Hi there,
I've always been a gamer and I own a computer store near Pittsburgh, PA. I currently have a Geforce 5900 Ultra I believe. It still plays most games fine, Half Life 2 looks great and plays really smooth. However I just got Battlefield 2 and it actually is pretty choppy on some maps...
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I found a guy in a Telvanni Tower who sells Summon Golden Saint spells. I
have run across Summon Golden Saint scrolls, but never a spell before. My
conjuration skill is lousy, and it costs 150+ magicka to cast, so it was
really not useful...
Hi, I need help. I was given a cisco wireless bridge. I need it to connect my desktop to the internet. I configured the bridge to my internet without an issue, but when I connect the ethernet cable to my desktop it will not connect to the internet still.
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since I haven't found any conclusive sources, I am unsure if my i5-2500 CPU is running at decent temperatures.
At stock speeds, it runs ~ 37 C° idle and about ~ 56 C° under heavy load. Is this something to be concerned about?
Thanks in advance.
Hello everyone. For some time now I had a problem I've been unable to resolve (or even find its causes).
Sometimes, totally randomly (it can be twice a day or twice a month) my screen turns into a solid color and computer freezes - becomes totally unresponsive. Colour of the screen depends...
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I'm having a problem with my Phenom II X6 1100T. I have encountered a problem where my computer will blue screen whenever core3 (the 4th core) of the CPU comes under load. I've tried everything from updating BIOS to unplugging my DVD-ROM drive from the PSU to see if it was an issue...
My Dell XPS8100 desktop is incredibly loud/noisy. I've used compressed air to clean out any dust, but that didn't make a difference. The fan on the heatsink/cpu is noisy as well as the fan at the back of the case. I'm not sure how much noise is being added by the video card fan or the power...
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There seems to be an overwhelming amount of MP stuff about but does
anybody know of any single player mods that are finished or near to
being finished for HL2?
I've tried the Minerva: Metastasis level which is very good but very
very...
Hey guys, I recently upgraded my graphics card from a galaxy gt430 to a MSI twin frozr gtx660 (non-ti), and I've been experiencing some problems, not only in gaming, that I believe is being caused by a CPU bottleneck
specs
CPU: Intel Core 2 duo E7500 2.93GHz dual core
mobo: 0K83V0 Intel...
I have a Corsair 300R case. Love the look but it doesn't tell me which side of the HD LED connector is positive and which is negative. The directions for the Mobo (ASRock B75 Pro 3) tell me not to confuse the two! Is there a customary way to determine which side of a two prong HD LED connector...
I installed an Intel P4 550 3.4GHz on an intel d915bpl motherboard, using one of the stock coolers from an old c2d I had extra, and used arctic silver 5. The cpu runs 65C-70C right as it boots and once activity starts while using programs on XP the temps go up to 80C and up. I applied a thin...
i have a confusion between first generation i5 and second generation i5 .. ? how does it mak a difference in the speed / performance ?? the laptop which i am planning to buy ( which has the first gen i5 ) has 8 gb RAM .... and my second option is a laptop (with 2nd gen i5 ) but 6 gb RAM ?? which...
The fan does not to seem work, meaning its not spinning. I was wondering why I felt heat coming from underneath my case, and I realized the fans weren't spinning. I know its a modular PSU, however isnt the fan suppose to be running at all times?
hello,
I will buy an i5 3570K. I want to make about 4.5 to 4.6 GHz OC.
What do you think of this cpu cooler?
http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6727
I want to spend no more than $ 50
regards
Hi everyone,
i just found a new asetek 740gf on ebay but the postage is quite a lot
if a bought off ebay.com as opposed to ebay.co.uk, would i save money?
(is there extra tax for ebay.com)
(i live in the uk)
Ok so im putting up a new system with an existing GTX 460 & Rosewill Stallion 500W PSU. The UPS I have is rated at 360 Watts/6A and the last time I used it with an old system with the same GPU|PSU (6 months back to be precise) the ups was continuously beeping and abruptly dying out (ON load...
hey Guys, need some help! i have a 5 yr old toshiba Laptop that has worked great till about a month ago. I was using it one day and the screen froze after about 15 minutes use and I had to hard boot it to get it back up. It did it again after 15 min or so so I defragged the Hard drive ran scan...
I am looking into building a PC. I was wanting to know if the Corsair tx650m would power two gtx 670's in SLI, an i5 2500k OC'd to 4.0GHz on a Corsair H60, a Corsair force 3 120GB SSD, 8GB of 1600mhz RAM, and a 1TB HDD?
I have a HP Compaq old computer. (HP Compaq nx8220 Notebook PC)
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual&lang=en&cc=us&prodSeriesId=447351&prodTypeId=0
The manual of the computer is here:
The internal pin of the power connector (inside the...
I am about to buy my first ever gaming pc but a little confused in selecting the case i have narrowed my choice to 2 cases that is antec 900 or cm haf 912 advanced in my region both are almost of the samed price and i do like both the cases as far as looks are conceerned but featue wise I...
So I'm on my 1st budget build and have selected a Gigabyte HD Radeon 7770 OC as my GPU (Suggested 450W). Im having a hard time finding a PSU in my budgets price range, which is about $60ish
My budget is about $550
Specs:
Antec 1100 Case $125 (Already Purchased)
Intel Core i3 3220 Dual Core...
So everyone is talking about the new trinity series i've heard the out now, Mostly laptops are being sold, Would you guys suggest using this as for a Gamer?
The items i was Going to buy before:
AMD fx 4100
As rock extreme
GTX 560 superclocked
and how much will the trinity Cost? there...
Im new to this so I was wondering if this pc would be decent for gaming.
ASUS M5A97 AMD 9 Series AM3+ Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition AM3 CPU HDZ965FBGMBOX - 3.40GHz
Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B Desktop Memory Kit - 8GB (2x 4GB)
EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 01G-P3-1556-KR Video...
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i was just wondering if the intel core i3 2100 (2.3 ghz) with the NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 630m will run borderlands. NOT LOOKING TO RUN IT ON HIGH SETTING. only medium
i bought a case with a HDD port on the top. the case itself contain a Sata cable(assuming that from the top mounted HDD) and plug it into HDD socket on my mobo. everything works great but the top mount HDD port doesnt work at all. i put a Hard drive on the top and nothing happen. my pc doesnt...
I don't know which Overclockable i5 CPU to get. I haven't got a motherboard yet so this is the decider on what motherboard to get. If you can suggest a motherboard as well please do. This is for gaming.
CPU needs:
At least 4.2 ghz stable OC
Under £180
Motherboard needs:
At least 16gb...
I will hopefully be upgrading my CPU/Motherboard soon and I have some questions on installing Windows and other miscellaneous things.. first off, I am using an SSD as a my Boot Drive and an HDD as a Storage Device. First question is, how do I install Windows on my SSD? Do I wipe it first or do I...
Just bought a build and was wondering if this PSU can handle it
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor
Sapphire 6950 (2gb) (already had)
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX-FR 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
MSI...
Hi,
So to start off I should tell you that the RAM in my machine is not fully compatible with the motherboard I am currently using, this gives me error codes on boot related to a memory issue. However, in order to actually have the machine functioning, I have to wait for the computer to post...