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This is not a 100% of the time issue, but it's getting more and more frequent and is really quite annoying; it's nearing 100% in the past few weeks. I put my computer into sleep mode and various times when I wake it via the power button (it does not wake from the mouse or keyboard even though...

There has been lightning lately, did something in my power supply or motherboard get damaged? I put my computer to sleep as I always have. Since the 17th, though, when I try to power on from sleep via the power button it will do a hard reset with an audible click inside the machine. I have...

For several months I've had a single HD system in AHCI mode. Now, I've added 3x new HDs that I want to RAID 5. I can make them RAID 5 no problem, but when I set the motherboard to RAID enabled, the boot drive is no longer bootable even though it is not a member of any RAID group. I don't...

The wife's laptop is getting very old, and she's suggested she wants her next machine to be a tablet. Now, she is saying she wants to get into some digital design using her new tablet. Our house is an Apple-free zone. I don't know hardly anything about the hardware or software one might use...

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BGxggs I've already purchased the case ($60 shipped, very pleased) and I am waiting for Pascal for the graphics card. I have a GTX 670 I'll use until then. The goals for this build are: 1. Low heat - also read 'low power consumption' 2. Low noise 3. Longevity -...

Picture two adjacent rooms. Room A has a wireless router (TP-Link TL 3600) and then on the other side of the wall between the rooms is a TV. The rest of room B has laptops and people using their phones on the wireless and everything works splendidly. I installed a mini PC stick from Quantum...

I'm pretty dang ready to pull the trigger on one of these beasts but I really have no idea which one to grab. Primary difference between the two from my perspective is that one is IPS, which seems to me like a trendier buzzword, while the other is PLS, which I also have no clue what it *really*...

This is a fact-finding mission that I plan to implement, at least partially, to teach myself and to construct a series of guides that others can follow to learn as well. Motivation: lately I've been learning about enterprise level SAN and NAS storage and, although I know enough to set up a...

Anyone play this? It's on iOS and Android and is only the third game in over four years of me having a smartphone that lasted more than 30 days of my attention span. There's a referral and a friend system so if you do try it out I'd love a referral but my main reason for posting here is to...

After piling up a little over 1000 hours and six max-level characters in about eight months, I gave GW2 a break. Blew through Skyrim (a second time) last month, tried a couple other MMO betas and decided they weren't worth buying because they weren't any better than the several free MMOs that I...

Games I have tried and failed to interest me: D&D:O LotRO WAR WoW (Cata and newer) Neverwinter Games I have tried and enjoyed but can't play anymore: GW GW2 WoW:BC,WotLK Things I don't like in a game: Asian graphics. I'm not racist, I just like to involve my mind in an appealing fantasy...

I'm attempting to put together a media center and I've been out of the hardware world for a few years (saving money) and I'm not sure what I should be looking at. I tried a Raspberry Pi with XBMC on it because I already had it, but it's just not up to par. Most of the problems I can solve on...

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I've got a gift card coming in the next couple weeks and my PSU is probably the weak link in my current build. I think it's been a great, solid unit despite some others saying it's a heap of crap but it's also like 6 years old and wasn't new when I got it. However, I never shop at Amazon...

I have an MSI GTX 670 that is 50MHz overclocked. It's gotten really unstable lately and I hate messing with RMAs. I currently am using Precision X to clock it down to 914MHz and so far it's been stable (need to give it a couple more days or weeks to be sure it's fixed). If it turns out to be...

When playing Guild Wars 2, sometimes for 10 minutes and sometimes for 10 hours, my monitors will all go black and never recover. Audio continues to play. The system hangs hard and there's nothing in the event logs. I've updated drivers to several different versions on my GTX 670. A quick...

I've been using this thing for a couple years and it's been a great device. Lately it's been acting up so I reset it to defaults and started over. I did not do these tests beforehand, so it is possible that this issue has been going on a while but I know when the device was new, it did not...

I have an HP Envy 14 laptop with hybrid graphics, Intel something-r-other and AMD 5650. The drivers provided by HP are so old that some games actually don't work. The textures are like huge triangles going all over the place so things are unplayable as you don't have a valid display. AMD...

I did a fresh install of Win 7 (same copy I used last time) on my HP Envy 14 and all is smooth sailing... except... Chrome is extremely slow. Ludicrously slow. Unusably slow. I downgraded it from 25 to 24 which helped, but now it hangs on flash sites. Undaunted, I fire up IE and install...

I have three or four so far but they're hard to find. I'd like something close enough to 3600x1920 to not get distorted. Examples of what I'd really like are: http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/hogwartshigh.jpg...

Basically, I'm lazy... what I'm looking to do is set up some wish lists like newegg has for a handful of products so that if/when they go ridiculously on sale it'll email me about it. Some of the stuff I'm after newegg doesn't carry. I've got an amazon wish list but it doesn't notify me...

I have an HP Envy 14 with AMD and Intel graphics and the stock AMD drivers won't install, you have to get the ones from HP. I am in no way saying this is a fix-all, but if anyone else has endured this frustration, this might be something to look into...

The backstory: we have to use Cygwin in our class. Yes, I know it's stupid. It's not negotiable, sorry. The problem: I use multiple computers to code. The idea: use dropbox to sync files The problem, specifically: Cygwin defaults to the home/Kevin directory within its root directory...

So, a couple of buddies of mine, who I don't know well enough to razz heavily yet, have Bose headphones and they're blown away by how awesome they are. I tested a pair in Best Buy and ended up preferring the Klipsch that they had instead, and I'm blown away by my Klipsch phones. Both units are...

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I've had this monitor about a year and it was out of warranty when I got it. It has like 3-10 vertical lines of pixels in a cluster on the right side and as the monitor heats up, they go away and it works fine. The time it takes for them to go away has been getting consistently longer, and now...

Or maybe more than one. Basically, here at the UW (Washington) I'm entering my junior year and I've had 3 quarters of Java and that's pretty much it. I've played with Python, HTML, SQL, PHP, and Basic on my own. We are going to get, starting now, C and we're using SAGE Math which is Python so...

Recently changed from 2x 6870s to a single GTX 670. The price is fairly similar, but there is a little extra money toward the Nvidia side for this transaction, I am noting that to be fair. However, for a 3 monitor setup, AMD gave me multiple headaches and "why can't I just push this button...

Want to trade Steam codes, my heatware is kevineugenius. My SteamID is kevinnumber2 if you want to look and see what games I already have. I don't have much of a wishlist but I'd like to try one of the new Batmans, Borderlands 2 would be awesome but no one will give me that I don't think...

Currently I'm running 2x 1gb 6870s at 3600x1200 and they just don't cut it. I'd *like* to not go dual-card, but I'm on a low budget. My current plan is to double up on GTX 480s because I can get used ones for reasonable prices. After a PSU upgrade and two of those, though, I'll probably be...

Mainly looking to go into Guild Wars 2 soon but I'll also be on TF2, CS:GO, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3 (eventually), AOEO, and others. Send me a PM for my SteamID or lets meet up inside GW2 if you want. I'm just tired of playing solo. I mean, I'm friggin' amazing and all but... would sure be cool...

I'm currently using a Razer AC-1 sound card which seemed to actually have very good sound to me (compared to an old Sound Blaster and compared to onboard audio, heard by a non-audiophile). I hate the software and the card is old, the headphones are worn out and greasy, and the connection method...

I posted in the video card forum first but now I'm pretty sure it isn't a video card problem. The skinny: Onboard GPU works fine PCIe slot doesn't even detect the card PCIe card fan is spinning Updated BIOS already Tried diff vid card already We had video on the video card during...

Put together a i5 3550 Asus P8Z77-V 4x4g Crucial Ballstix Asus 7770 video ^ new items ^ 650W PSU (tested in other system) and everything seemed nice and smooth. After installing video drivers and using 3D graphics for about 35 minutes, system crashed and then there was no video. If I...

Promo code required, I think you have to be signed up for their newsletters for it to work. PROMO CODE: EMCYTZT1999 Linky http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832784011

Only requirements are: Works. Perfectly. PCIe x8/x8 or better Less than $100 shipped Z77 or equivalent (nothing in the Z68 or equivalent range) Nothing from ECS or Jimbob's Rootin'-Tootin' Compooter and Chili Co. Going for stability. Don't need future-proof, don't need cutting edge, don't...

I understand that they're not perfect and watts aren't the only thing that matters. However, I just looked through a couple for a bit of baseline info and here is what I got: Outvision-based calculator: 497W Newegg's calculator: 655W Asus' calculator: 950W So, that basically covers...

Makes it $47.50 per 8gb set which is a fine deal for 1333mhz. Even if it doesn't run at the advertised 2133, I think you'd come out ahead. PROMO CODE: EMCNCHD48 Ends 8/1/2012

I've lost all confidence in my ability to choose RAM and a buddy of mine wants me to build him a system. Here's what happened in the recent past: Built a comp around a Q6600 with 4x2gb DDR2-800 (been a while, I think that's correct). Every so often, it would have inexplicable issues...

I've only ever gotten cheap crap from Rosewill. In my opinion, that's what they make. I'm talking a tower case for $17 shipped amount of cheap crap. Is their expensive stuff any better? I personally wouldn't feel bad (and have done this so far) lumping their entire brand into the cheap crap...