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As far as I can see, all it does is put more strain on your video card, take the FPS down a notch and show literally nothing for it. I know it will do something but I can't see what it is.

Should I get SP or AirFlow fans for this case?

Hi all, I have reverted all the overclock and resetted bios. However the 7700k is idling at nearly 3 - 4.5 Mhz. Making the idling temp not very idle. I have changed power setting to Balanced but still cannot make the cpu idle like normal. Any suggestion which can perhaps help me solve the...

the wire that goes from the power button in the front to the motherboard has been disconnected. Looking at a schematic but can't figure where it goes. Any 1 know? Thanks.

1.The incident 2. Home fixing attempt 3. friend place and using the secondary hdd 4. the issue that persist. 1. Ok, so I had a sad incident... Tower fell on the side and had 2 hdd in it... Next thing I know.. The OS doesn't boot and I have very limited options in how I could try to fix it...

so i play alot of games. and alot of them are demanding. but i dont see the point in upgrading since im not getting any bottlenecks with my current PC. ive been able to max out any game that i play and never have i hit below 60 fps. so i was thinking that if i were to get a new GPU would i then...

I'm looking for a mouse that is suitable for my gaming preference. I'm playing FPS games like CS:GO , Battlefield 1 , H1Z1 KOTK and MOBA like LoL and Dota 2. I once bought the steelseries mouse that after a year this what happened. . I'm wondering what mouse should i buy but i'm having second...

Impulsively I went online all of last night and in to the early morning and in a sleepy mindset I pulled the trigger on a BenQ SW2700PT. http://www.benq.ca/product/monitor/sw2700pt/ When I awoke this morning I realized that I'd neglected to consider whether my PC can handle it. My expertise in...

get a data of a desktop from a harddisk of broken laptop

Hey guys i bought a gtx 1060 3gb gigabyte mini overclock edition and i played rise of the tomb raider on ultra presets smaa when i benchmark the game i got around 52 fps in dx11 and 43 fps in dx 12 but after some days when i start benchmark again with very high details fxaa the result was 52 fps...

Under my CPU temp there is a powers option that expands and says package and then shows watts used by CPU. I have an overclocked FX 8350, completely stable (ran several benchmarks for hours). The watts shown constantly fluctuate anywhere from 14.30 to 43.10, even when idling. Is this normal?

Hi, For the last few months my PC has been running smoothly with all the latest games but recently has been getting progressively worse, sometimes with graphics glitches, like textures being completely black or white, now to a point where it completely shuts down when I start some of my games...

Yesterday December 25th i got the Asus G11, i have two monitors and both worked with my ASUS ROG g20, one used VGA and the other used DVI, This computer only has been accepting the DVI cord with both monitors but when i plug in the VGA it says no signal, while the DVI is working fine. Do i need...

So I just received my new Lenovo E570 laptop in the mail yesterday. It includes a Toshiba XG4 (M.2 NVMe SSD) (model number THNSF5256GPUK; see https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/info/docget.jsp?did=55015). For daily usage, everything seems perfect. Bootup takes only a few seconds. But running...

I've recently bought: https://www.amazon.com/Lepy-LP-2024A-Amplifier-Stereo-Supply/dp/B00ULRFQ1A/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1481759038&sr=1-2&keywords=Lepy+LP-2024A%2B+Hi-Fi+Audio+Amplifier...

My specs are listed below: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/RLNC4C Note: I've built this PC a year and a half ago Alright first, I had experienced many crashes for the past week. Whenever I play games like Watch Dogs 2 and Overwatch, it's fine for the first 10 minutes and midway through; my...

Are Hp laptop know to be good and reliable? Can i turn the 4k off and use the 1080 resolution? Will I have a 60 fps on games on high and ulta settings like battlefield 1 and Rainbow 6 seige? http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/Laptops/omen-by-hp---17-w151nr-w2n49ua-aba

GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4GB is compatible with i3-3210? Will my processor be bottle-necked? Specs: Processor - i3-3210 Motherboard - Gigabyte H61M-DS2 RAM - 8GB 1600MHz PSU - 450 Watts

My laptop running slow..and suddenly lag, stop running compltly... Running ok only for 10-15 mnt..

My current specs: 8gb RAM i3-3250 GTX 750 Ti I'm from Paraguay and found a good deal for the i5 (around 80$). I plan on getting the GTX 1060 in the future, so do you recommend me to buy the i5-3330?

My laptop has only 1 hole for headphones and my headphones have 2 jacks. So I bought that adapter something female to male or reverse Im not sure but when I plug all that in sound is broken. Music is louder and voices are quiet you cant even hear them. Is there a way to fix it or its bad adapter?

Hi. The first time I had this problem was 1 year ago when I bought a new monitor. After 2 months I noticed something weird. When I drag a window or an image around the monitor, adjacent pixels flicker. I don't know how to say that but the pixels nearby other pixels that are changing color behave...

My laptop updated it self and now my cursor sits at the middle of the start screen and I can't move it or use the keyboard. I tried fn + f7 already

I have a power cord with # E 115330 7A 125V,need to know what it goes to Is it for a VIZIO TV.

I do not have a graphics card, and I cannot play minecraft Geometry Dash/ CS:GO / GTA So do I need a graphics card to play games? Also, do you need a graphics card to update/have graphics drivers :) I always get a 'Pixel format not accelerated' error. Then when I try to fix it by...

Hey guys i built a rig last spring and starting to think about upgrading i currently have the following I5-6500 skylake 3.2ghz Z-170a asus MOBO asus Geforce GTX 960 4 GB rip jaws V ddr4 8GB of ram kingston 120 GD SSD western digital 1 TB HDD what do you guys think will be the first to...

Quick questions. Is mantle no more? Is vulkan AMD only or does it not matter anymore? i heard nvidia is capable of using vulkan aswell. Is there a reason to pick AMD over Nvidia atm? ie API benefits etc

I have a new Acer aspire lap top but even though I have charged up to battery and it shows 100% it will not start just on battery and if I start it while its plugged in to the mains and then remove the mains lead it turns off immediately. Any ideas please.

I have a 1080p 144hz monitor and i need to be able to record at 60fps in 4k with this 1080p monitor. I want the footage of the game im playing to be 4k so people with 4k monitors can see it in their native resolution. So far i've used shadowplay to record at 2160p (4k) and ive made the games...

I'm from the states and am visiting a foreign country. My laptop will not connect to wifi it says "unable to connect" and troubleshooting does nothing. I'm using the correct passcode. My smartphone joined just fine.

I just got a graphics card but when I installed it and booted my pc, the screen goes black after the windows logo. I am running windows 10 and now I cannot access my pc even if I connect the vga cable to my motherboard and taking the card out. Plz help because I really want to use my pc and get...

Hello people of the internet, So I have ordered myself a Gtx 1070 FE. I currently have a 22' 1080p 60 hz screen, but now with my gtx 1070 coming I would like to have a better one. I have one that i'm interested in, this one.. Acer GN246HLBbid. (is it any good?) My question is will my 1070+i7...

I just installed a new TP link ac1750 in my house but I need more range. I have a second TP link ac1750 that acts as a LAN in my office which is the current wifi dead spot. Can I just connect this with a cat6 cable and extend my range or will I need to config etc. Thanks, Kevin

I've just bought some anti-static gear and wanted to know if clipping the alligator clip to a piece of bare metal in back of my heating unit would result in a proper ground. Images:

I recently built a new computer with all new mobo, gpu, psu, etc. However, I wanted to move my old SSD into the new computer and keep all my existing programs. I used Acronis True Image and Acronis Universal Restore as it can restore an image to dissimilar hardware, which is the case here. I...

I have a GTX 690, can I hook up three 2560x1440 monitors? It has 1 DVI-D and 2 DVI-I ports, so I assume it should work. I don't really play any games anymore (except Counter Strike Source once in a while), so I'm not so worried about gaming performance. I'd just like to have a triple monitor...

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/z3jHVn This is what I plan to build in the near future. It is meant to be for gaming but also for school work. I plan to have the ssds in a raid0 and the hdds in raid1 (for schoolwork and other important files). I think the 500gbs combined space plus extra from the m.2...

Hi, I was wondering how to make an external graphics card docking station without opening up my laptop cause I do not have a slot for an Express card. Basically I have seen online and YouTube about how to hook up a gpu to a laptop using one of the contraptions on Ebay or other online stores...

I have 4 hard drives 2 1TBs and 2 4TBs. They were originally in RAID 0 but i couldn't get the computer to start. It would load into the UEFI Boot menu. I put the drives back into its normal setting as separate drives and getting 3 of them to work but the 4th drive according to disk management is...

I have purchased this card - ATI Radeon X600 128MB PCI-E DVI Graphics Card http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141551113486?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT But I am having problems finding the latest driver for Windows XP. I believe this card may have been made for Dell. I...