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With the stock cooler, it idled at 40 and boosted to nearly 100C on my 3600. I installed a CM Hyper 212 Evo and the idle temps seem reasonable to me at around 30C. When the CPU boosts in games or benchmarks, it'll get to about 90-93C, sometimes under a minute. Wondering if that's normal? I have...

Last night my computer gave me a BSOD. Stop code: KMODE Exception not handled; What failed: Ntfs.sys. I turn on the computer after that and I get a boot loop and after 3 times, it rolls back to backup BIOS and the computer boots fine. No problems. I restart the computer and everything's fine. I...

Windows event viewer says my crashes are "critical" with Event ID 41, "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly." There has never been an accompanying BSOD message. I checked the...

I have a Sound Blaster Audigy SE and have it connected to PCI (obviously) as well as an adapter cable that connects to the front panel audio. Is there a way to have the volume automatically adjust when I connect my headphones via front panel? The volume is set in windows at 100% for the speakers...

My budget is <$100. I've been eying the HyperX Cloud for quite some time now and have considered it based on positive reviews, driver size (53mm) and bang for my buck. Are there other alternative options that you think I'd be satisfied with? I do very little gaming (~1 hour/week), but...

I recently installed an MSI R9 280x and things have been working great until I tried running and oldie (but a goodie) Assassin's Creed 2. The game has two problems with this new card: 1) the camera angle rapidly switches about 20-30 times per second, making playability impossible and 2) the GPU...

I'm looking to buy a used R9 280x, which states that the required wattage should be 750W. I have a 500W PSU. Here's what boggles my mind: I asked on another website what to buy within my budget. The overwhelming suggestion was the R9 280x, despite the fact that I informed the forum that my...

My XFX Radeon 4770 has always been sensitive to dust and begins to idle at around 50°C after 6 months of applying new paste and cleaning the fan. Well, yesterday I came home and I noticed it was idling around 70°C with the auto-fan turned up mighty high. I cleaned up the card, new paste and all...

My CPU doesn't like Prime95, not even for 5 seconds. I get a crash so hard that it won't even BSOD. When Windows boots and realizes what just happened, it tells me it was a BSOD 124 error every time. I can stress test with AIDA64 Extreme, Cinebench, and Intel Burn-In, all for 24+ hours. My...

My specs are in my sig. I cannot get my CPU to overclock past 3.8 GHz. My VCore is at 1.25 volts and I've increased the voltage of my chipset. I know my motherboard isn't a great overclocking one, but I've seen a few posts online of speeds of at least 40GB with this board. Any suggestions...

How often (or should I ever) perform error checking on my SSD? I used to do it monthly on my HDD. Thanks in advance.

My Gigabyte mobo won't allow me to revert back to a previous BIOS because of the BIOS protection. I've tried flashing the BIOS from @BIOS, Q-Flash, AWDFlash from DOS and AMIFlash from DOS. AMI is the closest I've gotten when I tried forcing it, but got a file size error. It should be noted...

I recently purchased and installed a Samsung 840 Evo. Everything was working perfectly until I installed Prime95. When it is running, my mouse (Logitech M525) pointer won't move or respond unless the mouse is almost directly next to the tower near it's USB receiver. It never did this pre-SSD...

Recently, the On/Off charge feature will only work for my Android devices, but none of my Apple devices. It used to work for all devices. If you are unfamiliar with the feature, it allows you to charge a device via USB while the computer is turned off. Any suggestions as to how I should go about...

As the title says, Trixx won't OC my GPU clock or memory clock. It will, however, OC my voltages no problem. The problem is I'll set the slider to the desired clock speeds and when I click apply, it resets to default speeds. Any help would be appreciated. I have XFX Radeon 4770.

I have a Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3 http://ca.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4566#ov and I'm looking to throw on a budget cooler, either a CM Hyper 212 EVO or a Xigmatek Gaia SD1283. On the FAQ for my board, one of the inquiries for the HSF weight limit is answered as 450g (~1.0 lbs). Each...

N00b alert. I've never OC'd RAM before. I have 1x8GB Kingston HyperX Blu Red http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104338 installed on my Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3 http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128629. Stock frequencies on this board runs at 1333, but I...

My video card was idling at 68°C and I decided it dust it out. I took it out of the MOBO, did a little air dusting and viola! Idle temps down to 50°C, which is about what it was when I purchased it. I ran FurMark and my FPS have dropped to about 6 fps @ 640x480 with no options checked, just...

My XFX Radeon HD 4770 idle temp is about 62° to 64°C and has been doing so for about a month now. According to GPU-Z, the GPU Temp DISPIO, MEMIO and SHADERCORE are at 64°, 78° and 75°C respectively. My PSU is 500W so that ought to cut it for power. My CPU is on full load because I run Prime95...

I purchased a Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black (http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX27676(ME).aspx) earlier this week. I installed Windows without a hitch and everything appeared to work. However, recently I've tried to install some programs (3DMark06, some drivers, etc.) but the...

I'm going to buy a new HDD and am wondering if I should RAID (0) with my old one. The new one is: Hitachi 1 TB 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache SATA II HDD My old one is: Samsung 250 GB 7200 RPM 8 MB Cache SATA II HDD The Samsung is past it's warranty by a year (5 year warranty) and am worried it might...

Hey, I have an old dinosaur of a video card, about 5 years oldish. It's an NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT. I don't overclock and it just has the stock fan, but it idles at 80°C. I'm no mathematician, but to me 80°C sounds extremely high and believe it should be about half that temperature. Am I...

My mobo manual says it is ok, but I am a little worried if I mix RAM clocks together. I have 2x2GB DDR2-6400 currently, but I want to know opinions if I were to add 2x1GB DDR2-4200 to the whole set. The only reason being I want to have 6GB in my mobo which brings up another question: is it worth...

Hey there. I am in the market for some new RAM. My Mobo can take up to PC2-6400 (800MHz), and up to 8GB. I found Mushkin 4GB (2x2GB) with timings of: CL 5-5-5-18. I also found some Kingston 4GB (2x2GB) with the same timings, but for 3 bucks cheaper. The Mushkin comes with heatsinks while the...

Hi, I'm in the market for RAM. My OS is 64-bit and I might consider buying some RAM. Is it better to go for 8GB (2GB x 4 DIMMs) in single channel mode or 4GB (1GB x 4 DIMMs) in dual channel mode? Thanks ignore the specs they are old.

Hi. Recently purchased a Maxtor 300GB. I installed it and after I boot up Windows, it'll automatically install and tell in the corner it'll say that it is ready to use. I go to my computer and the drive is not there. (I've got the jumper set to slave and my old harddrive as master). Device...

Hiya. Well, I recently purchased a Seagate SATA harddrive, but I'm having trouble trying to install XP on it. In fact, I have no idea what I'm doing. My mobo is an ASUS A7V600-X. I decided that my WD 120GB IDE harddrive wasn't doing the trick anymore and so I decided to give SATA a try. I bought...

Hi. Just wondering which hard drive brand name will overall be better for me. I've been buying either Maxtors or Western Digitals and I'm getting sick of both of them. I've had problems with both names and I'm just wondering whether I should stick with them or try something different. Like would...

Hey. So, my stock VGA fan died on me (card is ATI 9700 Pro), and I decided to buy a VANTEC ICEBERQ4 COPPER VGA COOLER. Installation was easy with nothing going bad. I turn on the computer and the beautiful blue light comes on and everything works fine. I decide to try 'er out on some games, Doom...

Hey there, folks. I'm in desperate need of a new VGA fan for my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. The stock is on it's last few hours and so I need YOUR help to tell me which is the better cooler. Should I grab the ARCTIC COOLING VGA SILENCER REV3 COOLER...

Hey. I'm trying to choose a good notebook, but I have little knowledge concerning this area of computers. What would be the best for a laptop? AMD 64, Pentium M, or Pentium Centrino? Does it have something to do with battery usage or strength of processor or something like that? I'm a total newb...

Hi there. Well, my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro fan is dying on me. It makes a very loud noise when I first turn on the computer and it won't stop making the noise until about 5 minutes of runnning. I was wondering if any good chap out there could direct me to a new cooler for my video card. I'm not...

Hi there. Well, the title pretty much speaks for itself. I'll do the usual start and shutdown dealyo, but it takes about 5 to 10 minutes to turn off. The CPU light isn't flashing or anything and no programs are turning off. I've done a virus scan, I used Ad-Aware, but nothing seems to help. Any...

Hi there. I was wondering if you guys could gimme some help concerning my video card BIOS. My video card is an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB 256-bit version. I was looking on the site http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/ and I've found 3 different BIOS's for my video card (mine's Samsung, not Infineon)...

Hi there. So, I recently purchased a new motherboard: ASUS A7N600-X. Everything is working great except for the fact that whenever I want to play some games such as Doom 3 or Halo, the computer just decides to restart after about 2 minutes into the games. My specs are listed below. Any help is...

Hi there. So, I formatted my harddrive with my Windows XP Pro CD and after that long ordeal, it installs Windows XP. After it finishes copying the files and completes the first restart, it goes through the memory check and stuff, then it comes to an error and says "Windows could not start...

Hi there. I recently purchased an ASUS A7V600-X Mobo as well as an AMD Sempron 2600+. I figured I'd better format my computer for stability's sake. But, while doing so, my computer keeps on restarting without warning. It will restart while formatting my harddrive, installing Windows XP, and will...