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Long story short, I've spent a small fortune keeping my wife's laptop going over the last year and it has finally given up the ghost. Terrific. We aren't doing too well financially at the moment, so I'm going to struggle to get anything amazing - my budget is £300 and under, but preferably...

I've read and read and read, but something is still confusing me about setting up two houses with wifi connection. Possibly going to use Ubiquiti loco M5 (or M2). Assuming both houses are 100 meters apart with good line of site. Primary house: would it be best to set up as access point or...

Ok guys, here's my dilemma. Me and my family are going to be staying in a flat for the next 3 months in Austria, and there's no TV, so my dad said I can take my PC and he will buy me a monitor while we're there as a late birthday present (they didn't know what to get me this year so I basically...

Hello, Recently I've been experiencing super high memory usage from out of nowhere. It first started when I started up Witcher 3, and it ran fine for a few minutes until it froze on me. I managed to Ctrl-Alt-Dlt and pulled out the task manager, which read my memory usage at above 70%. This kept...

Hi..im planning on building a mid end gaming PC. I have 2 canditates, 1 is the cheaper G3258 build..the other is the more expensive I5 4460 build. This cooler is for the I5 build. Anyways, i was thinking..which cooler should i get out of the 3? The Cryorig H5 Ultimate and Universal are priced...

I am stumped and was looking for some help. I recently bought a GTX750ti to upgrade from my current graphics card. Installed it, but the PC wouldn't boot. It would freeze my PC during the initial boot. Tried the new card in another PC, and works fine. Installed the old graphics card and it would...

So I'm building a new pc and I'm on a. budget so I didn't but an optical drive . Will I be able to install windows and then download the motherboard driver from the website of the maker?I'm gonna be using an Msi H110m pro vd motherboard.Will my pc be able to install windows via a flash drive and...

I have Windows 10 Home 64 bit. I just want to make sure my Java is also 64 bit. Is there anyway to do this? Thanks!

This is something that had bugged me for a long time, fraps only records my Minecraft gameplay at about 95 FPS, when not recording I get 255 FPS. I know there will be a frame drop, but why does it go all the way down to lock at 95? I have it set on fraps to record at 144, and DXTory is not the...

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/kmt87P This is my first time building a PC. I have about a £700 budget. I want to get the best for my money and max out (nearly) every game at 1080p 60 fps. Will this rig do the trick and if not why not and what can I change to improve it without straying over the...

I am doing my first build. I have a ssd and hdd that will be part of the system as storage (not OS) Is there Any concerns if I power the devices but don't connect the Data cable to my mother board? I would like to do this initially until I get the OS installed on my boot drive. Or would it be...

Hi I was wondering if I could ask your opinions/advice. I have this motherboard and I run windows 7 64bit version. I have 1x 4GB stick of memory installed, is there any benefit to adding a second stick ? Reading the specs I understand I can fit a max of 32GB.

After getting a new PSU to fix another problem, I ended up using the cables from the old PSU for the fans, hard drives, and optical drives, because I heard that is a thing I can do. Well I guess it's not a thing you can do because on bootup, my fans didn't turn on and a bad smell started coming...

Hello all, I am upgrading my current rig but want to put it into a mini itx case. I want to upgrade to skylake and I would like if someone could look at what i have or suggest something better. I already have a graphics card (gtx 760), power supply (750w) and a 3.5" 1t hardrive with windows 10...

I am new at this and if there is somebody that could tell me if this build is good to go or something is wrong with it I would be very happy :D http://pcpartpicker.com/p/bVT7K8

I have a r9 270x and all of a sudden my AMD drivers have been crashing in every game i play. I tested it on multiple games to make sure it wasnt just that one game. Ive tried it on: CS:GO, Left4Dead2, Minecraft, Payday2, GTA IV and the drivers crash in all of them. Ive uninstalled and...

Hey, Soo today I was working on some project. When I was trying to search for a file i noticed that windows didn't list my files on my hard drive, disk E. Soo I though that restarting the pc might fix the problem. And when i was on my pc tab it said that there was 200 gb on the disk. Soo I...

My son wants a gaming PC of his own. I don't want to go too far, but I need something that will run most games. Check this out and let me know if there are any changes or cheap upgrades I can make. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/YyhZNG PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/YyhZNG Price...

A month ago my friend left GTA 5 running for about 16 hours. When I launched my PC again after I closed GTA, every single game ran slower than usual. It still ran a lot of games, but GTA couldn't run at all and rocket league had to be on low settings. I turned off my PC (gaming laptop) for a...

I could really use advice about which 32GB DDR4 kit to choose. At 2133mhz, I want to run it at the lowest possible timings without having to increase voltage very much. Motherboard is Asus Z170 Deluxe. I prefer 4 x 8GB, but 2 x 16GB is fine. Can any kits do better than 10-10-10-20 (at...

Must include windows 8 or higher, contain a monitor, keyboard. I want this new gaming pc to run 60 fps on high quality for games such as Witcher 3, GTA 5 and COD. Thanks!!!!!:) EDIT: In canadian dollars please! Also use PCpartspicker!!!!!!! THANKS!!!

Hello, My processor was running at about 50-60 degrees Celsius before last year but about February time its started increasing in temperature so much that i had to reduce the clock speed from 3.8ghz to 2.8ghz max. Its currently running at 65-69 degrees with me just typing on this forum let alone...

How can i adjust my canon 600D with 10-18 STM lens to manual focus to infinity with good focus pint??

First off, I have a i7-4790k.... I want to make a Black and white build so I would prefer the motherboard either be all black or black and white... I don't have a definite budget, but I'm certainly not going to go out and drop like $500 on a motherboard

We just moved houses and the new internet upload speed is horrible. but i don't understand because the download speed is so good. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4432131628 Please help me fix this problem, Do i need to call my ISP?

ok , i have not turned my PC on for about 3 days, last time i was using it , i changed the CPU Cooler on it , and the PC was running fine before i changed the cooler. 3 days later i connect it and connect the HDMI to the gpu , and the monitor just says sleep mode.. black screen , i tried another...

So in simple terms, can I plug my stock NZXT chassis fans into my motherboard and totally disregard the stupid fan controller?

Hi guys im running a DC7700 DESKTOP windows 7 32 bit every time i connect to the net i get a virus warning and prompted to phone the support line .Ive done a full scan and nothing found.The warning is not from my AVG but a random one any ideas please?

Alright so here's the deal, I've got a 2008ish Gateway GT5692 Desktop that has been sitting around collecting dust. I've just finished my first PC build and I've got the Bug, you know the one where you go around your house thinking you can fix everything. So this computer has served me well for...

Hi was wondering if I should worry about having some Antec formula 7 on outter area that stringed onto outter area of my lga 1150 z97 msi gaming 5 mobo. Or should I take off the heatsink again and try to clean it. Ughhh... So frustrated... Took me forever to get the sucker mounted....

1. What Is Your Country Of Origin? - United States 2. What do you plan to do with this monitor? (ex. Games, Movie Watching, Photo Editing, etc.) - I plan to spend half my time browsing the web and looking at pictures, and the other half playing video games. I use my computer a LOT so it'd be...

Hello all. I have this weird issue with my PC. Every time my PC restarts (by force or by asking it gently) it is unable to start booting. When it restarts 1st thing that bothers me is fun noise. This was happening for a long time, so I am not even able to remember if my fan should change the...

I have so many questions first i am using a gigabyte 78lmt usb3 for my system and it's running a 64bit windows 7 ultimate. I've been wanting to upgrade to 8.1 for a while but i still have doubts. is my motherboard compatible with windows 8.1?? if yes then what will happen to all my files and...

Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 92z does not power on. At all. Last week I turned it on, started Steam, walked into another room, and came back to find a black screen, no fan, no power to anything, no effect from power button. For a day or so I optimistically tried the power button every time I walk...

Hey guys, I just had a few quick questions about VPNs. I've never used one before, but I'm looking to get one. What kind of downstream speeds and latency should I expect? How easy is it to toggle on and off? Do you recommend a particular service or company? Thanks in advance!

Looking for advice/ideas on a gaming build that I want to build by may. Approximate Purchase Date: May 2015 Budget Range: $5000USD before rebates and shipping System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, multimedia(secondary use) Are you buying a monitor: Yes but not included in...

Whether is be 970s SLI, single 980, or 980s SLI, what configuration would be most capable to run intensive games such as Battlefield 4 on a single 4K display @ 60fps (+/-20)? Can be either Nvidia or AMD. I'm currently running bf4 at 60-80 fps on my Gtx970, and during my upgrade would like to...

im in college and have a gaming/editing pc. i want a smaller pc case so its easier to move from say college to home. i have the cooler master haf test bench(which is way to big). are there any small ATX(i cant replace any parts for smaller ones) that i can get? what if i got a htpc case or a...

I am currently looking for a budget CPU for my build. Im looking for a quad-core so that i can play next gen titles such as Witcher 3 and Dying Light. Also if there are any bad choices in my build please point them out and suggest an alternative...

I've had the same CPU for years, while upgrading about everything else in my computer. It's an old, crappy AMD 6120 six-core. It worked well for quite a while in my old setup, but I have recently upgraded my GPU to a STRIX GTX 970, and it just doesn't keep up now. I've noticed the fans running...