DVD Burning

Hello, i am thinking of upgrading my gaming pc currently i have a phenom ii x4 840 3.2ghz proc and an nvidia gtx 560. should i upgrade my gpu or cpu? thanks for responses?

Hello, I would like to ask something and hope you guys could help me out. I recently installed VMware 9.0 and then installed windows 8 32bit extreme edition R1(idk if theres such a version but i pirated it tsktsk). Whenever I try to set more than 2 cores for my windows 8 VM, it still stays...

I have a Dell XPS M1710 laptop with a Geforce 7950GTX 512MB graphics card. I left it on over night and when I tried to turn it on in the morning the screen wouldn't come on(just black). I rebooted and all the other things work but no screen...I connected it to an external monitor and the display...

Archived from groups: uk.comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.laptops (More info?) I'm just about to purchase 13 Acer notebooks for work. It's a last minute thing as was about to buy some well very cheap and well specced HP Athlon XP notebooks until I found out that the model was discontinued. So I've...

I have been using Excel for many years and considered myself pretty sharp on Excel issues. Recently Office 2010 Startup was installed on this computer (and since has been removed). I have a rollup document that I link excel to in a formula situation. Before I could just go into the cell...

Hello Tom's hardware community, I have NFS in a folder that my friend gave me. It has the four following files. Main Folder: NFS Pro Street Folder Contents: 1]HKZonda.nfo (with a small blue computer as its icon) 2]NeedForSpeedProtv1.)NoDVDFixedexeEng.rar...

I was thinking about picking 2 of these up! But i was wondering if my Power Supply would be strong enough? Rig Below Thx Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 Processor (CPU): Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600...

hi frnds ,i m thinking to buy buy a hd5670(on a very tight budget of 6k,,(100$ may be :s) for my pc ,system configuration is:: core2duo e7400 2.8ghz , 2gb ddr2 ram, 450w power supply, a monitor supporting max resolution of 1600x900(thinking to play at this resolution), not going to max ,what u...

i'm thinking about buying a laptop "FOR GAMING" I know that laptops aren't really meant for gaming but still. I would like at least 15" screen, Top notch graphics.... don't care much abt the hard disk space... as long as it's above 160 gb... need 3 gb or plus RAM.... budget.. 3000 $.... so far...

I just purchased this graphics card and was wondering if it is any good? Anyone know if it will play PC games well or on high settings?

So my sisters computer was running slow because i duno.... but anyways i reinstalled windows and installed all the drivers but one of them came with an error about the charger haveing to be plugged in when it already was.(driver to flash the bios i believe) but anyways what happens is after it...

I am looking for some advice about adding another hard drive to my computer. Currently I have a 120 gig SATA 150 as my master drive, which is full thus the need to add another drive, and an IDE hard drive that I use for backups, ghosts and music. I just bought a WD 250 gig SATA 300 hard drive...

Has anyone had luck getting this chipset to connect to a wireless network. I am running Ubuntu and it recognizes the nic but won't connect. Is there something special to get it to work with WEP?

When I try to overclock my CPU,my RAM will be also overclocked but I don't want so. please help me how Ican prevent this! :bounce:

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.security (More info?) I'm attempting to restrict a file share's security so that a group of users can modify/save existing .xls documents, but not delete them. By setting the directory's security disallow delete, this works. The problem is...

Will partition magic allow me to copy my old hard drive so that i can use the new hard drive in my computer to boot from without reinstalling everything? I have my system drive as c: master right now. I want to move it to the slave drive. Once the partition is on the slave drive, do I have to...

Hi, I have a Western Digital WD1200JB in my system. Just installed it a few days ago, although it had been sitting in an unopened box for several months prior. The drive works well....very quiet, and fast for an Ultra ATA-100 drive. I do have a few problems, however. With the case off, I...

One of our employees just encountered this problem that I can't seem to figure out. While working, she got an error message that she had too little space available on her HD. When she checked the C drive through Windows Explorer, it showed her as having under 100 MB free. I came over the next...

Hi guys, I've been trying to pick the best laptop for gaming and looks. I am fixated on the alienware m15x with the intel i7 820QM processor as well as the dell studio xps 16 with the same processor. I am leaning towards the dell xps 16 because it looks much better and is cheaper in general...

I have a small notebook and I have problems with boot.ini. Everytime I on its appear and my notebook have no CD. I try system recovery also fail. Please help me

Kazuo Hirai, who takes over as President and CEO of Sony Corp. in April, believes the company needs to set aside previous tradition and focus on the new "user experience" in order to succeed. Sony's New CEO Sees a Tough Road Ahead : Read more

Cooler Master has revealed its new line of power supplies, the Silent Pro Hybrid series, which is fully modular and comes with a fan controller for the PSU and up to three system fans. Cooler Master Reveals the Silent Pro Hybrid Series PSUs : Read more

Microsoft will reportedly showcase Windows 8 running on a Samsung tablet next week during Microsoft's BUILD developers conference. Microsoft Unveiling Windows 8 on Tablet Next Week : Read more

This week has been filled with reports about the apparent hacking of the Pentagon. China: We Don't Hack the U.S. : Read more

Browsing through online retailers for the latest prices on CPUs, we came across some good prices on the latest AMD and Intel offerings. For example, a quick run over to PriceGrabber looking fore Core i7 CPUs, lands us with some attractive figures. Deal: Pickup Core i7's for Less than Core 2's ...

Intel's first 65 nm double-core processor seriously merits the hyperbole of its Extreme Edition name. The 3.46 GHz, FSB 1066 and 4 MB L2 device shows that Intel's still got some bite and wait till you see what happens when it is overclocked at 4.26 GHz. Intel's 65 nm Process Breathes Fire into...

Hello, How do I get my operating system disc?

The Diamond Monster 3D II, which I received directly from Diamond's Vice President Corporate Marketing and the European Marketing Manager is at final beta state Diamond Monster 3D II - More Than a Worthy Successor : Read more

Hello, hello i want to download the lexmark x422 driver for webcame of acer aspire one d270.. ????

How to install driver for windows 7 on my lex mark x1185?

hi i know u wont know 4 sure or maybe wont have any idea at all but i need to know abouut how much the radeon 7970 will cost AFTER the 7990 comes out or lik how much prices have dropped in the past

I'm running a HP Pavilion dv5-2135dx with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 graphics card. I have had it connected to my HD TV for the last week via HDMI cable. Up until yesterday all sound played through the TV speakers. I don't know what I did, but sound will now only play through the laptop...

Hey all, Looking for a bit of help on this one. I just put together a custom PC for gaming. Currently running Windows 7 Professional. Graphics card is an EVGA GTX 570 2.5GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130687 Anyway, the issue at hand, my display driver seems to crash from...

Is this a quality parts list? if there are any cheaper parts I wouldnt mind getting those instead but since the graphics card comes with dirt showdown, and I already wanted this game, Im pretending I'm buying that separately and pretending the card cost is reduced about 50 dollars Approximate...

Hey guys, This has been an ongoing issue for me and because it only happens every now and then I've been able to put up with it. Basically what happens is I'll either be watching a video/playing a game or browsing the web and all of a sudden my graphics will start to play up. I get these 'blue...

Hello everyone! This is my first time posting although I have been a regular to this website when in need of advice. I built my very first computer last night and everything seemed to work just fine. I was to the point where I was installing programs onto it. I got tired and went to sleep. I...

Hello, I have a Dell dimension 8400 P4 3.2GHz, 3Gb RAM and Geforce 6800 GPU. I wanted to upgrade the GPU to an HD4770. When I tried the HD4770 and switched the pc on all the fans came on and a gpu fault was indicated on the leds at the back. I have since tested the hd4770 in another pc and it...

Hello This is my first post on Tom's and over to greet the moderators who read a long time I take this opportunity to ask you fans and experts about the possibility of replacing the video card present in 'Imac in late 2009 with that running on the newest one : 6970M ; with its 2GB saves me...

Hi guys , recently i have been experiencing some weird events. When i want to start my PC i have no image no weird beeps nothing , i have an 8800 GT video card with 6 pin power connector . I was thinking that it failed , then i went to a friend borrow his gts 250 and plugged it in and still...