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I have a Dell 3847 inspiron using intergrated graphics and I think a 300w power supply. I want to put a gtx750ti graphic card to improve gaming. Do I need to upgrade the PSU also? How high is enough? Should the graphic card work OK with the 300w PSU? Advice? Comments How high a PSU should...

Help! I recently upgraded to Windows 10 on an Acer 5552-3691 Aspire Laptop, and it just made it worse. It was extremely slow and I didn't agree with the privacy changes, so I backed up my files, went to the settings, and clicked on the option to "Downgrade to Windows 7." I had the necessary...

www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html Last updated June 21st - 2 months ago. A lot of GPUs have come out during that time. Time for an update :P

So I have had my pc for about a year and a half. Everything has been smooth with it and I have had no problems. Last week when going to turn the pc on the tower itself came on by my monitor was unresponsive (black Screen). I was baffled by it so i went ahead and reset the computer and it came on...

Hey Guys, i am looking to build a pc for emails, web browsing and light gaming. i dont need a monitor, keyboard, mouse or speaker just the pc its self with a OS. im in australia so becareful of price difference.

I recently bought a powerline 500 and everything else seems to work fine but it wont connect ethernet for some reason.. I have recently came from a 300mbps wireless adapter.

I am currently gaming at 1080p and later at 1440p and with only 2gb of vram i am a little worried it will not be enough also it would be nice go get a stable 60 fps also in the more graphic intensive games. Do you have some suggestions for a new graphics card? I dont really care if it is from...

Hello all, It's time for an upgrade. The old system I built 5 years ago isn't cutting it anymore. I as talking to a friend about my plans and he told me he's given up building his own, he just buys alienware now. I checked and think the prices are kind of high. I was impressed with how small...

I want to get a 144Hz monitor for gaming, but which of these two is better? http://www.amazon.co.uk/VG278HE-Widescreen-Multimedia-1920x1080-Headphone/dp/B008IER7BU or http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-VG248QE-24-inch-LED-Monitor/dp/B00B19T7QC I have a GXT 970 along with a very decent rig. I've asked...

Help if you can Output Audio! HDMI involved

Sorry I'm very new to toms so if I do something wrong just let me know I'm just looking for some feedback on my parts with this being my first personal build. I do have some experience building and with different parts I'm mostly just looking for some outside prospective. Being that I have to...

do I need to format and reinstall windows ? does change motherboard battery affect windows speed and performance so it is recommended to clean instal ?

Hi, I am looking to buy a new laptop and was wondering what the difference between 4th generation and 5th generation is?

This little thing keeps minimizing my games to task-bar.If Im looking at desktop than every 1-2 minutes this little devil appears as a thumbnail in the task-bar for like 1/10 of a second.So didn't know what to do and than installed CamStudio and got it on tape :) I got you guys apicture of the...

will the Zotac GeForce GTX 980 4GB AMP fit in a Zalman Z11 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case please help!

Can anyone help me? I install Driver on my W7 PC, do the config settings fine, the game loads ok, the GT Interactive screen comes up and so does the opening car park cutscene...then instead of the menu loading up its a black screen with my ShadowPlay FPS counter, the BGM and a weird little...

Intel Core i7 4930K Unlocked Six Core Processor with HyperThreading 2x Intel 730 Series 480GB SSDs in RAID0 ASUS X79 Deluxe Corsair Obsidian Series 760T Dual GeForce GTX 780 Ti Reference Cards in SLI 32GB G.SKILL 2400MHz Quad Channel DDR3 Cooler Master V Series 850W Corsair Raptor M45...

Should I get the Asus RT-N12 D1 IEEE 802.11n? Or save up for a more expensive router like the Asus RT-AC66U IEEE 802.11ac? There is 4 people using the router and I do a lot of gaming.

Hey all. So, I'm building a computer, first time, and having trouble deciding on a case. T_T I'm not the most tech savy so bare with me, and there seems to be a lot of options. My specs will look something like this: i5 4690 ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Performance (Can Change the above for the the...

I am going to be building a new pc for my step sister who will be doing a mix between gaming and using it as a work station, the budget that I have got is £1000 and so I have put these piece together. I was wondering if I could improve this build but stay within the budget, as well as sticking...

so my brother want to make EGpu to his laptop cuz...the dedicated Gpu is really sucks at all...so he decided to make an EGPU...and buy the parts from Hwtool so the question is.. : he don't know what happen's next...is it will be bottleneck or no? if bottleneck...then it's a waste for...

Will the msi gtx980 gaming 4Gb fit in a cooler master midi tower scout atx? According to the specs not, but anyone who has managed it maybe? Any advice on this would be great.

Posted 36 minutes ago Right now I have an AMD fx 8350 as processior, because of my grx 970 I thought it was time for an upgrade. So I thought I could just buy a intel 4790k. But because of the release of ddr4 ram it would maybe make sense to buy a ddr4 ram compatible cpu and because sometime in...

When I turn on the laptop, fan immediately becomes loud and gets louder and louder until laptop turns off. Normaly it takes about a minute for that to happen. Laptop (brand ASUS) is 6 years old. I've allready took whole laptop apart and cleaned dust out of it (also changed thermal paste) , but...

Hey, I have a computer that has quite a few HDD's, and most of my games and programs are on those hdd's. My C: drive holds windows, and only a couple programs, as well as the my doc's/pics/etc. I could normally just reformat my C drive, but the problem is that I'd have to trick windows into...

I have recently bought a new laptop (will show specs below) and when I look on the task manager my memory usage is at 99% most of it is used by a program called:Service host local system (15) and an other program called System. But my ram usage is around 20%. I have done some research and I...

Hey there, currently i have a GTX 970 SLI setup (MSI Gaming for both models). They are running stable with no artifacting and not going above 80 degrees with the following settings: Core Voltage - +0 mV Power Limit - 110% Core Clock - +175MHz Memory Clock - +400MHz Fan Speed - Still set to...

Hey guys, i am currently waiting to get this beast, got the mpu, the ram and the case so not changing there. I'm going to use it for gaming, a little video editing and photo editing but majorly for browsing and general purpose. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wTYwjX I already have an ssd and a cooler...

Hi all, I recently found my hard drive almost full. I began to remove all I could, then I cleaned-up all temp/internet temp/chk/dmp... but still I had very low free place on my hdd. I didn't want to add another hard-drive on my laptop nor replace my SSD with a bigger one even more pricey. I...

Hi Guys, Im thinking of it what is the difference Between Pixel Shader And Texture Shader??

I got the Asus Z97 Pro, newest bios, and I am trying to tame this 4790k with it. I want the thing to run at 1.2v at 4.4ghz, maybe even 4.5ghz, but I cannot get it to stay at 1.2v there are 4 options [auto] runs .725 to 1.216 volts [Offset] on auto runs .725 to 1.229v [Manual] of course locks at...

I have a Toshiba Satellite C50-A-1DV and it has a really shoddy integrated graphics card, id like to upgrade it but does my laptop have a slot?? help pls

Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to building computers, I built my first one about 3 weeks ago, here are the parts: Intel G3258 Msi Gtx 750 ti Asrock h81hd Evga 500w 80 bronze plus Mid case 8 ddr3 ram 4x2 Basically I want my rig to end up playing games at ultra with 4k that's my final goal...

if i have a shop bought pc with no custom parts, and the os tied to the motherboard meaning that i cant use the harddrive with the os attached to it in a completley new system if i wanted to, how would i go about taking the OEM os off of the harddrive meaning that the harddrive is basically a...

Hello. I have a Dell Inspiron 15R Intel Core i5 laptop and I need to upgrade my graphics card so that i can use Revit on it. I was thinkin of Nvidia QUadro K1000M or Nvidia QUadro K5000. Are these compatibile with my computer or if not what high powered graphics cards can I use with my operating...