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I'm not sure which I should plan for. I'm trying to make a decision because I'm going to upgrade my power supply. I don't know if I should get enough power for a single card or cf/sli. Any opinions on this matter?

For some reason, half of my games are no running textures properly. I will set the graphics up to high but will run like it's on the lowest setting. This only started happening yesterday. Battlefield 3 runs perfectly fine on ultra settings, and dolphin emulator runs great for Skyward Sword...

The question I had was, is it normal that Starcraft 2 will only utilize one of the cores? I have been able to utilize both cores in games such as BF3, Skyrim, and Batman Arkham City. Is there anyway to change the settings around in Starcraft or the AMD control manager to fix this?

I was thinking of getting the radeon 6950 that fits in the $250 price range. Would be the best choice to go with?

I was just looking for a medium budget combination of the CPU, Mobo, and RAM. Everything else I’ll be taking from my computer I currently have. I haven’t bought computer parts in awhile, so I was wondering what everyone else recommended.

Would a gtx 460 handle the high resolution fine for running games such as Starcraft 2, WoW, etc? (Figuring at highest settings)

What would be a good quality ddr2 RAM of 4gb for under $100? My old RAM failed on me and I am looking for a new set.

If I am hitting 100% CPU usage running games on my computer with a e8400 oc'd @4ghz and a 9800 gtx+, where is the bottleneck?

Was looking into getting another HDD for my computer b/c im close to full on my main one. I needed another for mostly just data storage like videos, music, and d/l'd games. Any sugggestions?

So, when i'm running just about any game of mine i get 100% cpu usage on my overclocked e8400 at 4.0ghz. What could be the problem with this? Do i need to upgrade my vid card or cpu? or can it just be something else invovled? even a virus or such

If my video card is running rather hot how can I cool it down a bit. I saw on riva tuner that I can adjust the fan speed, but when i turned up the fan speed it made it hotter. What should i do?

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc He will be mostly playing WoW and web browsing. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? His budget is $500 3) Where do you live? In the US 4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM...

I go and install vista sp1 and then after it reconfigures everything and I get a blue screen. It says there was no hard drive found before windows started for some reason.

I get lag spikes on every game i have played with my new rig: warhammer online and WoW. Fallout 3 though keeps a consistent 60fps. Now wat im think is mayb it is my internet lag and not the computer itself or wat b/c fallout 3 is when playing offline. I did port foward WoW and WAR to see if...

Should i get Ideazon ZBD223 Warhammer Online Keyset or Saitek Eclipse Keyboard for mostly the use to play Warhammer Online with? Or, any other suggestions under $40 or so?

For a HDD with high RPM's but barely any memory, are they used for just storing games on them so the game will run faster? Like for example the Fujitsu MBA3073NC 73.5GB 15000 RPM 8MB Cache SCSI Ultra320 80pin Hard Drive.

Since this is the gaming section I'd figure it would b a good place to ask about what headset I should get for gaming. What would you guys recommend that is in the price range of <$50 or around it?

Is around 45c on an e8400 an ok or average temp? I just recently built the computer but it has usually been in the range of 37c-40c. Is everything still an ok temp? I do have my e8400 OC'd and I am using the arctic cooling freezer 7 pro.

I need a good burning software. Haven't found any free softwares that work. I try using some junking software and I waste dvd's b/c they don't run. I have 64bit vista and I'm having the hardest time finding a software to use. Any suggestions?

For the 4pin/8pin ATX power, some like ATX, for the motherboard power, am I suppose to remove the cap covering the other 4pin space to fit in an 8 pin connector? or what?

What is the best anti-virus program? I need a lot of options unlike some cheap software. Don't need to worry too much about speed b/c I have 4gb of RAM but want it to run smoothly on my 64bit vista o/s.

Is there an emulator I can d/l so that I could possibly get this driver running. It is for my mouse, not a big deal but would nice to customize the buttons a bit.

Is there an emulator I can d/l so that I could possibly get this driver running. It is for my mouse, not a big deal but would nice to customize the buttons a bit.

How come that when I try updating my 9800 gtx and then try playing Warhammer Online, the graphics are messed up. For example, there are lines across the screen (not from the monitor but the gameplay visuals itself). Like it has the characters stretched at one part and it makes a line. I did...

How do I boot up into safe mode? Ya, stupid question but never really had to do it before. Looked about updating video card drivers and I need to boot in safe mode.

I go and overclock the CPU to 3.6ghz by setting the CPU ratio to 9 and having the frequency 400. What I don't understand is a little bit shortly have I login the multiplier jumps down to 6 and im left with 2.3ghz. Why is it doing this? I set the multiplier, why is it jumping down on its own?

None of my USB drives work. The computer doesn't read anything connected in by USB. This is a just recently built computer, did I hook up the USB connector for the front wrong or something?

I just started using this card only a day ago. Now before just recently I could have sworn that cool air was being blown out the back from the video card, now for some reason it isn't doing that. Is it suppose to push air out the back. It is now at 51-52C on idle. What should I do?

What are the possible problems when the monitor won't pick up a signal from the computer? I checked to see if it was the monitor by trying a different one. Also, the led light on the video card is green so I think that means it is working. It is a 9800 gtx and has some sort of 2pin connector...

Now what I in my sig is my build currently. I'm going to use Vista 64-bit for it. In playings games like Warhammer Online or the majority of the mmo's out there, is 4gb plenty for running games on vista?

Currently I have windows xp home version. Since I'm getting a new computer with 64-bit capabilities should I upgrade to the vista 64-bit business O/S? The reason it is the business version is b/c I get it for free from Penn State. I heard that Vista itself takes up a lot of RAM but on the good...

Currently I have windows xp home version. Since I'm getting a new computer with 64-bit capabilities should I upgrade to the vista 64-bit business O/S? The reason it is the business version is b/c I get it for free from Penn State. I heard that Vista itself takes up a lot of RAM but on the...

Finally had this arrive in the mail and will be testing it out when I get in the rest of my parts. Now, it is pre-OC'd. I have heard that you can't overclock your GPU if it was bought pre-OC'd. If this is true, then why is it not possible to overclock the GPU anymore?

My friend is saying he got a 9500 gt pci-e 2.0 and plug it into his pci-e x16 slot. It works find for him. Then, what is the difference b/w using a pci-e 2.0 slot or a pci-e x16 slot?

For the different temperatures, isn't my CPU labeled "Core" and it says the chip is AMD K8. But, I tried overclocking my CPU and the temperature on "Core", chip "NVidia Video Card" when up also. It got to around 53 C, is that bad or what? Wanted to figure out how to get the hang of...

How am I suppose to check the temperature of perhaps my CPU to make sure it isn't overheating?

Before I go to buy this today, any opinions on this? Powering a 9800 gtx and e8400

Isn't there a finer filter for the front of the case? I wanted to make sure my computer wouldn't get dusty.