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Hardware before I get to the issue. Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme z390 with i9 9900k on latest F9 bios 32 gigs of Gskill Trident Z DDR4 EVGA 3080TI FTW3 Samsung 970 pro NVMe 500 gig system drive, 2tb 970 evo+ NVMe, 2 1tb 960 evo 2.5 sata ssd's, and 1 2 tb WD hdd. All running on a Seasonic Prime Titanium...

I think I may have a really poor chip. My goal was to shoot for 5ghz, and that's currently what I'm running at now, but it's not stable. I've been messing with my overclock for days trying different things to no avail, so last night I started downclocking it. Even at 4.8 my system locks up...

So here's my dilemma. I'm currently rocking a custom water loop that is way overkill for what I'm currently doing. It's sitting in a corsair 900d, so it's massive. I moved into my fiances and there simply isn't room for this system so I was looking at getting a new case and using an aio cooler...

So I think I'm having ram issues. I threw my new system together in a bit of a hurry when my old system died. Asus Maximus X Formula 8700k Gskill TridentZ RGB 3600 32gb (8 x4) 2 Asus R9 290x's Samsung 940 pro 500gb as the boot drive Seasonic 1000 watt psu (older, but voltages seem to check...

So a buddy duped me into replacing the blu ray drive on his xbox one. I thought everything went well but of course I ran into a problem. To be clear, it's brand new drive, never been used. But the circuit board on the blu ray drive and the motherboard on the console are married together. So I...

I'm in the process of backing everything up to wipe this system and install windows 10 on it. It's a Vista system. He's still using the old Windows Mail program for his e-mails and he has a bunch of them that are important and need backed up. I exported them all to another drive on my network...

Steam is offering Total War: Rome II EE free this weekend. They also have all other CA titles at 75% off. I stayed away from Rome II because of it being a buggy mess originally, but for free, why not. Just thought I'd give a heads up.

I've searched the web and not really found what I'm looking for, definitively anyway. I have a Lian Li B70 full tower case. I love it. It's been rocking my water cooling setup for five years, but I'm in the process of upgrading. Tearing out my 955 and 5870 and going to a 4770k and an r9 290x...

I don't know how I did it but somehow I ordered two video cards when I only wanted one. Why don't you just crossfire them you ask? It's going to be my SO's system and one will be plenty. Newegg was on the ball, and in the twenty minutes it took to get someone in customer service my order...

I have an Asus rt-n66u gigabit router that two usb 2.0 ports on it. It supports hooking up hard drives as kind of a NAS storage solution and I thought that would be great. Well I'm getting pretty terrible transfer speeds to the hard drives hooked up to it. Being usb 2 I figured I might get...

I need some advice. I'm working on my father's computer and I've come to the conclusion that his video card has died on him. It works fine during startup, in the bios, and in safe mode. As soon as I try to go into normal windows it either blue screens and reboots, or the screen just goes black...

Stumbled across this story today and thought I'd share. Zynga Tops Electronic Arts as Social Games Spread We all know EA is a giant, a powerhouse in the industry whether we like it or not. With the recent news of paypal and facebook working together to institute micro-transactions I can only...

All indication point to me building a new system for my sister in then next couple months. I already have the internals pretty much figured out, but I'm stuck on the case. She has two young children that love to play with all the buttons and repeatedly open and close the cd-rom tray and...

I have an xp machine I've been working on that has some corrupt files. It won't boot into either normal or safe mode. It never even gets far enough for me to find out what files are screwed up to try and fix them. So I thought my only other option was a repair install. Here's the thing, the...

Trying to piece together a build for a friend of mine. He has a somewhat limited budget and I did some digging to try and find the best build I could, but more eyes and opinions are always helpful. 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming mostly, but...

I did a search and didn't find anything exactly like what I have, so here goes... I just installed my legit copy of Win 7 Ult 64. In the RC when my system came out of sleep I'd have no sound. The volume bar would be muted and if I tried to do anything it would say that my speakers weren't...

Okay, so this may sound stupid and petty, but I'm trying to figure out what changed. I know both browsers render pages differently, I'm not that much of a noob. And I wouldn't even have noticed a difference if I hadn't been over at a friends house last night, but I did so I started doing some...

I was reading through rgriffin's top mod thread for Freelancer when I started thinking to myself, hey you know what would make a really great game? How about a Battlestar Galactica mmo? It would have to be set during the first war ofcourse, but I thought that would be epic. Choose your side...

I got my parts to put together my first water cooling setup. I went with the koolance 350 for my cpu waterblock. The very first thing in the instructions is not to forget to tape the heat probe to the side of the block. My only real problem with this is that there was no heat probe in the box...

Okay, I did a search first but didn't find what I was looking for. I built a htpc for a friend of mine and I'm having an issue with it and was hoping maybe one of you have run into this. System specs: Soltek k8tpro with an x2 4200+ ati 4650 agp w/ hdmi out 2 gigs of kingston ddr 400 watt...

One of my drives died in my raid-0 array. I've been running two 74 gig raptors as my main partition for many years and had no problems with them. Yesterday while doing light browsing my system hung. I reset it and it looked like it was booting up fine, it just never got off the vista loading...

I've been using two 74 gig raptors in raid 0 for years as my main partition. And I know this is my own fault for not backing up properly so yeah, I already know I'm an idiot. One of the raptors died on me today. One works fine, but the other one is making a clicking noise as if the read/write...

HI, I just built a system for a friend and I'm sitting here scratching my head. System specs are: MSI P6N sli platinum Core2duo E6420 2 gigs Gskill DDR2 EVGA 8600 GTS superclocked running xp sp2 My problem is that when I use cpuz to check the core clock it says 1600 and might briefly...