Yes its another thread about The Wire. I know many people here praise the show and I've seen it called the greatest show ever numerous times and I why exactly so many people feel this. Now before I'm overrun by rabid fanboys, I just finished the final episode myself and I agree that it is a...
I just picked up a 2TB WD Red mainly as a backup drive and some data storage.
I would like to stress the drive some before I put anything on it but I'm unsure how to go about it. SMART seems fine and it passed numerous short/long self tests but ideally I'd like a program that would write random...
It started about 3 days ago I'd say. Every so often my mouse and keyboard just suddenly go haywire and all the keys seem to get remapped some weird functions. I can't for the life of me find out what gets remapped how I just that if I try to left click an icon it opens me properties instead and...
So I recently changed my ISP and router (twice I might add) and since then I can't seem to load AT home or the forums in Chrome however it works perfectly fine in FF. So far AT has been the only site to give me this issue and otherwise Chrome works fine. I prefer Chrome to FF so I hope to fix...
Ok so after years of running software calibrated TN's I switched to a triple Dell U2412M Setup (NV Surround). I don't really have any reason to do hardware calibration since this setup is used for gaming and some general stuff. I don't do anything that needs super accurate colors but right now I...
Hey guys, I just finished putting together a new system yesterday and I'm using a 256GB M4. So far I'm very happy with it but I want to make sure I'm doing everything right.
I know it's running in AHCI mode and it's a fresh W7 installation. I set the page file size to 2GB max to save space and...
So I just noticed the Red line from WD which is being advertised as a NAS drive and somewhat inbetween consumer drives and the RE4 drives from what I can tell. Anyone here have any experience with those? I'm looking to add a 1-2TB drive for storage and backup of non critical files and the price...
I'm looking to get 16GB RAM for a P8Z77-V/Pro. Looking through the Qualified Vendor List PDF from ASUS there isn't a whole lot of selection in terms of qualified kits especially if one wants to avoid kits with giant heatspreaders like Corsair Vengeance RAM that might interfere with large tower...
1. What your PC will be used for?
Gaming, browsing and watching stuff. No rendering or photo/video editing.
2. What YOUR budget is?
~2500$ but keep in mind most parts are 20-30% more expensive here.
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
Israel.
4. IF YOU have a brand...
So I'm planning a new rig to replace my current prehistoric setup.
I will be running triple 24 inchers at 5760x1200.
With those little details out of the way, the choices that best suit my budget are either a pair of 7950's (most likely Sapphire 950mhz OC edition with 2 fans) or GTX 670 SLI...
I'm quite interested in getting a Corsair H100 but I'm somewhat concerned about reliability. I run my PC 24/7 and I know its not unheard of for these units to leak or the pump to fail. Leaking is my main concern naturally, I don't know what exactly they use for coolant in these things but I...
So I'm getting ready for a new build once IB hits and I'm having trouble deciding on an SSD (if I end up getting one at all, but that's a whole other topic).
First of all I'd like to say I'm not going anywhere near anything SF. Call me paranoid or what have you but even with their supposedly...
Ok so today I decied to pull out my GPU to clean the cooler. Removed it and blew the dust out then put it back in. Now the computer wont boot, all the fans spin up and i can hear my HDDs spin up but the monitor stays black with the power light flickering and i get no beeps (I would assume if...
So I'm at a loss here, pc was running fine till like 2 hours ago then I got a bunch of random reboots then a random shutdown and now when I try to turn it on the fans and drives spin up but i get no picture on my monitor and then a few seconds later the pc shuts off...
Specs are:
C2D E6600 (was...
Yes its another sound card thread!
Basically here's the deal, I was forced to retire my old original X-Fi XtremeMusic PCI card recently and currently using VIA onboard sound (dreadful as you might expect).
I'm looking for a new PCIE sound card, main use will be gaming but also a fair bit of...
I realize that for many people the answer to this question would be obvious but I find myself wondering. I'm currently using a fairly old Samsung 226BW monitor with a TN panel, lately I've been having issues with it (think i got some bad caps flickering on turn on etc...) and I figured now would...
Hey folks, I was recently forced to change mobo's from a P5B Deluxe to a simple Gigabyte G41M-Combo. Now with this new mobo I'm having issues with keyboard detection during startup, during POST it sees the keyboard since I'm able to enter and navigate the BIOS/Boot menu just fine. The problem is...
So I recently replaced my mobo and formatted my system drive for a clean install of windows 7 x64. The drive is a 3.5 year old WD 250GB, now ever since then ive noticed the drive spiking to 100% useage fairly often and the pc just slows down to a crawl. Also using Hard Disk Sentinel its...
So its about time for an upgrade and I really cant settle on what PSU wattage i'd need for the rig I plan on building. PSU calculators are giving me higher wattages than what most people say I actually need so i'd love some first hand advice.
Was thinking of something like this:
i7 950 / SB i7...
As the title says im looking to replace my soon-to-die Steelseries 5H V2 and this time im steering clear of gaming headsets and looking for just a good quality set of headphones. Budget is around 150$ but willing to go overboard, currently thinking about getting Sennheiser HD555's and would love...
Hey there, been visiting AnandTech a long time but only now signed up to the forums. Basically half the time I reboot I hey this CMOS checksum bad error and sometimes it also says overclocking failed (the pc is no longer overclocked). Now it gives me 2 options: F1 to run SETUP or F2 to load...
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