First Gaming PC

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  1. jake man

    Question First PC build please help.

    So I made a list of all the parts I was going to buy but I'm not sure if I made the right choices or if there are better options to swap to. I will be using the PC for Gaming and general tasks and I'm planning to buy all the parts either today or I could wait for next week if its better for me...
  2. C

    Build Advice Help finding parts for my first gaming PC ?

    Yes you heard that right. First gaming PC! Now I know some stuff about PCs and I watched a lot of Linus tech tips videos. I don’t have a budget and I want the absolute top-of-the-line most powerful PC you can put together. They are some parts that I already know I want and there are others that...
  3. R

    Help? is it safe to sell laptop after factory reset?

    Hello all, I recently sold my laptop after using the partition to factory settings restore my laptop hdd after removing the sdd. My question is was that safe enough to sell like that? Could the person I sold it to possibly still recovery any of my info? I'm just worried they could get my card...
  4. M

    Theater Game room device setup

    I'm looking to make a 4k TV, projector, Xbox 1 S, PS4, DISH Cable & laptop work with my new x2300 Denon receiver and a multi connection HDMI switcher. I want constant 7.1 sound and the ability to send any of those devises to the projector screen at a touch of a switch. Just not sure of the...
  5. A

    corsair 450D VS MasterCase pro 5 (airflow)

    which is better airflow with stock fans corsair 450d MasterCase pro5
  6. P

    My CPU usage is 100% on almost anything

    First off I want to say hi to everyone and thank everyone for even looking at this problem I been having. Couple of days ago I've cleaned up my CPU and applied new thermal heat-sink paste I think after doing that my CPU have been behaving very strange. When running programs like VLC, iTunes and...
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    GTX 750 Ti in an HP computer

    I have a friend who wants to upgrade his graphics card in this computer: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02866204&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=ca&dlc=en&lc=en&product=5147803 He doesn't want to spend a lot of money, so I recommended the 750 Ti so that he wouldn't have to...
  8. V

    Awkward internet is awkward

    I've been having this weird problem lately where I loose connection to steam and skype while I play Counter Strike: GO. However internet works fine (even steams website) and my ping is just fine. The connection will drop for about 3 minutes before it returns, lasting 1 minute or so before...
  9. R

    Replacing existing Win7 pc's on a domain with a new Win7 pc

    So up front, I'm more of a hardware guy. I have a customer who wants to replace 3 older PC's with newer ones and they're the same OS (Win7). The customer has their users doc's and such on the server and not the individual PC. How do I backup whatever needs to be on the current PC's and convert...