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Is there a good rule of thumb for when to replace a power supply? Or do most people just run theirs until it dies? I replaced my first PSU because it failed to run after 2 years, but I've had my second one in this system for about six years now I think. This one appears to be running just fine...

Hey all, I'm currently still carrying a Droid Incredible and I think it's about time I upgrade. I have two different decisions that I'm currently looking in to. I'm on Verizon, and these are what I'm looking at: ~$100: Samsung S3 vs. Droid Mini ~$200: Samsung S4 vs. HTC One I would prefer to...

Hey all, I'm looking to upgrade my rig to make it a little more "current" for gaming and specifically Battlefield 3, Bad Company 2 and Starcraft 2. I currently have the rig in my sig, and for the specifics: AMD Athlon II X2 245 Regor 2.9GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core @ 3.4ghz ASUS M4A785TD-V...

This is sort of a noob question, but I haven't really found anything on the web that answers it straight out. How do you know if your vcore is too low? BSOD? PC won't boot? Stuttering? I'm just starting to OC my regor 245 and I'm a little scared to just "play" around with the vcore to see what...

Hey all, I have a Toshiba satellite U405-S2824 with a Sanyo battery, and I was looking for a program or perhaps a place in windows vista to see how many charge cycles I have on my battery. Thanks in advance!

Hey all, building a computer to replace the one that I have relied on for about three years (one in sig). I do a lot of internet browsing, photo editing and some gaming (tf2, l4d, . Essentially I need everything to just be faster. Loading photoshop and the like is just too slow. Booting my...

Hey all, I'm looking to buy a 9600GT to tide me over until I get a new system, and I was wondering which one should I look into getting? I was looking at this EVGA one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130485 But I am not sure. I am looking to keep this below 100$ and...

Hey all, I just installed windows seven on my computer to try it out. It works perfectly but now I want to be able to get back into my xp so that I can get some real work done. The problem is, when I reboot I don't get the option of choosing an operating system, it just goes straight into win...

Hey all, My card has been running really hot recently so I opened up the case as a last desperate attempt to clean out the heat sink and noticed this: How bad is this? The card is pretty old, do you think that I'll be able to rma?

Hi all, My room mate and I have set up a wireless network at our apartment and we're having problems with file transfers between our computers. The problem is not that we can't see each others files, we can see everything that we have shared on our network. The problem is that when I try to...

Hi all, I have run out space on my computer and I'm interested in buying a sata hard drive to pop into my computer. I was thinking about getting a 1tb hdd from newegg, and I am looking at the 75-100 dollar range. When looking on newegg I see lots of drives and from what I can tell there's not...

Hey guys, Just put an invisible shield on my LG Dare and I was wondering if those bubbles on the back of the phone are going to go away? They're pretty tiny as far as I can tell and I'm not sure if I want to risk doing it again unless its going to be ugly.

Hi, Over christmas break I left my desktop at school, and when I came back yesterday it wouldn't boot at all. Like when I press the power button on the front of the case nothing happens at all. I would assume this is a problem with either the motherboard or the power supply but I'm not really...

Hey all, Just wiped my laptop and in the spirit of changing things up I put SUSE on it with KDE. I am having good luck so far, it only took me ten minutes to ndiswrapper my wireless card and everything seems pretty straightforward. The only problem I am having is the touchpad keeps doing this...

Hey all, I happen to be one of the few people who own a visiontek 2600 pro, and after owning this card for two months i have become tired with the amount of noise my computer was creating in my room. After opening up the case, I realized that 90% if not all of the fan noise in my computer is...

Hey all, I have three computers folding for the horde, which is not a lot but I still feel like I am contributing. I keep having a problem with all three however. I am using the graphical client on all three machines, and whenever it runs for a long time the F@H program seems to crash at the end...

Hey all, I have a 40 Gigabyte Maxtor ide drive that I cannot get my computer to see for the life of me. I have no idea whether it still works or not, but I don't really know much about hardrives. What I know: its connected using a working ide cable, to an open channel on my mobo. The Bios does...

Hey all, I'm just putting together a spare system for over at my mom's house. It has currently: p4 1.99Ghz 512mb SDRAM 80GB HDD USB 1.0 XFX FX5200 AGP I was just wondering if I would see a performance boost in CS:S if I were to replace the fx5200 with a (Free) ATi x800. I know that the...

Hi all, I recently bought a 37" HDTV capable of 720p, and I just purchased a dvd player with the ability to upscale SD dvd's. I have yet to buy an hdmi cable, mostly because when I was in best buy today I was not going to pay 80 bucks to get the cable I want. I've found a cheaply priced cable...

Hi all, My notebooks is about four years old, and has been on for a lot of that time. Just recently, while performing a .rar compression, my drive made a harsh clicking noise almost, as if the header got off track, and spun down. It quickly spun back up, but the system responded like crap for...

Hey guys, I had a question about the drivers for my nvidia card. Steam keeps telling me that I'm out of date even though I thought I had updated to the latest drivers through the nvidia site. The driver I'm using: ForceWare Release 90 Version: 94.24 Release Date: May 31, 2007 WHQL Certified...

Hi, I was wondering if I would get more out of my system if I were to upgrade to two gigs of ram, instead of the one that I currently have. The problem is that when I play bf2 I notice that the higher settings require more ram, and that I am accessing the hardrive more than I need to. I checked...

Quick question... I just purchased a pc with integrated graphics and a 19in widescreen lcd which runs native res at 1440x900. During dvd playback in media center, as well as windows media player, it seems to lag. I lowered the settings in media center a bit, and it seemed to help, but I...

Hi all, I currently have a spectacularly old gateway machine, and the other day I was putting in a dvd drive (reader, not writer. Hey, this thing is old mkay) to complement the cd drive. After reconnecting all of the ide cables, I booted up the machine. Now, when I boot it, it doesn't...

Hi, I would first just like to say that I own a p2 233 mhz machine, with ~298 ram or about with a fifty gig hd and a ten. (ghetto, I know) I have recently been using it as a media center on which to run my music and generally use that spare hd space for files that weren't important to me...