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I have some older parts (8th gen Intel stuff and a GTX 770/GTX 1070) that I want to build into new rigs. I thought a couple of 500W power supplies should be enough for this. But I am having a really tough time finding anything. Specifically the corsair CX/CXM line. Anyone know of a decent...

This thing had a good run. I must have had it for about 9 to 10 years. The coating on it finally wore off. My mouse (naga hex) has pads or feet on the bottom that, I guess, wore down the coating. It finally made using the mouse a bit of a pain as I shifted from clean spots of the pad to...

A year or so ago, I set up a 50 inch sony bravia tv in my office. Right now, I have a pc, three consoles, a cable box attached to it. It is a bit of a pain. I have some self-powered maudio speakers attached to the tv for audio. The speakers only have two analog inputs. Switching between pc...

UPDATE - VERY SIMPLE SOLUTION IN POST 6 AND 7. Hi there, I just build a new system. Components are: OS: Windows 8.1 Ram: 16gb gskill 1866 ddr3 ram Motherboard: Asus z97 Pro (wifi ac) video card: PNY GTX 770 (nvidia 337.88 driver) psu: evga supernova 1,000 watt cpu: i5 4690K HD 1...

Hey there, I'm looking to replace my monitors (my secondary monitor broke) and would love some advice. I'm thinking of getting two 24 inch monitors with 1080p. My budget is about 300 bucks per monitor. Any suggestions? I mostly play video games and watch youtube videos on my monitors. I...

Hi there, last night I put my windows 7 machine to sleep. Today I cannot get it to start. It is not just a problem booting, but it looks like it is an issue with power. I've reseated the power cable going to the power supply and I have switched the power switch on the psu multiple times...

Anyone here have tips for upgrading to Windows 8? Or at least have a link to some decent tips? BACKGROUND Disk 0: I currently have Windows 7 and my Steam directory on the same disk. Windows 7 is on a 100GB partition and Steam is on a 900GB partition. Disk 1: All of my downloads, documents...

Seriously, that is what it sounds like right now. It kind of sounds like I'm in an apartment building and the neighbour's toilet won't stop running. Anyone know what that might mean? Can't really tell if its the fan or what. Its a Seasonic M12 600Watt PSU. edit: see post 7 for an update.

Seeing that its April Fools and that Portal 2 is coming out this month, I kind of expected something big. However, unless I need to refresh the store page, there is not much of a sale this weekend. Anyone care to predict if something will go up for sale later tonight?

Ok, I'm dumb. I can't figure out why STEAM has to install DirectX runtime, or whatever, for every game. Is there a reason for this? Can't it be installed once? Wouldn't the latest version be enough? Sorry if this is a dumb question. In my defence, I'm kinda dumb. Thanks.

I just picked up Batman: Arkham Asylum for 13.60 on Steam, in case anyone is interested. Wanted to pick this up for a while, and was just waiting for an opportunity like this. Apologies if this is against forum policies.

I've been doing some research on bookshelf speakers in this subforum and noticed that the av123 x-ls speakers come highly recommended. When I went to visit their website, I noticed they are now closing: http://www.av123.com/ Hadn't notice much news about it in the forum, so thought I would...

Ok, hear me out. Lately, I've been reading case reviews as I've been thinking of buying a new case for my pc. The one thing I've noticed is that most case reviews in the last year or so go to great pains to show that the ATI 5970 either fits, or doesn't fit. They always show off that cool...

Hello all. I'm upgrading to Windows 7. That is, I will be doing a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) on my system. My system currently has windows vista 32 bit installed on its own partition. I plan to reformat the vista partition and install windows 7 over it. Once that is...

Hello, I have a Vista system with an empty hard drive in it. I'd like to install Ubuntu onto the empty hard drive. From what I can tell from Ubuntu's support site, this is possible. But this document only mentions xp, not Vista...

Hello, lately it seems that my system takes forever to install games. I have: Intel dual core 6300 8800GTS Asus P5B-E motherboard 2 dvd writers (by pioneer) (SATA) 2gb ram 3 x 320gb seagate barracuda's (SATA) and Vista. For instance, Age of Conan is taking over an hour to install. Has...

Hello, I have an older PC (about 5 years old I think) that I just installed linux onto. Its a system that had been collecting dust. I dusted it off last night and was about to reinstall XP. But, I decided - what the hell - I'll try out linux. Installed Ubuntu 7.10 because I've read that it is...

Hello guys. I have an older pc that's been lying around for a while. The plan was to turn it into an HTPC...but I haven't really been watching tv or movies lately, so I have basically been using it as a jukebox. So, it's a jukebox connected to a Yamaha Receiver with two Paradigm Titan...

Hello, I've noticed that nvidia's release notes for their newer video drivers don't ask that you first uninstall the old driver before installing the new one. Is this necessary anymore (nvidia use to specifically mention this in their notes). Thanks.

Don't move. Take him out or let him pass. Its your call. Beautiful. Cpt. MacMillan rocks. That is all.

Edit - Update - looks like me dumb. Not BFG card making noise. AC hsf is. See further down. Sorry.

Hi, I found out that you can no longer monitor your nvidia card's temperature in Vista without ntune installed. I have a 8800GTS (640mb) with an asus p5b-e (p965 chipset). I noticed that ntune's guide says that ntune will support temperature monitoring for video cards on non-nforce boards...

Hello, I'm building a new system tonight. I decided on going with an Antec 180 because of its sound dampening properties. I'll also be using an AC Freezer 7 pro as the cpu hsf (on a e6300). What direction should the fan on the cpu hsf be pointed? I'm guessing towards the rear exhaust fan? Or...

Hi everyone, I've been reading tons of motherboard reviews and forum discussions lately. I'm looking to replace my almost three year old s754 system (sniff...old yeller! don't go!) with a Core 2 duo system. I have pretty much figured out what all my components are going to be, except for the...

I'm sure you guys see countless threads like this, but I'm interested in your opinions. So, hopefully some will respond... I'm hoping to build a new system within the next few weeks, the components will be: e6300 Asus P5B Corsair PC2-5300 (2gb DDR2 667) Seagate Barrucuda 320gb (SATA...

Hi guys, I want to replace a friend's northbridge chipset fan with one of Zalman's heatsinks. I'm looking at using either the ZM-Nb47J or the ZM-Nb4F7 (details here: http://www.zalmanusa.com/ ) The installation looks pretty simple. I'm just wondering if I can do this while the motherboard is...

I'm sure this has been asked before, but can't find it in any FAQs. I was assigned a WU. Display indicates that it will end on May 7th. Project Summary says that it expires in 53 days...which is about 5 weeks before May 7th. Folding@Home FAQ indicates that expired WUs are less usefull. So...

Hi guys, my computer had its second birthday a few months ago and I'm ready to build a new one. The only thing really holding me back is the case. Normally I'm a function over form kinda guy. But, lately, I find myself looking at cases and saying "eewwh!" and "boring!" I really would just like...

Hey guys, how large should the os partition be for Vista? A quick google says the OS needs 15gb of free hard drive space. Should the partition then be about 20-25gb to be safe?

Shit, I just started having problems with my ViewSonic VP-201s. Everything has taken on a green (aqua) hue. I double checked my connection between my video card and the monitor, looks ok. I also checked power - it looks ok. I don't have any extra dvi - cables lying around to test out a new...

I plan to make the upgrade to Vista Home Premium sometime in the spring. One thing I plan to do is perform a clean Windows XP Home install on my computer before doing the upgrade. My question is, lets say after a year I plan to perform another clean install. Will I have to install XP first? Or...

Bought GTR 2, only to find out, again, that I suck at driving games. /rant.

Thought people might be interested in this review (I haven't finished reading it myself)... http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/LianLi/PC-A10B If this is against the rules, mods please delete.

Hi guys, I've recently switched to IE7 and noticed that the only way to open up links in your articles (even to forum discussions) as a new tab (rather than as a window) is to set IE7 tab settings to "open pop-ups in a new window." Not sure why this happens. Here is the tab setting I have to...

Hello, to start, I apologise for the long post, hope you guys can help though. I'm having problems with a computer I rigged up for a friend. It was an old P4 1.8ghz machine that I upgraded with more ram, a new hard drive and windows xp. She tripped over her power cord, unplugged the machine...

Hello, I recently helped a friend out by reinstalling windows on his machine. It was getting long in the tooth, and unresponsive, so I decided that the best thing to do would be to back-up his data, reformat the hd and reinstall windows. When I was busy updating windows, I noticed some...

This question is not really related to computer audio, but to audio systems in general. I frequent these forums often and have come to respect the opinions of the audiophiles posting in these forumns...so here goes. I just bought my first house and I'm looking to set-up an audio system for my...

Hi, I wasn't sure where to post this question, but decided to post it here. Does anyone have an idea as to what would be the best sub $400 cpu, to buy right now, for encoding video? I mostly burn dvix to CD-R's or mpeg files to dvd-r. My long in the tooth A64 2800+ takes forever to complete...