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As the title says, I'm looking to upgrade from my measly GeForce 9800GT to a better card, so I was wondering what the best card in a budget is to run today's games on mid-high settings is. I was considering the GTX 750 Ti, or Radeon HD7770 but I'm not all that good when it comes to picking...

Hello my fellow comrades, so i have a MSI GeForce GTX970 Gaming 4G OC 4GB GDDR5 and i wonder if i can SLI without a problem buying an EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Superclocked, 4096 MB GDDR5, i can link them if needed, just thought you could give me something just by saying what i want to get. Besides...

I have been trying to upgrade my rig for better gaming but I am on a tight budget. are the old x5670's ok for gaming? Currently using a 920 which does fine for 95% of games, but a few i play need more power. I am aware that 12 threads for gaming is overkill, but i plan on turning off ht...

Currently have the i5 but i can get the Xeon (same lga1150 socket) as a trade, how much will the benefit be in terms of video editing with all adobe programs. doesnt matter which xeon just one around $250 on the 1150 socket

Hello everyone, So i have a problem. Well its not really a problem but when i start up my pc i hear 1 BEEP? I searched the internet for it and i found anything where it says that 1 BEEP is a Dram Refresh Failure on the AMI BIOS, and i have a AMI BIOS. So can anyone help me out because last 2...

What happens if i put 3 or 4dimms in a dual channel board ? Do i lose performance on those dimms or lose or downgrade all the ram?

As you probably gather from the thread title, I'm wanting to build a gaming PC for around £600. I've looked around at a few custom builds that look great for right around my budget, but they're all American and when I find the parts on UK Amazon for example, they seem to be much more expensive...

I have an MSI Z97M Gaming Motherboard and two MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G video cards. I was wondering what would be the best method for keeping these video cards cooled? When I initially installed them, my Primary card would be 20c higher than my secondary card. I reached 90c in no time and it shut...

I am going to buy a gaming PC for around $2000 (I can spend a bit more). I plan on having it pre-built because I don't know how to build it and I'm scared that I am going to screw things up. I also live in Canada so I can only order stuff from canadian sites. I was planning to buy this...

Hello, I am seeking to upgrade my current PC (build 2010) into something capable of running some of the next upcoming games (namely Star Citizen) and lasting a while for all my other uses too; my current rig fullfills all my non-gaming needs albeit a little slowly when rendering so its mainly a...

All my games keep crashing after i have played them for 30-45 minutes. Mainly i play cs-go. It plays normally for 3-45 minutes and then crashes. If i start the game again then ,it crashes after 4-5 minutes. This is not only With cs-go each game crashes like this. My Specs R7 265 4gb ram FX 6300...

I have been doing some research and i want a GTX 980. However i do not know which bracnd to go for as everybrand seems good. My overall view was that GIGABYTE and MSI were the best. Also please look at the build and see wether or not it is good. http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/qTxqQ7

I know that the 6770 is an old card but I really only play modded Minecraft, CS:GO and such. I was wanting to know if its good enough to play Battlefield Hardline when it comes out on low-med settings at 900p with 35+ FPS. Also if I'll be able to record CS:GO with fraps and still get 60FPS. Thanks

I recently built a new computer. Here is my specs AMD FX 8320 8 Core MSI r7 260x OC Edition PNY 4GB 1333 RAM 1TB HARD DRIVE THERMALTAKE TR2 600W PSU ASrock 980DE3/U3S3 I was working on my computer trying to put the motherboard on the case. I was thinking why is the motherboard uneven and not...

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H Processor: I5-4670K, no overclock GPU x2: ASUS GTX660-DC2O-2GD5 Power supply: Corsair AX750 First GPU is installed in PCIEx16 slot Second GPU is installed in PCIEx8 slot Nothing installed in PCIEx4 slot Both GPU's appear in device manager as working properly...

i have just installed skype and while trying to set the speaker in the skype's setting i cant find my headphone i even tried to read the sound suppord issues on skype yet nothing helped...

I'm planning to change my 2 memory RAM that I already have on my PC. The memory ram I already have on my PC are 2 Exceleram E30106A of 2GB DDR3. So basically I have 4 GB ram (64-bit OS, Windows 7). My motherboard is GA-H61M-DS2 that has only 2 slots for memory ram...

I have a problem with my setup. Right now, i own an amd a8 6600k basic setup. for the display output, my current setup is 19.5" Generic Monitor (the one Im using can serve as a TV when im not using the computer, no brandname because its from china) now, i am going to live with my father. he...

I have a external drive drive that stop working a couple months back and I took my external hard drive out of the casing to see if I can get it to work using the apricorn adaptor but it's not working. However my computer shows that it's plug in but its not reading at all

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BMt2zy Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BMt2zy/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel Core i3-4330 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($135.95 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: ASRock B85M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($69.99 @ Amazon) Memory...

My desktop tipped over after I tripped on a headset chord one day and now the screen turns black at random times. At first it wouldn't even turn on so I had to plug in the loose motherboard power chord. I'm not sure what could be causing this and it is getting very annoying. Any help would be...

Will somebody recommend a graphics card upgrade for this computer.https://docs.sony.com/release/specs/VGCRB30_mksp.pdf It must be within less than 100 range.I am intending to play some light gaming like gmod left 4 dead and cod 5 zombies.

Hi, I really need a replacement battery for my LG P210, but could only find battery-store.eu as the only available option. Any opinions or personal experiences with these guys would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, wishba

Hello, Just today, I installed the new Geforce 344.11 driver for my GTX 780. I read in the features that G-Sync is now available and I can't figure out how to activate it. Could somebody help me figure this out? Thank you so much

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/dabel9/saved/KMfnTW Building my first pc and wondering what you guys think as far as compatibility and longevity. Do you think this will work for my first build or should I improve/change some things? I'm just trying to keep it under $700.

Hey Tom's hardware, so I recently finished my first build (yay!!) However I went into bios to make sure everything was running compadre and span and I noticed my cpu was running at a solid 63~65c. I am using a cooler master elite 130 which is pretty small but I'm worried it won't be up to the...

Well im building a computer for a while now and after lots of research i came to an end and i finished building it. The only thing that im not sure of, is if this computer will be cooled enough with this cooling system. build : http://pcpartpicker.com/p/twzcgs All i want to know is: if i build...

How much would it cost to get a fan fixed that has completely stopped running inside a hp pavilion dv7 laptop?

So I play mostly World of Warcraft and I just built a new gaming pc. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Q2t3NG I'm honestly not familiar with most of these graphics card settings. I'm not sure what half of them even do. I'll spend a bit of time today reading about them but sometimes it helps to get...

I just got a Z87 Extreme4 motherboard to replace my Z87 PRO3. I got windows working and got to desktop. I deleted my z87 pro3 icon on my desktop (not sure what it was for) and my computer shut down. I tried to turn it back on, but it powers on to a black screen, occasionally the Asrock logo...

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/w4J2WZ What I have selected now, unsure on a video card. I'd like to stay around or below $200 for the gpu, and I read that a GeForce 760 or a R9 270 will be able to play at high/ultra with this rig. Also if you see any other changes that will have the same or very...

Okay, so i've been playing around with RAID for quite sometime, and tonight i just put in a 4th Samsung 840 Pro 128GB and the results seem to look like they're worse. I wasn't expecting a big jump adding a 4th. I didn't think it would knock the first two numbers down like that either. Maybe i'm...

I recently purchased BF4 for the PC and I am trying to use my xbox one controller with it. Does anyone else use their Xbox one controller to play? The controller drivers just got released and works for all of my other games like Assassins creed IV and Dishonored. I don't know how to get it to...

1. What is your budget? $800 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? at least 14" 3. What screen resolution do you want? doesn't matter 4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? portable 5. How much battery life do you need? at least 2 hours, not...

Can i crossfire if one PCIe is 3.0 and the second one is 2.0 and will this affect performance a in any way? thanks in advance,i am confident that i can crossfire but just to be sure :D

hey guys, would appreciate the help on this one. heres my scenario, just updated the new driver for my GT740M. now cant play dark souls 2 nor any other games even if i installed the driver from my recovery disks. whats worse is that i cant open my nvidia contral panel even if my GPU is working...

=-Here Are My Specs-= http://pcpartpicker.com/user/LegendOfLich/saved/4BdU Every game that needs dx10, or dx11 never works for me. I upgraded from a gt 430 to my gtx 750 ti if thats an issue. I just want to be able to run games in dx11 and not dx9. If I try to go to dxdiag, the first tab says I...

CPU : Core i5 4670 MOBO : Asus H87M-PRO RAM : 8GB RipJaws 1600MHz GPU : GTX 750 ti PSU : Seasonic M12II-520 520W 80PLUS I could go for a 4670k, Z87 board and R9-270X, but the PSU will be demoted to a lower brand, Should I go with that ? games I play : Dead Space 3, BF4, Crysis 3, Watch_Dogs...

I am from india. I want to chose a cpu having integerated graphics that can be used for some light gaming. I am not installing any discrete graphic card in it. The processor should not cost more than 4000Rs. Please reply with the model number of the cpu, it can be from intel as well as amd, but...

Hi all Ive got an Acer Aspire 5672 with a Ati Radeon x1400 GPU I have installed windows 7 and it has mis identified the GPU and assigned it standard VGA drivers. I have the correct drivers file (no installer though) but cannot update the existing ones as indows thinks its a standard adapter HELP...