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Back history; I've had the same desktop for the last 9 years or so, running on a stock HP p6334f system with the exception of upgrading to a GT640 4 years ago. Its done all my gaming and browsing needs faithfully. I've always run a dual screen setup and monitored system process', ram usage and...

Can someone help me? I have a AMD FX 8370 that I believe is being bottle neaked to death by my gtx 750ti. On games it gets crazy low FPS but with my Intel i5 2400 and the same gtx 750ti it has no issues with gaming at all. For an example, I'm a big ARMA 3 player and with a AMD fx 8370 + gtx...

I have a intel core i5-7200U processor and i am planning to buy two gtx 1070s. Will the cpu bottleneck the graphicscards?

MSI ATX Z97 PC MATE MotherBoard Ripjaws X Series 32GB DDR3 1600 i5 4690k Devils Canyon 3.5GHz Gigabyte GTX 970 WindForce 4GB GDDR5 EVGA 650W 80+ Gold PSU Samsung 120GB SATA III SSD WD 1TB SATA 6.0 Gb/s HDD

First and foremost, I was trying to give an old computer to my brother-in-law's son. The computer itself is about 7 years old, with no mods done to it. I finished getting all the old BS off the HDD, and then we were going to reformat it. However, his dad mentioned that he had a stick of 8bg...

Been wanting Intel for a while, but with dx12 around the corner and from what I know amd sounds appealing, and cheaper. If you think I should go with AMD, what cpu doing would run current modern games without to much bottlenecking?

My hard drive recently got corrupted and I was just wondering whether it could have damaged any of my other parts.

I just finished my first build a couple months ago. Everything working perfectly until two days ago. I turned off the computer, next day it will not turn on. Here is my build: CPU Intel Core......i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core CPU Cooler...........Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve...

Is the Sonos playbar and sub worth getting for a computer ? is it not overkill for a pc ?

I don't want to write a whole story because I've done it so many times, the only important thing that matters is that my motherboard(BIOS) is causing the issue. My video card is a GTX 670 2GB(Legacy card, but updated with latest UEFI vBIOS) and it isn't performing at full capability, I have read...

This has been bothering me for a long time. Why do power supply cords/monitor power cords so loose? My computer has shutdown randomly many times while gaming because of a stupid loose cord. Its so frustrating, can someone explain why and how I can solve this? EDIT: I tried getting the cord...

hey guys im playing metro last light at 1080p and not getting great fps at ultra im getting about 58 avg fps after turning off aa its come up to 74 but there are times where my fps falls very much it comes down to the 20s in during intense battles when there is blood and gunfire all over i know...

Corsair Raptor K40 or Tt eSPORTS Challenger Pro. These are the 2 best keyboards in my price bracket, the Corsair being only $24 more, The Challenger Pro looks THE BEST but the Raptor K40 is a little shorter and i like both my hands to be close to each other, i live in Australia thats why these...

Which high end games will the R7 260X 2GB be able to run?

Hello guys I want to know that my PC will support which of the GPU Ecs g31t - m5 Core 2 duo e7500 4gb ram Gpu (plz suggest any) Games I want to play are-: Cod ghosts ,bf4,NFS rivals, watch dogs And my pcie is 1.0 I want to play smoothly not any type of screen resolution is recommended And my...

I'm building my first computer and wasn't sure which motherboard to get, im not going to overclock or anything so idk if i really need the more expensive board GIGABYTE GA-B85M-D3H http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128607 OR MSI H81M-E33...

Hello guys, Im planning on buying a new HP z820 workstation and here are my parts and ill be using it for Video editing especially with adobe premiere and after effects CC CPU: Dual intel e5-2620 v2 CPUs RAM: 16 GB 1600 GPU: I picked the quadro k2000 but after reading online ppl are saying...

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Hello,ati radeon 2600 pro sapphire problems YOUTUBE NOT PALYING VIDEO COMPUTER IS RESTART

Hello, I'm a new member here and what's a better way to start a monday than with a problem? I've got a HP Compaq 8000 Elite workstation with a NVidia GeForce 310 gpu with a DVI and Display port. I have a display attached to the DVI-port, but I'd like to attach another display to the...

How to install SQL SERVER 2000 on windows 7?

Hello, My DVD drive will burn DVD'S but will not read DVD'S,what could be the falt?

after i added the cost of all the other items (part of the computer) my total came to a between 700 and 800 (which is fine with me), but i was wondering do the parts that were mentioned in the previous topic compare to this...

Archived from groups: alt.games.the-sims (More info?) This site www.freewebs.com/kevin10078 (go to the games section has a good sims unerversity review) You should really check it out!

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?) Hi, I have Windows XP Home Edition. My Windows XP takes 5mi to boot? I've preformed a virus scan, spyware scan and removal (Both Microsoft Antispyware and Search & Destroy), Disk defrag, disk cleanup. Any Ideas? K.J.B.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?) Hello; Unfortunately after running of the new Microsoft Anti-spy ware (beta) And running of that, my firewall doesn’t work anymore and I have to Restore can you help. Please don't mention to the Beta Version! I...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?) After years on good 'ol Classic, I'm trying the XP style. I could conceivably grow to love rounded corners and graded colour fills. But that enormous green START button is too much! Is there a tweak or hack to shrink it...

How do i activate the USB2 port on an AOC 202 Monitor model 2036Sa running Windows 7

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger (More info?) Currently some of the contacts in All Contacts have meaningful names like Bill, or Sue or Peter, while others simply display meaningless email addresses. How can I change such meaningless email addresses to something...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (More info?) Occasionally I see the following error in the eventlog on some of our computers. Can anyone tell me what it means? Event Type: Error Event Source: EventSystem Event Category: (50) Event ID: 4614 Date: 28/10/2004...

Currently my system has a two-year old X1900 series Radeon. It's x16 (so is the PCI-E bus) and 512MB. I bought it with the system, two summers ago. I'm thinking of upgrading to a newer fancier card. I've had good luck with ATI so far, so I've been eye-balling some of those: in particular, the...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?) I have a Lexmark X1185 all-in-one installed. However, I keep getting the message that the parameters aren't configured for this printer. There's a microsoft office image writer icon in my printer/scanner list. Should I...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?) I formatted my hard drive not long ago and I am having a problem with my USB ports. When I plug in my external hard drive it tells me that this device is not operating at its maximum speed because of the USB device. I...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?) I want to chnage the drive letters of my CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives prior to re-partitioning my HDD. I haven't attempted to do it yet but started going through the motions in Device Manager. A warning comes up that...

Hello All I am looking at updating my system, but I'm not sure which processor I should choose. My primary use is for gaming and some video editing with FRAPs, Divx 6.2.5 (Quantizer 4 - Unrestricted) and Lame MP3 ACM codec Below is my current gaming rig specs...

I bought a new computer wth window 7 & have been having this problem but the company I bought it is unable to fix it.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?) I have a couple of programs that I can not set them and have them hold the size setting "Maximized". I've right- clicked on the icon an gone to properties, clicked on the down arrow and selected Maximun, and after...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?) XP Pro home simple home use. I have 2 accounts and neither were password protected. 2 days ago Windows asked for a password on both. Obviously I didn't have either. I rebooted and the password prompts went away. This...

Hello, I have a problem i got a hp computer and it was a bit slow after i did some work with it and i made a restart ... When it did it started up with the hp logo but then when its about to write something it just stays there... Help plz??! Please write to me at revan9d@hotmail.com

Hi to all that read this thread, I started noticing some of the older games which i still enjoy playing are now not so enjoyable, I am now using windows 7 ultimate and for some reason games that only support resolutions of upto 1152x864 don't fill my screen anymore like it used to on XP. What...