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1. What will you be doing with this PC? Relatively casual gaming (mostly WoW and Starcraft) and streaming. For the size, I might want to move it occasionally (maybe once a few months) but don't need carrying handles or anything. It doesn't need to be silent, though obviously less noise is...

I tried to update my M4 firmware to 0309 a couple of weeks ago. However, my laptop BIOS clearly didn't like IDE mode, and although the firmware update started, it hung almost immediately. About 3 hours later, I gave up and had no choice but to hard reset. Back in Windows, I did a full disk...

I have a Sony Vaio SB (VPCSB1H7E) which has a 6630M graphics card plus onboard HD3000, using Sony's proprietary manual graphics switching. I'm trying to optimise it for both performance and battery life and I'm looking for suggestions. From the performance side, I'm currently using Sony's...

Hi, I know almost nothing when it comes to computer audio. My old set of speakers (budget Logitech 2.1 set) has just died, and I'm going to buy some new ones that are a little less cheap and crap, but nothing amazing. They will be about 50/50 for music and gaming. I am currently using the...

Hi, long time HardOCP visitor but first time forum poster here. I recently bought a Samsung Q310 Centrino 2 laptop. It has been everything I've expected of it so far and then some, but I remember Intel announcing something about being able to switch between discrete and integrated graphics...