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I want to upgrade from my r9 280x to a a 290 or 290x and I was wondering if the differences is big enough to justify getting the 290x rather than the 290... And one more thing do y'all think the scaling would be good enough to just crossfire another 280X? Thanks for the help...

Is it a necessity or can i do without one ?

Gtx970 G1 Gaming http://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Graphics_Cards/NVIDIA/56374-GV-N970G1_GAMING-4GD EVGA GTX970 http://www.ple.com.au/ViewItem.aspx?InventoryItemId=616528 What is better is there a big difference in performance? The G1 Gaming is $70 more and only has 12MHz more clock speed...

I have a xps 13 l322x that won't boot up. Battery died in the middle of using it. After a full charge it won't turn back on. When power button is pressed the LED in front of the touch pad blinks once, no noises or beeps. The fan does not engage. Power is getting to the battery have not...

**UPDATED** I have installed fresh windows 7 so the CPU Blue screen error has gone. I run Windows 7 Home premium 64bit But still I have that ram issue only. RAM only works in b1,b2 slots if I put it in A1 or ,a2 it shows dr debug code 55. I tired putting both rams in b1,b2 it boots great but...

I'm thinking of buying a new cpu and was just wondering do i have to buy thermal paste or does it come pre-applied?o_O

I'm buying a new monitor and am having trouble deciding between 1440 and 4k. I hope to spend $500 but can stretch a few hundred more if it's truly worth it. I don't want to buy something that will be outdated soon, but I don't want to buy into an expensive technology when it's still young and...

Hi guys building my own gaming rig spec as follows http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-006-GI&groupid=2833&catid=2846 XFX 650w Pro series Haven't sorted out Ram yet not sure on what brand to go for any Recommendation? Don't want to spend to much if I don't need to as...

So I have the choice between a EVGA GTX 770 OC w/ ACX cooler 2gb or a XFX Double D R9 290 4gb which one should I choose and what are the advantages of either? Thanks!

Hi, I have just built a desktop and I am a student. In the day I will be using my laptop but when I get back to my room I will switch over to my desktop. I was wondering if there was any way to plug my laptop to my desktop and then have a constant sync between the files between both computers...

So when I play Far Cry 3, every like 30-60 minutes I am having my computer randomly just crash and restart on its own. No error messages, screen just goes either black and immediately restarts, or red or blue and immediately restarts. Is this an issue with an unstable GPU overclock? I had no...

Hi all, I was going to go with two sticks of 4gb for a total of 8gb. I heard this was better than 4 sticks of 2gb. So then i was deciding between these two: Opt1 = 8-10-10-27 | 1.65v | $145 | Corsair Vengeance Pro Opt2 = 9-10-10-28 | 1.60v | $95 | Mushkin Redline Opt3 = 9-11-10-28 | 1.65v |...

Hello guys! I heard the news that GTA 5 is coming in pc version this fall. And I also heard that it's packed up with the AMD Mantle, so I think I'll mostly likely to go for AMD. My previous system was AMD Phenom II X4 980 Deneb O.C to 4.1GHz PC3-12800 8GB RAM GTX 550Ti 1GB an 1600*900 20"...

Basically as the title states! I know people will recommend the 212 EVO but apparently it won't fit in my Fractal Design Coree 1000? Links would be great! Thanks

Hello guys! So I have a Asus Rampage IV Formula motherboard with a Silverstone Strider Gold 1000w PSU. I orgionally had an R9 290x which died after 3 days of having it. I switched it for 2 7970s in crossfire which the first one died after about 3 days of owning it and the second died after a...

Hi guys, I'm going to buy a new laptop, I'll go to UK for study, so I decide to chose Clevo W230SS but I dont know much about UK's company to buy a laptop, anyone can help me?

The sabertooth Z87 is $30 less than the Z97 mk 2 (no armor) should i get the z87? Looking at them they are exactly the same apart from the z87 is cheaper and has armor

Just looking to buy a console killer for about 710 bucks http://pcpartpicker.com/p/hRmPgs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I checked, and everything is compatible. I skimped on the watercooling, mainboard, and psu, but they are all trustable...

I replaced my other motherboard for the first time and everything works exept all but one usb port and the ethernet port doesn't work either and I'm not sure if I'm just dumb or it's not working.

I have recently bought a new pc which includes a 60gb ssd hard drive with Windows 8 pre installed. I am wondering whether it would be possible to swap this with my Samsung 120gb ssd hard drive which has windows 7 installed? Ideally I would just like to swap the drives and have it run in Windows...

Well I recently bought my first parts for my first ever build ... I'm posting this from my first build (so it's working) ... But I'm running my on-board graphics. I bought a GTX 780 OC II ... But when I plug it in I don't get any output ... And the VGA Error LED on my motherboard lights up ...

This may sound foolish to some of you, but hey, we all have to learn somehow! With support ending, meaning no future exploits will be patched, wouldn't a decent anti-virus program suffice? Lets say for the next 10 years a top of the line security company (say bitdefender) continues to support...

I've just bought a brand new motherboard and this is its maiden flight. So, right now I've been turning the motherboard on and then after about 4 seconds when I see that all fans and processor are properly powered up, turning it off again to test cable connectivity of the cables plugged to the...

Hi i am usually pretty good with audio wiring but am stuck with this one. i have a set of tower speakers that are each independently powered and have inputs for regular speaker wire. my audio source is my traktor S4 dj controller with RCA outputs. i bought the cables at radio shack that have a...

When i play gta 4 it's still worked but i want to cheat code of gta 4, so i go to google and the page say Warning your flash player may be not up to date. Please update to continue. So, i update it. After i download the setup, I install it. And the laptop is rebooting. After it restarted i try...

Hey guys, This is my first time water cooling, ive read through the sticky here and i have a few questions. Im having the nzxt 410 phantom case and right now i want to know what kind of single radiator would be good for cooling cpu and gpu. i have seen many people use 2 x 240mm rads for each of...

Hello everybody, I am new on this forum. I was looking for a good budget Amd motherboard. My setup is : Amd 8320 Msi r9 270x Curcial Ballistix tactical 8g Curcial m500 ssd 120g Seasonic s12 520w Corsair 300r I prefere a Msi mobo like 970a g46 i am not going to Oc. ( just for the looks i...

Hey folks. This is a first gaming machine build. The budget is $1300 solid. I need an OS but I have monitors. You expert opinions are most appreciated: PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/30spw Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/30spw/by_merchant/ Benchmarks...

Hay guys, I have a Gigabyte B75M-D3H and I have installed two 2GB ram sticks into the first and third dimms which are the same colour coat. Today I went to install more ram into the other slots and on starting the pc up the motherboard continuously beeps then powers off after 5 seconds and then...

Hey! So this has been going on for quite some time now. All my drivers are up to date. my bios is updated aswell. But while playing battlefield 4 or world of tanks the pc just restarts. Or even while browsing or watching youtube. this has been going on for over a year and I even thought about...

Dear members I bought an original intel heat sink . it had three lines on its bottom. i think that was for thermal connectivity between processor and heat sink but i cleaned it mistakenly. now what do u suggest ? should i buy a new heat sink or buy some paste thing and apply it. my cpu temp...

Ive tried alot of these ideas but not sure what's going on, some1help, I need this fixed and don't have the $$$

I've really had no experience with windows 8 and I'm happy with windows 7, but I think for my next gaming PC I'm going with windows 8. I've read a few reviews and watched videos comparing 7 & 8 and overall it sounds like I might as well go with 8. In particular, I'd be looking for Windows 8.1...

Hi. Currently I am thinking about buying the GTX 770. I bought the Asus Ati Radeon 7750 1GB over a year ago and was looking to upgrade. Some will say there may be no need and this is why I post. Should I buy a new CPU instead ? Or will I buy this GPU ? ( Not 100% sure if it is compatible with...

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I want to know difference result between 2 system with fps for render video. APU A10 6800K with Firepro V3900 and another one is FX8350 with GTX760 If you have any answer like this please link to me. I know passmark with A10 6800K = 5035, FX8350 = 9065 Thank you.

i am bout to build a pc but what psu should i get build consists of 128ssd, msi 760, i5 4670 and all in a bitfenix prodigy build so what psu should i use for easiest installation and best performance?

Hi i OC my FX4130 too 4.2 with 1.45v increase and im getting error messgaes no crashes says hardware failure when reading stress.txt just says i pushed my system to the limits but 4.2 is stability issue not hardware failure as i have a stable OC of 4.0GHz with no warnings or errors after 3hrs of...

Well, i want to change my old Core 2 Duo E4500 2.2Ghz to E7600 3.6Ghz. But when i ask the seller , they said i had to change my motherboard , Ram and GPU . Is that really necessary ? Because i think it just their business strategy. acer M1610 Motherboard 4gb of ram 500w psu #I love this forum :D.

Hi.I will buy a desktop computer. I have two options. First: 1 GIGABYTE G1-SNIPER B5 2 SEAGATE HDD DESKTOP SSHD 3.5"/1TB/64mb/SATA/7200rpm 3 KINGSTON HyperX DDR3 Non-ECC(8GB(2x4GB kit),1600MHz) CL9 XMP X2 grey series 4 INTEL Core i5-4670K(3,40GHz,1MB,6MB,84W,1150) Box,INTEL HD Graphics 4600 5...