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Working on an upgrade for a family member. Would like to get them to 1440p @ 144 with free sync. would an i3 bottle neck a 5700? My first inclination is that we need to move up to an i5 to make good use of that video card upgrade. thoughts?

Currently putting together a complete media room. One component will be a PC. My primary rig (at a desk for KB/M) is currently running a 1080ti on a Gsync 1440p 144hz monitor. Zero complaints, I love it. In the media room will be a Samsung TV most likely which has multiple options for...

Looking for help on how much power I need to run 4K in the following games. I want that new 28" Samsung monitor. Diablo 3 StarCraft II Dota 2 Heroes of the Storm Citys Skylines I don't do much gaming outside of that on PC, but would like smooth performance on these games I do play...

Recently got my nCase M1 in and time to choose the components. Games I play: Dota 2 SC II Hearthstone Heroes of the Storm Diablo 3 With this build I am looking for good value for what I do. So if you have a suggestion that is a little more money and better value let me hear it. No...

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Superclock-Dual-Link-Graphics-02G-P4-3753-KR/dp/B00IDG3IDO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416763535&sr=8-1&keywords=EVGA+750 Looking for a card for a second machine. This machine will only play Blizzard games and Dota 2 for the most part. Dota 2 Diablo 3 Heroes of...

Hope this is in the right forum. I am currently reworking my home network to include a robust AC1900 wireless signal. My question is in regards to streaming media over the network (from internal server). Right now everything is streamed from the server to one HTPC over gigabite eternet. I...

As the title says, anyone have a hard time letting go of games? For example, I have spent numerious hours on building and configuring an emulator box so that I have all of my old systems (SNES, NES, Genesis, etc) at the touch of a button. I can't seem to let go of some of these games, I...

Fellow [H] members, 1. I want to buy GTA IV on steam. 2. I have a media center with a Geforce 650 and a Ivy Bridge i5-32something. 3. Can I tweak the settings enough to get a balance of nice looking and smooth gameplay. I don't need to max it or anything. 4. ????? 5. Kill...

My friends, an opporunity has arisen for me to get the last hold out of my friends to move to PC with the release of BF4 and the PS4. We were talking the other day and he is now more open to the idea since we are all going to drop the coin on a PS4 anyways. I don't mind playing on the...

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Greetings.. Recently purchased and installed a 3TB drive not realizing that you have to use GPT in order to user the whole thing. When I first set it up at a MBR drive it split into two partitions (one at 2TB and one for around 756GB). This drive is going to be used for auxillary storage...

This game has interested me since it was released back when I was in school. I have always stayed away do to what I saw happen to some classmates in college, and maybe some mis-conceptions on my own. I enjoy games like Diablo 3 very much, so that leads me to my first question. Is this a...

Hello Everyone, I come to you for advice on a upgrade for my brother. This is extremely price sensitive. He is currently running a E7400, 4gigs Ram, and a 9800GTS. Working through some upgrades for him with my spare parts and trying to decide on a video card. I have a 5870 that needs a...

I just built my new rig and have a question. Should I put my games on my SSD (128GB) or the secondary drive I have. I only play about five currentlty... BF3, HoN, D3, SCII, Dota 2, and Tribes Ascend. They all fit fine on the 160GB drive I was using before but was curious if it was...

Anything I missed? 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming (BF3, Diablo 3, HoN, Dota 2 are my staples) and HTPC 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? No budget, but I am firm believe in not buying anything I won't see a...

Currently rebuilding my media center and have a clarkdale i3-540. I am going to replace the mobo as the one I have is itx and I need pci-e slots for my tuner. Worth it to go ahead and upgrade the CPU or just move over the one I have? Thoughts?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118146 Paired with 4 of these should give me around 5tb of storage with some redundancy. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148681 My biggest concern is the quality of the raid controller manufacturer so if...

Hello All, I am in the midst of going all digital with my DVD collection (and small bluray collection). With the time it takes to rip about 500 movies I would shit frisbees if I had to do it again due to harddrive failure. What recommendations do you guys have for a small compact...

My monitor is 1920x1200 resolution, would I see a significant performance increase with this upgrade? I have an opportunity to score on of these for $250. I am thinking this would be a good incremental upgrade before I completely rebuild when Ivy bridge hits and I go to 120hz. Thoughts?

Talking excellent performance at high/ultra settings on BF3? Any thoughts/opinions? [url]http://www.samsung.com/sg/consumer/pc-peripherals-printer/monitor/led-monitor/LS27A950DS/XS It is only 1080P but I would think that it being 120hz would take more power?

Sager NP8170 $1200 Shipped! (I will listen to all serious offers) i7 - 2630QM Radeon 6990M 8GB Ram 1920x1080 resolution Everything else is pretty standard. I can provide the original invoice if needed. This thing brand new is $1500 plus on Xotics/Sagers website. I can't even see...

I know that films are not all 16:9, which is what the standard "widescreen" TVs are today. So I had a question regarding movies. Back in the day when we all had 4:3 TVs you would always see the message "This film has been modified from its original version and formatted to fit your TV". I...

I run all of my games (listed below) on a 55 inch 1080P 120hz LCD. Would like to upgrade and pass my 5870 on to my brother but I am not sure if I would see a big increase going up to a 580 or 6990. Games I play (going to play) Starcraft II HoN BF3 Diablo 3 Torchlight II SW: TOR...

I have chosen the MKV container for my current project of ripping my DVD collection. I am using AnyDVD to rip and then MakeMKV to just repacking the main video and audio files into an MKV (no transcoding). It seems that MKV has been chosen by the "HTPC Scene" as the go to container. However...

Hello Everyone, I come for your guys expert advice once again. I am looking at getting a 30' 2560x1600 monitor and am curious what hardware I will need to make use of it. I currently am running a i5-750, 8GB Ram, and a HIS 5870, I am concerned that I may have some problems running...

Did some searching and didn't see much at E3....this makes me sad panda. I did find an article that kind of explained how the multiplayer would work.....it is a little confusing. http://www.gamingbits.com/general-gaming-news-bits/torchlight-2-hands-on-e3-2011/ Thoughts?

Not sure were to put this but I am considering a SSD for my gaming PC. Does anyone have one and do you feel that the price was worth it. The one I am looking at is 160GB for around $300. I have plenty of space on standard 7200RPM drives, but with just 160GB it would make the number of games...

I am about to then end of my rope with this piece of shit. This has nothing to do with playback of files (incase you remeber my other thread). With the help of this forum I have tweaked it for perfect playback on everything. This mediabrowser add on for WMC completly sucks. When I switch...

What is it all about? I LOVED (still play) Diablo 2....getting some friends together and doing MF runs was just fun to me.....the never ending quest for better gear in a MP environment. Looking forward to Diablo 3 and Torchlight 2 for these reasons. My question is what do you do when you...

I am currently trying to rig up something to play from my couch. Though FPS (don't play much on the PC mosty play them on PS3) and Adventure games work fine I am having trouble with RTS (my favorite). Most of my gaming time is spent playing LoL, HoN, or SC2. It seems that while hooked up to...

Could anybody help me get stared with this, I have tried to search but all of the stuff is just mumbo jumbo. I would like to use the Aeon skin but can't even get it to install. I can't even get a "Movies" or "TV Shows" option to show up in the menus like I see in all the videos of people...

Please add a Search & Destroy game mode to BF:BC2 so I do not have to play that shitty COD franchise anymore. You Could probably use the squad rush maps with slight modifications, just add a second objective and let there be six players on each team. HC S&D on COD is my favorite game mode on...

Hello All, I recently built a media center with a Core i3 with the Intel HD graphics on chip (Clarkdale I believe). I was under the impression that this would handle any video I throw at it and it does for the most part. Just for reference all of my content is streamed from my server to my...

Hello All, Well its that time again, I am in the market for a new laptop. First a little about my usuage: Games I play: Source Games (Team Fortress 2) Starcraft 2 League of Legends Heroes of Newerth Various Emulators Future Games: Torchlight 2 Diablo 3 I also do the normal...

I am facing a dilemma, i want to get my wife a new 13" MBP for christmas but am not sure of what is comming down the pipe as far as updates go. We all know that apple will be updating their MBP line after the holidays, but I really want to surprise her Christmas morning and have her open it...

Hello Everyone, I am getting ready to pull the trigger and purchase the parts for my HTPC. This PC will actually act as more of an extender than anything else. All of my content will be housed on the server upstairs and streamed via cat5 to this PC in the living room. I will be streaming...

Spin off thread from the Starcraft 2 one talking about SotIS MOD. Anybody really big into AoS, DotA, etc style of games? I can't believe I didn't know these exsisted, they seem right up my alley as I like competition in my games and am not much of FPS games. This seems to take RPG...

Apple iPad 32gb Wifi -Comes with original box and paperwork - $550 Shipped!!! Apple iPhone 3G 16GB - White - $200 Shipped!!! Ebay is "gigemdan" I am working on getting my HEAT setup but be advised that even when I do I will only have "2" transactions were I am the seller.

With the indroduction of Hulu and the growing Netflix online library I feel it is now possible to give up cable and go with the OTA channels and get any other show content from other sources. The only thing holding me back is the fact that I am a huge sports fan. Though ESPN has grown and...

Well after the conversation on my tablet thread and figuring out that I could remote into my pcs via logmein and do the few things I would miss having an iPad over a net book I took the plunge and bought one. This thing is probably the most initiative thing I have ever used. First thing that...