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My question about the h440 is that, is it possible to change the color of the white nzxt logo on the power supply shroud. I'm wanting to get one of these cases in black/red and was wanting to change the white leds to red to go with the rest of my red build and in my opinion I think it would look...

Hi I have upgraded my gaming rig recently with 8 GB of ram. so i have to go for 64bit OS. now is there anyway to keep some of my chosen documents like movies and photos etc while reinstalling? cuz i heard 32 to 64 bit needs a clean install. currently i have one C partition only. I thought i can...

Hello guys, I decided to try W 8.1 on my Toshiba Satellite P300-133 and i was surprised that requirements are the same as for W 7. So can you help me decide if i should install 32 or 64 bit? Thank you.

Recently brought a booster Ariel for my TV and was wondering if I was able to attach aanother booster to it to increase the signal.

Hi I have a Sony vaio tap 20. I need to enable achi mode in order to install Mac os x with my Windows 8 installation. The option is not in my bios by default and I know I need to flash it. I know flashing is a tricky thing so I wanted to consult some help before doing so. Thanks.

I want to build a gaming PC that can handle most if not all games well and at ultra. I plan on using dual monitors as well. The games i usually play are CS:GO, WoW, and League however i would like to expand into more graphic intensive games. I'm new to computers so I'm not sure what parts should...

Ever since I got a new motherboard, a new cooler for my processor and moved my ram from slot one to slot three and back to slot one, my computer only starts once of every two times. It never breaks the cycle and starts two times in a row or doesn't start twice in a row. With the change of...

Yesterday I installed the EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Superclocked ACX Video Card into my computer, replacing my old EVGA GTX 650, and it does not seem to be running at its full potential. It seems to be running at almost the same effectiveness as the GTX 650, but why? I know that a few things may...

I have iball 500w smps and my processor is amd8120 bulldozer now I have purchese new 7770 graphics card but when I play watch my smps over hitting and burning smiling come to the smps. and ups is blinking.

Can't get sound on tv

Hi community recently i assemble this build: Micro: i7 4770k Mother: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H RAM: 4x4gb Kingston Predator 1866Mhz HDD: SSD Adata Premier Pro 128gb - WD Blue 1tb - WD Green 2tb VGA: x2 Gigabyte GTX 770 2gb OC Windoforce SLI PSU: Thermaltake TR2 RX 1200w 80 Plus Bronze Cabinet: NZXT...

Im a gamer, if i chose the best sounding stereo headphones i could find for my price range can i plug them in a high end sound card that supports surround sound so my stereo headphones becomes surround sound headphones or do i need headphones that actually say surround sound in the description

So the reason why I decided to do this was because I recently had an issue with my mouse that happened one day while playing a FPS game. I had my reload macrod to the B5 button on the mouse which is the button on the side of the mouse that is the furthest back, anyways I was playing and when I...

what will be the difference of this two cpu when running BF4? and is i3 worth buying even if i want to play this game in single player only?

So I just got done building my gaming PC, got it running, but now whenever I run any program that adds more stress than just web browsing, the whole system freezes. For example, If I'm running CS:GO, I can get into a game (albeit with a few very slight stutters) and it runs fine for a few...

system asrock p 67 extreme 4 gen 3 mobo, i5 3570k oc 4.4 no voltage increase. antec 1200 case 7 120 led fans, 1 big boy 220 fan, noctua dh 14 cpu cooler. 16 gigs ram at 1600, 1 500g and 1 sd hard drive. a nzxt light kit 2 meters, and 1 radeon hd 7970 oc ghz xfired with radeon r9 280x oc version...

Hello, I'm building my first computer. I wanted a computer that can play games successfully, as in it doesnt need to be at max settings just playable to the point where lag isnt an issue. Phantasy Star Online 2 and Final Fantasy would be the main games, maybe Titan Fall. I want to have a dual...

My laptop is inspiron 7720 with nvidia geforce 650M and it has 3Dvision. which glasses should i buy formaking use of 3D vision??

So ive been planning on getting a new case, card, and cooler for my next upgrade. but ive heard it would be too much temperature wise because of the acx coolers. i was planning on getting a gtx 780 acx and sli them. then get a h100 cooler and doing a push/pull config at the top. so with a 750d...

Intel i7 3.4Ghz Asus P8z68-V-Pro 16Gb Corsair extreme ram Coolermaster cpu cooler Ocz 500MXSP Windows 7 home professional Upon startup my computer said there was a problem with windows but it couldnt fix the problem and couldnt restore from any system restore point, after doing a fresh...

For example in the Hibernation row and Set column, it currently says deactivate, but I'm not sure if you have to click to deactivate or if it's already deactivated.

Hi All, I built my pc a few months back and decided to start playing eve online again. However if i run 1 client with nothing else on the machine running its fine, however if i open firefox and play something on netflix i start to get jumpy screens and lagging. I was hoping someone could...

hi guys just want to ask what should i buy or should pick... i want to upgrade my old pc basically i will just upgrade the MOTHERBOARD RAM AND PROCESSOR current specs Intel core 2 duo e7400 ------- planning to replace G31M-S ---------planning to replace 4 gb ram ddr2 -------- planning to...

hello all,,,these are my specs: asus p8b75 i3-3210 gskill ripjaws 4gb ddr3 seasonic 520w psu acer X193HQ monitor(VGA) creative speakers 2.1 sapphire hd 7770 ghz edition i dont understand,,my monitor supports 60Hz but GPU is set at 75Hz? What does it mean? Any idea guys?

I am building a computer trying to figure out which one to use. I hate the way windows 8 is set up and i believe its counter intuitive. Will there be performance cons to using 7 instead of 8? planning on using a 32 gig system.

Recently I have purchased a quallcomm atheros ar9285 wireless adapter for my desktop and it works great until I try and use skype, or other voice communication services, I get disconnected from the internet every time. It takes generally a few minutes for the adapter to find my internet again...

I need to know for my first build if my motherboard and my GPU are compatible. Here they are; Motherboard: http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=MBA-M5A99FXP2 GPU: http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=GCM-XNGTX77G2 Thanks

Hey guys I'm looking for a budget gaming pc monitor any suggestions please leave the links below The budget is £150

i have memory card ,it is not being detected by any PC ,i think it has got corrupted. i have an important videos in it i want to recover that ?? how can i recover any body help. this card was used in Sony handy cam

So I noticed something. I'm pretty new at hardware and I'm still trying to learn where each cable inside the PC goes. I noticed this cable going from the fan(?) into a 4 pin(?) port on the GPU it self. Isn't the fan connected to the motherboard? What is it, anyway?

Hi guys, I'm new to Tom's hardware so I ask you to be patient with me. I recently made my first build around August and I've been having problems with it right now starting the new year. I don't know what it is but my computer keeps restarting itself and automatically goes into this infinite...

(as i'm new, quick intro) hi, i'm andy, and i like to hack stuff. sometimes, it works :D anyway, i want to put together a HTPC, for basically £nothing. my tv and projector are both 720p, so i don't want to spend full HD money until after i get a new one. i read somewhere (possibly on TH) that...

Okay so bought a GTX 770 card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130921 and was puting it in my motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293 but it wasn't fitting into the PCI sloth because of the two pices of metal at the end where the...

Couple with an I-5 4330 processor, would this card be able to handle more intensive games like Battlefield, or the TW games?

It's been a while. Should DVD-RW be master, slave or ? Have HDD, CD-ROM and DVD-RW. Thanks

I have an old PC, motherboard is an MSI MS-6154VA, cpu a 933 Mhz Pentium III, and I just upgraded it to 512 MB of RAM and bought a 40 GB Samsung SP0411N 7200 rpm disk to substitute an older Samsung SV0411N 5400 rpm disk which died about a week ago. The problem is that after the "upgrade", my HD...

I'm trying to figure out what would be the fastest type of storage medium that can realistically be used to store a game on (Doom3 in particular) in order to reduce load times. Of course a couple of Raptors RAIDed together wouldn't be bad but I'm thinking along the lines of a solid state option...

I am going to buy a new 120GB HDD, I am looking for the 4 big brands, namely Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital and Hitachi? Which one is the most reliable from your experience? Regards

Hello all, I just bought a Sony DRU500A DVD burner and was wanting to know the differences between the two medias. The burner says it supports both but is one like VHS and the other like Beta?? Are there any pros/cons between them. Or if someone just knows a link I can go read describing these...

I'm sure this is a nOOb question, but then...I am a nOOb... I have a WD 80gb 7200 rpm 8mb cache hard drive that I want to use as a master to a slave Maxtor 5400 rpm 6gb drive. Will this cause any slowdown or performance issues to the WD drive in normal daily use? I know it will be slower if I...