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Yesterday I decided to try using msi afterburner and overclocking my laptop for the first time. I had no background information going into it so I was just following youtube tutorials on it. And a heads up, I am not very knowledgeable about things like this in general regarding laptops. The...

Ok, i bought this Acer Spin 5 1 year ago. It was doing fine until one day it was unbearable lag while playing or using a design software (Adobe Illustratur, etc). I tried a lot of system check app and all of that show that my hardware was in a good condition, did some virus scanning using...

Hello everyone,recently i purchase an X530 logitech an a sound card Asus xonar SE.Since it s a 5.1 thought the better the sound . I ve installed the soundcard and all the sattelites then pluged the system in the sound card. i did as the instructions from the soundcard said ,green to green,black...

So the title say it all. What can I do? I want the motherboard, if possible to have the following things: 1. RAID 5 support( I really just want to reuse like 4 HDDs lying up in my house) 2.Future-proof*(things like USB type C, M.2, etc) *I can live without those things, specially the type C...

I recently got a new desktop and my monitor as the title says won't let me select 75hz which I believe the monitor is (I may be wrong). The only choices are 50, 59, or 60. Could this be related to screen tearing in anyway? I am connected to my computer using DisplayPort rather than HDMI. Build

Just installed a new ssd trying to update bios but its saying it cant read my usb. My mobo is MSI B75MA-P45 (MS-7798) and my cpu is an i5 3570k. My msconfig32 says im running uefi I dont know if thats affecting anything. my bios ver is ami v1.3 the latest version is 1.9 from what I have found...

Im not going to be overclocking, should I get a heat sync? Heres my build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xRX7GX Please help :)

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/components-upgrades/internal-hard-drives/solid-state-drives/samsung-840-evo-2-5-ssd-120-gb-21735209-pdt.html#longDesc and http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/components-upgrades/internal-hard-drives/solid-state-drives/samsung-840-evo-2-5-internal-ssd-120-gb-21728692-pdt.html

Hi How do you tell which monitor can be mounted? Is there some marking in he name, should i look in the discription or just try to get a picture of the back of the monitor to see if theres a mounting bracket?

Soo i had to choose a different CPU cooler as my stock AMD one is doing a good job but sounds like a hurricane constantly running at 4000 RPM , so shall i get a hyper 212 EVO or a cheaper water cooling maintenance free one like the cooler master seidon 120m my budget is £40 any help would be...

Hi, im having a massive problem with which way to go toward upgrading. my specs are: AMD Phenom II x4 965 @4.1Ghz R9 280X Direct CU2 8gb ram 600w Psu Corsair H60 Water cooler ASUS M5A99X motherboard at the start i had my cpu set to srtock clocks (3.4) but i was experiencing bottlenecking due to...

Hi, im having a massive problem with which way to go toward upgrading. my specs are: AMD Phenom II x4 965 @4.1Ghz R9 280X Direct CU2 8gb ram 600w Psu Corsair H60 Water cooler ASUS M5A99X motherboard at the start i had my cpu set to srtock clocks (3.4) but i was experiencing bottlenecking due to...

I'm going on an overclocking binge to get the maximum performance out of my FX-6300. So far I've got to 4.5 GHz (increased CPU multiplier only) at +0.100 V according to my motherboard, so 1.418 V maximum according to CPU-Z after many hours of stress testing. After 10 hours of Small FFT and 13...