Recent content by fwtong

Thanks for everyone's help. The A8-7680 took a while to arrive because I bought the it on ebay and it came from China. While I was waiting, I updated the drivers and bios to ensure compatibility. Admittedly, I was a little apprehensive about buying a used CPU, but it was only $50. When it...

Thanks for all the help. I did get an A8-7680 and upgraded the bios on the mobo. So, hopefully when I get, I can just drop it in an everything works smoothly.

Thanks for the recommendation, but I should mentioned that I have an Nvidia 950GTX to handle my GPU needs.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll see if I can grab one of them.

I'm thinking of seeing if I can do a relatively cheap CPU upgrade on my HTPC. I don't really want to do a full rebuild, because it works well enough right now because all I do on it is stream videos (youtube, crunchyroll, twitch, etc...), watch video files on Kodi and some blurays. Since it...

Neither... it just freezes. Maybe I'll just build a new system. I already was planning on replacing the GPU, which is the single most expensive part. Throwing in a new motherboard, cpu and RAM won't be too much more. Especially since I can probably skimp on the CPU and motherboard, since the...

A while ago, I repurposed my ancient machine to be my HTPC. The CPU is an Athlon 64 X2 5200+ running Windows 10 on an Asus MV2 MX SE motherboard. I wouldn't be surprised if this rig is 10+ years old. Even though it's pretty old, it worked well as a HTPC because I only watched files that were...

Thanks for the input, I'll see if I can get an Air 2 with Best Buy's Black Friday special. If that doesn't work, it'll either be a refurb Mini 2 or Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4. I'm pretty platform agnostic, since most of my tablet usage is streaming and browsing, and I don't do much gaming. When I...

IOS 8 is not being kind to my iPad Mini, so I'm looking for a tablet. I'm basing my budget on supposedly getting about $140 trade in value at Best Buy and an Air 2 is $500. I'd like to try and get in on the Black Friday deal for the Air 2 a Best Buy, where it's $100 off. But since I really...

Just ordered another DG, since I only have 2 PCI-e slots, one is for my wi-fi card and the other is blocked the video card.

I think I'll just stick with what I've got. I did a bit more research, and it appears that even if I were to get everything working, due to the limitations of legacy technology, I won't be getting true USB 3.0 speeds, or even close to it. I think the only real solution is a new motherboard...

I'm not sure what soundcard to get, the Asus DGX or DSX. I'm not an audiophile, so I don't want to spend a whole lot, just something that's better than the onboard sound. This computer is going to be used almost exclusively for gaming with headphones - I have a HTPC theater which has an Asus...

Thanks for the input. I'm a little leery of flashing the bios, because last time i tried to do that, my MSI motherboard bricked, so I'll probably just stick with USB 2.0 for now.

I forgot to add that once I pulled the card out, computer worked normally.

The card was a Mediasonic HP1-SS3 and it is a PCI-E x1 card. http://www.mediasonic.ca/product.php?id=1357626065