stopped being supported. This gets just as much use as the new machine as it...

How can you breadboard without a speaker? I have a 4-pin speaker, but from my search on TH there's no where on the ASRock B85M-ITX to connect it. I tried connecting it across the HDLED+/- and Reset pins. But powering on just the MB + CPU/HSF all I get is the CPU fan and PSU fan running.

Hello guys, I bought a alienware x51 r2 about a year ago and I noticed that the newer games started to run a bit slow. I wanted to upgrade my graphicscard with the "Asus GeForce GTX 750" I'm using Geforce GTX 645 at the moment. Thanks! Alienware x51 r2 Geforce GTX 645 Intel(R) Core(TM)...

It's not powering on at all. I know there is power going to the PSU. This is the second PSU I have ordered. I was told to just plug in my graphics cards, motherboard 16 pin, and the 8 pin or w/e that is beside the processor. Yeah I've done all that. The thing is I took one of my 2 ram cards out...

Hello, my gf computer has a bunch of Errors such as "Application 'X' was unable to start correctly (0xc00XXX)" Thefore I need to run SFC /scannow . However when I try to open cmd (Admin or not) it gets that same error. I tried to also open safe mode...turns out I must go to system recovery...

I have an old 500 GB laptop hard drive from a MacBook Pro with an sata connector. It has two separate connectors close together. I'd like to use it with my 990FXA-UD3 motherboard, but the connectors are different. Do they make cables that convert from the laptop drive to my motherboard...

hi, this problem i have with my brand new gigabyte r9 270x is driving me nuts. i bought this graphic card 3 days ago and i have correctly installed it in my PC case, i have installed the latest drivers and everything is working fine, until i wanted to try how it works with games. I was very...

Hello everyone! I've been sprawling the internet for the past month and finally got together a build. I'm wondering whether or not 650W would be enough for my GPU and CPU, but since I would probably overclock them later on, I put a 750W in there just in case. I'm also looking for opinions on the...

Hi there, Today, for 4 hours, I went nuts working with Uverse 3800HGV-B. This small store has only this modem/router. When attached to Port 2 of the Uverse, my Opiplex has internet in DHCP mode. When I configure the optiplex as 192.168.1.60 (so it is out of the DHCP range of 192.168.1.64 to...

Build: Intel Core i5-4460 MSI B85M-E45, Socket-1150 Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Sport 1600MHz 8GB ASUS GeForce GTX 780 3GB PhysX CUDA Toshiba Desktop 1TB SATA 3.0 should i get a 500, 550, 600, 650 or 700 W psu?

for near maxed out gaming at 65" samsung un65f9000, would a system like this realistically offer high quality gaming at 2160p? i know crossfire has it issues but as far as scaling im not sure if it would be a viable option. also im concerned about heat with those 290s, but adding 4-6 cheap...

Hey people, Here is my spec: MOBO : ASUS M2N68 AM-PLUS CPU: AMD Athlon X2 4200 GPU: Nvidia Geforce 430 450W PSU And my problem is whenever I try to play games like Dota 2, CS:GO , Tomb Raider , Far Cry 3 after 5-10 min of ingame action my PC restarts on its own. Here is the pic of temperature...

Hi I recently bought a samsung 840 evo 120GB. I installed it in my laptop (acer aspire 5750G). Everything was working nice and dandy, I also ordered a hdd bay to put my old hdd in. While i was waiting for the hdd bay i used a 2.5 inch enclosure with usb 3.0, and once again everything was working...

Hi guys, got a weird issue that i dont even now if anyone will be able to solve, but worth a try. Before today my computer was very silent but CPU kept getting a bit hot, so i got a coolermaster hyper 212 evo and installed it and since then there has been a very annoying and loud buzzing noise...