Search results

I just bought a used monitor and I see a few small smudges on the screen. They don’t look like dead pixels, and they don’t appear to be on the surface either as I don’t feel anything when I run my fingernail over them. I’m thinking it might have something to do with the anti glare coating...

This is exactly along the lines of what I was expected, thanks for pointing it out, I'll experiment with this more. That's a really good idea. I'll try and record a new clip that plays choppy on my HD5450 and upload it somewhere.

Do you know if any of the 1080p files you've played are H264 and have at least 30Mbps bitrate? I'm wondering if the bitrate has anything to do with why I'm getting choppy video.

I uninstalled the latest ones from Windows update and tried the latest drivers from AMD, no improvement, so I uninstalled those and went with the Windows 8.1 default drivers again. As you can see from the MediaInfo dump, this file's video bitrate is 30Mbps. I can play other 1080p videos with...

Using an AMD HD5450 and Windows Media Player, some 1080P 60fps files have very choppy playback during the scenes with a lot of movement, namely the files I recorded with a GoPro. I always thought the HD5450 could handle 1080p60 without a problem at all. I've been using the default drivers...

I'm talking about the newer ones like the Z3735. I see in specs it has WiDi 3.5 which is compatible with Miracast, but does it also support the legacy (original) WiDi 2.0 and 1.0?

Thanks for the quick confirmation guys, the Biostar manual said nothing about using both display outputs so I thought I check first. I'll be using Windows so no issues there. Thanks again!

I have an older Biostar TA760G-M2+ mobo with ATI Radeon HD3000 graphics built in. It has VGA and DVI connectors on the back. I'm pretty sure I can support 2 displays simultaneously but I just wanted to double check before buying another monitor. My old monitor is VGA and the new one I might...

Ok, I promise I'll return the CM-300 once I try it out to see if it was the original power supply that was the problem :) Not sure if I want to invest more than $20-$30 on a PSU though since I'm going to start from scratch again within 2 years, am I being unrealistic with my pricing? There was...

Thanks for the reply guys. Looks like I will have to just try a new PSU then, off to Fry's to pick one up! Looks like they have a "mATX" PSU for sale there, and it seems to be the same dimensions as the PSU that came with the INWIN case (Coolmax CM-300). I'm likely going to be replacing this...

It's all separate components, and several years old INWIN BK623 case with the power supply that came with it (some generic brand?) MSI G41M4-L motherboard Celeron E3300 OCed to 3.3GHz (2.5 GHz stock) 2GB 800MHz PC6400 DDR2, I believe it's Patriot, not OCed OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSD boot...

Upon cold boot, my system has been either hanging or powering off by itself and then powering back on immediately, but doesn't finish POSTing. I've been having to unplug the PSU and plugg it back in a few times, and then the system gets through POST and the BIOS says something about...

Do any of you who also run this motherboard notice that upon a cold boot, BIOS codes pop up in the lower right corner of the screen. I'm not too worried about the codes themselves, but sometimes, they stay on the screen for many seconds (like 10-20) which makes cold booting a really slow...

The thing is, I want to leave the programs running to let tests and what not continue overnight until I come back to work the next day. Leaving the programs running is done on purpose, I just want the local monitor at work to go into standby after the preset time of 10min. And I'm sure the...

I regularly remote desktop into my work's computer from home at night. I have Win 7 at home and Win XP on my work desktop. Everything works great except when I come into work the next morning, my monitor at work is on, not in standby. If I don't remote desktop in the night before, then the...

Dude, I think this thread has regressed and digressed significantly. So let me just make this the final post as I think I have enough information. Yes, I replaced the original PSU fan with a quieter fan that moves less air and yes, I do know the risks of it. All I wanted to know if there was...

Holy shit, that's brilliant!! Why the hell didn't I think of that? :D The fan I'm using doesn't have PWM, and my mobo doesn't adjust the fan speed via voltage so it will be running full speed the whole time, which is exactly what I want! The PSU controls the fan speed via voltage, which is...

This brings up another question I have, what exactly is "Too Hot"? When I said earlier the PSU is warm to the touch, it's just of the outer chassis of the PSU, it's kind of hard to get inside it while it's running to see exactly how hot it is. As for the InWin PSU, it's not quite as crappy...

There is no way I was going to keep using that PSU in my HTPC as it stood so I figured if I change out the fan and something bad happens to it, it's no big deal to me, I'll just get another quieter one later. And the PSU fan wasn't defective at all, it does start off slow and quiet, but after...

I recently got a In Win BK623 SFF case which comes with a nice little mATX power supply. The problem with it though is that the PSU fan is insanely loud at full speed, but it does move a lot of air to cool it and the case since it acts as the exhaust. But in the interest in quietting it down...

Yeah, RAM prices are ABSOLUTELY ridiculous. I got 8GB 1333 (XMP 1600) for just $40 after rebate. I still remember when I built my gen 1 Core i3 in Jan 2010, 4GB DDR3 cost me over $100!!!!

After a week or so of research, it could have cost me roughly $200 for a used Q9xxx or Q8xxx and 8GB of DDR2 so I ended up getting a Core i5-2400, motherboard and 8GB of DDR3 for $275. Didn't realize how freaking cheap things were for new stuff now, it was a total no brainer. My original...

Whoa, talk about quick reply :D You just got to the point, I might as well just use the 4550 then since it sounds like I'll get a little bit more performance, free up some RAM, and plus I already have it, thanks!

I'm pretty much set on getting an i5-2400 on which the most demanding tasks I'll be doing is photo editing with Photoshop CS5. I was just wondering, should I just use the built in SB HD 2000 graphics, or would there be any advantage to bring over my old ATI 4550 with 1GB RAM?

My Vostro 1400 with 8400M GS has actually been fine so I didn't qualify for the settlement (booo!). But in the recent weeks, every once in a while, Windows Aero will glitch and revert back to the basic windows Theme, and then a second or two later, Aero comes back. Is this a sign of the nVidia...

Sorry to bring back an old thread, but it seems tailored exactly to my question. My wife has a Core2 E6300 with 2GB. She just got a new DSLR which takes 18MP pictures... needless to say, she'll need much more processing power to touch up and edit photos now. Option 1 is to upgrade the CPU to...

Can the OP, or anyone else who owns the MI-008 case tell me the deepest optical drive that will fit before colliding with the stock PSU in the rear? I will be using right angle power and sata cable. Thanks!

I'm converting the build with the 9600GT into a HTPC/General Use computer.. don't need the horsepower and want to get it as silent as possible. I was thinking about getting one with a passive heatsink but there is a sale on the Galaxy G210 at Fry's right now that has the active fan. And yes...

I am thinking about replacing a 9600GT with a GT2x0 (haven't decided which one yet) so I can move the 9600GT to another build. What I didn't like about the 9600GT was that the fan would be on full speed, loud and noisy, until the driver loaded. From what I read, this had to do with the BIOS on...

I noticed a bunch of messed up services in the services list, they have pretty convincing display names (like "Config Image") but their real names, when you right click on the service and select Properties, show names like "lijxb" and "kytpcc". Anyway, I figured, easy enough, I'll just delete...

That looks pretty close to what I'd want except, I don't think I'd have use for 4 phone lines, even 1 would be enough, would any manufacturer make these with only 1 or 2 phone lines? And remember, caller ID and message waiting indicator are a must.

I want a telephone / intercom solution for my new home, and I'm pretty sure a product like what I want exists, but don't know exactly where to start looking. Basically, I'm looking for two line phones that can work together as regular phones and as an intercom system... one line would be for...

I got a different PSU installed and that seemed to have fixed it. I guess something broke in the PSU which caused it to not turn off its fan or turn off other fans in the system while in S3 sleep. The really interesting thing was the HDD light blinking, I suppose that was just the mobo's...

Actually Windows was the last possibility I thought it might be because I've already disabled all the wake by USBs and it didn't help. What field in the power settings would affect this? If the fans keep waiting for the PSU to cool down, wouldn't that suggest a PSU problem and not a Windows...

I have a MSI G31TM-P21 running Win 7 Pro and while it's not a top of the line mobo, it's been running like a champ for me for the last 7 months or so... until now. Before, when I put the computer to sleep all the fans would turn off and everything is silent and only the power LED is blinking...

I just read some info about CnQ on AMD forums. Looks like for XP (yes, my dad still wants to use XP, doesn't want to upgrade to Win 7 yet) you need to change the Power options to "Minimal Power Management" to enable it. So after doing that, my idle temps are consistently in the mid to high...

How difficult was it to push down on the plastic clamp level on the stock HSF? If pushing down on a LGA 775 stock HSF is a 10 and no resistance is 0, I would say the AMD stock cooler resistance was about 3 or 4. I padded the metal bar on my AMD HSF with some paper and it seems to have gotten...

The Hauppauge you mentioned has an MPEG2 encoder on it, so that's probably why everything zips along when you author your dvds since everything is already in MPEG2 format. But, I'm glad you mentioned it because I just remembered I have an old Hauppauge 150 buried somewhere that I can give to...

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I searched all through the BIOS for a CnQ setting, I could not find it... Would it straight up say "Cool and Quiet" somewhere or might it be disguised as another label? Again I have the Biostar A760GM2+ with the latest BIOS.

Ok so I took a closer look at the HSF and motherboard after getting home. The plastic retention bracket is screwed down to the mobo tightly. I tried bending the metal bar that runs across the heat sink to maybe get it tighter, but damn, that thing is pretty strong so unless it came "unbent"...