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Hi everyone So I am having this weird issue where if I shutdown my PC and then press the power button to boot it up then the first time i do this the case fans are not spinning. I have to turn off my PC by either holding down the power button or just after it boots to windows I can then...

Nvidia GTX 970 8 GB of ram AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor WTF Someone help me

Hey all! here's the details, Im using an old gateway fx6802-07c(all stock) i7 @2.67Gh 920 So i just bought a Zotac gtx 750 ti to upgrade my old gtx 260. I am running 2 monitors(1980x1020) I have my gaming monitor on new card1 and secondary monitor on older card2. This seems to work...

Hi guys, i've done some research on the forum but i couldn't find an answer for my question. Which of this 2 monitor is better? Let me expand a little bit the question. I am searching a new monitor (under 300$). The monitor has to be good at gaming but also at everything else, so an IPS is what...

Hi guys, As the title says, I just bought a new cooler (Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO -). I've read reviews that it's very loud but does the job. It's actually very low and I've noticed it on speedfan, it runs at 2k RPM which is the max. I've managed to lower the speed to 65-75% ( it was 100%). I...

So for a gift my brother game me a Witcher 3 season pass on Steam. The problem is that my copy of W3 is a retail copy, which is managed by GoG Galaxy. Is there any way to transfer the DLC from Steam to GoG?

So my laptop broke and instead on repairing my laptop i should invest on upgrading my cpu... My cpu model is hp pro 3400 series microtower. Im anoob on computers and my problem is that i dont know if its integrated graphics or not... And can i even apply a video card? I really want to play games...

It's incredibly obvious that most movies are filmed at 23.976 FPS. They are "Okay" to me but certainly not as smooth as 60 FPS. I know what 60 FPS movies "may" look like, as I watch lots of 60 FPS trailers (on a nromal flat computer monitor). They are awesome. :D Anyway, I just got a Samsung...

hello,this is my first time building a gaming pc and im kinda noob so i guess i could use some help advices. budget wise i can afford around 800-1000? this are the parts that ive picked http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7H6zmG

I pulled 2 3TB hard drives from Windows Server Storage Pool. I was able to reformat one of the drives, but i cannot get the other one formatted. I have tried the drive on different SATA ports, but no luck. I keep getting an I/O error. When I try using diskpart i get an error stating something...

My PC started not sending a signal to my monitor. It happened a couple times before but I would either wait or turn off and on and it would be fine, but now nothing. I checked the cables and the monitor is working fine. Also my keyboard doesn't light up on start (not sure if relevant). The...

As part of a 6 person company scattered across 4 states, I am looking for an alternative to paying $15/month/user for more dropbox space as we are approaching the free version storage limit. Instead of this $1080 per year cost (we've been a non-profit for just over a year so our budget is...

Hi i just bought some Ballistic Sport 8 GB set ram. And i was going to put my set of ram in another pc. The other pc has 1600mhz but my ram has 1866mhz so will the motherboard downclock the 1866 to 1600 or will it not work

Are there 8 gb ddr5 gtx 980 available? because when i run the unigine benchmark at the end it stats gtx 980 4095 x 1 but in cpu-z it says 8096 ddr5 gb? Also on can you runi tit says you have 4096gb ram on GPU

so i have a 1366x768 max res vga monitor. whenever i boot my pc, turn off and turn on the monitor, the screen will be expand a little bit.i notice it when the "show desktop" taskbar button when missing. because of this i need to manually press the auto adjust button on my monitor every time this...

guys i am using a i7-6700k, on a gigabyte z170x-gaming g1 motherboard. I am using the integrated graphics and want to buy a graphics card for 12k gaming actually 3 1080p monitors using dsr or vsr. I want dual r9 390x's 8x2=16gb buffer would easily suffice 12k. Would you recommend it as i dont...

Hello, I have this 17' laptop. It has a dual core Intel CPU right now which runs at 1,83 GHz (Intel T2400) It also got a AMD Radeon Mobility X1400 GPU and 1 GB or RAM. Can I upgrade that CPU to i5? I have a i5 2nd gen from another Dell laptop. I'm not sure what version of i5 is, I only know is...

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/kmt87P This is my first time building a PC. I have about a £700 budget. I want to get the best for my money and max out (nearly) every game at 1080p 60 fps. Will this rig do the trick and if not why not and what can I change to improve it without straying over the...

Hey guys, got into pc gaming a while ago and am looking for some games to play, I play the regular mulitplayer games like league, rocket league, cs:go and games like fallout 4, witcher 3, metro redux, borderlands, battlefield, blade and soul, I really like story driven games such as oxenfree and...

Hi Everyone, I have a 4 Gig stick of Samsung PC3L-12800S RAM which I would like to pair up with a 4 Gig stick of Hynix PC3L-12800S RAM. The exact RAM specifications are as follows - Samsung 4GB 1Rx8 PC3L-12800S-11-13-B4 Hynix 4GB 2Rx8 PC3L-12800S-11-12-F3 Will the above two RAM stick 'play...

With windows 7 when you change the visual effect settings to adjust for best performance it also changed the GUI to look like win 98 and it gave me 15-20 fps increase in every game. Now i do this with windows 10 and it doesn't change the GUI to win98 and i have 20 fps less in every game now. Is...

Hello guys! My friend has an old pc (and that only)! He thought it was broken or something! I saw that it had Windows 7 on with 512 mb so I told him to buy 2 gigs and it will be ok! So I installed the 2 gigs and its working! The rest of the specs is a Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 1.86ghz an ancient...

Hi! This is probably a stupid question, but I'm confused about what the difference is between texture quality and texture resolution? What happens for example if I run a game with medium texture quality in settings, but with say 4k textures installed? Thank you in advance!

I want to upgrade my pc. Here is the specs: i5-3470 gigabyte h77 ds3h 500 GB seagate HDD 470W Acbel psu 20 inch DELL monitor 1600*900 4GB of corsair vengeance ram ---------------------------------- This is my plan: Get 4GB of ram more , a GTX 960 , an SSD, a psu and a second monitor. Is that...

looking to build a NAS for basic files to share around the home, im on a 200$ budget and need at least 2tb of storage thanks

I have a Shuttle cube and just got a Gtx 970 low profile (6.9" L x 4.9 H.I just pulled a 960 .,it fit just fine. The 970 seats in the Pcie slot but the power plugs are on top and the hdd and dvd drive bracket sits on the power cable.,so I'm unable to put it case Cover on and install the drive...

I have the minecraft demo, and I wanna buy it [for pc], however, it looks like crap for some reason, the color looks all sloppy. Ive been playing the full game on the 360/one since it came out, and it never looked like this. It kinda looks like the beta/alpha. Is it just because its the demo or...

Hello so I built my pc back in December and it worked perfectly fine but one day I was playing dayz with my friends and it froze so cut the power then turned it back on after it turned back on I checked the bios to see if all the settings were ok. Then I hit save and exit and then it froze again...

Hi guys I am looking to buy a computer straight from scratch for music production. I have found a few articles but i don't think they give you every single component you need to have a working computer for the total price. My budget is about 1k. I need every single component so i can be sure not...

Just got my new beefy pc -_- but now im messing around with my old one. Im gonna need a cpu an a motherboard (130 dollars is price range) ps. i have another 80 for a cheap graphic card any suggestions?

I had seen a laptop with AMD a8 series(7410) APU with amd R7 graphics and another one with intel i3 5th gen with amd r5 series graphics So which one will i prefer i am very confused about this

Hey, I was planning on building my father a new pc for xmas using old and new parts. Unfortunately the delivery of parts was delayed pushing the project back to today. Now, this isn't my first rodeo and as far as I can tell it's all connected up properly. However, when I push the power button...

Hello, putting together a budgeted gaming computer for a friend in the days now between Christmas, I'd just love any input any of you might have on my choice of components. RAM - Corsair Vengenance 16GB CPU -Intel Core i5-6500 GPU -XFX Radeon R9 390 8GB GDDR5 COL - Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo...

Hi All, I'm looking to purchase a PSU for a graphics card I have coming in the mail, but I'm not very versed when it comes to electrical terminology and whatnot. Could someone recommend a PSU for me? I was thinking something around 750W, under $100 if possible, and fully modular unless it's not...

I was wondering which one of these cards are better. EVGA: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487158 Gigabyte: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125809

My PC Specs: GPU: GTX 960 4GB CPU: AMD FX 6300 HDD: 500GB HDD 7200RPM Motherboard: M5A97 R2 RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz PSU: SV450 450W Future Build: GPU: GTX 960 4GB GPU: GTX 960 4GB CPU: i5 4690K HDD: 500GB HDD 7200RPM SSD: 120GB Kingston Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-SLi RAM: 8GB Vengance DDR3...

Hi everyone, I'm not sure if i'm posting in the correct area so forgive me if i'm not I have an unusual issue with my new Sapphire r9 390 Nitro graphics card. Unlike most people who experience random restarts while the card is under stress or while playing certain games etc. since I installed...

Sooo, i have a i7 2600k at 3.8 with th stock cooler, (yes, is not the best dea but i will replace it with a h60 soon), and i have temps like 71ºc in league of legends (230+fps) and i want to know if i can play Battlefield 4 on it without overheating. I am using a gtx 670 dcuii (not top). Thanks...

I'm looking to finally build a gaming pc and I'm stuck on which I should build. Should I stick with a z97 and i7 4790k Or I5 6600k z170 I plan to use gtx 980 with this My max budget is 1500 I'm asking this cause I have seen a lot of negitive reviews for the z170 boards and not sure if it's...

I made this computer build and was wondering if it will work out? http://prntscr.com/92jl7v