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Hello, I'm Michel i want to know about how to identifying north & south bridge of a mother board ?

Hi, I recently attempted to install a secondary SATA hard drive as a slave with windows xp pro.The drive is displayed in my bios and under device manager>disk management,but when I try to initialize/format the drive after right-clicking,the only options available are;New Partition,Properties...

Hello, i'm looking into buying my first gaming PC, and i'm new to this. Basically, I'm on a $460 budget for the following parts: Graphics card, motherboard, CPU, ram, Power source, and tower. i Have everything else i need. i'm not even sure where to start which is why i'm here, i'm just looking...

Ok, i was recommended the build below earlier in the month and have decided to roll with it. I have bought the case so far and will continue purchasing everything else over the next month. Any further critque or advice before i continue purchasing would be awesome. The system will be used for...

Approximate Purchase Date: 2-4 weeks (or until specific items become available e.g samsung 840 pro ssd) Budget Range: ~$3000AUD but don't really have a set limit System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming at highest settings for present and future games at 1920x1080 and possibly higher...

I know the Q8200 isnt exactly a great CPU for overclocking but I got one for almost free and I pluged it into a P5Q SE Plus motherboard With G Skill Ripjaws DDR2 800 RAM and decided to see what I could do with it. I am also using an HD 4670 at the moment and might upgrade to something better...

I am building a new system for myself and I need some advice. I am going to be going with a XFX 780i MOBO (Already owned to save money...otherwise would have gone with 790i), Intel Q9650 CPU, Zerotherm Nirvana NV120 HS/Fan ( I plan on some overclocking), Corsair CMPSU-1000HX 1000 Watt PSU, 8GB...

Hello,i want to know the best between turion 64 x2 dual core motherboard durability compared to centrino duo.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/ca/p/l1CZ Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/ca/p/l1CZ/by_merchant/ Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/ca/p/l1CZ/benchmarks/ CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ Newegg Canada) Motherboard: MSI...

So Im looking to upgrade my rig and would like some input if possible. I have about 1200$ to spend for the internals, case and psu will remain from previous build. Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: in 5 days Budget Range: 1100-1200$ before shipping System Usage from Most to Least Important...

OK, I isolated the problem in the new PC I built, it is the WiFi Card " RED TP-LINK PCI 150MBPS 1 ANTENA (WN751ND) ". But i don't think it makes sense... At first I though it it was touching the circuits of the motherboard, so I wrapped the metal slot that is screwed to the bac of the case in...

Hi I just wanted some feedback and to see what you guys would change in my gaming build seeing as this is my first time building a computer. Thanks! http://pcpartpicker.com/p/n7Wb There it is!

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My parents currently work in the same study in our house (they are both teachers, and use computers extensively) and often, both their computers are on at the same time, which makes this room very hot and undesirable. We're moving into a new house soon, and with this all in progress, I've come...

So I started out with a HP pavillion G5130 which i bought 2 years ago. I was getting really annoyed by the low graphics performance of this PC so i bought a new videocard and PSU, now the computer runs all programs like word and chrome etc smoothly, but whenever i start a (newer) game it crashes...

The graphics card on my Sony Vaio VGN-AR51E seems to have died. I need to buy a replacement but have no clue of which one to buy (no matter where you look in the "support" (?) of Sony's website you don't seem to find any clear explanations...). Could anyone kindly advise. Thanks.

Hi guys, I'm running a 730 Watt power supply "http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817152036&Tpk=raidmax%20730w" I know it's a pretty sketchy power supply already, but do you think this would be able to run a single 680. I read the 680 requires 38amps and my power supply has 2...

Hi guys, I am planning to build a new PC for gaming because I've had my current one for about 6 years now and its getting old. Below listed are the current parts I am planning to buy: Motherboard - Unsure Trying to decide between these 3: MSI Z77 MPOWER Motherboard - $229...

Hi, is 500w enough for a GTX560 (Palit edition), I just bought a FSP Bluestorm ii, which according to Newegg customer reviews, and other reviews online, is a very good PSU and is actually SLI capable, comes with 1x6pin and 1x6+2 pin. Rest of system. Core 2 Duo @3.4Ghz (E7500) ASRock G-41M -...

Hello, first and foremost I'm from Portugal, I'm 20 and I've been following this website for quite some time now, I've assembled an idea for a build, which is the most budget-orientated but efficient as possible (I think). :) I checked the stickied thread and I'll try to follow it's...

Hi! I bought a mini itx motherboard from Gigabyte, model GA-H55N-USB3. The socket of this motherboard is LGA1156. I already have two memory modules Gskill, model Ripjaws-X F3-10666CL9D-4GBXL, where the package says "memory modules are designed Specifically for Intel LGA1155 processors Sandy...

Approximate Purchase Date: Within 1 Month. Budget Range: $800 After Rebates; before Shipping System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, videos. I play Ultima Online.(lol) Thinking about trying Battlefield and WOW on decent settings. Are you buying a monitor: No Do you need to...

I am close to installing my motherboard into my case, and I had a question about placing it on the standoffs. I know that it is important to get the motherboard properly placed on the standoffs so that none of them poke the back of the board and short it. My question is, how likely is this to...

Hi All, I just got done with my build (still need to clean up the wiring) but I've run into a few snags. 1, being my mobo is still displaying the code AO (code: IDE initialization is started) on it even thought I've fully updated all the drivers for it. I've heard you need to disable IDE? 2...

So my storage Set up was simple. C drive with windows 7 on it was just 1 harddrive. And my storage drive was a Level 0 Raid with 2 hard drives (which are still in perfect working condition). My computer was restarting randomly so usually reseating the ram would fix this for a couple of weeks...