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Right now I use a Dell Latitude D630. It fits the bill and all, but as soon as I get some cash going I plan on upgrading. I do, however, want to go AMD. So I was wondering what are the good options for AMD on the low/mid/high end for laptops. I tried searching for some, but they don't seem to...

So, I found a broken HP laptop sporting Ryzen where I work. It's headed to the recycle bin. What I heard is that AMD is crap and the laptop is borked. I have this... compulsion... to fix things =D So I would like to ask if anyone knows of any common issues with those in case I convince them to...

Which one of those is faster for general use, as in browse the web and type some documents? The model numbers would be: ST500LM021 for 7200rpm HDD ST500LM000 for 5400rpm SSHD

Ok, today's my birthday, and I'll treat myself to some gear. It's been two years, screw it. My current rig: i3-4170 Onboard Intel graphics Asus Q87M-E/CSM 16GB G-Skill DDR3 1600MHz (2x 8GB) 1TB HDD Asus 1080p monitor. I don't want to spend a lot, around 200 CAD, so I have a few options: 1)...

A friend gave me an Acer Swift 3. He wanted the data out, and after that decided to just toss the thing away. It doesn't power up. Plugging it in doesn't do a thing, nothing lights up. The power ON button is part of the keyboard. PSU is working. I cracked it open and measured around 2.8V on...

MoBo is a Asus Q87M-E/CSM. I bought it after I managed to break my MSI H81M-E33 when I decided to get a bigger case.

I have an environment which has a SBS 2008 machine as the primary server, and a brand new Server 2016 which is meant to be the new primary server. It is not a huge environment, around 30 machines or so, but I need to decomission the old one. The hardware is old and redundant - the new server...

edit: go here for the latest developments. Well, 20+ years after I first started playing with computers, I finally achieved my dream. My own little static IP and business internet connection. Not crazy fast or anything, but hey, no blocked ports... I can run my own server! The beauty of the...

Installing Xubuntu and Lubuntu on their respective machines right now =D

Does windows 7 still nag you to update to 10, considering the free upgrade thing is over?

Does anyone know how to do that? I got a Dell D630 and I am waiting for the 1TB HD to arrive. I plan on having XP/10 and Linux running on it. Is it possible?!

If anyone has one of those lying around, please let me know. Thank you!

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Got new PSU and Case, was moving the stuff to it and bam, forgot to screw the mobo in. It dropped, some tiny piece flew away. Does not work anymore. Need anything socket 1150. Used to have a MSI H81I Mini ITX, but new case is Micro ATX I think. As cheap as possible. Thanks,

I am dressing up my rig for WoW playing and I would like you guys opinion on a good Keyboard+Mouse combo. In the past, I rocked a SteelSeries Rival for a mouse, paired with the SteelSeries keyboard on my former MSi notebook. It was nice. I don't think I need more buttons on the mouse than that...

My wife's laptop screen started to act weird a while ago. I hope I can explain it, but anyway, if that's not enough I will make a video of it. Sometimes, the picture gets messed up, and you have to open/close the lid a little bit until finding a spot in which the picture is clear as it should...

Last year I moved to Canada and I brought my tiny Mini ITX case. It used to house a Atom board, but I couldn't resist buying something else to put inside. So I bought a MSi Mini ITX MoBo, i3 CPU and 16GB of gaming RAM. After a while, I also bought a ASUS gaming monitor. So right now I have this...

Which of these processors is faster overall? - AMD Athlon X2 270 - Intel Celeron J1900 Both are running with 8GB DDR3. Thanks.

Can I fix this somehow?

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I wanted to set up my home wi-fi network to require a custom username+password. I tried in the past, but couldn't make it work. Does anyone know any guide? I have a 24/7 server that could run whatever is needed for this.

I'm thinking about getting a gaming capable notebook. I plan to use it as my everyday computer, saving the desktop for downloads and movie playing. I have an eye on some 15' and 17' computers, but I worry 17' is too big/heavy to carry around. Does anyone here got a 17' after having a 15', or...

I've always purchased Seagate drives, because that's what I can find easily around here. Never had an issue, until I got a 2TB unit that started to behave oddly. SeaTools found lots of errors, but fixed them. Since then I didn't have any issues, but it's odd having my biggest drive used only for...

My sister mainly plays World of Warcraft. Her desktop is an Athlon 7750(or something like that) with 5GB of RAM and a GeForce 9600GT. She can play it just fine, even though she can't max all settings. Her notebook, however, is an AMD C-60 Acer Aspire. It runs WoW, but of course the...

My cousin has a GT 240 on a AMD Athlon X2 250, plugged on a 1080p 32-inch TV. His videocard isn't performing well, not only because it isn't powerful enough, but because it has weird issues after a reboot: it works fine, but if you reboot the machine all kinds of weird behavior ensue. I'm...

I waited for a long time to have some dough to pay for a TechNet subscription, and now that I do I discover that it no longer exists. I wanted a Win7 Pro ISO with SP1 built in, because the CD that came with it has no service pack bundled. How am I supposed to get an legitimate ISO from...

My wife is going to Canada. She'll be studying there, and her old Emachines e250 Atom N270 10.1' netbook is, to put it bluntly, just a shame. She did not want to upgrade for a long time, but notebooks are way cheaper in Canada than they are in Brazil, so the opportunity is at hand. Problem...

I used to play around with coding (BASIC, Pascal and batch scripts) back when I was a kid. For some reason I dropped that hobby and now, many years later, I decided that I want to learn to code. Is there a language that I should learn first, or any will do? Thanks.

Hello all. I'm having a hard time finding a Phenom II X4 with a TDP of 95W around here. Does anyone have one laying around that wants to sell? Thanks.

Yes, I know it's old, very old gear, but still... Does anyone know of a good upgrade path for this mobo? I was going to get a Celeron E3300, but I guess the mobo doesn't support it. Any ideas? Thanks.

Is a i5-2410M (notebook) better than a i3-2120? Just curious to see if my notebook processor outperforms my desktop one. Thanks!

I need to upgrade my "wife rig" (see my sig) to make it able to play COD: Black Ops 2 on 1080p resolution. The current PC is a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ with a GeForce 9600GT. The game is barely playable at the moment. I wanted to know the minimum PC + GPU I have to get to play it at 1080p...

I have a 20MB internet connection, with a 100GB cap. My mother works at home, with some employees. Adding home and work, 8 people use the internet all the time. Lots of Youtube videos, streaming netflix, iTunes downloading, and so on. I wanted something to: 1) Manage this cap. It's over too...

Hey. I built a HTPC with Win7 + XBMC. Sadly, it was with an Intel D510MO, which does not play HD videos as I found out :( Well, I'll play with that one and do another HTPC. Now I'm going AMD C-60 + Radeon 6290 for my next HTPC, and I wanted to know which OS should I use on it. I have this Win7...

I built a HTPC with a Intel D510MO motherboard, which has a fanless Atom D510 processor built-in. I installed 3GB of DDR2 RAM on it and put everything on a Mini-ITX case, hoping it would be enough to play HD videos. Sadly, it's stuttering like madness using XBMC on Windows 7. Is there any...

Intel Core I3-2100 3.1ghz 3mb Lga1155 Asus P8h61-m Le Lga1155 Intel Sata 3gb/s Usb 2.0 Kingston 4Gb DDR3 1333Mhz x2 (total 8GB) XFX 450w Core Edition Pro P1-450S-XXB9 Thermaltake V3 Black Edition - VL80001W2Z XFX Radeon HD6870 1Gb 256bit GDDR5 HD-687A-ZHFC Thanks!

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming, basically WoW and Diablo 3. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? Tight, really tight. It doesn't matter if I tell here, because I'm in Brazil so prices are weird. 3) Which country do you...

Hey guys. I sold my last PC, and now I want something to play these games (WoW and D3). What's the minimum GPU I should get to have reasonable FPS on these games? My setup will probably be an AMD X2 250 with 8GB of RAM. Nothing fancy, just the cheapest thing I can get around here... i3 and...

(see sig for notebook info) Does anyone here with a cheap notebook like mine installed a SSD? I've wondering if I should... it gets the job done, but the HD is really really slow. I don't do nothing powerful with the portable, only internet, word processing and stuff like that. thanks.

I need to upgrade my mom's work computer. She uses lots of AutoCAD/Revit, but her current rig doesn't render shit... of course. AMD Athlon X2 7850. 4GB RAM. GeForce 6600GT. 500GB HD. I'll replace it all, but wanted to know if it's reasonable to go with a Phenom II X6 build instead of Core...