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I really need help, I just upgraded pretty much everything on my computer and it works alright but every time I try to open up an application or run something to freezes up and takes forever to get going and sometimes it doesn’t even do anything at all. I reinstalled my graphics card drivers and...

I have an i5-8400 and now I've started to use a virtual machine, works fine, but wondering if getting a faster chip like the i7 8700 would make a difference because it has 12 threads instead of 6? How would the extra threads benefit me? I don't game, only productivity: - opening programs -...

Hi guys, When I bought my new pc (self-built), I accidentally made my harddrive GPT. Now I bought a ssd and I wanna do my OS to my ssd but I can't. If I wanna do it in device manager it doesn't let me click ''convert to MBR''.

Two nights ago my computer BSOD'd with an unexpected_store_exception. The next day when I booted up I noticed my D:\ drive was missing. It was not present in Disk Manager. I restarted my computer, and this time the OS, which is installed in C:\ refuses to load, instead BSODing with an...

Hi, I'm just a guy who needs some advices for a new pc, because that's pratically my first build. There are the components I was looking at - CPU: i3-7100 3.9 Ghz - GPU: Zotac gtx 1050 ti Mini - MB: MSI-H110M Gaming - RAM: Crucial 1x8GB DDR4-2133 - Storage: Western Digital RE4 1TB (7200rpm...

i just bought a game from g2a and while its downloading my whole computer is F'D UP. Slow mouse moving, browsing laggy...what is this did i just get a virus, can you get a virus from redeeming keys from g2a? Update, it finsihed downloading and its fine now, but what the hell just happend

I recently got a Nokia Lumia 520 and the only thing that does when it boots it prints "Unable to find a boot-able option .Press any key to shut down." BUT it only boot when I plug it in a power source it does not power from the battery even if I leave it on the source to charge it does not...

Hi i'm about to buy a GTX 960 2gb but everywhere where I look on gameplay videos I see people with an GTX 960 putting everything on very high yet the textures only on normal to keep it under the vram limit. But is this even necessary? Because some people say just turn off sugested limit and you...

how to duplicate the screen in windows xp?

please suggest a PSU for a GTX 750ti what is the minimum it requires?

So apparently I was hoping to buy the gtx 970 or 770, sadly upon making a thread a user said my psu won't handle it. is this true?

hello i have two new games in my hand a far cry 4 ,assasins creed unity my question is can my pc handle it on ultra @ 768p my pc specs are 1. i3 2120@3.3 ghz 2.Sapphire Dual X R9 270 oc 2gb ddr5 3.two 4 gb total 8 gb ddr3 1333 mhz ram twinmos 4.win 8.1 running latest beta drivers please note...

What is a good gaming mouse I can buy. budget - max of $50.00

Hi guys, I'm looking for a quality power supply to power my low end gaming PC. There are only limited power supplies available on the store where I will buy it. So here are my choices: Hec Cougar Sl500 - 1700 PHP Corsair VS450 - 1700 PHP Aerocool VP Pro 500w - 1850 PHP Thermaltake New Litepower...

I am really bad when it comes to motherboards, all I know is to see the features, but not the quality of it. Wich one of these is worth more? MSI - B85-G43 Asus - B85-Plus The Asus motherboard looks to have a more dense motherboard covered with chips and wirings, so I am guessing it is the...

Hello, I noticed something strange: There's a lag in windows when I hold and drag the mouse for selection rectangle, but only when I keep CTRL or ALT or SHIFT pressed along with the mouse button, there's a lag even with this simple rectangular marquee in windows, the movement gets frozen every...

Hello, I would like to know if there is any configuration required to swap out a 100 mb switch to a gb switch. The network setting are perfect and I dont want to screw anything up when I swap out the switches

Approximate Purchase Date: Approx. Dec 2013. or Jan. 2014 Budget Range: Approx. $400 total (less is better) System Usage from Most to Least Important: Web surfing, video watching, heavy download, little gaming Are you buying a monitor: No Parts to Upgrade/Downgrade: Mobo, CPU, GPU, PSU, RAM...

Hello, I am making a gaming pc, for streaming videos on twitch, and youtube videos. here are the specs: CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor CPU COOLER: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler THERMAL COMPOUND: Noctua NT-H1 3.5g Thermal Paste MOTHERBOARD...

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im confused, are you going to need a powerful rig and display that shows 120 FPS for the Rift or 60 FPS

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) Hi, I have an xp computer and I think the kids downloaded a virus. The control panel icons no longer work. Clicking them does nothing and some of them are missing. Does anyone know what I can do to try to fix this...

For my new build I am going with I am going with a SLi/CFX setup, gtx 660ti/670 sli. My question is for purely a gaming rig, and my previous experience with having an ssd for boot/os and games, and it was OK, not worth it right now I don't think honestly. Should I get what I was going to get GTX...

Archived from groups: rec.games.frp.dnd (More info?) Here's something for discussion: In the old days, the typical artifact (if any artifact can be considered typical) has 'side effects' - disabilities that came with owning such a powerful artifact. One of my characters, a ranger, killed...

Hi guys, I am moving to a newly build house, the house has a center control box, and ethernet ports through out the house. The builder said, I need to put a gigabit switch in the control box where the cable modem will be located. So in the control box will contain the cable modem and the...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?) Hi all... My guest account encounters service control manager errors over and over to the point that I can not use it. So I created a new account. That account worked fine until I changed it from an admin to a user...

I was speaking to someone earlier about this, and they told me that a NTFS format HDD won't work on Windows 7. Truth or Fake?

Hi everyone, I'm looking to buy a pre-built gaming PC which will allow me to play high res games for the next 3-4 years. I expect to play TESO on the highest resolution in addition to some FPS games. I'm a complete newb so I would like your opinion on this build from Cyberpowerpc.com: BASE...

Hello, cd rom of my computer is missing what should i do

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games (More info?) I'm getting this error with a newly installed game when I try and start it. I've reinstalled 2 times... I have a new computer Athlon 3000+ 2.1 GHZ 522 RAM 64 Bit Video... The error is: [Direct3D Error] [CreateDevice Failed] I need...

Hi, I am a graduate student pursuing research in GPGPU many-core computing. Hence I need a fair enough GPU, as my research is not throughput oriented but on synchronization primitives for GPUs and I may also run virtual machines. I found the deal (Enhance your IdeaPad Y400 Laptop - 59360114 -...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (More info?) Ok i want to reformat my computer. I have read several reformatting threads on this site but i could not find ne that would do it step by step. I basically want to know when you get into system bio's where do you...

Can someone make me a good build that will run bf4 high settings 45-60 FPS?

Archived from groups: comp.sys.hp.hardware (More info?) I have an old HP Pavillion that came with windows 98 (I think SE). The computer has been out of service for a while and I want to set it up as a spare and was going to reinstal Windows from the Restore CD. For some reason the restore CD...

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?) I have a new Dell 8400 with Windows XP installed. Running spybot, Norton security and Antivirus. If I watch Norton AV scan I can see It scan certain folders and sometimes it finds some adware threats reports them but can't delete them...

Hello, Yesterday my computer "crashed" right after updating the windows media player pulgin via firefox. Since then I have gotten the infamout startup loop. I have tried the following Startup repair safe mode last known good configuration Startup repair disk Sfc scannow(running for the 4th...

Hi! I really need expert opinion about liquid cooling. Because my spoken english is not so good, i'll show in images :) - my current configuration with single loop for cpu and mb - planned configuration with liquid cooling for gpu's So I have a few questions for liquid cooling or...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?) My administrator account can access my hotmail account. None of the limited user accounts can access the hotmail account. We have a family hotmail account and a family computer and I would like to have evryone except...

my left click is not working

Is the point of 2 gpus just to have more displays running good graphics?