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I have been happier with Nvidia in the past, mainly due to drivers and cool utilities made by forum users. I'm trying to decide between a gtx 670 and a Gigabyte 7950. I'm thinking the 3gb of vram on the 7950 will come in handy for my modded Skyrim game, but I need to know if drivers for AMD have...

I've been neglecting my pc for months due to being very busy, but now that things have slowed down, I want to make some adjustments. My current build has been in a CM HAF932 and I want to change to something smaller, quieter, and without LED fans. I can't seem to find a good 240mm front fan...

Okay, so I might be getting more housemates in August, and I only have a desktop right now that I use for skype video. If I need to move to another room for peace and quiet, which is extremely likely (and happens even now), what tablet or netbook would be a really good choice for wireless...

I need to find a binaural in-ear 2.5mm headset that will work with an AT&T 993 desk phone. If there's such a thing as an amplifier available for such a setup, I'd like to find that too. Thanks for any help.

I have an ASRock Z68 motherboard and I boot off a Crucial M4 SSD. The last time I set this up, I had a lot of errors trying to make a partition on the SSD. Do I need to use the Intel RST F6 drivers at setup since I run in AHCI? If so, can I load them onto a usb stick? I don't want to burn a cd...

I downloaded ME3 from Green Man Gaming, and got to the part where I needed to install Origin. Origin installs and checks for updates, I can't skip. So I installed the update and got a message that it can't create Origin.exe and it fails, every time. Anyone else encounter this? Thanks.

I got my friend a Corsair HS1-ANA headset for skype. They have a sony qosmio laptop with something called smart audio software that I wasn't too familiar with. After a few months we realized that the headset was being ignored and the built-in speakers and microphone were being used instead. I...

What am I looking at for a laptop that can use an external usb dac/headphone amp, play hi-def movies, and maybe light gaming? I almost went for a Macbook because I don't really NEED gaming abilities, but it would be nice in case of being somewhere and needing to kill time. It would go with me...

I have a gamma y2 usb dac, but it's limited to 16 bit playback. How can I still listen to 24/96 files without it being glitchy or just garbled? Thanks.

Yup. I didn't install the IO shield. I went to plug something in like any other time one day, and I was reaching WAY back and leaning my body on the case. Plugged in the usb correctly, but I might have been at too much of an angle with my hand. It was snug due to the angle and my computer...

My girlfriend and I live a couple of hours apart for the time being. We use logitech webcams for video dates in the meantime. She got hers from walmart and I think it's one of the more entry level models. I thought I was being smart and I bought the C910 which is HD capable, but its total...

I have had it for a year maybe, and I thought I had it plugged into a SATA 3 spot on my Asrock Z68 board. I just looked in Intel RST 10.8 after I installed it, and noticed that it's only recognizing running at 3gbp/s and probably has been that way this whole time. Should it prove to be that...

I think Skyrim is my favorite ES game since Daggerfall, but with all it's technical problems (for me, at least) I am thinking very seriously of going back and finishing Morrowind and/or Oblivion first. Is this a reasonable plan? If I remember correctly, Oblivion and especially Morrowind had...

Hi folks. I've got a friend who lives a pretty good distance away and we are staying in constant contact. I don't have a cellphone and my landline is pretty lousy quality, she only has a cell phone but lives in a building with a lot of metal in it and she gets bad static. As you can imagine...

And it updated. Automatically. I really want to roll back to 4.3... is the downgrade door closed forever? Thanks.

I am in Maine, and I got a google voice number but it's a Portland number. I live about 3 hours north of Portland. Does that mean if someone calls me from two streets away in my town, they are going to pay long distance charges? Thanks.

I have been using my i5-2500k at stock for a few months, and today I attempted to overclock it. I've never overclocked a sandy bridge so I googled around and saw a review at bit-tech I think, and it had oc tips for my setup. They said in the review that they used the "auto 4.8 ghz" shortcut in...

I have a 360 connected to an older lcd behind me (when I am facing my pc) via hdmi. The speakers in that old monitor are junk, how can I perhaps connect my 360 slim up to my old dayton t-amp and dayton speakers? What other cables and adapters will I need? Or is there perhaps an easier way? Thank...

I'm starting to think this card is overkill for even my single 2560x1600 monitor. Am I better served by selling this card off and getting a 1.5 gb card or some dual gpu solution? I could really use your advice. Before anyone asks, I'm not going to give this card away :)

I've got a non-oc'ed i5 2500k, 8gb of ddr3 and an MSI GTX 580. I play on a 2560x1600 HP ZR30w monitor. What should I be trying to aim for as far as settings in Metro 2033? I think it's the most demanding game I have. I just started it over to finish it for once, and I get major lag in the...

My postal code is 04468. I'm looking for something like a droid x, droid 2, or htc incredible. My budget is $150 for the above models, I'd pay more for better phones if I think it's going to be worth it. Thanks for looking.

I've never owned a cell phone of my own, but I am very close to needing/wanting one. Is there a "best" time of the year to do it? I'm aiming to go for an Android phone and am probably going to use Verizon wireless. Here's essentially what I need in a phone: 1) Web, text/email 2) Not many...

Any brick and mortars still carrying this monitor? I checked Staples and Best Buy, who were both selling this monitor at some point recently. When I search their sites I get a "page not found" error at both stores for the term 'hp 2509b'. Any clues? Thanks.

I am switching to a new motherboard and will be moving from a pci-e sound card to a pci one instead. I have the titanium hd, I wonder how much difference there is between the Titanium HD and an Asus Essence ST. I would go for an external device like the HRT Music Streamer but I don't know how to...

I just ordered a Crucial M4, the one that was having a slight sale at Newegg. But I didn't think about the fact that I have an X58 board with the Marvell 6g controller. Should I run this nice drive off a sata 2 controller? Thanks for any help.

How long does a chkdsk operation take on a drive this size? I am watching it go, no visual indication of progress. It's been seemingly at the same place for almost an hour. I am trying to save the drive since I started getting THOUSANDS of corrupt files on it starting last night. The only two...

Just out of curiosity, can I use 91% rubbing alcohol to remove old thermal paste or does it need to be 95 to 99 percent pure? I am trying to avoid buying arcticlean since it costs more than plain rubbing alcohol and takes a few days to show up. My last question is, what happens to the rubbing...

I know that with a single card, having a third party cooler really helps with noise and heat (usually). But what about in SLI or Crossfire? I have a Cooler Master Haf 932 and will be using an Antec Kuhler H20 as a cpu cooler, does anyone with a similar setup know if the hot air getting dumped...

I am planning on getting a second video card soon. The video cards will have third party coolers that use fans that exhaust air into the case, which isn't the problem. The problem is that my Titanium HD will be starving my second video card for air as it is in the pci-e 16x slot just below where...

Is a pair of 6950s that are purportedly "as fast as a 6970" before shader a shader unlock capable of much higher FPS in games than a single gtx 580? Now that the 6950 has been out long enough, some decently cooled models with factory overclocks are showing up. I was wondering if I could...

Does anyone know how tight you want that screw/dial on the mounting plate for the Thermalright Silver arrow? I thought my heatsink was on tight enough already, maybe even too tight, but then I noticed the knob for more pressure in the middle. I really don't want to damage my i7-950 chip, so I...

I have re-installed the drivers, re-installed foobar, tried other output methods, other volume and mixer settings, and I cannot get sound through foobar since I installed the x-fi drivers. Has anyone else had this happen to them, and if so, how did you fix it? I also use xmplay, but I still use...

I have the 120gb version of this drive, and I seem to remember reading that you need to use the F6 (pre-install) version of the Intel RST drivers version 9.6 for the best results from this drive. Can anyone else confirm or deny this? I want to find out now so I can re-format quickly before I...

I know the silver arrow is a monster heatsink. I got mine and installed it yesterday, I have the HAF 932 case and am using the MSI Big Bang Xpower X58 motherboard. The EPS 12v cable is almost exactly where one of the fans for the Silver Arrow is supposed to reside. Am I really nerfing my cooling...

I just got a 30 inch lcd (2560x1600), and but I have only one video card, a gtx 580. Will a single 580 power MOST of if not all recent games with good eyecandy? If I need to go SLI for the high level bells and whistles, just let me know. Thank you.

I was thinking of getting the dayton t-amp or the Pyle stereo amp from Amazon. While I have yet to pick out a pair of speakers (I'll eventually get to that), I was wondering if I need to wire things up myself to use with my pc. I've not done wiring since electronics class in high school, so I...

I have an Auzentech Forte right now, I hate the drivers and how they don't work quite right on my system. I was thinking of getting an Audio-Gd Sparrow and using it with my headphones. Has anyone here tried going from a pci-e sound card to an external dac/amp? If so, how did it sound to you? I'm...

I just got a new computer table, but with my pc on it, I get some noticeable vibration going through the desk, especially on startup. Is there a dense foam or rubber top/pad I can put on my desk to dampen the vibration? Or is there another method? I'd like to keep the PC case itself on something...

Can an ikea vika amon tabletop in the link below support a desktop pc in a Silverstone FT02 and an lcd monitor besides with just 4 legs attached to the tabletop? I am trying to configure a new desk and I want to keep my pc off the floor since I have carpet. Any suggestions? Thank you...

My slim has only wanted to use my wireless connection for over a week. If I plug an ethernet cable in, every connection test fails and I get error codes. As far as I know the error codes are telling me a cable is unplugged and that my wireless adapter is not configured. This all started after I...