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I been looking at a new graphic card to replace my aging gtx 560ti. I have issue with my previous prebuilt computer with heat with my previous 2 cards(reach 90-100c) and have built a computer last year with reasonable powerful component and the temp were much better. The power supply is a...

Hi, I've had my computer for a while but for the past year or so I've been having this issue. I'll play any game and after a while my computer will crash. It will go to a black screen and then I will hear all the fans stop. The power light is still on but there is no disk activity. Its...

So I built my first ever of yeseterday and later that night i found a note saying IMPORTANT remove unused motherboard standoffs or something like that. I took my pc apart but I am confused to which ones are standoffs could they be already taken out? If they are the things that you put the bronze...

Hello, I was told that raid 0 (2x 1TB Samsung 840 evo) could potentially wipe all my data very easily, is this true? Are there any other raid configurations that can decrease the chances of data loss?

I finally finished building my new PC, unfortunally when I turn it on, fans turn on, I see green light on my graphic card, and also I don't ear a "Beep" sound. I also have the little "Speaker" thing that doesn't seems to work on the Motherboard, I pluged it the SPEAKER and on each side, and...

So,I decided to upgrade my GPU and bought Sapphire r9 280. It came with 2 of these and since it's the first time I ever changed my graphics card myself I have no idea how I'm supposed to connect it to the PSU.So if any of you could help a little bit I'd be grateful.

Hi there. I wanna buy a new graphic card for gaming for my PC. My PC spec is: CPU AMD PHENUM II X3 710 2.6GHz RAM 2*2G GEIL 1066MHz DDR III CL 7 MB ASUS M7A78T-E VGA GAINWARD 9500GT 1GB 128 Bit DDR II HDD Seagate 1TB PW GREEN 535W MONITOR LGW1943S 18.5” CASE GREEN MIDI6C28 DVD RW HP I've...

My audio keeps popping, I downloaded DPC Latency Checker and it confirms something's messing with it and causing the clicks, I've disabled almost everything trying to find what was doing it but nothing helps. It's driving my god damn insane with the popping now. Is there any way to figure out...

Hi guys, My system recently died on me and I'm upgrading it. And most probably I'm looking at a FX 6300.. R7 260x or a r9 270.. 4GB Ram.. I know this can handle 1080p at low / medium settings but since I'm ditching my 1440x900 monitor for my Full HD 32" TV, I'm planning to run all my games at...

Hi, I just loaded assassins creed 3 yesterday and it was playing fine. I logged in today to play and the graphics have gone all weird. It looks like the 3D colours have separated.

Hi everyone i'm looking for a gaming workstation build. I will use this build for gaming (such as, CS:GO, Dirt 3, Grid Autosport, etc.) and I will be using this also for architectural rendering with programs such as Autocad, 3ds Max, etc. I currently have this in pcpartpicker: PCPartPicker part...

Hey guys I'm building a gaming PC and I was wondering which of these GPUs would give me the highest fps at 1080p- 1. Sapphire dual-x r9 280x 2. XFX double dissipation (not black) r9 280x 3. MSI twin frozr r9 285(not x)

I'm currently running the following build: Mobo - ASrock P67 Extreme4 Gen3 CPU - i5-2500K clocked @ 4GHz Cooler - Hyper 212 EVO Memory - 8gb Corsair Vengeance HD1 - Crucial M4 128GB SSD HD2 - Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM HD3 - 3TB HDD PSU - Corsair Professional Series HX750 GPU - GTX 780...

I have bought 2 gb ram but it does not exist in my motherboard's qvl so is it necessary that it should not work

Hi guys wanted to know which CPU is better and by how much, someone put into context the comparison. So I currently have an AMD phenom ii x4 b60 3.3ghz cpu and I want to upgrade to Intel I5 4690k 3.5ghz cpu I play games such as crysis, lord of the rings online, skyrim, bf3/4 so how much will...

A couple months ago I got a key from onthehub.com for Windows 8.1, but now I need to reformat and I was wondering if I would have to call Microsoft to deactivate the key that I'm using now so I can reinstall using that same key on the same PC. Is this true? Does it only matter if it is on...

Hello.. I've spent days scouring the web for an answer to this and haven't come up with much. I am a music producer, and I travel a lot. I have two computers that I work on most often. One, is a windows 7 desktop I built a year or two ago, and the other is a Windows 8 laptop I bought new. My...

gto a h100i, want tot do push pull (noob 1st time builder here btw) is it possible and better to do pull/pull??? also in push/pull do i have the pessure fan on top of the rad or bottom?

Model naming has gotten a bit squirrelly. XFX has made TS models that they sell as 'core' in some sites, and other TS models that might be better than Core Editions. Here is what I think, but can't prove. Can anyone confirm or deny? XFX 550w TS (Bronze, Core Edition(?)) P1-550S-XXB9 =...

Hey, this is my first gaming pc build and I have put together the rig below. I was wondering about if this is a good psu and if there was any way to save money to get similar performance or better. Budget range: $2000-2500 System usage from most to least important: gaming, web browsing, photo...

I'm in a bit of a jiffy. I recently bought a caviar black 1tb hard drive and wanted it to replace my caviar blue so I could use the blue for extra storage. What I did was I cloned the blue disk to the black disk so they were now exactly the same. Then, I booted off of the black one and it seemed...

Hi, I just build my first PC and i installed my HDD into it and connected it with sata cables. All my other components are connected with psu and stuff too. But i wanted to do a test boot to see if everything runs and when i turned it on i heard my HDD beeping and my screen just showed a...

Just built a new i7-4790K system with 4 Samsung Pro SSDs and one WD Black 2 TB drive uusing Gigabyte Z97X- UD5H-BK mobo and Windows 8.1. All working well until I installed an eSATA drive. (Using this for backup.) Blew my mind for a while when the Optical drive didn't show up with eSATA...

i want to replace my asrock wolfdale 1333-d667 with a asus motherboard with ddr3 ram...so what is the best 775 asus motherboard? I want to reuse my other specs hihi GTX 750 Core 2 Duo E8400(maybe i will find a second hand core 2 quad) Corsair Hydro Series H60 TIA Everyone! :)

Hello. I was getting 55-65 fps in BF3 and 4 but then I changed a setting in chrome and then I started getting about 3 fps. Then I changed it back but it made no difference and now I still have low FPS.

I just got a dell precision t7400 (It was actually free) and I want to upgrade my video card from a Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 to something decent. I'm currently looking at evga's 760, 770, and low end 780's. My OSD says if you want an AMD card you should have an AMD processor and if you want a...

I have Graphic card SAPPHIRE HD 6570 2GB DDR3 and i have only 2GB ram DDR3 . I want to know if i upgrade my ram to 4GB or 6GB is that will effect more on gaming performance or no . and i want to know if it worth to try it or no . becouse i cant play games like BF3 or COD ghosts , however i can...

The title should be pretty self explanatory. I have a gold rated corsair 750w psu that I purchased in preparation for an upgrade to my system. I plan on either placing a 780 or 780ti in my system, as well as a whole new CPU because I currently only have a 4 core 3.0. Could my gold rated 750w...

Does this build work out? I'm new to building PCs so I'm not sure about compatibility etc. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/W2jm3C

Back in September i built my first pc with the incredibly stupid mistake of not installing the motherboard with the spacers. Once I realized what I did, which was after trying to start and getting nothing, I re installed it and the pc functioned perfectly fine. Fast forward to January of this...

Hi, I'm having a strange problem when playing video games on my PC. I will be able to play my games for about 5-10 mins with no problems, however my monitor will then display a specific colour (usually dependent on the colour of texture i'm looking at in game) and show a vertical pattern of...

I am a novice and am now trying to add a 64GB SSD to my system as secondary storage while keeping my 500GB HDD as primary boot drive. I am running Windows 7 HP (32-bit). Have done all of the hardware connections but have not booted the system. Would like to know what potential issues there might...

Can I use an 8 pin psu cpu connector to a 4 pin cpu connector on my motherboard or do I need to buy an adapter cable for this?

I have been researching this and since I am not so computer hardware savvy I think I must ask. It has the 0D883F mobo with the E5504 cpus (x2). I want to upgrade to the fastest and most cores possible. I considered buying a used T5500 and swaping the cpu's (cheapest option), but there are so...

So currently I am lacking any kind of graphical power in my gaming rig, seems like madness, but I build it out of old an new parts. I don't want to spend £1000's, yet, on GPU's so bang for buck which is better, 2 GTX 770 in SLI or a GTX Titan Black edition. I don't mind doing a bit of OC'ing...