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The hot California weather, the usual Intel stock cooler and the three intake case fans from Corsair (two default 120mm, 140mm on the 250d and an extra 120mm) are no longer ideal for constant Handbrake encoding. At idle, it's averaging at 42-44 degrees but at load when conducting video encoding...

I have an Asrock 990fx with a R9 2gb which my son says the frame rate drops to teens. We replaced the HDD with a SSD but that hasn't helped. Is it the graphics card and if so what shd we replace it with?

i know it is a watercooler but can i just install it without water or anything and it just work like a good aircooler?

I need some help buying an old gpu I have a Pentium II the motherboard has 3 isa slots,4 pci, and 1 agp slot i also need an os recommendation.I have more than 32 mB (im not sure about the second stick of ram. it says 64 on the sticker) i have a trident 8900c or something like that i also need a...

So i recently bought an Asus R9 270x Direct CU II graphics card. I've been experiencing some problems and i need help. For the most part the problem is my computer i guess doesn't recognize its installed. http:// I do know that my power supply is pushing it but it seems fine, the fans are...

So I decided to return my 3 yr old Toshiba laptop to factory-out-of-the-box because it started lagging real bad while playing a game. Everything went fine, I reinstalled a few programs I use alot with the fresh state of the laptop. I updated Internet Explorer to 11 from 8 and it worked well...

I am looking for a keyboard that is pretty responsive, good for typing and doing everyday tasks, also i will be doing gaming on it as well, my budget is 40 and below and im definitely not expecting high grade quality stuff either, it doesnt matter wired or wireless, if it is wired leds would be...

Hi, I have fitted a 400W power supply (icute A400M) to an HP Pavilion PC replacing a 300W. It is not working correctly, it powers upand all the disks start but it the power light goes off again and it does'nt seem to boot or show an image on the monitor

Im having constant problems with computer freezes every time i play a game for about 30 min. The screen either turns black, or some weird greenish color with stripes, and then i have to manually restart the computer with the restart button. The thing is that i didnt have slightest problem before...

i've been reading alot about the core i5 and it seems that even the cheapest i5 750 can keep up with the core i7 920 and in some cases beat it. i don't know about you guys but i am feeling like intel screwed everybody that bought the core i7 cpu. at the time(when released) i paid 300+ for the i7...

hello help me can i put external graphic card(ZOTAC GTX 550 ti) on this mobo GA-B75M-D3H????

Hi guys! I recently discovered that my PSU was just too weak on the +12v rails to power my system + graphic card. Here is the what the system is made up of. motherboard Asus P5K, P35, Socket-775, DDR2, ATX, GbLAN, PCI-Ex16 Memory: Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 2048MB CL5 Kit w/two matched...

Hi all I have an ASUS P8P67-M and the ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII, who has this board knows that is huge and my board is microatx, so the SATAIII ports are obstrcuted by the VGA, i want to change my board but i dont have much budget right now, i can sell my board for 115 in my county and is cheap i...

Hi everyone, I made a thread yesterday but I had no luck, perhaps it was the way I asked for it. anyway I am looking for 2 motherboards (I'm going to build 2 PC's). both should have 7.1 ch audio, Micro atx or Mini itx form factor since I plan to use them as HTPC. But there is a catch... 1...

Hi, I just called ASRock and spoke to a shaky guy who didn't really seem to know english very well or really know what he was talking about for that matter. He said he didn't think that if I bought one of their motherboards second hand (I'm getting the Z68 Professional for about~$100 off...

i thought motherboards could either have PCI slots or AGP ones, but i have seen a number of labelled diagrams of motherboards having both of them (see the picture for reference), please explain this to me whether its true or not? plus if it is true, can i put in my AGP graphics card in the...

Hello, can someone help me overclock an amd a8-3500m

MSI P67A-GD55 vs Gigabyte P67A-UD3R-B3 vs ASUS P8P67 PRO vs ASUS P8P67-M

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games (More info?) How can I get a new serial number to reinstall rise of nations? Thanks

Hello forum, I am doing a custom PC build and I am wondering if this motherboard ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 will be able to work with the Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x 2GB) CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 Memory.Thanks in advance.

I cant' find any posts that help. I have 4GB Muskin D.C. (2x 2GB kits = 4x 1GB) and my mobo WILL do D.C. w/4 sticks. It only sees 2.8 in bios and says 4GB is installed. All apps. say 4GB installed and 2.8 usable. My QUESTION: Is this normal for 2x 512MB 3850s in Crossfire to map 1.13GB for...

Hi Im having trouble with my E drive (system reserved). its full but windows says there are no files in there but I only have 404kb left in the drive for some reason I have no idea what its full with...should I just format it if it contains no files. my operating system is stored on C drive. but...

I just came across this in the news and thought I would share it. Apparently Intel is recalling a number of the new Sandy Bridge based motherboards. because of a problem with the SATA controller chip. Anyway here is the article...

Archived from groups: alt.games.grand-theft-auto (More info?) Well it looks like there is an interesting issue with the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas rating being changed to adult. There seems to be a number of investigatons into the game for having unlockable sexual content. The FTC is even...

I have an asus rampage III formula and i have mushkin redline ridgeback 3x2 6-8-6-24 and i cannot get it to pass a memtest86 or a a linx test to past when running triple channel. It will pass in dual with all six gigs no problem. Any input or advice would be appreciated. Did a bios update and...

Hello, In short: BSOD's with fail-safe defaults. SPD and AUTO 9-9-9-24 etc. at 1.5V. Windows memory diag(extended with cache enabled) gives hardware problem. BSOD mentions page fault in non paged area. The memory is on mainboard's QVL. The memory's QVL only mentions Intel boards. Had the pc...

I am having a weird issue with a new system I just put together. Everything seem to be working fine until I shut down the computer, then I can't post (nothing shows up on monitor, but the system seem to be running) unless i wait about 10 to 15 minutes, then it'll start up just fine. It reboots...