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Hi, I recently bought a Sapphire R9 270X, but when I installed it I experienced strange dots appearing on the monitor connected to the DVI port (not the other one connected via VGA) at 1920*1080. It looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JuUHt0OTco&feature=youtu.be Didn't seem to be...

I looked everywhere, and I want to run Mac in Virtualbox. What are the names I should look for?

Hi i want buy new graphic card for my computer My specs : Intel Core 2 duo E7200 2,53 Ghz Corsair VS series 450 watt PSU Asus P5GC-MX/GBL 1 slot PCI express x16 Can GT 630 or HD 6670 will run without bottlenecks ? should i go to HD 6670 or GT 630 ?

Hey guys I have a sapphire tech r9 270x toxic edition and im looking to do a second loop for my watercooling to include the cards but im having trouble finding waterblocks for these cards, can anybody provide some insight?

Hey guys, so I have this problem... My GPU is a MSI 660Ti PE but I have been having the worst problems and I am starting to think it's not just the Drivers but the card also. My GPU will sometimes cause my entire pc to restart ect. That was until I started manually adjusting the fan speed to...

Hi There, i need advice for my budget gaming PC. can i know weather this is a good build or do i need to change some of the parts so it would be cheaper for me. and also need help if some of my parts are not compatible. Parts: Processor: Intel Core i3-4150 3.50GHz (Dual Core) Haswell Refresh...

So I have the 4th Generation Intel i5 4690k and it has HD graphics with it. I'm not sure if this makes it an APU but I have opted not to get a distinct graphics card, not just yet anyway as i do not game. However, I do wish to have a dual monitor set up. Can this be achieved through my mother...

I recently purchased a new computer and had it built for me, and it has no OS on it at the moment. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H, and I've tried for hours many different suggested solutions that I've found on the web. Whenever I get to "load a driver" screen for the windows...

Hi, I have a gateway laptop with a new hard drive. Does the eReovery contain Windows OS? All it says in the information is "eRecovery Media CD sets contain: Recovery DVD, System CD, and Language Disk"

Since this is my first PC build I decided go just go ahead and do a corsair themed mini ITX build using the Corsair 250D. So basically this is what I am looking out of this PC: 1. Hacknitosh- I'm going to install hacknitosh and boot windows so those two programs will be on my ssd and i will...

So, I'm geting pretty common problem with low FPS and slow system working. These are my specs: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Intel Core Duo E7500 2.03GHz Western Digital WD Blue WD5000AAK 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate 4GB RAM A month ago I bought GTX 650 Ti (replaced my 9500 GT one) so by FPS would...

I am hoping I can replace one part at a time and still have a running unit. My guess is I should start with a decent Mobo and RAM? Approximate Purchase Date: I will have about $70 a month to put into this build. Completion date; Eventually.. Budget Range: I would like to keep it under a grand...

Looking for a basic home system, maybe some gaming like simcity. Which system (both same price)... i3 3240 8GB kingston ddr3 1333 1TB W Digital. H61M-plus i3 4130 4GB ddr3 1600 1TB H-81M-C/CSM Thanks very much for your comments!

i ask my friends what should i change/upgrade and most of them said graphics card and motherboard. i am thinking of getting a motherboard around $1220 budget. they said get i7 but i am still a newbie when it comes to computer specs. give me some advices on what should i get or maybe i can get...

I need a very good Gaming PC for Minecraft. I need to be able to record with shaders at about 100-150fps. My budget is 1000-1500 euro.

MSI N760 TF 2GD5/OC AMD FX-6300 Cooler Master G450M Aerocool V3X Advance ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Seagate Desktop SSHD, 2 TB G.Skill 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit Will the power supply be sufficient? Any thoughts on a more cost-efficient part? Thank you in advance.

I'm deciding between 2 laptops and i was wondering which has the better CPU it will mostly be used for surfing the web and occasional gaming: AMD A6-5200 Intel i3 2330M Thanks!

Greetings to all, I have recently discovered that when I put my computer to sleep, it does not wake up! It also begins making a whirling, rather loud fan sound occasionally. If I turn it off, and start it up again, the matter is resolved. However, the sleep situation prevails. When I press any...

I had an old laptop laying around that I want to speed up, so I DBAN'd it and reinstalled a fresh version of XP. I don't have the driver disk that came with the laptop when I bought it (9 years ago) and now I can't get it to work. It's an HP DV1000 laptop. I downloaded all of the drivers from...

Hi all, I just bought a WD 250 External HD for backup purposes. I just read in the documentation that it "is preformatted as a single FAT 32 partition for compatibility with all Windows operating systems..." My XP Pro system is formatted in NTFS. Is this going to create a problem with an image...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?) Hi This is Abhi here. I am facing a problem with IBM Netfinity 300 server, I have attached 1 IDE and a SCSI hard drive, win2k server is installed on SCSI. I want to boot the server by using SCSI after attaching both hdds. It...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?) When I purchased the wrong 60 gig HD For my PS2 and found out it would not fit, I Decided to Add it to my PC. Bringing the total Save capacity to around 100 gigs. So the lesson learned: Not ALL Hard drives are the same and not...

Do Serial ATA Harddrives use the same 4 pin molex connector As ATA 100/133 harddrives.

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Shopping around for components to build a new system. Found a good looking all aluminum case at Newegg, its a Lian-Li Model PC-7, it allows for 5 internal 3.5's mounted vertically. Does this create any additional stress/wear on the HDD's versus a horizontal intallation?

I have been having quite the problem hooking up my Yamaha AMP receiver to my PC. It is a 5.1 system and i know it works because when i use the FM setting all speakers and sub play. But when i try to use my PC with it i only get sound out of the front left speaker and the front right. My HD audio...

I have a 486DX2 computer, with a Sound Blaster 16-AWE 32. The CDROM (Creative 2x)is connected to the sound card, not to the IDE like most computers. I want to change the CDROM. I try to change it with Acer 6x but it can't work because of I/O address problem. I try to make the CDROM as a slave...

So here is the comparison of my home server with my aunts basic youtube machine.which consumes less power? Server: Xeon E3-1245V2,underclocked to 2.3GHz with intel speedstep Enabled Asus P8B75-M LE 8GB(2x4gb) RCMemory ram,1333MHz overclocked to 1600MHz 500gb seagate barrucuda 7200rpm 3tb toshiba...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) Hi does anyone know what C:\MSSLQ7\Binn is? and how I can access it, because it is corrupt and I cant defrag. and no, I got no prompts just the message "cant continue prescan...... because of the above?? -- kenzo2

Can anyone help to get it working again? It only recognises CDs. I have upgraded the firmware to 1.5 Thanks. ----------------------------------- Don't extract the urine.

Hey, I am hoping someone can help with a problem I ran in to after installing a new CPU. AMD FX 8350. After installing the system ran fine for a few minutes and then restarted. DOS error message on restart said my motherboards onboard surge protection restarted the system due to...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.games (More info?) I recently loaded Diablo II onto my system and had to load D2Patch_110 in order for it to run. All ran fine and cleared normal & nightmare levels, but wanted more. So I purchased and downloaded the expansion, which installed...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?) is it possible to run "chkdsk C: /f" in a script without being forced to manually press "Y" to run chkdsk at next startup? (an autorun type thingy) --...

Not sure whats left to do, every time I try to open CCC it first gives me: "Load mmdriver aplication has stopped working" and then it gives me this: "catalyst control center: host application has stopped working"\ I've poured over many forums, and have yet to find a solution... Any help is...

hi my windows 7 is not genuine i checked it onlne with microsfot the up dates work fine i use my pc for gaming mostly just afraid this may afect porformance would it be best to buy a genuine copy dose this mean reinstalling os all over again thanks id apriciate any advice

Hello, this my first computer build ever I really need some help with some of the parts, highly appreciated. Motherboard=Asus Maximus Formula CPU=I5 3750K GPU=XFX 7970 Ghz 1050 mhz Case= NZXT Phantom 410 gunmetal PSU=HX750 Crosair, good enuf ? SDD=SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD128BW 2.5" 128GB...

* Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 650@3.20GHz * Win 7 (Ultimate) 32-bit * video card slot (PCI Exp 2.0 x16) * my mobo only got 1 PCI slot Please help before i will burn my house! XD I put my new video card in my mobo PCIe slot(of course) but when i try to on my desktop is display a fck*ng...

Hello, is it possible on a 3770k to be able to run 2 battlefield 3 games on softxpand (Both users playing simultaneously on softxpand multiseat) and both record with mirillis action (similar to fraps) onto 2 seperate hdds using 2 gigabyte gtx 670s. wow that was hard to explain basically: 1x i7...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?) My daughter, who runs XP Professional on her laptop, is annoyed that she must type in a password each time she signs in and that she must change that password every couple of weeks. We have tried to remove it, but we are...

Does it really worth the price difference of 100$ between both of them? I mean, I was trying to build a new (gaming) PC and I had this doubt. Because the only differences that I saw are: GTX660 Ti --> 331.00$ GPU Boost Clock : 1137 MHz GPU Base Clock : 1059 MHz CUDA cores : 1344 GTX660 -->...