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Hi all, Problem: I had a suspicion that black colors, especially during gaming, were being displayed wrong on my new ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q (bought a week ago). After connecting my old monitor again, I was proven right. Sometimes black colors appear grey and washed out, giving the image a look...

Hello, Not Played PC games for some time just finished Tomb raider, got DOOM, Alien, Alan Wake and Deus Ex. Can someone recommend some games that I may have missed so anything from about 2014 onwards ?(don't want terrible graphics) I Like horror games, first person games (battlefield...

my cable management is so poor that i can't overclock my gpu, the wires are blocking the fan of my gpu. i need any tips for cable management guys. my case is Cooler Master Elite 311 and my gpu is gigabyte gtx 1060 xtreme gaming edition

It says in Noctua's website that the height of the d15 without fans is 160 mm. 400s' cpu clearance is also 160 mm. So will it work out if i lower the middle fan and remove the other? has anyone ever tried lowering the middle fan? All i hear are people raising the outer fan for greater ram...

Hi, I have a desktop computer with ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard which worked perfectly for three years, but now it is required to reset the power supply for several times (20-30 sometimes) in order the system to boot. When the computer boots it will work for many hours without a problem so I...

Hello I have a problem. I want to buy a PC (for gaming) and i don't know what will be better choice. First of all i have a monitor with max. 1360x768 resolution so i must choice what will be best combination of GPU and CPU for this resolution. I thought about i5 6400 or i3 6300 and RX 470 or...

Hi there, I'm thinking of slightly upgrading my quite old Inspiron 580s desktop with some RAM and a Graphic Card. I'm upgrdaing Ram with 2x4 GB modules (DDR3-1333) which shouldn't be a problem. The doubts are in Graphic Card which I've decided will be Zotac GeForce GT 730 2GB DDR5 (link below)...

Im looking for a pc build with a £350-£400 budget so i can either upgrade my current pc or buy a new one entirely but Im not looking for used parts and want something with a warrenty. The main reason i want to do this is because the current cpu is bottlenecking in newer games and some games will...

Hello! I was wondering if you could help me with something. I have had my PC for about 2 years now and recently it has been shutting off randomly. Sometimes it can shut down in a couple of hours or a day. I was wondering if it may have something to do with the power supply etc. Your help...

I bought a Dell Optiplex 755 second hand in 2014. I upgraded two 1 GB ram modules with 4 Dolgix 2 GB DDR2 800 MHz modules for a total of 8 GB. I also upgrade the processor to Core2 Quad. It ran the system for two years fine until I started getting BSOD's with errors suggesting RAM problems...

Current specs: Windows 10 Pro I5-4440 Quad-Core 16GB RAM 1GB HDD + a few external HDD Asus GeForce GTX 750-Ti ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 motherboard Corsair CX 600W power supply Dual monitors: 1920 x 1080 & 1600 x 900 I want to upgrade my GTX 750 Ti, but I can't go over $200. I like nVidia...

Need a new case and don't know which one I should get.

My laptop keeps telling me my version of windows is not genuine for some reason. Even though I bought the laptop from a eligible retail store. How can I fix it i have windows 7 32bit

Hi guys. I'm looking to upgrade my rig to DDR4 and LGA 1151. I'm looking to buy a Asrock H110M DGS Motherboard with an Intel Celeron G3900 Dual Core Processor and I'm looking to slap some Kingston Hyper-X Savage 8GB DDR4-3000MHz (24000) on that. I would like to know if the board will support the...

Hello everyone! Before I had a question about lenovo but now I saw this HP Pavilion 14 and I don't know what's up with it since it doesn't have much reviews. So here are the specs: HP PAVILION 14 (14-al001nx) Intel Core i7-6500U (2,5 GHz), Nvidia GeForce 940MX (4GB), 35,6 cm (14'') FHD AG...

Hi guys , Let me know which one will perform better in Gaming. I will do gaming and live streaming simultaneously. And how much performance difference between these two CPU ? I will pair GTX 1060 with it . I5 6500 vs I7 3770

Hi, Trying to connect nzxt s340 case fans to the motherboard but can't find the correct clips. The top fan has this: http://imgur.com/0Yg47qS The side fan has this: http://imgur.com/CO9Anm9 The side fan cable always misses 1 pin on the motherboard

I have Alienware 17 with Nvidia Gtx 760M Windows 8 Today on startup the os hung and after forcefully restarting the system crashed and I got blue screen of death with error message "DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE" the system rebooted itself and I noticed that Nvidia was gone. Literally. Everything...

when im playing games my pc turns off for a moment and then turns itself on again. i've had this pc for almost 2 years now and this problem has only occured for 1 month or so. I already checked my CPU and GPU temperatures while im running games and my temperatures are normal. CPU is around 50 -...

For some reason Nvidia geforce experience doesn't work for me, i somehow managed to make account and register but after few seconds it give me this error : Something went wrong. Try restarting Nvidia geforce experience, i am using Win7. I don't know if it is somehow connected but also Skype...

MSI announced that its newest mini-PC, the Cubi 2, is now available with Intel’s 7th generation (Kaby Lake) processors. MSI’s Debuts Cubi 2 Mini-PC With Kaby Lake CPUs : Read more

which one should I upgrade? my 290 to a 1080 gtx or 3570k to a 6700k? I mostly game doom, cod and gta 5

So, I have an MSI GL62 6QC Entry-Level Gaming laptop. Of course, being a gaming laptop, it is not too great when it comes to battery life. I know that replacing the 5400 RPM hard drive with an ssd will have an improvement on battery life but, my question is how much? Also, if i simply added an...

I have a 1080p monitor and I should be able to set my resolution for games into 1440p, but the settings in game only give me an option to up the resolution to 4K no 1440p. Anyone have any ideas?

Hello and welcome to the nostalgia tech mega thread! Have you ever been the owner of a 486? Or a Macintosh running System 7? Or know what the various cages that hold CD-ROM discs are for? Have you ever used a 1.44MB floppy drive? Or a punchcard? Or a 3DFX Voodoo 2? Well this is the place to...

just recently purchased an nhd15 cooler and everything has been running great. idle temps around 15-19c and load temps around 40c. (fx-6300) however today i notice my idle temps are up around 40c with this cooler? and i have no idea why. with only around 2-3% cpu usage. for this type of hi end...

Hello everyone, I am looking for a 15" or 15.6" laptop with a fast CPU. I will use it to the numerical simulations, data mining... So it needs to have a fast single core option. I will not using it for gaming, video editing,... I will use it in different meetings with clients and supplier,s so...

Hi Im currently having issue trying to boot windows 10 from my SSD. I get an error message saying winload.exe is missing. However I can boot from a boot manager. That is ok but the pc runs very very slow whenever I try to open programs or do anything really. This happen after the pc suddenly...

Hello! My name is Aidan, and I have a really odd question about the health of my PC. To give you guys some context on it's hardware and software, it's running Windows 8.1 (whatever the latest 8 version is). GPU- MSI 750ti, CPU- AMD FX-6300 (clocked @ 3.8 GHz), MoBo- Unknown, RAM- 8gb DDR3...

I got this monitor today and it's an amazing monitor for sure but I'm not sure about this monitor's backlight bleed is little too much or acceptable. I don't really notice the backlight bleed during gaming unless I'm playing games with dark environment then I would notice this bleed a little...

I know this may have been asked somewhere before, but since this is my first time treading into intel waters i figured i'd ask. but i'm looking to play ARMA 3 and Battlefield one. I have no idea what i'm looking for in one of these processors.

Hello. about 2 months ago I bought my new build with Inno 3d GTX 1070. A few weeks ago I encountered a problem. suddenly,in the witcher 3 the fps in the main screen lowered from 2500 fps to arund 90 fps,and in game in novigrad the fps was low as 25(changed the graphics settings,no improvment).in...

My system:- Core i3 4150 Rx 460 4gb ram Can I run battlefield 1 at 1366*768 res, medium settings at 30-45fps ?

I thought about something: Can I cool a CPU using a freezer? Just hear me out: Using a liquid cooler or a custom pump, drill a hole in the two sides of the freezer. Using copper pipes, one goes inside the one side of the freezer and add a longer flexible copper pipe that goes around inside the...