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    Need upgrade advice after one video card died

    My GTX 570 just broke the other day as well, my friend also had this happen to him recently.. Anyhow, I'm pretty much in the same boat as you I just ordered a Sapphire R9 270x in the meantime since I plan on building another PC later this year when everything is updated.
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    GTX 570 Broken time for upgrade?

    I ended up just ordering the Sapphire R9 270x, I play Dota 2 mostly and I don't really care about maxing out graphics on latest games just as long as they don't lag. Hopefully I won't regret my purchase now that I see everyone recommending the R9 280. Anyhow, I plan on building a new PC sometime...
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    I think my video card is broken?

    I can't find exactly where I read it but a couple reviews on Newegg gave a warning about using an 8 pin adapter on the GTX 760. My PSU has 2 x 6+2 pins, should I ignore that?
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    I think my video card is broken?

    So I missed out on the deal yesterday didn't realize it was ending so fast. I'm kind of worried that I will lose out on the features that Nvidia provides so I'm kind of leaning on a GTX 760 if my Corsair TX650 can handle it without sweat. I think I read somewhere that the 760 uses a 8pin rather...
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    GTX 570 Broken time for upgrade?

    I'm not very keen on rebates, would you still say this is a good deal? I'd prefer buying something that is discounted right away.
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    GTX 570 Broken time for upgrade?

    I've never heard of Power Color, I saw they had an even better deal yesterday but now it's gone. I hear Sapphire is the EVGA for Radeon, is this not correct? Also I don't plan on overclocking. Which GTX card do you recommend? Because I've had so many problems with graphic cards over the years I...
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    GTX 570 Broken time for upgrade?

    My GTX 570 begins to pix-elate within 10 minutes of booting up my computer, and if I run a game it just crashes the moment everything loads. I tried unplugging everything and reinstalling drivers but nothing works. If I plug my monitor into the on-board GPU everything runs fine. That being said...
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    I think my video card is broken?

    I have no experience with Radeon, how is reliable is a company like Powercolor? I was looking at this Asus card here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...D=3938566&SID= is there any difference?
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    I think my video card is broken?

    If I were to choose AMD Radeon this time what would you recommend?
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    I think my video card is broken?

    I unplugged everything and uninstalled/re-installed the drivers and I was able to get the card to work for like 20 minutes until I ran a game (dota 2) in which crashed and my screen appeared to have a bunch of transparent pixels, I was able to see my background and my browser but I couldn't open...
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    I think my video card is broken?

    I will try moving my card tomorrow morning, as for a budget on the video card I guess $250 is the max I'm willing to spend but anything less would be great. I only play Dota 2 and a couple other games from time to time, but mostly I'm using Adobe Light room 5 and Photoshop for photos and some...
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    I think my video card is broken?

    As I was just browsing the internet my computer crashed to a black screen then rebooted with "! ! ! ! !" all over the place. When it finally loads into Windows everything is zoomed in 1000% and pix-elated like an old Atari game. I unplugged my video card cord that goes into the monitor and...
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    Helping friend build $800 budget gaming pc

    He's definitely going to need an SSD. Any reason why you don't recommend an Nvidia card like a 660ti?
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    Helping friend build $800 budget gaming pc

    I'm helping my friend put together a PC and I've been out of date with the current gear so I'm hoping you guys could help me again. 1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. Gaming, Watching Movies 2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is...
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    Computer Chair with a $250 budget

    hmm that seat looks uncomfortable to me, i'd also like a chair that you can lean back in and lock the position.
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    Computer Chair with a $250 budget

    I'm looking for a comfortable ergo/mesh computer chair for around the $250 price range, I went to staples and a few other office stores near my house but they don't really have a nice selection in store. I've been reading up online and found a couple chairs but i'm just not sure what to do. I...
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    Horrible lag in games

    http://i.imgur.com/iwvq7.png I scanned with Microsoft Security Essentials but it found nothing so I downloaded a free trial of Malwarebytes and these are my results. Are these false positives? or should I go and remove these?
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    Horrible lag in games

    My computer is not overclocked and I have a Noctua NH-D14, my temp levels seem to be fine. I was thinking about the malware/virus do you recommend any good free programs to check and fix if needed?
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    Horrible lag in games

    It most likely is Frame Rate, my isp is pretty consistent 30 mb dl / 5 mb up. I still have yet to try fraps, but I turned on the in game frame rate and it just says "0 FPS." If I restart my computer its fine for an hour or 2 and then it happens again.
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    Horrible lag in games

    I recently built this rig earlier this year and for the past 2 weeks I've been randomly having unplayable lag issues mainly when I'm playing games such as starcraft 2, diablo 3, dota 2, etc... I updated my gfx to the latest nvidia patch and I also updated my crucial m4 ssd to the latest...
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    Upgrade PC to run Starcraft 2 on ultra

    I spoke to him and he is playing on his tv which is using 1268x720, he only wants to play starcraft 2 on ultra and has $700 to spend on new computer if he has to. Should he just upgrade his current or build a whole new gaming rig?
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    Upgrade PC to run Starcraft 2 on ultra

    He will be playing at 1080, not too expensive but he is willing to spend to get the job done. I'll show him both the 6950 and the 6670 and let him decide, but what about the powersupply? http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1366279&CatId=7005 would a...
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    Upgrade PC to run Starcraft 2 on ultra

    http://www.asus.com/Desktop/Entertainment/Essentio_CM1630/#specifications My friend has this computer in the link above, he wants to upgrade the psu and graphics to run Starcraft 2 on ultra with no lag, what do you guys recommend him doing?
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    New Build

    It's not tall enough to touch the fan, there's a couple centimeters of space. My only complaint is if I ever want to change my ram I have to unscrew the cooler since it's so sharp and covers almost everything.
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    New Build

    Noctua D14 fits in my 500r just fine.
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    I did NOT build this, but I need help

    This is the one I built a month ago.
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    I did NOT build this, but I need help

    do I have to remount the cpu cooler? or can I just move the fans?
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    I did NOT build this, but I need help

    My friend recently had his "friend that knows everything about computers" put his computer together for him, but he brought it over to me this morning saying it's really loud and I see that the psu is upside down, cpu cooler is backwards, and the wiring was done the old school way. I know I have...
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    Another Gaming/Photography Build

    What GPU do you recommend?
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    Another Gaming/Photography Build

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. Gaming (Skyrim, BF3, Etc..) Tons of Photo Editing on Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread $1300 3. What country YOU...
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    Gaming Keyboard

    I have the steelseries 6gv2 it's still better than most normal rubber dome keyboards but the key layout is seriously stupid (big enter button "?" "\" next to each other) and it uses cherry mx blacks (personally I prefer mx browns)...
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    Help with Crucial M4 128

    My friend only has 1 sata 3 port on his mobo and it's by Marvel, the others are listed as p55 sata II. He's using a OCZ Agility II so probably best to use 2 or does it run faster in the sata 3 port?
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    Help with Crucial M4 128

    I passed the word on to my friend he's changing it right now. After IRST I have slightly slower read write speed but overall score went up. http://i.imgur.com/Svqtl.png
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    Help with Crucial M4 128

    Oh awesome i'm going to dl that right now. My friend went and checked his bench mark as well and he has the pcii-bad as well. GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3 LGA 1156 OCZ Agility 2 http://i.imgur.com/Jo8Dx.png Should he do the same thing I did to fix the problem?
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    Help with Crucial M4 128

    It all works now, I'm flying thanks to you JR! http://i.imgur.com/Fy5P5.png
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    Help with Crucial M4 128

    Would it be "PCH SATA Control Mode" in the CMOS Setup Utility? It's currently set to IDE.
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    Help with Crucial M4 128

    you're right I have to go back into the bios and find out how to do this.
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    Help with Crucial M4 128

    I got it to boot, I changed the boot priority to the master drive. Going to run speed tests now and see if it worked.
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    Help with Crucial M4 128

    I could not find what you were talking about in the Advanced BIOS. I'm in it right now and browsing this forum from my cell phone. But what I did find is the Hard Disk Boot Priority, I think it's trying to boot the Slave drive since i'm plugged into Master. Should I hit page up and make Master #1?
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    Help with Crucial M4 128

    Ok, so it was plugged into GSATA3_6/7 (Controlled by Marvell 88SE9172 Chip) According to the manual. I unplugged the sata cord and inserted it to sata 0/1 (Controlled by Intel z68 chipset) and when I turned on my computer its stuck on "Loading Operating System..." not sure what to do now. When...