Q9400

Hello, I've recently grew frustrated over my slow CPU (Q9400 @2.67 Ghz) and decided to give overclocking a try. I'm a very cautious guy i replace thermal paste every 2-3 months, i take care of my parts etc. But i ran into a problem. You see my motherboard Gigabyte G41M-S2PT Doesn't display Clock...

I recently purchased from eBay a used Core 2 Quad Q9400 since it was pretty cheap, buyer had good reviews etc. I got it and it seemed to be on a good condition, also checked a lot about my motherboard's compability if it supports the CPU and it seemed to be fine. I installed it and I don't see...

So my intel core 2 quad Is overheating bicause of the old intel stock cooler. What do you think are the best cooler for intel q9400 (lga775) for around 10-15$ let me now your thoughts by commenting down below. Thanks😃

Hey so I got my intel core 2 quad q9400 i got it from ebay to replace my old intel pentium e5300 so i replace it myself i putted enough thermalpaste and put on the intel lga775 stock cooler and the cpu is in my opinion overheating bicause when doing basic task browsing the web the temp can get...

So, i have a very old pc . I don't have the budget to get an entirely new pc so I'm only gonna upgrade the cpu a little bit and deck out on gpu. My current specs are Cpu: pentium dual core e5300 Mobo: gigabyte g41m combo Ram:4gb I wanna upgrade to q9400 (or q6600 or q8400) which cost less...

Which graphic card would you recommand to upgrade a desktop with a Q9400 with a LGA 775 and a Q67 chipset? I bought an old desktop and need it to look at decent quality images, not for gaming. Txs

Hello,i have ryzen 2400g and now i have money to buy a gpu ,so i decided to get gtx 1660 ti or rtx 2060 but i want to know if my cpu will bottlenech those cards.

I always thought I had 2666MHz until I checked CPU-Z. It says I have 'NB Frequency: 3200MHz' and 'DRAM Frequency 1200MHz'. Does this mean the speed of my RAM is 3200MHz? I have 2x4GB ddr4. Thanks for any replies.

Hi there! I am building a bang for buck PC for my little brother. Just wanted to ask your opinion, is this OK? Mostly for gaming, like PUBG, Rust, Arma III maybe, CS:GO etc AMD Ryzen 3 1300X 3.5GHz 8MB BOX YD130XBBAEBOX 124,11 eur Asus PRIME A320M-K 59,14 eur Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB...

Thought Id take a look at what pricing people from different areas are facing right now for midrange cards with the Ethereum mining craze in full swing. I'm from Ireland. This is a RX470 at 500 Euro's (or $570...

hello, i have a old windows xp computer and i want to boot a usb with slax on it, but when i went into bios to change the boot seaqence from floppy disk,hdd to boot from a external storage drive or usb in this case but theres no such option. so is there a way to boot my usb with slax on it?

This is my first post and so I hope it is in the right section and if not hopefully a moderator can move it. I have been having some issues with my desktop since I initially built it last july, while most have been insignificant I have had one glaring issue. At times when gaming the computer...

Hello guys, right now i am trying to figure out which of the 2 above mentioned cards i should get. My main concern is temp difference between those 2 cards. The Sapphire should be more powerful out of the box, but I was thinking about OC'ing the cards and I am worried that the Sapphire one...

Hello everyone, i wa thinking about getting an Amd A10-6800K Richland APU, but the problem is it doesn't come with a heat sink! I currently have an Amd A4-5300 APU can anyone tell me if the heat sink that came with the A4-5300 would work with the A10-6800K?

Whats up guys, The time has finally come to build my first gaming PC and I'm really excited about it. I want a PC that mops the floor with anything at 1080p - 60fps (Now and, for some years to come). I choose 1080p because currently, I've been stuck with 720p with my 5 year old "gaming laptop"...

Hello community , I am currently setting up a new PC, I bought the i7 6700k and i dont know what motherboard i must take cuase is there many of them, I have been watching and have several doubts among any motherboards: Asus...

So I'm building a me pc and I'm gonna to install windows 10 on it.I have the product key already and I have downloaded the 3.something gb iso file from windows website (64 bit version).I know how to make the usb bootable but I don't know why people say I need a 8 gb stick when the iso itself is...

Hello! I just ordered a MSI GeForce GTX 970 gaming 4G because my old GTX 560 Ti was starting to fall behind. But now my friend tells me something about PCI-E 2.0 and 3.0 and so on, which I have no idea about.. My motherboard is a ASUS P8P67 LE (ASUSTeKComputer INC. yes?). Will the graphic card...

Hi Guys, The i7 4770k only supports Vt-X and not Vt-d Any idea what this restricts me to? i am keen on visualization however with not supporting vt-d, im not sure where that leaves me, would i be able to use vmware workstation to its full capabilities ie make a home lab for study? Thanks