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I have an 8 year old Seasonic M12-700 watt and I have a rare boot up issue with USB devices that I'm not sure if it's just the PSU is old or something else. It's rare, but sometimes when I reboot some USB devices won't function, particularly the keyboard. I thought it was a motherboard issue...

I needed to get the polarization layer on my Dell 3007WFP-HC replaced. I heard of this company called Moniserv in San Francisco that does this work. So I opened an RMA with them, gave them my monitor model number and serial number. They accepted the RMA and I shipped it out to them. After...

When I walk or run outdoors, I like to hold my phone in my hand as opposed to using an armband or something. And I just bought a bluetooth stereo headset to replace my wired headphones, the Jabra Sport. Of course the first thing I do is pair it up with my Galaxy Nexus phone and go out for a...

I've had my 30 inch Dell for a bit over 3 years. And for a while I've noticed these odd color distortions (not sure what the proper term would be for it). Most of the time I really don't even notice it, but while watching videos it tends to jump out when solid colors are being shown in...

Seems like Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint have all had some interesting new phone news. Verizon is getting a new Razr and Droid. AT&T is getting the Galaxy Note. Sprint is getting the Galaxy Nexus. Nothing at all so far for T-Mobile customers? Makes me sad.

Having some keyboard problems with my new ASUS P8Z68-V motherboard. There is the symptom. After installing Windows 7 and installing a few drivers and things, after the last reboot the consistency checker came up for one of the 3TB hard drives. Not sure why that did. But it's takes for...

I have a pair of XFX 6950 2GB cards. I can't recall if I ever used the stock heatsinks on these originally. I took them off and put water blocks on both and had used them for a while. I've now decided to retire my water cooling setup. So I installed the stock heatsinks again. But I noticed...

I'm having problems with the USB ports on my motherboard and I'm starting to wonder if my power supply's +5 rail could be overloaded? The symptom is if I plug in more than 2 or 3 USB devices directly into the back of my computer (or the front case USB ports) some of the USB devices will power...

I'm trying to fix the mouse lag in Skyrim. And so I followed this guide and it did completely solve the mouse lag issue... http://linearskillz.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/skyrim-pro-tips-that-help-with-mouse-control-and-physics-glitches/ But it has me disabled v-sync and copy a couple FPS fix...

Every time I updated my AMD drivers, I find that CrossfireX is unavailable and the second card shows up as disabled in CCC. Crossfire cable is connected. And it seems like the only way to fix the problem is to uninstall the drivers and run Driver Sweeper/Cleaner, then reinstall the drivers...

I would like a Galaxy Nexus without a new contract. I like T-Mobile's Monthly 4G plan (at least it appears real good, don't have it yet) because for $30 a month I can get 5GB of data, unlimited text, and 100 minutes (I don't talk much on my phone, so that's plenty). So this is much better than...

During the last month I bought more than half a dozen keyboards trying to find the perfect replacement to my old Saitek Eclipse II. Logitech G110 and G510. Went through two of each, almost thought I was getting defective keyboards, because I found the keys felt really mushy for some reason...

Just received my Thermaltake Meka G1 keyboard this afternoon. I have been using an Eclipse II keyboard for many years and just recently bought a Logitech G110. But started reading all this love over the mechanical keyboards I became interested. Earlier in the week I went digging through some...

Thinking about buying my first mechanical keyboard. I'm pretty dependent on having a palm rest built into the keyboard and I tend to move my keyboard around a lot so like to have something that is attached. Preferably with brown switches, but I suspect I may not have the luxury of being too...

Question. If I setup a pair of drives in RAID 1 on a controller card, then at some point that card fails, would I still be able to plug one of the drives into a regular SATA port and still read the data that is on the drive?

Going to water cool two 6950s with a pair of XSPC Razor water blocks. http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=30053:34954505758c6a98dbd196d61bad3631 Is this Danger Den SLI/Crossfire pack all I need to connect the two cards...

I switched from using a water cooled 4870 X2 to two stock cooled 6950 video cards. The cards themselves are staying at reasonable temps for stock cooling (83C loaded), not worried about them. And the CPU is still water cooled and it's temp is great (40C usually). But what is concerning me...

I went from a water cooled 4870 X2 to two stock cooled 6950 cards. And my chipset temp (assuming the southbridge chip) is reporting temps up to 58C while gaming (around 36-40C when cards are idle). I have a couple SSDs, couple V-Raptors, and a couple other hard drives running off the ICH10R...

I bought two 6950 cards and installed them. I installed the 11.1a beta drivers on Windows 7 64 bit. In GPUZ one idles at 450/1250MHz the other 250/150MHz. When I play a game I only see one card clock up to 3D speed and have a load. The other card seems to be doing nothing. In CCC AMD...

Just got a GTX 580 and am happy with it so far. But just a couple questions. First, my monitor isn't as bright as I'd like (Dell 3007WFP-HC). So I use gamma correction. For some reason the 263.09 drivers don't seem to be applying my gamma settings at start up. Are there newer beta drivers or...

I need a 3TB drive to put inside my computer. Slow RPM drive is fine, so looking at a WD 3TB Green. I see the 3TB My Book Essentials external drive is $180. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136749 While the 3TB Green internal drive is $230...

I'm sure this is bound to be a dumb question (have a feeling I'm being fooled by some lame marketing...) My router advertises speeds up to 300Mbps.I can sit my laptop next to this router, but I only get 65Mbps. How is the 300Mbps speeds achieved from 802.11n?

I bought the Corsair HS1 yesterday and I watched Minority Report and it sounded very impressive (not an audiophile so my standards may not be that high). But when I wear them in WOW it sounds kinda bad. Feels like I'm gaming in a bathroom. I've been tweaking the settings, but nothing really...

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=939A790GMH Well I think this is pretty cool. ASRock for some reason has released a new socket 939 board based on the AMD 790GX chipset. My old ASUS Nforce 4 motherboard kinda kicked the bucket a while ago. But I still have an Athlon X2 4600 and...

Any rumors or thoughts on if we'll ever see mixed resolutions allowed for triple screen gaming? I have a 2560x1600 res 30 inch monitor. And I think it would just be awesome to be able to buy two 20 inch 1600x900 resolutions monitors and use them in portrait modes on the sides. Really...

I have my two 120GB OCZ Vertex drives in a RAID0. It gets about 500MB/s peak read performance on my ICH10R together and around 250MB/s individually. I'd like TRIM support (which isn't available using RAID), though not a big deal yet as I don't really see much of a slow down with all the extra...

Having some performance concerns with my Perc 5i. This is with the latest LSI firmware, BBU installed, Windows 7. I've played with just about every configuration setting and nothing seems to help. Any ideas?

I got a tight spot in my case where the radiator hoses are running right against the back of my DVD drive. It's fine for the moment. However I want to replace my DVD drive with a Bluray drive and that is 1 inch longer, so I want to do something about the hoses to make room. Installing two 90...

I'm wondering if there are any miracle fixes for large scratches on an LCD monitor. The scratch is fairly deep. It illuminates white when the monitor is on from the backlighting. And measures about half an inch long. Hoping there might be something I can do to minimize it's appearance. I'm...

I went out and picked up that Razer Naga mouse. I play mostly MMOs, so I thought all those side buttons might be pretty nice to have if I could learn to use them accurately. Seemed like it could compliment my Nostromo N52TE nicely. I played WOW a couple hours with a Hunter. I assigned a...

I have a question... I just received two 4890 graphics cards. I was expecting they would have two PCI-E 6 pin power connections each. However to my surprise they require a 6 and 8 pin connection. The problem. I am currently using a Season M12 700 watt modular PSU. This PSU has two special...

Has anyone ever had any luck finding 3/4" spring hose clamps from a local store like a Lowes, Home Depot, AutoZone, etc? Was thinking about use these, when I saw this Koolance clamp. http://www.frozencpu.com/products/7888/koo-151/Koolance_Reusable_19mm_34_OD_Hose_Clamp_CLM-19.html However...

These days I feel like video cards are plotting to drive me insane... This might get kind of long... 9 months ago I bought the ATI 4870X2. Over the course of the months I've grown to dislike my video card quite a bit. Mostly because of the drivers. Besides the power play bug that kept returning...

Is there a way to check the status of a backup battery on a Dell PERC 5i card? I recently bought the card and then bought a used battery separately. Before I leave feedback on eBay for the battery, I'd like to confirm it's not dead. I went into the PERC settings from CTRL-R (or whatever...

I have a Koolance 4870X2 GPU water block. It has an acrylic window on it that developed a very small crack and began a slow leak. I sent the block to Koolance for repair. And it took them a while to get the part, but that has now have it fixed and they sent me this message: "The acrylic...

I have a single 120GB Vertex SSD. This was an "upgrade" from two Velociraptors. Unfortunately it hasn't felt like much of an upgrade. It's probably a little bit faster, but barely noticeable. Any Vertex owners know if I would see quicker OS startup and faster application loading if I added...

I have a question about the two PCI-E x16 lane slots on the board. I have a 4870X2 graphcs card in the primary x16 slot. I'd like to add a PCI-E x4 RAID card to the other slot (there are no x4 slots, so I'd have to use the x16). In the manual it says this... "When two graphics cards...

Best Buy has the dang Velociraptors on sale for $199 and I don't think I can resist that price anymore. I'm probably going to pick up a couple of these during lunch. Right now I have a 74GB Raptor as my OS drive and I have four 640GB WD AAKS drives in RAID 0 for my games and storage needs...

I've tossed out my Creative X-Fi (hate the POS). I'm trying to use the Realtek onboard drivers. Oddly I've never experienced such difficulty with on board Realtek drivers as I am with these... What happens is I installed the drivers. First I went with the newest drivers from Realtek, then I...

I have four 640GB drives that I've placed in a RAID-0 on an ICH10R controller. Initially I did a GPT partition style, because that is what is required for arrays over 2TB. That seemed to worked, but HDTune didn't like this. So I wiped that out and created two RAID-0 arrays, both using...