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I wanted to make a Home Theatre PC. I collected all the parts, so I decided to take out my old motherboard&RAM&CPU out of the box, and assemble the PC. They were put away in the box IN WORKING CONDITION, I upgraded to Ryzen in January 2023, and they all worked before the upgrade. Motherboard in...

TL;DR If I set the SATA controller to compatible mode (ide emulation), the controller still sees an attached hard drive but cannot access it. It can only access the CD drive. Hello, I am booting MSDOS on this motherboard, via the built-in floppy controller. The manual recommends setting the...

Hello community, I have a Dell Precision T3500 running Windows 7. I want to format it and install Windows 10. However, I am unsure about what to do with the drivers situation because my PC only supports Windows 7 drivers. Now the model of computer I have is really popular so on benchmark sites...

Hello,i have Asus x58 Rampage Extreme III motherboard and 4gb of ram installed. I want to upgrade this system but dont know what ram modules to choose because its old beast mobo. I found some corsair TR3X6G1600C9 v2.1 1.65v 2x3GB (6GB)1600mhz kit and in the motherboard manual i can find this...

Hi So i have an x5675 in an msi big bang xpower motherboard, it has been overclocked from when i first bought it over 2 years ago It has been at 4.5ghz (180mhz bclock) for at least 6 months When i booted it up today cpuz, aida64 cpuid, and hwmonitor all said the cpus base clock was 133 and the...

hello i overclock xeon x5670 to 3.9 with auto voltage (1.264 - 1.272) is it safe? will it destroy my motherboard? temperature max testing with cpu burn less than 75(70-75)

Im in need of help. So I bought a W3670 xeon to replace my i7920, crossed my fingers and hoped all would go well. Made sure BIOS was the most recent (from 2010 lol) the works. So got it to boot and work fine, overclocked it to a stable 4.2ghz with ease, keeping de cpu volt just slightly above...

Hello modding community, I have a Dell Precision T3500 with a Xeon X5650 and the lower end aluminium heat sink without the copper heat pipes. My CPU is running hot and I will change the thermal paste however I have a Arctic F8 80mm fan on the back which does nothing to lower the temps of the...

I have a new Huananzhy x58 rx3.0 motherboard, and it's chipset it's overheating so bad it causes the pc to restart in some cases, the board it's paired with a x5650 cpu. I don't know the temperature of the chipset but I can't even touch it after having the PC on for 3 mins so it it's really...

Hello! I just recently put together a rather old but still functioning desktop for 1366 Socket with motherboard of MSI X58 Pro-E and Intel Xeon E5620 2,40Ghz. From the Google and Youtube I found a lot of info that this CPU is capable to "good" overclocking and I really would like to do that...

Hi, this is my first time dabbling on an x58/1366 platform. A friend recently upgraded his set up from a w3530 to a Ryzen and gave me the old one; I am using it now as of the moment. I'am planning to do a litte bit of an upgrade as to change the CPU to an x5675 which can be bought for a...

So, i have a Xeon x5670 @ 4.3GHz and 3x8GB of the Corsair CML8GX3M1A1600C10 in tripple channel configuration and when i tried enabling the XMP profile inside the bios. It wont even post after that so i cleared my cmos and got my settings back to my OC setting. The Ram should work at 1600Mhz...

I have an asus p6t se and i was wondering if people know if i can get it working with a xeon l5630, i have seen this motherboard being used with xeon successfully, any thoughts.

Almost threw this in the motherboard thread (possible BIOS issue), or the Win10 thread (possible driver issue), but here we are. I am upgrading my X58 based battleship for the last time with some on-hand parts. It had been running 2 GTX 980s in SLI for almost 3 years and I wanted one last GPU...

So i currently have a X58 chipset with an X5650 @ 4.6ghz, I can get it to 5ghz plus but it thermal throttles so my question is should i upgrade my Gigabyte G1 sniper X58 board to a X79 board and cpu or should i keep the X58 and get a better cooler to get it to 5ghz + i have been debating it for...

Hey all. I bought a computer from someone earlier this week and didn't realize that the case was missing some stuff. As stated above, it's an Inwin 303 that's missing both of its feet as well as its under mounted dust filter. I can't seem to find anywhere to buy this stuff. Any suggestions...

Hello how can I check which PCI-E slot I have in my motherboard . It supports ddr2 memory..

I reset my pc to get a fresh clean start. Everything seemed to go smooth until i noticed to took abnormally long to login. i got to my desktop, then it flashed back to logging in for a couple seconds, then right back to the desktop. for some reason i’m getting about 1 fps on my desktop and...

Hi, i increased the "dedicated graphics memory" of my display adapter which os intel hd graphics 520 to 4096 mb will this harm my laptop or the intel card ? i have dell inspiron 5559 8 gb ram intel core i5 6600U amd radeon r5 m335 2gb notice : i played fifa 2017 on my intel after i've...

I have an Msi H110m PRO VD PLUS and got along with two Kingston HyperX 4GB 2400MHZ RAM. Will both RAM work to get 8GB out of it considering my mobo is locked to 2133MHZ?

I have a Seagate BUP Slim 1TB. It won't recognize it as an external hd. On Hardware management it shows as undetermined or something. I tried plugging it into different ports. I tried other machines and it is recognized on other machines -- even on the USB hub it has. Both machines are Windows...

Hello, I bought a new PC few months ago and since I bought it I feel like it is kind of underperforming. It is not too bad, but I feel like it should do a lot better. For example currently I am playing borderlands pre sequel on all settings set to high/ultra besides PhysX which are set to low...

As you can see from the title I have a msi radeon r9 270x and I am having some issues with the temps. When is idle, and idle for me is like just having a browser opened the temperature is around 45C. Now, let me open 3ds max and open a simple scene temps rise to 53C and starts to raise...

I need the download link for the software for the Geovision GV-1240B. I am using bnc connected cameras. It is a legitimate card, not a chinese knockoff

Hi guys! Im new to the forum. Found it while researching a display issue that i need more information on. I have limited experience with laptop displays and would like to get some other opinions about what the problem might be. Ive also replaced the LCD but someone told me that might not be the...

Hi everyone, I had Windows 10 and it began to lag on me horribly so I formatted it and reinstalled Windows 7. Now, I cannot access any Internet or anything and I am aware that I need to install drivers. But, where do I go to do that? Do I go to the page for my motherboard Z97 G45 MSI website...

K so ive had this laptop for about 2-3 years now and when it started out it was fine. It wasnt until recently that ive been having lots of issues which ive found out to be the gpus. This thing runs duel R290x's and some issues ive been having are: -GPUS get wayy too hot even when idle -Clock...

I have currently 2x4gb sticks of Corsair DDR3 1333Mhz ram on dual channel, the cheapest i could find. It was good enough until some time ago, when i bought a stronger GPU, and started to play everything on ultra settings. Now i have been experiencing crashes on GTA V and rainbow six siege...

I am about to build my first pc and i chose this PSU but the problem i have is that if i look at online reviews like amazon they say that its great etc but then when i come to a website like here everyone thinks that its rubbish, so who is right and who i wrong here?

I currently have a HDD with windows 8.1 and i would like to upgrade to windows 10 at the same time id like to install a ssd as my primary drive and use the hdd as storage. So if i install the ssd how do i get windows 10 onto it if the upgrade from windows 8.1 is on the hdd. I'm not really sure...

After years of having no choice but to dwell within the confines of console gaming, I have acquired the funds necessary to construct a gaming PC. After Fallout 4 was announced, I had to. My specifications are as follows; any potential bottlenecks, incompatibilities, or general poor choice of...

Hi, I'm looking at upgrading my gpu and with tax returns coming soon it's seems like a great time to do so. I'm currently running... i5 3350p MSI 650 Ti Boost 1gb 8gbs of Ram I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard and a Seasonic S12II 620 Bronze PSU. I know my CPU is far from high end but...

I Have a HP Pavilion dv7-6195us Notebook and am wondering if i can upgrade the 6770m gpu in this laptop with something stronger?

Hi guys, I am creating my own desktop workstation for: intense rendering on 3dsmax, vray, rhino, and maya These are the hardware pieces im going for, Processor Intel i7 4790K-4GHz Motherboard ASUS z97 Chipset Ram 16GB DDR III 1600 MHz Solid State Drive 512GB Hard Disk 1TB SATA 7200 RPM...

http://www.misueno.gr/images/stories/virtuemart/product/gt730-%283217%29.jpg It is the gt730 and in gainward it only says pci v2.0 but i want to know if it is x8 or x16

So , I have a pc with 1tb HDD and I was thinking of adding another hdd, but hearing that the sdd has a much faster boot time and no loading screen , I was wondering if I could add an ssd to my computer that has a hdd without degrading the ssd? Would adding an ssd to my computer have any effect...

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Hi, First, sorry if this isn't in the best category, but here's the issue: I recently switched out my motherboard and upgraded my CPU. Lately, I have noticed random framerate drops in some games. For example: Borderlands 2, I was getting steady 60fps, then randomly looked in a certain...

Like the title says I was wondering what you guys think this rig could handle and how long it will last me. I did build a gaming PC but it was on a much tighter budget and it was my first foray into PC building. ■ CPU: i7-4770k ■ Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2GB This is the cheapest...

i am having trouble finding the Asus R9280X-DC2T-3GD5. so what should i use instead. i want to run most games on max settings. thanks