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Hello everyone! Unfortunately, I dropped my 4TB WD easystore portable hard drive today. When I plugged the HD into my apple computer, it took a minute for the drive to show up. When it did show up, the files took a lot longer than usual to populate. When looking at the properties of the...

Please consider eBay for pricing. I am curious what is the best bang for the buck cpu for $50 or less in your opinion.

Issue: A few days ago while playing games, my computer shut itself off (in such a way that I first thought that there was a power outage to the whole building). Moments later I noticed a slight amount of smoke coming from the desktop tower, I also believe just prior to shutting off that I heard...

Hello sir , having wd hardisk blue 1TB in my pc from four years and till now and i maintained it well by defragementing.. Today I just installed the crystal disk version 7 on my pc (having os windows 7 right now ) it shows that On health states "caution" [c5] current pending sector count: 1...

Are there any devices on the market that will allow me to plug the USB dongle from my logitec headphones in that will also accept a toslink cable? I want to set my systems up so they all funnel into my headphones so at night I can play games on the TV through a console or just watch the TV. I...

Hey guys, I wanted to see if anyone here can rate my pc? I have an Overclocked Intel Pentium G630, EVGA GTX 660 3GB, 6 Gigabytes of DDR3, Razer Anansi and Hama Urage Unleashed. Thanks!

I have had enough with Windows 10, so please do not tell me it is better, etc. I want to install Windows 7 on my GPD Win but I run into the issue where when i select the drive to install it to, selecting the built in emmc gives me the error. It says I needs a driver for the device Intel SD Host...

The led logo on my Evga 1060 ssc doesn't turn on. It never did. I just got it a couple days ago and put it in a brand new mobo. I tried the nvidia led visualizar and switched the light to on and still nothing. Also there is nothing in the GeForce experience program either. I really want the...

Just assembled a new computer. G4560 XFX RX 480 4G Rosewill Photon 550w 80+ gold modular msi b150 PC MATE corsair vengeance 8gb x1 2666 kingston 120gb SSD hitachi 2tb HDD My manual simply says very uninformative crap like "if light on DRAM, DRAM error." What's it mean when it starts at CPU...

In Overwatch i compared the FPS at same settings. The $1600 rig can capped out at 120-140 fps, while my rig is $2500 and only capped out at 100-110. Why is that? $1600 build (not over clocked) Processor: i7 7700k kaby lake Mobo: Asus Z270 Prime AR VGA: Asus ROG 1070 OC Memory: Corsair (2*4gb)...

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Hello, I just sold my GTX 960 and I need to upgrade to eather a 1060 FTW+ or 1070 FTW (Both by EVGA) I need to know which is better for my budgeg and if my Cpu will bottleneck them. Thx! Cpu: i5 4690k non over clocked. 1060: www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=06G-P4-6368-KR 1070: EVGA...

Hello Tomshardware users! i recently moved into a different house and i decided to play some League of Legends. i then noticed that my wifi connection in my room was pretty bad. the modem is on the 1st floor and i am on the 3rd floor. i know the best solution is to run an ethernet cable but...

I just bought the EVGA GTX 970 4Gb SC, i5 4690K, and NZXT Source 210 black case, after checking PC Part Picker it says that some of the drive bays may not be usable. I'm planning on getting a 1tb hard drive and an SSD so 2 driver bays would be taken up, can i still fit everything in there? Im...

Hi I was wondering what would be the best and least problematic high end Full ATX 1151 motherboard for a i7 6700k CPU? So great audio, good bios, and ETC...(no SLI needed, but fine if included) Budget up to $200 max Any Comments Welcome Thanks

I bought a used pc for my brother. The config of it is: amd fx 4100 cpu sapphire radeon vapor-x r9 270x gpu 1tb hard disk gigabyte 78lmt-usb3 motherboard corsair gs 600 psu i clean installed windows 10 and updated it with all the new updates from the update centre. Then i installed games like...

Hello. My kid spilled a drink and it dribbled down desk into the computer hitting ONLY the GPU. I replaced the gpu to my old (ancient more like it) r7 200 and it works fine but my old one was not working. The screen was just black and I noticed the fans would start to spin but just stop then try...

I cant decide between the two and would appreciate some input. My Build: CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard:? Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory Storage:Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5"...

Long story short i need a second monitor although the only output i have is 1x HDMI 1x Displayport 1x DVI My Dvi port is being used to power my only monitor atm, i was wondering if i could do a DVI to either HDMI or Display port with a adapter and if it would work since the monitor only...

I have a Gigabyte Z97MX board and I bent 1 of the pins slightly out of position on the board. I just want to know, would the computer start up if the certain pin wasn't touching the cpu?

i have the Pentium(R) Dual-Core cpu e5400 @2.70GHz i want to upgrade an not sure what processor would be best for my computer

Im looking to buy a new graphics card for my gaming pc. You mightve already seen me post stuff similar to this, sorry, just want to be sure. my motherboard is: dq965gf I will be using an intel core 2 quad q6600 cpu with 6gb ram my current gpu is an amd radeon hd 4670 diamond I will be usingit...

So I'm planning on upgrading from my GTX 560 to this: http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-SuperClocked-Dual-Link-Graphics-02G-P4-2765-KR/dp/B00DHW4HXY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403718041&sr=8-1&keywords=gtx+670 The only question I have is, can I run it? Power...