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Hello, In the next few days I'm going to set up a new rig with a Maximus VII Ranger Z97 board and an i5 4670k... The rest of the rig will be the same as in my sig. Would you advise that I carry on using my current PSU, a Cooler Master Real Power M1000? (Here's the Cooler Master website...

Hey all, my new Z97 motherboard arrived, the Asus Maximus VII Ranger. I'm planning on just using the onboard audio I think, but I have a question: I currently use K702 headphones with a custom built amp built by someone recommended through HardForum, I think it's a Pimeta 2. However, it...

The rig is the one in my sig. They are both GTX 670s but they aren't identical, one has 2gb of vram and the other has 4gb. However, I was under the impression this didn't matter. It everwhere seems to recognise that there are two graphics cards installed but for some reason the SLi options...

I have an amp with black and red RCA inputs at the back, and a PC with a SB Titanium Fatality sound card inside it. There is no RCA output from the soundcard, only analogue and SPDIF. What's the best way to connect the two without compromising on sound quality? Or am I better off getting a...

I'm thinking of getting the AKG K701 headphones because there seems to be a consensus online that they are very good for gaming. There also seems to be a consensus, however, that they are very hard to drive, and they are not worth it without an amp. I currently have only an XFi Titanium...

Right, basically I was hoping you guys could help sort me out... my audio situation is a bit of a mess I think. At the moment I use the 'Quantum Wave' riser sound card included with my Big Bang Xpower mobo (which uses a combination of Realtek software and this thing called THX TruStudio PC)...

Hi everyone, I've been searching around for ages now for a solution to this problem. My headset (Razer Carcharias), has been working absolutely fine but suddenly started behaving very strangely. When I plug it in, windows seems to know the mic is plugged in and recognizes it. However, when I go...

I've been using this PC regularly for a while now (the SFF in my sig), but yesterday when I turned it on the screen resolution was down to the minimum and all the W7 eye candy was turned off, just as it is after uninstalling the drivers. I hadn't changed anything about the computer though. What...

There are two fans installed in the Vulcan case, a 120mm top exhaust and a 120mm front intake. The front fan works fine, but for some reason the top fan won't spin. At first I had them plugged into the integrated fan controller of the case. It wasn't spinning up so I tried plugging it directly...

I'm thinking of finally jumping on the SSD bandwagon since everyone seems to say that it makes a very noticeable difference over mechanical drives. The Corsair C300 seems to be very fast and relatively affordable. It comes in 64gb, 128gb and 256gb. I'm trying to decide between two of these...

Does anyone know which has better picture quality? I'm stuck on deciding between the two...

If you had all these components, how would you divide them up to build two PCs? This is the situation I'm faced with, and can't really decide which parts match each other best. So I figured I'd ask you guys how you'd spec your computers if you had two build two from these parts :) Here are the...

My apple keyboard has suddenly started being very strange.... When I type s or k it comes out as sk ... When I type w or i it comes up as wi. The comma and x keys produce ,x. I've tried restarting and it's in the correct language :( I'm using W7 x64.

With the arrival of spring, I can no longer solve the problem of my motherboard overheating by opening the window and letting in cold air. I have a rampage ii gene, which seems to be known for overheating northbridge. It gets too hot to touch. I'm looking for advice on what to do. My case is...

I have Find My iPhone and registered and everything. A few hours ago, I briefly left it behind in a lecture because it had fallen out of my pocket. I hurried back to my seat, the iPhone wasn't there. I logged onto mobile me, and it seemed to be tracking the phone. The last it updated, the phone...

When I play Empire Total War, the sound sometimes starts to get distorted and will sound very robotic and strange, with voices stretching out and stuttering. This quickly gets accompanied by my mouse cursor getting laggy. Eventually the computer will freeze completely, and I get a grey screen...

In various games like L4D2, TF2, Resident Evil 5 and Dragon Age, I've been having a problem where my keyboard presses repeat as though I were holding the key down. This is mixed with unresponsiveness, where I will press a key and not get a reaction in the game until a second later. This is...

Several days after the accident, I'm extremely happy to see that my iPhone can turn on again and send/receive messages. However... the 'home' button at the front no longer works. Is this something that might come back on its own with further drying out maybe? There still a tiny bit of water in...

Does anyone know, roughly? I've been looking at Newegg several times a day but even if a 5870 comes in stock it's gone within seconds/minutes, before I have a chance to buy.

PowerColor Radeon 5870 in stock, are PowerColor a reliable company? Or should I just wait until the XFX comes back, whenever that is... I'm getting impatient :(

I have a small desk so I can't buy a big gaming keyboard. I was looking at the Apple keyboard because of its small size and scissor laptop keys. I had the Razer Lycosa and I quite liked its keys so I'm tempted by the apple. Has anyone used it in a gaming context?

Hey, Is this page new? If so, I've been getting the feeling that Apple would like to get accepted as a viable gaming platform. Maybe they've been encouraged by the success of the itouch/iphone as gaming devices, and thinking that people may be changing their perceptions of apple & gaming...

CPU: i7 920 CPU which I hope to keep at about 3.6Ghz Graphics: Radeon 5870 Motherboard: Rampage 2 gene RAM: 6Gb G.Skill 1600 ddr3 Hard Drive: 500GB Samsung F3 DVD-RW drive probably inside an HAF 922...

Everything seems to be 1920x1080 now, which is kind of annoying. I'm not that picky about picture quality, I had a BenQ v2400w which I was very happy with, but need a new monitor for the year. The v2400w doesn't seem to be very widely available anymore, and it's gone a bit out of my price...

Hey guys, I know this question is being asked all over the place and I've read the other threads but I'm still having a really hard time deciding. *Basically, I will be overclocking and I'm hoping to have my i7 920 stable enough at 3.6Ghz to be on 24/7. So I guess ideally I'm looking for a...

Hi, I've recently been getting into editing videos, but have only used Windows Movie Maker so far. I'm starting to feel limited by it though, like I want more control over effects, timing of sound, etc etc. I just want more control overall I guess, and access to more professional looking...

Ok, so I'm at home for a bit from uni and am using my brother's PC... and somehow his rig seems more enjoyable to use than mine. Gaming seems somehow more pleasant. We have exactly the same monitors, the same sound systems, and we both have good quality mouse/keyboards/mousepads. I thought maybe...

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11713&Itemid=1 I want to take this course! And from a university as prestigious as Berkeley, no less. Where do I sign up to transfer? :p Reading the fudzilla article, it actually sounds very interesting. They seem to delve...

My brother is having this problem on his laptop. This is the full message I get when I open up internet explorer 7: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage Most likely causes: You are not connected to the Internet. The website is encountering problems. There might be...

It just came out on steam but I can't find any reviews or anything anywhere. Does anyone know if it's any good?

Hey guys, I know there's a thread like this with every weekend deal but I'm wondering whether the game's any good and is worth purchasing.

Sorry for the fairly obscure question, but I was wondering which driver version to use. Does 180.84 contain all the improvements from 180.48 plus the GTA IV optimizations? Is .84 a beta driver?

Anyone get past this on expert? I'm talking about the one on the roof of Mercy hospital, waiting for the helicopter evac. We tried many times and each time we got wiped out. We were usually ok until the first tank came, and we would take that down by setting it on fire but it usually climbed...

I'm looking for the cookies.sqlite file because for some reason Firefox has stopped recording cookies. So if I log into Hard Forum/Gmail/Amazon etc and tick 'remember me', then close the browser and start it up again, I will still have to log in all over again. This is getting really annoying...

Civilization IV has drilled loads of really profound quotes into my brain. Like the one from Augustine, about "two cities have been formed by two loves, the earthly by love of self, the heavenly by love of God" and "all the world's a stage, all the men and women merely players; they have...

I just created this thread to hear your speculations... http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=281926 This makes me so happy! I was worried they weren't going to make any other expansions because of Dawn of War 2. I wonder if they will add new armies? Somehow, although I...

I'm American but I'm at university in the UK... I would really like to buy Far Cry 2 on Steam instead of retail but it isn't available to purchase in Europe. Are there any North America residents who could help me out by buying the game and gifting it to me in exchange for paypal reimbursement...

I've started having problems with my Samsung Spinpoint F1 1tb hard drive. I haven't had it for long, and it's replacing a different hard drive that also started having problems (another Samsung, 500gb). I'm worried that there is something else causing my hard drive problems. When I start up...

I'm a 20 year old uni student and I'm having a bit of a crisis (I'll call it a two-decades-of-life-crisis, or crysis). I'm thinking that I should give up computer games, meaning sell my desktop (most likely at a big financial loss) buy a macbook for my computing needs (to ensure I don't get...

I bought EQ 2 when it first came out, but at the time all my friends were playing the newly released World of Warcraft so I ended up abandoning my character. I have been totally out of the loop since then. I've been playing Age of Conan recently, and while I really enjoy it, it does at times...