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Today i bought a 1tb wetern digital blue for inside my pc. I replaced it with my old (500gb) toshiba HDD which still works but not relevant atm. My motherboard is a asrock H81M-vg4. after i mounted my new 1 gb hdd i entered bios trying to change the ""boot priority to cd/dvd as first and Hdd to...

Hey guys, I'm thinking about getting 3 144 hz 1080p 1ms monitors. If I do this I may not get a CPU upgrade, so my specs will be: GTX 1080 SC EVGA, I5-4590S 3.7 OC, 8 RAM and HDD. So my frame rates in my current 4k resolution are DOOM at 72, CSGO well over 500, Rocket League number error, etc. So...

I have a Dell Inspiron Mini tower with a 300 Watt PSU. I'm upgrading my system part by part (PSU then motherboard then graphics card, case etc.) and I'm wondering if a CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V would fit in my minitower?

Ok narrowed it down to 2, COOLER MASTER RC-690 and Antec 300 I am really not sure, i need it to be able to fit 2 5770's and have good airflow. anyone know about these? antec http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129066 coolermaster...

I dont know if this is the right Forum for this post, but here goes... Just built my first kick-ass gaming cpu and now I am looking to place all my Consols (PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox) in my CPU cabinet. I have a HD monitor and the HD pack for my Xbox and this one is my favorite, so I want to use...

Hello, Can you do Both Asus ssd Caching and Raid 0? Components are: ASUS P9X79 Pro motherboard, with Intel i7-3820 3.60 Ghz, Intel 10MB smart cache, HDD: two 120GB Corsair Force GT 6 GB/s RAID 0, Video: AMD Radeon HD7750 1 GB 16X PCIe gen 3, and 16 GB (4 X 4) DDR3/1600MHz Corsair...

So ok i got my new board. GA-7DXR. problems: there are NO jumpers to set the FSB so it is stuck at 100mhz???? i don't know but there are no jumpers to set the fsb. does anyone else have this? It says in the manual jumper 20 and 19 but those jumpers seem to have been removed? i don't get it...

2 X Intel 510 SSD 120GB in RAID 0 works only on 3Gbps when I switch them to AHCI mode they works on 6Gbps - the motherboard is Intel DH67CL? Any ideas? Thanks

I've recently become disappointed with my hd 6870's heatsink and fan. When running graphics heavy games it becomes annoyingly loud and because of the heatsink's design, it blows hot air right into my case and my cpu cooler. I'm thinking I can get better performance and higher overclocks with...

How do I find what this passphrase was when my printer was set upm or how do I get a new one?

Hi, I am looking for a good gaming monitor for crossfire 6850s, intel i5 2500k OC and p8p67 pro mobo. I wanted the ASUS VW266H which is here, http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5371370 , but I can't find them in stock ANYWHERE. I have been trying to track...

I am doing some research on LCD monitors, but I couldn't find enough on the connectors since wikipedia gives too much info that I don't need after reading, and some on google just are not direct enough. What I got from wikipedia is that HDMI supports TV and PC, D-Sub is for PC, DVI is for PC...

Hi, I recently bought a philips2301e monitor. Problem is audio becomes scratchy when I scroll windows or generally when the monitor is "active". So audio is clean when the monitor is still, but becomes scratchy when I scroll web pages or use windows explorer, etc. Is this interference caused...

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) I own an invitation design and printing company, and have been interested for a while in digital printing output instead of printing press. From what I have read, solid ink laser printing will come closest to the finish I'm looking for. I...

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.scanner (More info?) Just go a new fujitsu 4120c2 scanner. Cant' get paperport or scandall 21 which came with scanner to recognize the scanner. It shows up in control panel under scanner as being installed. Running windows 2000 server. Not sure where to...

Archived from groups: alt.comp.devices.digital-cameras,alt.comp.periphs.dcameras,alt.comp.periphs.dcameras.canon (More info?) Hello all, I am looking to buy my first digital camera. After a lot of research, I have decided on either the Sony DSC S90, Canon A520 or the Nikon Coolpix 5600. I am...

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) I have a HP 3015 all-in-one printer. Can someone advise me which protocol is the best performance in terms of quality and speed between LPR and TCP/JetDirect. Thanks, Ray

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) I had originally reported being dissatisfied with the print quality- thought the prints looked drab and lifeless. I had the same files printed at the drugstore, and they seemed a whole lot better, but the colors and hues were...

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) Has anyone checked out the new burners that will burn a label on your cds. it is done by laser etching.newegg has a benq brand on sell for $84.00 after rebate maybe it would be cheaper to burn the label instead of using a printer.I have...

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.scanner (More info?) Using a Microtek ScanMaker 4800 and ScanWizard 5 software, when I go to "Advance Control Panel" I have three scanning areas (outlined by those famous marching ants). This results in three scans per pass. I would like to delete two...

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.webcam (More info?) I have a strange problem installing a new Logitech Quickcam. Installing the SW from the original driver disk works fine. When plugging the USB camera in, the installation cannot complete becaus several drivers appear to be missing. e.g...

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.webcam (More info?) After perusing this group for a while yesterday I am now able to stream live video from my website using Windows Media Encoder. There was a little trial and error involved involving my IP (behind a router and misreported by WME) but...

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) Hi all I am confused. I am happy with DPI, pixels and so on. However can someone explaing the following. 1. My printer has a max resolution of 1440 dpi. If I have a digital image of 2880 x 1500, it must only be 2 inches wide when...

I'm using a Microsoft Intellimouse with the optical laser. This is one of the early ones; it only has two buttons and a wheel. Anyway, today I was trying to clean dirt out of one of the seams on the mouse and apparently I must have cracked part of it open and broken something without knowing...

Is there any advantage of manual dial in point and shoot cameras over those which have not?

Archived from groups: rec.photo.digital (More info?) I'm considering buying a Panasonic FZ3 in the New Year. It'll be my first digital camera, so I have no experience of the image processing software that goes with it. [I used to have an OM2 + 35-135 f2.8 zoom + optical doubler + dedicated...

hello forum, im trying to overclock my amd phenom ii x4 B45,so far i've only increased the referrence clock from 200(stock) to 235 (3.5ghz)which is stable .i tried increasing to 240,3.6ghz but while stress testing with prime95 for 30 minutes it shutsdown and restart..i don't know what to do...

Whenever I read or write something from a CD/DVD, my computer slows down dramatically. I have a quad core with 4gb of ram and 1tb hdd. What could be my problem?

So I'm starting a new desktop build. I'm not a big gamer, I do a lot of photo/video editing, photoshop/alias sketch, corel painter and 3-D modeling (Alias Studiotools, Rhino, Solidworks, etc) as an Industrial Designer. I bought my case, the HAF-X (blue edition) and am now trying to figure out...

just curious, i am purchasing a new PC within the next day or so. I will be getting the Intel® Core™ i7-2600K 3.40 GHz 8M Intel Smart Cache LGA1155 and overclocking it most likely. I have heard a lot of people on this site say their not a fan of overclocking higher end processors but i was jus...

Specs: 4gb g-series dd3 ram ( 9-9-20) gts 250 superclocked edition EVGA i5 -750 1156 @ 3.3ghz - 1.12V HAF 922 Case Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 1156 Temps: Cpu : 45-50c ( Idle) 55-60(load) GPU: 40-60c (idle) 70-105C(load) My fan setup: one big (200m) intake fan at the front one big...

Hi, I just did a mini upgrade from a setup to another setup and not sure which set of ram I should keep, any suggestions would be appreciated. Please note that I own both set of rams now so price would not be considered (the better set would be kept in my system and the other one would be sold...

I heard somewhere that my AMD64 AthlonII 240 X2 (2.8GHz AM3) processor can be unlocked to 4 cores? Is this true? If so, can someone tell me how? Thanks, Nathaniel

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I am about to receive my H70, May I know where is the best position to place the H70? and recommendation for replacing the H70's FANs, i heard they are loud.

Hi, I'm trying to overclock my E6550 on MSI 945P NEO5 and 9500GT. I can boot and stable (6h Prime95) on 372Mhz (2.6Ghz cpu) FSB, 1:1 FSB/Memory, PciE 133Mhz!!!. Naturaly my problem comes when I try to play. Every game has artifacts. Now I'm trying to lower my pcie frequency to 100 but after I...

If you read my other topic disregard it, I somehow got it back to normal by switching some things to auto then back to manual and removing some programs. This is my first time overclocking so nooby questions: I want to overclock my CPU and Ram, Cpu is a AMD Phenom II 955 Negro, and Ram is...

Hello all, long time reader 1st time posting. Have just made the jump from my old 4800x2 duel core amd rig to my new bang for buck cheap gaming system. So after some reading it was the i3 Duel core over the 550 BE AMD duel core. So for my 400 NZ dollars i managed to pick up a P7P55LX...

Hi, I read most of the RAM overclocking guides but when I tried to overclock my RAM its not working properly. So in the BIOS I can set the RAM frequency up to 800mhz (ddr3 1600) so I did and then when it booted up I got a "no signal" so I retried except this time with some voltage increase...

Hi everybody, I am new here and would gladly take any advice. I've had a bit of (ease) luck in getting my 45nm to 2.8 but I think that only better CPU cooling will let me go futher. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This is my humble rig VIsta x64 SP2 6002 Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L Q8200 @...