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I am using an i5-4690, 5 case fans, and a fan controller. Nothing is overclocked nor will i overclock so can my PC handle the MSI R9-280X?

Hi, and thank you in advance for helping. I was on my computer the other day and it started to make a burnt plastic smell so i turned it off and did some research and it said i should remove my cover and dust everything which i did. Now im wondering if i should even turn it on until l figure out...

Hello, everyone. I will be getting into PC gaming sometime this month and plan on using the old keyboard and mouse I have, but I'm just curious on what are the benefits on having a gaming keyboard/mouse. Thanks

CCC is telling me theres a driver update available for my 7950. The one it wants to give me is the R9XX driver. Did I miss something?

I thinking of upgradeing my pc to a x99 board and can't decide between i7 5930 and i7 5960. I've read a few review and 5960 seems a let down. I just wanted your perspective and opinions, some seem to have benchmarks under a 6-core cpu 5960 being 8 core. I'm also wondering if games can even...

I'm not sure if this section is the best place to ask, but I figured it would be alright since it involved a display. Anyway, I was recently given an iPad - outdated and generally awful, I decided I would take its nice display, use it as a second monitor or maybe a display for the Raspberry Pi...

I haven't played WoW in few years, and just downloaded starter edition where you can play first 20 lvls. The game is same as many years ago (at least first 20 lvls) and fun to play. I don't play often or a lot, and paying $15-$20 each month for subscription is not something I would like to do...

I want to get a second hard drive installed onto my computer. Specs: Processor - AMD FX- 4300 Quad 64-bit Windows 7 Graphics card - AMD Radeon HD

Hey guys. I see stuff like the Brix plastered all over tech sites nowadays, and I just wanted to know if and how would an UCPC be useful to you. Because I can't for the life of me figure out why this is the new craze. They only seem useful as HTPCs/thin clients to me so why would anyone want...

I currently have a pretty decent gaming rig. It has an AMD FX 6100, MSI G43 board, 8GB Vengeance 1600 RAM, SanDisk Extreme 128 GB SSD, 1 500 GB and 1 1TB Western Digital 7200 RPM drives, Antec 750 watt 80+ Bronze PSU, Cooler Master Evo 212 CPU Cooler, Zalman Z11 Plus case, and a Gigabyte...

I currently have an XFX 7850 DD and it runs super hot when gaming like almost 100 degrees any idea why? I even have a corsair AF 140 Directly on it. Also im looking at buying a new graphics card maybe a R9 270x or a 280 and was wondering which one would be the best for keeping cool (as in brand...

binkw32.dll is missing in my computer so where i keep this file kindly help

Budget is up to $60 , options : a. pentium 3220 ( price wise ) b . athlon X4 ( quad core ) c. pentium 3240 d . any

Hi! I'm not that smart with computers, but I am wanting to make the computer I have already better than what it is right now. I'm looking to game with it, so also would like to know what video cards would work with my motherboard! So what I'm mainly looking for is processor, video card, and...

I'm thinking of purchasing an i7 4770k (gaming and higher social status) and a BEASTLY cryorig r1 ultimate to cool that thing. Thing is, I'm looking for a black/grey color themed motherboard so it can look as well as it can perform. I thought I found my solution in the gigabyte ud3p but that's...

So I am doing another case mod and am wondering where I could find and old fashioned green indicator light? I have searched the internet but have not found the one I am looking for. Here are some pictures of mnpctechs case mods that used the same type of indicator light. -stoic muffins

Hi guys im thibking for the futur and i eant to know what do yoy think i need to change my rig is : r9 270x asus Amd x4 760k fm2 8gb ram kingston Windows 8.1 1to wb blue

I want to install two OS on my system. I have already XP SP3 installed & I want to install Windows 7. Will it affect the performance of the computer?

I want to Restore my compute ( windows 8), and lately I realized that I used my Hard Drive as a recovery storage. So when I checked the memory of my hard drive it was low. It was a 1tera bite memory but now its only 31.0GB memory and also the name of the hard drive has change from its original...

So I ordered the last parts for my computer a total of $687 It has been on Hold payment declined for around 3 days on the second day I called them up and they said they received no money what so ever but when I called my bank they have proof newegg did take it I told Newegg the Transaction I.D...

I am experiences hard FPS drops when I play games, is it my graphics? CPU? I have almost the exact same set up as my friend yet he plays it 100x better, any ideas? I Have a AMD FX-8120 Processor, ASRock N68-Vs3 FX Motherboard, 8gigs of DDR3 memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 graphics card. any help...

I know u guys were raging on my last post about the crappy power supply. Well I have found a new PC with windows and HDD and SSD combo (motherboard is a genuine SLI Gigabyte motherboard). All these things are key to a good gaming pc ( and of course the GPU which this one is a 780 TI) Check it...

Sony vaio latop is a hunk of crap. hinges broken after 18 months use and cover coming off, also fan is loud and almost always running. I will never buy ANY sony product EVER AGAIN

Turning on the Bluetooth keyboard diminishes WiFi reception to unusable. Tuning off keyboard restores reception. Help!

Hello, im looking for help i just get: mobo: asus a88xm plus cpu: amd a10 7850k mem: 8GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-19200 2400MHz Trident X g.skill psu: super flower psu 1000w my problem is that i can not get display signal from hdmi or dvi, the vga port is the only one that works, i get last bios...

I have been wondering if it would be beneficial and/or safe to overclock my GeForce GTX 760 2GB video card. I have an Intel i7-4770 cpu and a Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 -- 1x PCIe 3.0 x16, 4x USB 3.0, 6x SATA-III 6Gb/s motherboard. I also have 16 gbs ram. Also, can you overclock the i7-4770 with it...

I am currently debating between the gtx 760 and the gtx 770 to add to my current build to replace my radeon 6770 1gb. I can't choose which one because of the price difference. I know the 770 gets ~15 more fps in games than the 760 for 50-80 bucks more, which is why I'm unsure if i want to spend...

Lately my desktop has been running slow when using Ethernet so I figured I should mess around with my router settings a little bit. When i enable 5ghz connection on my router my desktop has a lot better speeds and I get less lag. My problem is that my entire family uses iPhone 4's and I am the...

Got my sons rig out of the way now it's dads turn. This is going to be our netflix / downloaded movie player. I am also going to add a tuner card for a DVR and get rid of my cable boxes. I also want it to game as well as an xBox one and PS4. I am unsure what software is best to library all...

Hey, i'm experiencing very LOW FPS when i'm playing FPS. My average fps is 25-30. AMD Radeon HD 5800 Series AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz 16 GB RAM Windows 8.1 PRO 64-bit If it helps. Dont know what the problem is.

Hi guys (and gals), ***Before you get started, I should you that this is a fairly long post, you have been warned.*** So, this post is sort of a follow up to another one I posted a couple weeks ago, where I asked what sort of performance I could expect from a ~£400 budget. I've never built a...

Hello, I was just wondering wheather if my pc could run Arma 3 on more than 30+ fps or not my pc specs are: - AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.2GHz - Gigabyte AMD R9 270X 2GB. - 6GB of Ram Thank you.

Hello i am new to PC building and i am doing my first build, but i do not know how much power i will need! here is a list of the parts i am going to use My PC Build. Case - CoolerMaster HAF 912 GPU - ASUS R9 270X MOBO - ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 AM3 + CPU - AMD FX 8320 Vishera 3.5GHz RAM - G.SKILL...

For all of you rich gamers out there, I decided to put together the most expensive gaming pc build (I was bored lol :p ) I (didnt) put this build together and it can (probably) run every game on extreme settings apart from on Crysis 3. This includes a monitor and an OS. PCPartPicker part list...

First off, heres my rig: Mobo: BIOSTAR TA970 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS GPU: ZOTAC ZT-70401-10P GeForce GTX 760 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card Psu:CORSAIR CX series CX600 600W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?) I have an older Gateway Destination 31" monitor and with my new Win XP MCE computer I cannot change the resolution past 640x480. The monitor supports 800x600 because that is what I ran it at on my Win 98 machine. Also...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) Help ... I had a lovely feature for my visually impaired granddaughter that allowed her to click on any text in "Word" and then hear it in computer speech by Microsoft Sam or LH Michelle / Michael. Ever since I had...

Eh i decided to say the hell with a primary and secondary drive and just set up a RAID 0 again, last time i used a 128kb size (optimal) but i read in the RAID FAQ 8-32 is best for gamers, which is all i do...which would be the best choice?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?) When I go to Control Panel/Security Centre, I get a message tellign that me that Security Centre 'failed to start or was stopped'. I can however check the firewall settings and turn it on or off. How can I make...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) Hello, today when I started my computer (XP Pro Sp2 updated) it gave an error about a corrupt file and said to run chkdsk. I ran it, found problems so ran it again with /f. It apparently corrected the errors. The...