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I recently built a new desktop and am looking into converting my old computer into a dedicated storage box (DAS). I have about 60TB and growing worth of data to store so housing it in a single computer is getting slightly unreasonable. outwitting both my new computer with 10GBit Ethernet, I was...

Hello there, i have a simple question, i'm going to buy a computer soon and i already got 2 old monitors laying around, one has a VGA female and the other has an DVI-D Dual-Link and a vga female too. The graphics card that im going to buy is an GTX 1050ti and it has a dvi-d port, a hdmi and a...

If I have DDR4 2800 CL15 1.25V overclocked to 3200 CL16 1.35V, how much would it affect the lifespan of the memory module? Should I be hesitant to leave that overclock in place without thinking about it further unless I run in to stability issues?

here are the specs intel i7 4th gen 4700k processor 12gb ddr3 1tb hdd dvd drive 750watt power supply Razer blackwidow chroma keyboard and Benq XL240T gaming monitor

So I own this PC: CPU: Intel Core i5 4690k @ 4.0 Ghz CPU Cooler: Be Quiet Pure Rock Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Memory: HyperX Furry 8GB DDR3 2x4GB SSD_1: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD_2: Adata SP900 128GB HDD: Western Digital Blue 1TB Video Card: Gigabyte G1 Gaming 970 (+100 Mhz Core Clock...

Hey everyone, I am entirely new to Tom's Hardware and this is the first time ever asking the community and I'm super excited! With that being said, I have a question I wanted to ask. Currently, I am running a GTX 960 2 gb for GPU, and an AMD FX 8350 for CPU. I have only 8 gbs of DDR3 ram...

I'll be building my first computer soon and there's one thing I don't understand. How much ram do I need? I was thinking about getting 16gb of ram but only using 1 or 2 ram slots and keeping 3 or 6 open. The real question is future-proofing like this a good idea and how much RAM do you think...

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($219.88 @ OutletPC) CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($128.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($138.99 @ SuperBiiz)...

I just noticed i have AMD duel core optimizer installed and launching on startup my question is do i need that for any reason with my amd fx 6350 6 core?

will cm glacer 240l fit in z97 boards? its 1150 socket

trying to pick a good GPU that can run games like Battlefield 4, Metro, Crysis 3 on ULTRA settings (i may not need that much of AA) at decent frame rates. here is what i found so far, but i don't know which to chose. GTX 660 GTX 760 R9 270X Dual-X R9 270X Vapor-X I've watched a lot of...

Hello, I'm looking to buy new graphics card.I have HD 5450 1GB ddr3 silent.I recently found nVidia GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB for ~160$.My question is can I run it on G41T-M7 V1.0.Problem is GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB uses PCI Express 3.0 and my motherboard only have PCI Express x1 slot and PCI Express x16...

Hey! So I finally have everything I want at the moment for the computer and am now looking to overclock. I, however, am not sure just how to go about doing this. I've read that MSI Afterburner works pretty well but I'm not sure just how it works. I'm looking to get it as high as possible, or at...

I have a radiator, and 2 fans are currently pushing air through, but I was hoping to soon add 2 more fans to pull air out. My question is, do the fans that are pushing need to be the same as the fans that are pulling. Reason for this is that i want to use Noctua fans to pull (great quality) but...