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So as the title says i am upgrading my case but need some help I currently have the MS-TECH Hornet case and the airflow is really not good for my system and therefore i am upgrading to a P7C1 Aerocool case which looks much better and has more fans. Old case -...

So I'm possibly buying a new monitor in a few months, but before I do I wanted to ask: Can a single 1080 Ti handle an ultra wide 3440x1440 (100 Hz) and a standard 2560x1440 monitor? Mostly used for gaming. Set up would be using the ultra wide as the main monitor and then have the 2560x1440 as a...

TO SAY I started to play one of my online games an it keeps coming up restore/support. I know it must be something simple like I must've it a wrong button somewhere on my phone. Please help Restore/Support keeps popping up when I try to play Housevod fun

GPU temp raising while playing NBA from 50 to 80 in less than 2 seconds after some playing time and then it restarts and my game freezes and I lose cuz of that. My gpu is gtx 950 oc.

I'm building my first pc and I can't seem to figure out if the gtx 1080 will fit in a Rosewill Galaxy-02 ATX Mid Tower Case. Does anyone know?

I would have gone with the i7-6700HQ, but anything within my price range has been sold (thanks Amazon). And I saw that the Elgato website says that you need (bare minimum) Core i7-2xxx. And I don't know how this would apply to i5s. **please do not tell me that the i7 is better because of...

Hey guys. Recently I've been trying to buy a smartphone but I can't really make up my mind. The only smartphone that I've ever owned was Sony Xperia U which even for me is the worst phone ever. My budget range is 200$. I basically want a smartphone with good performance and a good camera. It...

Installed my 980 a couple of weeks ago and I've been getting pretty poor frames, playing Battlefield 4 Ultra 1080p and averaging 70fps dropping below 60. GPU doesn't go over 60 degrees and my CPU sits at around 70 - 75 with stock cooler. Tried some other games such as Sniper Elite and that even...

I just recently built my new computer, but here's the problem. The PSU fan is running at a constant 3500 - 3800 RPM, and I can't seem to lower the speed that it runs at, which is causing me a lot of grief. As you can imagine, it's really loud, and it hurts my ears after long exposure. If it...

I have an Asus notebook and I attempted to restore my system because I had accidentally deleted pretty much everything and when the restore was running my battery died and now when I turn it on all I get is, "missing operating system". What should I do? Specs: Windows 7, 64bit, Asus laptop...

Ok so all of my parts are here at my house, but i am not sure if i want to build it myself, have a friend build it for me or take it to a local PC shop. For one i never build a PC before im sure it cant be that hard but i am not wanting to make any mistakes on building. MY friend told me he...

Hey everyone. Sometimes when I'm surfing on the internet, playing a game or something it just says "Proxy error - Proxy not found" or something. When I'm in a game and it happens, I loose my connection in the game which annoys me ALOT. If you can help, then please answer.

Documenting my success over the past weekend, swapping from P43Twins1600 motherboard with e8500 CPU, to a BIOStar TH55B motherboard with i7-860... 1. Purchased and installed a copy of ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 2010 on the existing Windows-7 Pro licensed old box. 2. Closed all applications on old PC...

Hey guys, I need your help picking a case for around $150. I want a big good looking gaming case that is relatively quiet case with really good airflow and won't get too dusty. I have been looking at these cases (i live in california so i'm going to be buying from amazon)...

Hello, my xbox keeps diconecting when i start a game. i tested the xbox live conection and it worked fine. It loses conection only when i play the game

Okay so I've had this computer since October. It's custom built and shouldn't have any problems at all. I've actually got two problems, but let's start with the one the thread title speaks of. When I'm in-game (on any game) I get these horribly annoying lag spikes. In some games I'm running at...

Hello I have a very basic questions about SWTOR 1)how does payment work?It has 3 different "editions" but then it also mentions monthly subscriptions??? I dont understand how it works.

Im having a problem, last night I played some DC Universe online, and my fps then was very decent, and very fluid, and I even had alot of stuff in the background; I was watching a livestream, youtube, and facebook. This morning I got on, I have nothing running in the background, but my fps is a...

Hello, A while ago I had a AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core processor and 4GB of DDR2 RAM. I bought a brand new HD 6950 1GB last year and found out that the 9850 was bottle necking it (could barely achieve 45 FPS on high with no form of AA). Anyway, yesterday I went out and bought a brand new i5...

Hi, i recently got a new graphics card (Gigabyte HD 6770), and I decided to play a little Skyrim. I set everything on Ultra. The game runs fine, but points are missing from textures, etc. Screenshot: Any ideas?

Why do i have to re-boot my computer in order to get codmw3 to connect? Since i started using SLI, this has been an issue. I am able to get it to connect once, and it works great as long as I want to play. But, when i shut it down (quit the game) I am then unable to get it to connect again...

Is that Metro 2033 the most demanding game for PC?... Or maybe some other game? :sarcastic:

Hi, I am about to buy a new pc with e8400, intel DG43NB motherboard, the new gtx 285 video card, 600 watts psu. My question is firstof all, will all the major components e8400, mobo, videocard be compatible with each other ? I won't overclock anything at all. Secondly, can the mobo...

Honestly I am not very proficient in this department and would really like some kind of solid answer as to what are safe temperatures inside my PC while gaming. For example when playing SWTOR, my computer goes from an idle temp of around 32C to about 55C. Here is my setup, I have some money to...

I was recently looking into buying the logitecg g510 on sale for $89.99 on newegg.com but it looks a little cheap and flimsy and I dont really need the lcd screen. I would like to find a mechanical keyboard (preferably backlit) for around the same price. Any suggestions? I was looking at the...

Troika I have it but tried to play it in dos by typing troika.exe did not work what do I do really like this game

I'm looking for the best cooling option for my AMD xp2800+ barton, currently it runs with stock cooling and often passes 60 degrees celcius causing my comp to reboot... .oO(Grrrr!) I don't wan't to spend a fortune on it but I would like to be able to overclock it a bit, just for the fun of it...

This post is intended to cater to queries pertaining to Battlefield 3, considering the number of queries which are being raised by way of several threads. Members are invited to add their inputs. Release date: 25th October, 2011 As per the latest ‘intel’, the system requirements announced for...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games (More info?) Ok, I know that windows has that emulation thing where you can set the game to work in a previous version of windows... has that ever worked for anybody? I accepted that some of my games would not work on XP but now after getting SP2...

Hey guys, My current hard drive is outdated, small, and on the verge of destruction. because of this I'm going to be buying a new HDD/SSD. I'm willing to spend $150 to $200, what do you guys recommend? It can be an SSD, HDD, or combo, whatever you guys think is best. I do have a mobo that...

Here are my rig specs Intel C2D E7500 @ 2.93Ghz 3gb DDR2 Ram @ 800Mhz GTS250 512mb DDR3 My screen resolution is 1280x1024 I was wondering whether I could run Crysis 2 on Medium- High settings without AA at a playable FPS ( 30 above ) I can run Crysis 1 at high settings and get an average of...

Hello, I recently bought a Hannsg HA191 monitor for my Windows XP computer. Since installing it I get frequent screen freeze and unresponiveness. I can't download the drivers from the manual disc, as they are for WIN 7. Can you help?

Hello! So the question is fairly simple, right up there in the title. My PSU is 500 W. Here is my setup: # AMD FX 6100 # HD 7870 (that's the reason why i'm asking this question, i'm gonna buy this card and I want to know if I have enough power) # 2x 4GB Kingston Blue RAM # Hitachi 500 GB...

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.dcameras (More info?) Hello, I am sort of new to digital cameras. I haven`t bought one yet but have seen many others that people have. I came across this one at a store that has a $50.00 rebate......off of the total cost of $369.00. Comes with a 16 mb...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games.discussion (More info?) I've been having problems with keys sticking in Halo, and plenty of other non-MS games. I'm running XP home on a Toshiba M35 laptop w/1.4ghz and 512megs. I thought upping the ram would do it, but its still the same. Usually...

need new age of mythology product key please help me :bounce:

In the past I've always heard to use full multiplyers, but I see the Brisbane chips use half multipliers stock. should I stick with half multipliers on a brisbane?

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (More info?) I'm running into a problem where the AI seems to freeze. The enemies don't respond anymore even though I can run around doing anything else. I've had to start a new game several times now. Any ideas? BTW -- I have the Half-Life 2...

I'm definitely looking forward to this! :wahoo: http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/pc/games/158877.Aliens-vs.-Predator/videos/133291.20090605.Aliens-vs.-Predator/ Warning: The video commentary is about 200Mb total, but so worth it.

If you're an FSX fan (Microsoft's latest Flight Sim) you'll know how important it is to maintain maximum performance from your file system (NTFS) and keep running defragmentation process regularly (WinXP or Vista, the same applies). In fact, there are defrag tools out there specific to help out...