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I noticed my mini , high quality 32GB Sandisk Ultra fit USB 3.0 stick was quite hot after leaving it in the socket all day. But the USB port works fine ( and all say they are "working properly" in device manager, but other physicslly larger USBs are only slightly warm in the same USB 3.0 port...

servers for command and conquer 4 did it shutdown yet there is no one on the game.

Hi guys, I intend to build a desktop pc for structural 3D modelling and online gaming. I am just wondering which one below is better, would you please advise? The prices are in AUD. Thanks.

i know i did somehting in the bios,and now i would like to know if there is anyway to reset my bios settings in this board, thanks

Just built a new system and I've noticed in games such as league of legends I will have a solid 170-240 fps until playing the game a bit it will drop to 120-130. I'm curious to know if this is normal? I have checked the temperate and nothing is over 40 degrees (during drops) Gigabyte gtx 970...

Hi, im building a wall mounted pc, I need to know where to place the motherboard standoffs on the wood, don't have the motherboard yet so cant measure that way. Also if there's a guide for this please post it. Thank you for your help. :)

I have recently installed Linux Mint on a second drive in my desktop, but cannot boot from it without physically disconnecting the Windows 10 drive. I have selected the correct drive in BIOS and disabled all other devices from booting, and yet it still boots Windows instead of Linux. Any ideas...

Alright, so my friend is having a problem where his computer gets extremely hot for unknown reasons (his cpu fan has never been a problem over the months but that could be the problem) and at the same time, has steady beeping noises constantly coming from his headphones. He said that he pretty...

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Hi guys I want to ask you if the i5 3340 is so much better then i3 3220 in new games and what should I buy

Hi everyone, Here is my build so far http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zKH3K8. This is my first build and my first desktop. Using SONY Vaio VPCEB14EN which is giving hard disk SMART failure warning from a week before so going for a new build. Replaced keyboard and display earlier. So going for a new...

Graphics card problems Sorry, I posted this from my phone last night & ended up with the heading in the detail & vice versa. I have just bought a used XFX 7870 from eBay because my aging 4890 wouldn't run Fallout 4. After waiting 3 days for a 6pin to 8pin adapter to arrive, I finally got it...

I've bought an ASUS E202S notebook with a native Windows 10 64 OS preinstalled. I've tried to switch back to a windows 7 64 OS through a dozen of methods (UEFI, CSM, etc...). It doesn't work and it looks impossible (I'm not a beginner in computing). I think ASUS has locked the device through the...

Hey guys I've been playing CS:GO for about 3 years now. I had great FPS on my old card (Radeon 7850) about 180fps-250fps but with my new card (GTX 660 2gb) i've been topping out at about 70fps and it sometimes drops as low as 35fps. Also this issue does not only happen on csgo, but a few other...

Hi guys, So I'm new to building pc's and Yesterday I got all my components and started to build. As soon as I get everything and turn on the computer it seems that everything is connected fine and all fans plus cpu and graphics card are on and installed but I get no display on my monitor when...

So I decided to return the Lenovo m91p back to the store. It came with Windows 7 Pro and I have since upgraded it to Windows 10. What is the best way to permanently wipe all of my history and to restore back to Windows 7?

I was wondering if my CyberPowerPC CS-425-109 Black/Red ATX Mid Tower AZZA EOS 204S Mid-Tower Gaming Case would fit a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo. I'm also down for other processor cooler suggestion

I will buy Asus's GTX970 for my mobo MSI Z87 G43 Socket 1150. My BIOS is Version 1.0 (I know I'm so coward to flash my bios). Can It work without flashing the bios?

After disassemble my laptop to clean it, it won't bootup (its getting on while holding the power button), Screen is not turning ON but Power, wifi indicator light is working. Even i use another VGA Monitor screen it showing no signal. Please help me. I have HCL D9912- AX8008. -Sorry for RIP...

I recently bought a MSI Z97 Gaming 6 for my 1st computer build. As I'm waiting for my other parts to arrive, made the mistake of further researching something I had already bought. What puzzles me is I find a lot of information on The MSI Z97 Gaming 5 and MSI Z97 Gaming 7, but very little on the...

After months of online sleuthing I've decided to ask for help. Nearly two years ago my Dell Studio laptop started to intermittently disconnect from my home's WiFi connection. Sometimes it would disconnect multiple times throughout the day, sometimes just once a week. When this happens, there is...

I recently bought a 980ti and am using my old 770 as a dedicated physx card. I noticed on bios that both pci-e slots are running at x8 even though the specification of my motherboard says I have 3 pci-e x 16 slots. I have the 980ti in the slot closest to the CPU and the 770 right below it...

Im about to build my skylake system but upon checking on newegg and other tech retailer sites theres no such thing as a high rated / reliable motherboard to date which is frustrating . . So im about to ask you guys from your current experiences to please give a list of current stable...

I just got duel monitors for Christmas and when I set them up to my laptop which is a Lenovo 510p gaming laptop and it makes CSGO choppy enough to where I notice and playing ark even on low is taking me to 5fps help please

Only 5ghz is showing and not 2.4 ghz in Belkin N750

Build CPU : i5 4690k GPU : XFX R9 280x double dissipation [already owned] Motherboard : ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Killer ATX LGA1150 Motherboard HDD : Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive [already owned] Has Windows 8.1 already installed from my current build. Ram ...

Good day to everyone once more, and thank you in advance as always. So I've always been told that the problem with the 8350 is its poor instruction per cycle. I know nothing but overclocking, but I have a board that is suppose to be pretty easy to get started on. The ASUS M5A97 R2.0. But my...

Thinking of swapping out my AMD 8350 for a i5 3570k second hand for a pretty reasonable price. Sick of these devs of today not optimizing for the FX AMD processors. Thoughts? Literally a 30fps difference between 8350 and 3570k on Shadow of Mordor is insane. And whereas in Crysis 3, an older...

Can I connect a wifi adapter to a motherboard? and if so, can I connect TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter to Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ? Thanks you for your time.

Hello, I've been sitting here with this problem quite a while. I use an Acer Aspire E1-771 (Laptop) and it shuts down randomly. I dont know whats happening. The eventlog told me this: - System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power [ Guid]...

how do I sync my Bluetooth devices to my dell inspiron 1525 windows 7 32 bit I installed Bluetooth drivers and im using a Bluetooth dongle but I still cant add Bluetooth devices

Do either one of these have any real world difference in performance? Cause If not, I'm just going to get the cheaper one WITH an atx board. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/XFtx3C http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jTBggs

So I've been using my Fx8150 for about 5 years now and my cousin wants me to build him a new PC anyways so I thought I should upgrade to FX8350 and give him my 8150. I got and installed the 8350 today and the first thing I did was to try out my games... CSGO and GTAV to be specific but now I...

hi without thought I gave a official office my ip number I am concerned now they may hack in and view my data , is there a way I can block them accessing my PCI now .

I'd like to know which AMD cpu is the same in power with Intel core i5 4460 200euros. My options are; fx 6300 115euros fx 6350 140euros fx 8320 167euros Keep in mind I don't have problem to OC.

I am looking to consolidate my gaming and workstation PC into one and wanted some advice on if I can go i7 4970K (preferred due to cost and reuse of RAM) or if I should go i7 5820K. The current setup is... Gaming: i5 2500K @ 4.2 8GB DDR3 Gigabyte Z68-UD3-B3 motherboard AMD 290 Workstation: AMD...

Hi, My ATT 3600HGV had the wireless burn out. Can I hook up a Linksys router behind the ATT modem for wifi? If so how do I do this? Thanks

My pc was not responding so i had to turn of the pc from the main switch, from that day onwards something happened to my graphic card it's core clock was stuck at 405 MHz. I would be glad if someone could help me with this problem please!!! Here are my pc specs intel I7-3770k 8GB DDR3...

Recently I had a new motherboard and a new processor put into my PC, I had an ASUS M5A78L-M USB3 amd3+ and an AMD fx-4100 3.6 Ghz quad core CPU My current specs are 750W Cronus Modular PSU EVGA GTX 660 Superclocked 2GB MSI Z97 Gaming 5 motherboard Intel core i5-4690k CPU 8GB RAM Patriot Viper...

I owe Xperia z2 and I think ever since the lollipop upgrade , I can't move files from my internal memory to sd card or download them directly to my SD card. Please help my resolve this issue . Please note that I'm only talking about moving media files from internal memory to sd card, I m not at...