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  1. O

    Question Blue Screens/PC Shutting Down When Playing Games

    I'm fairly new to PC gaming so I apologize if I am not too familiar with what's going on but recently when I've been playing games on my PC it will either completely crash my computer or have a blue screen and then crash. It started happening when all of a sudden I was playing Payday 2 and it...
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    Will this Build be Quite, Small and powerfull ?

    Hello all. im planing on giving myself a greate christmas gift this year. i am going to build my self a gaming/media mini pc. So far i have tried to pick parts that is more than good enough to play the newest games at a as high graphic as possible for years to come. also i would like the...
  3. Loveks

    Laptop for programming with GNU/Linux

    Hi! I need a laptop to replace the older. Can you help me? 1. What is your budget? Maximium 600€. 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? Maximium 15 inches, but I prefer less. 3. What screen resolution do you want? Minimium 1280x720. 4. Do you need a portable or...
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    Buy refurbished or upgrade old machine.

    I’m a 73-year-old vet living on a very small income, and I need to upgrade my computer. I’m considering a few options, and I’d be grateful for any comments or suggestions. 1) Buy a refurbished desktop—something like this: Refurbished Dell Silver Optiplex 790 Desktop PC with Intel Core i5-2400...
  5. Goofygiggles

    Ram upgrades for lenovo edge 15

    So I have a Lenovo Edge 15 (80k9) with six gigs of ram (one stick of 4 gigs and one stick of 2 gigs) Im wandering If i can replace the 2 gig stick with this -...
  6. MoonDoggy-X

    GTX 970 sli or GTX 980 ti for High Framerate Gaming at 1080p?

    I currently wield dual EVGA GTX 90 SSC in sli, and for a only $400 config, their beasts. I usually have no problem pumping out 90-100fps+ with completely maxed out settings at 1080p. Then I downloaded my free copy of Witcher 3 and bought Dragon Age: Inquisition and am getting about 50-60fps in...
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    R9 290x, GTX EVGA ACX 970, or 3xx series.

    I am building a new gaming rig. I want to be able to play every game on the market and coming out in the next few years at maximum or very close to maximum settings 1080p without dipping below 50fps very often. Hopefully an average of 60fps. I already know I'm getting an MSI atx board, FX-8350...
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    A Question of History: Why is the Graphics Card Market the way it is?

    Aside from the power supply and the storage, a computer is essentially 4 things: 1) Board 2) Processing Unit 3) RAM 4) Cooler A graphics card is also composed solely of the above-mentioned 4 parts. However, the computer market is drastically different from the graphics card market. For a...
  9. O

    M5A97 EVO R2.0 motherboard wont recognise the graphics card?

    hi, I have just had a new M5A97 EVO R2.0 motherboard installed, with an 8 core FX 8120 Zambizi 3.1 chip, 16 GB Corsair ram, Zalaman Cooler with a GeForce 2GB GT640 graphics card on Windows 8.1 system. After it was built (Yesterday) it was fine, updated everything including 3 8.1 updates, i even...
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    cannot connect to 802.11n

    bought a new laptop dell. has intel 3160 dual band wifi card. have its own wifi ssid only broadcasting so no other devices get on it. is not able to connect to it says error. but if i broadcast a/n it will connect to A. other devices are getting 40+MB wifi download and the hard wired ones...
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    Intel ac 7260

    Is the intel dual band 2.4/5ghz Ac 7260 good for gaming. Yes I know and I have read about the other forums, but I am very new to "computers" so it's hard for me to understand, so if someone could give me a review in tech newbie English of the card, I would very much appreciate it. Thanks and...