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I'm contemplating building a system with either the Intel E5-2620 or E3-1275. It mainly comes down to total processing power that I need to take advantage of multi-core statisical calculation (floating point) applications and large datasets (memory and drive storage). Is the method to estimate...

Hello. I restarted my PC after my screen blanked out in a game I was playing after changing the resolution. Then when I boot my PC, the Windows logo appears, the loading thing starts rotating, then it black screens and my monitor displays some text saying "no video avaliable".The only thing I...

so i basically salvaged my 2 x 120 mm cpu cooler fans and i took of this weak crappy asus fan over the gpu heatsink : and i replaced them with the 2 120 mm fans (with duct tape) and it ended up looking like this : it works! it produces some noise but it's not nasty so can you...

Title says it all. Hi all! A quick question. What will be the performance difference of all these 4 cpus in gaming at stock with a gtx 970 playing all the new titles? Don't take oc'ing into account. And one more thing which of these will last me longer like 2 3 years or maybe more?

I recently received a new hard drive bay so I could dual mount both of my EVO 850 SSDs in the bay together. They were previously in a RAID0 configuration together, yet when I switched them to the new bay and booted, my computer boots into recovery mode. When I tried to wipe the drives and files...

Buying a zotac gtx 750 ti and using it with a old monitor of mine that only has a vga port. I'm pretty sure the gtx 750 ti doesnt have a vga port so how am I gonna use it with my monitor? What cable will I need I'm not sure whats the difference between (male) vga or (female) vga or male dvi and...

Hi, so I've been getting this problem lately and i wanted to make sure it was fixed and wasn't causing any real damage to my system. When i start my PC in the morning, My monitor light doesn't turn green but stays orange/yellow thus not recognizing the PC is on or connected? I have to restart a...

I have an Acer Aspire 1300 that I installed a Linux distro on. I wanted to dual boot another OS and went to BIOS to select the optical drive to boot from. I did this when I installed Linux from a thumb drive. Then I selected USB to boot from. Now when I go into BIOS there is not optical...

Looking for a new grahics card, right now I'm looking at: Geforce GTX 980 ti Geforce GTX 980 ti Hybrid or Geforce GTX 980 ti Super Overclocked Out of these 3, which one would be best performance wise

Hi, one of my backup PC's has a rosewill 500 W power supply in it. I am running a Core Quad Q8400 @ 3.4, and a Radeon HD 6850. The psu is just "rosewill" no other branding. Is this a decent PSU or no?

Is it possible to hard wire a security camera using the power from the smoke detector? If yes, could someone walk me through how you would do it? Clarifications: I bought a wireless security camera that needs to have power supplied to it and wanted to know if it was possible to hard wire it to...

Hello, I've recently purchased a laptop HP 17-g185nb. It had Win8, which i erased for a Win7 It has a BCM43142 wifi card, which was not detected so I started to search for a driver. It seems as there is no Win7 driver, only Win8 and Win10. I'm still not sure since Broadcom has zero...

I have an Acer E1-522 Laptop and I want to hook up 3 monitors but my "Display Settings" will only detect two. I bought a VGA splitter thinking that it would turn one VGA output into two, but it looks like all I can do is duplicate the displays. Can someone help me set up a 3 monitor extended...

My computer was running and there was a "pop" and the computer turned off and it will not turn on. I looked in the case for any signs of damage. I didn't find any of the damage, and though there was a bit of dust on the inside, it wasn't running hot. I don't know what the issue is and I don't...

Im beefing up my old PC to play minor games that use Source Engine or unreal 3. I have an AMD Xp SSE(1) Type proccesor and wont currently run most games i want to play. What should i do? Thanks