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My sister called me today with a problem with her PC. She lives a long way from me, so it makes troubleshooting her issue a bit difficult. She has an HP Omen 30L-GT13 desktop that she bought last June. Today it started acting up, when she first noticed some "black pixels" on her monitor. Then...

Everything I have read indicates the warranty is 3 years for AMD processors, but they always say as part of their "Processor in a box" program. Is the warranty the same for a system I purchased from a business such as Velocity Micro? I bought one of their systems 2 years ago, and it has the...

Call me clueless, but I just recently discovered the existence of NVMe M.2 adaptors (from a response in another thread of mine). I have an ASUS ROG Crosshair Hero VIII motherboard and Ryzen 5950X CPU for my sytem. I already have 2 M.2 drives slotted into the motherboard. I have a spare M.2...

Hello, I have a Velocity Micro PC that is about 18 months old. The motherboard is an ASUS ROG Crossfire VIII Hero, the CPU is an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, with 32 gigs of RAM, a Firecuda 520 NVMe boot drive, along with a Western Digital storage HDD, and a Western Digital Black NVMe SSD. The OS is...

Hello, I am running out of storage space on my PC, and would like to get a 2 - 4 TB storage drive. My primary use is for games, and photos. I have had my current machine for a few years, and in that time I added a couple of smaller SSD's (bought a long time ago, one is 512 GB, the other 128)...

I recently started thinking of upgrading my video card (Gigabyte GTX 970) after helping my nephew build a new system. My CPU is the I5 - 3570K. I started researching cards, and it appears the best bang for your buck cards now are the RX 570/RX580 and the RTX2060. I know there are a few of the...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming mainly, FPS (Far Cry 3, Arma 3, BF4), Tomb Raider, MMO's and strategy games 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $1500 for the parts I need. I already have a Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming, and...

I am planning a new build, and am considering the ASUS ROG Maximus Fomula VII for the mobo, along with the I5-4690k. I was looking for RAM, and was thinking of this: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB DDR3 1866. http://http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233536 It gets good...

So I bought a Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming card from my local Microcenter a couple of nights ago. After an issue with a game, I did a complete uninstall of the prior drivers, and did a clean install of the latest Nvidia driver. That fixed the problem I was having with the game. Now, I have a...

I am in the planning stages of a new build. I am strongly considering the Asus ROG Maximus Formula VII, because of the excellent reviews it has received, mainly because of its excellent on-board sound. Plus I think it looks cool as hell. I have never used a ROG board before, and kind of...

I am in the process of putting together a new build. I would like a modular power supply so I can use just the cables I need. I currently have a 2 year old Corsair TX750 which has been great. I will be leaving that in my current system. The system I am thinking about will use the ASUS...

Hello, I bought a Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 today, as my local Microcenter had a couple in stock. I installed it tonight, and tried a few games at max settings, and every game ran great. I tried Skyrim, Far Cry 3, Rift, Civ 5, Diablo 3, and WoW. However, when I tried SWTOR, after I entered...

Hello, I would love to upgrade from my current 24" BenQ GW2450 to a larger monitor. I have not decided on the monitor yet, but have thought about the LG 34UM95 ultrawide, or something like the ROG Swift if I could find one, or the BenQ XL2720Z, or something in between size wise....still...

I would like to get a USB 3.0 flash drive, probably 32 GB. Is there much difference between brands or certain models? If you look at newegg, there seems to be wide variance in reviews. I was thinking of Corsair or Mushkin...haven't seen too much recent discussion on flash drives. Not sure what...

While preparing to RMA an ASUS P8Z77-V LK motherboard (I had done a lot of troubleshooting with new build, and had it traced to the motherboard) back to Newegg, within 30 days of purchase, I inadvertently bent a pin on the cpu socket on the motherboard. I know, I am a dumbass.... So obviously...

I am in process of building new system, and have a 4 year old pc that I built. The old system has an Abit IP35 Pro motherboard, a WD 640gb hard drive and a dvd burner. it has 8 gigs of Mushkin RAM, and the Q6600 CPU. This system has been rock solid for all 4 years. It has 64 bit Windows Vista...

I got my replacement motherboard, and started the building process today. The CPU is the i5 3570k, and had it installed in prior mobo, so today I used the Arctic Cleaner 1 and 2 to remove the prior Arctic Silver 5 from the Hyper 212+ heatsink. then I started on the cpu, all was fine, till at...

Ok, I am normally not such an idiot...trying to get my motherboard back together to RMA to newegg...going to put the protective cap back over the CPU socket...don't want to break anything....doesn't seem either direction is right.... argh...sorry....motherboard is Asus P8Z77-V LK.

While in the Hot Deals forum, I found this thread about Rosewell mechanical keyboards being on sale at newegg http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1705855 I need a new keyboard for my new system. I currently have a Logitech G19, and I really like the illuminated keys, as I sometimes play in a...

Other than the color of the heatsinks, is there any difference in these two RAM kits: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231546 and http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231544. to my uneducated eye, they look to have the exact same specs. Would it...

I hope this is the right sub-forum for this question...I have narrowed my problems with my build to the motherboard, so need to RMA it to Newegg. I am still within the 30 days from invoice date. I have never RMA'd anything to them before, so don't know what to expect. The packing list states...

I have been posting on the general forum and elsewhere recently, about my new system that I got the parts for just last week. My plan was to build a new system as my current system was built 4 years ago, and it has Vista 64 bit home edition. I work for a large company, and we have the ability...

I think this was on sale for the same price a while back, I just got the email with the promo code EMCYTZT1880. $89.99 with free shipping on this the SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC128B/WW. It seems at least warm...I plan to buy one for my 4 year old computer...

Not sure if this is the proper forum, if not, please advise where to start it. I just finished my new system last night, and have been doing some updates and installing a few programs today. This is my build: Case: Corsair Carbide 500R Mobo: Asus P8Z77-V LK CPU: i5 3570k RAM: G. Skill...

Hey all, I finished building my new system tonight, which can be found here: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1702122&page=2. I have the M4 for the boot drive (and I wish now I had bought an SSD before...windows boots so fast now:)) Then my storage drive is a Seagate Barracude 2tb...

I got all the parts for my new build today (I am the one who posted the question about the old Arctic Silver 5)...and plan to start tomorrow. I bought the Corsair Carbide 500R case, which seems like it will be an easy case to work with. It has two mounting locations in the top of the case for...

I received the parts for my new system today, but neglected to buy new AS5. I have a small tube from my build from 4 years ago, that has had the cap on it, and sealed in a plastic bag in my basement. It seems I read somewhere this should be fine, but then I read elsewhere that it may have...

I started a thread in the general hardware forum for a new build, and was inspired by the latest issue of PC Gamer in which they have a build that uses the Gigabyte Z77-D3H mobo. It seems like a fine board, but I had an iffy experience with one of their videocards a few years ago. I haven't...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming (currently MMO's like SWTOR, Rift and Tera, likely GW2 when out), Diablo 3, Skyrim, maybe some FPS down the road. Web browsing, videos, some basic photo-editing. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping...

I am looking to get a 23-24" monitor for my PC. I currently have a BenQ V2400W. I have been doing some research, and feel more confused than ever. Where my computer is, 24" is about as big as I would like to go at this time. My graphics card is a Radeon HD 6950 (corrected). It seems a common...

Hi all. I find myself taking care of my mom, who has a terminal illness, and I am staying at her house most of the day, with some breaks to go to my own home. She sleeps a lot, so I get on my laptop for entertainment. I have an Alienware m11x (which only has HDMI and Displayport video out)...

Hi, it has been a long time since my last visit here, so I am definitely out of the loop on current hardware. My current system has been working well, but now my 640 GB Western Digital drive is starting to get filled up, and I am thinking of adding a second drive...for adding some new games...

So after a couple of months of research and waiting, I bought a new HIS HD 6950 2gb card...it came two days ago. I uninstalled my previous card, a 4870....then installed the new card. I downloaded the latest driver, and restarted the system. The main game I am playing right now, is World of...

So after a lot of reading, I think I will order an HD 6950 2 GB card....Newegg has the HIS card for $259.99 after rebate and with free shipping. The XFX card is 279.99 after $10 rebate and they are charging $2.99 for shipping. The XFX card has 42 reviews and the HIS only has 4. Then there is an...

I have been watching for deals on the GTX 470 and HD 6870 and found this tonight....compared to other GTX 470 prices, this looks pretty good to me.... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121400&cm_re=gtx_470-_-14-121-400-_-Product

I posted earlier about my friend's computer, started browsing, then got the idea to upgrade my own video card. I currently have a Visiontek HD4870 (512mb). My system: Abit IP 35 Pro motherboard, Intel Q6600 Quad core proc, at 2.4 ghz, 8 gigs of Mushkin RAM, a Corsair TX 750W power supply. DVD...

My friend at work has a Dell XPS 420 that he bought in June 2008. Recently his computer would literally shut down (off) while playing World of Warcraft. He would be able to play from 5 to 15 minutes before it would do this. When he uses the computer for non-game things, it seems to work...

Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft, and was using Ventrilo for voicechat. I was only on about 30 minutes, when out of the blue my screen went black, my monitor said I had no signal, and I ended up having to restart my computer. When the computer restarted, everything seemed fine...

Hi All, I recently bought the BenQ V2400W after reading so many good things about it here, to go with my new system. I have the Abit IP35 Pro motherboard, 8 GB of Mushkin RAM, the Q6600 2.4 ghz processor, and the Creative X-Fi Titanium sound card. For the videocard I have the Vistiontek...

Ok, I have been reading this forum off and on for the last several weeks. I just put together my new system, and the last piece of the puzzle is a 24" monitor. I was thinking about the 26" Doublesight, but I think that would be too big....if such a thing is possible:D Anyway, from everything...