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I am looking for a laptop for gaming, school, and just watching movies or shows. I really don't need to run games at Ultra or anything, I can settle for medium or low I just don't want any lag. My absolute maximum price is 1145 USD, but I don't think a laptop I'm looking for will be that...

Hi, so recently i bought watch dogs 2 and was willing to play it, but after installing it i was surprise of the performance of the game on my setup... It's not playable at all, stuttering, fps drops, very low fps...on medium settings. On low settings i get 50-75fps with stuttering. the most...

Yesterday i got a new monitor and was happy to use it. I plugged it in with the cable that connects to my power outlet, and also a display port cable. It all worked fine and i was enjoying the higher rehresh rate (144hz). This morning. When i turned my computer on, it just said "AOC" followed by...

Hi, So I have this strange problem with my new computer: whenever I open file explorer I've noticed my corsair RM850x kicking in (a short audible surge or noise that sounds like whenever you put in a disc in a cd-rom, which is not present on this system, and the reading kicks in) and creating...

ASUS STRIX-R9390X-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING IS COMPATIBLE WITH INTEL DH67BL MOTHERBOARD. CAN ANYONE SUGGEST MY ASUS GRAPHIC CARD ASUS STRIX-R9390X-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING IS COMPATIBLE WITH INTEL DH67BL IT HAS PCI-E X16 SLOT 2.0

I'd like to start of by saying that I'm from Sweden, and not the US. Components: ASUS X99-E 4x4GB Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR 2666 MHz Intel i7-5820K Corsair HX750i 750W AMD RX 470 So it all started when I first finished the PC, when the BIOS would only recognize 2 out 4 RAM sticks. I can't...

Hey! About 2 years ago I had a friend help me put together a computer for myself. It's still really good~ Everything is running the way it should. With new games coming out, their requirements are always increasing, some being about 8GB of ram. I'm not sure if its the ram requirement or...

So I've done some investigation on RAM speeds and RAM latency, and I've realized they in cooperation affect the real world latency in nanoseconds. I've also done some investigation on Newegg to find the various best speeds in addition to latency cycles and compared the real world latency in...

Hey guys. I pulled out an old PC I had from about 4-5 yrs ago to fix up for my mom to use for internet purposes only. I reformatted the drive and went out and bought windows 10 on usb. Every time I try to boot up the computer with the windows 10 in the usb, it says invalid partition table...

I am stuck please can someone help. I have all my documents on a second drive. They have been on external hard drives and been backed up and syc'd (with goodsynce) for many years. They are now on a lovely brand new 2tb seagate inside the machine. I run the operating systems and programs of an...

So I just replaced my hard drive because it got burnt out. I loaded windows and everything on it. But how everytime I start my computer it asks me to select that boot device. It's a little annoying everytime I start my PC to select it every time. I've tried to set the priority to my hard drive...

Hey guys, so my roommate and I have the same build, we are running 4670k's with 8 gigs of ram and EVGA Superclocked 770's(2gb). I recently purchased an MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X and no longer need my 770. I was wondering whether it would be worth it for my roommate to purchase my 770 for $150-175...

I've been having problems with my Western Digital MyPassport hard drive. It started when a download to the drive I was in the midst of froze and locked up my computer, so I did a hard reboot. Since then, the drive is either unrecognizable, or functions okay for a little bit after being plugged...

Hello! I have recently found my 2 year old Seagate FreeAgent Go external hard drive (1TB). When I plugged it in and tried to open it File Explorer kept crashing. Eventually it went through up to a stage where it gave that message: "F:\ not accessible. The parameter is incorrect." What should I...

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Need for med gaming PC, with using as storage files, heavy movies , streaming, torrents downloading n uploading around 12-14 hours daily. No Gpu card, as I have no plan to add soon. I'm getting both used, but with warranty. This will be my c and d drive for time being until I buy 500gn then it...

i have fx 4300 cpu, msi 970 gaming motherboard, msi geforce gtx950 2g gpu, and 16 gigs of hyperx ram. and on msi kombustor all bench marks freeze up my computer. even 16x. has happened before and it went back to working properly but i dont remember what i did to fix it.

Will this motherboard work with the pc case because this pc case has usb 3.0 on the front of the case and i want to know if the motherboard will be compatible with the usb 3.0. MSI Z97 PC Mate Intel LGA1150 Z97 ATX Motherboard (4x DDR3, 4x USB3.0, 8x USB2.0, GBE, LAN, HDMI, VGA, DVI)...

Hello I haven't used a SSD before so i wouldn't know what to look for in one. My PC usage ranges from intense web browsing to hardcore gaming, I do not make or edit videos nor do I work in processing extensive applications such as CAD etc. On my current HDD, I've noticed whenever I open steam or...

As title says Im looking into building a pc to host vm's(3 or 4) for development/school purposes and light gaming. From my understanding the main thing needed is plenty of Ram and CPU cores to go around for each vm, vtd, and plenty of ssd storage. Is there anything else that I should...

Heyaa guys! ... please help me, i want to buy a new ssd, and my plan is to migrating my Windows 10 OS from hdd to ssd. I aiready read topics about this in many forum including in here, and there is something more that i want to ask : - Can you guys give me some guides?, this is the situation >...

Hi, I am Vimal. I am an FX Artist My Pc workstation config is - Sabertooth 990FX R.2 MotherBoard 8150 Bulldozer Black Edition Processor FirePro V5900 Graphic Card 4 x 4 Ram 16Gb DDR 3 650 watts Smps Cooler Master 690 II Ad cabinet. I need to buy an cooling system for my above cofig...

I tried the restore file method here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/how-use-file-history But there is nothing there because my file history "turned off", and when I attempt to turn it on, it says that there are no usable drives to turn it on. Is there any other way I can get...

--------------- Display Devices --------------- Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Manufacturer: NVIDIA Chip type: GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM I'm a bit confused as to which graphics card I am using; the GTX 760, or the 670. No one I know has a different card name from chip...

I'm looking to upgrade my graphics cards, and I was thinking about buying another 270x to crossfire, or to sell mine and buy a 390. Thanks

I recently bought a new BenQ Xl2411Z monitor along with an upgrade to a GTX 970 GPU. For some reason, the left half of the screen appears to have a blue tint to it which on close inspection is made up of a uniform pattern of tiny dots. It's particularly noticeable against dark shades like a...

As the title says it's in very good condition, and hasn't been over clocked for over a day at a time. I'm hoping to sell it and get two 980 Ti's.

i wan to buy laptop for architectural use i am confused between g 510 and g5070 please suggest me which one is good for software like autocad and 3ds max etc

Looking for the best combo I can have assembled and shipped to me. I already have an OS, monitor, keyboard and a mouse. I do office work and would like to play games, specifically the new battlefleet gothic game which my current computer can't run! ) : I would like to get it from one of the...

I'm upgrading my pc to an r9 380 4gb (I dont know which brand yet. If anybody could help me with that, I'd appreciate it), which requires a PCI express 3.0 slot on my motherboard. I have an evga x58 motherboard though, which only has a 2.0 slot. will I still be able to fit my graphics card in...

Ok, so I used my PC last night with no problems NONE AT ALL and when morning came, I tried turning it on and the cpu is running, no beeping sounds that I hear when starting up, fan keeps stopping every 2 seconds and goes back on and off again and again, keyboard doesn't light up, monitor just...

so i built a pc for my friend and i had a disk for win7 professional 64-bit which is legit and we then got a legit key from MMOGA.net to activate it, which we did and all was fine, however a few days ago he got this activation error message "0x8007232b" no side message that was it apart from...

I dont know if anyone can understand tvs but if you do please help. I have a lg smart tv dont know the kind but it have 3d feature but im trying to connect to wifi and it isnt working, when i go to setting on wifi all there is is network setting and network status. When i click network setting...

Hi all, So I'll be casually browsing the internet, have facebook and a couple of pinterest pages open and I just lose connection to the internet. I'm on a laptop and use wireless to connect. When I try to troubleshoot it just says One or more network protocols are missing. If I wait a few...

Hello, i have kinda big problem with gta v. if i dont turn msaa to x4 or higher, game looks like crap, textures that are like 20m in front of me are like from little pixels. Is there any way to solve the issue?

Hello i buy Grapic card and Psu next week and i need best for me. I want to know how match my system need WATT, and what PSU best for me. My system: CPU: i7 2600 CPU COOLER: Be Quiet Pure Rock MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte H61M-D2-B3 HDD: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 8GB RAM 1 caise cooler GPU: MSI GF GTX750...

Problem: I had been getting very slow response times on the most of trivial of tasks like refreshing the desktop or opening my computers and a huge delay in starting windows (WIndows 7 x64 ultimate sp1 ) . (Once while starting my pc, i got a "chkdsk", and it produced a no. of "retreiving...

First off by no means am I an expert at computers or any variation thereof, I am a MMORPG gamer, and I just recently upgraded my old pc parts , biostar tz68+, i3 3220, 8gb ram, 1tb hdd, windows 10, msi gtx 760, to an Asus crosshair formula z, amd FX 8150, 8gb 1600mhz ram, FX water cooler, 250gb...

So basically, i'm building a gaming pc. So far, everything is built as is connected properly. But when I turn on the PC (the display ports are in the graphics card, not the motherboard) it just says "No Signal Detected", but if I go and unplug the HDMI cable I'm using. The monitor would go to...

My current build is a mid tower (on the larger side) with the following components: FX 8350 @4.4 ghz (overclocked) GTX 970 4 GB (3.5 i guess...whatever) 2 TB of Hard Drive space. No SD. 8 GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600mhz Fatal1ty OCZ Power Supply 750w ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI...