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I have a router in the main room that is used as a wireless access point and a 10m long ethernet cable running to my room for my PC. At the moment the wireless signal is too weak in my room and my phone struggles to stay connected. I thought of getting a wireless repeater and set it up in my...

Recently got a "faulty" XFX 7950 off ebay with intent to fix for myself. Decided to test it first before taking it apart, so I put in in my rig, fired it up and it all seemed fine. One of the fans was barely spinning, but that's the main reason why it was "faulty". I was just downloading drivers...

My rig was originally built in late 2009, what remains from the original build is the mobo, cpu, psu and the original 2gb of ram. Everything else was added or swapped later. Due to some psu issues lately when it was left unplugged for 10 days, I'm looking into changing it and possibly upgrade...

Hello, it's been a while since I posted. I recently went on a vacation for 10 days and I unplugged my PC from the wall just to be safe while I'm away. Once I got back, first thing that hit me was, I plugged it back in, the led on the motherboard lit up, I pushed the power button and... nothing...

I built a rig for my girlfriend a while ago, I put a 6970 in it, worked fine for couple months, then started making a lot more noise than it used to. It's now louder than my 5970. I've disassembled it, cleaned it all out, changed the thermal compound and everything, but it didn't change a thing...

I just bought a WD Black AZEX 500GB hard drive. I haven't had any black drives before so I didn't know what to expect, but that thing is LOUD! It's a constant low pitched buzz, even when it's not doing anything, I can tell it's because of the vibrations. If I put my hand on the drive cage, it...

Want a CPU+GPU loop, as my 5970 is very loud under lead, so is the stock cooler on my Phenom. Have enough room for a 360 80mm thick rad in the front with push pull. Would that be enough or is it too much? Not looking to overclock, just want to silence it. Noticed that the backplate on the 5970...

I was looking for something not expensive to replace my current case, I ran into this. At first I though it's too damn small, but it's actually a little bit bigger than my current one and it would fit my 5970 with room to spare. But a few things that really attracted me. First was the cooling...

Building a new rig for my girlfriend, can't decide on the case. She narrowed it down to these two, the R4 and the 410. Both are white and the R4 window one. She wants a unique and clean look, not looking to watercool in the near future, don't need many HDD's, only an SSD and 1 HDD, would prefer...

I was looking at power supplies for a new build and this caught my eye. It's only £44, but I can't find any reviews of it, only for the TX and other models, but not the VS. Also listed at corsairs website, it says it has 2 PCI-E connectors, but my local retailer lists it as having only 1 and...

Building a new rig for my girlfriend. Components chosen so far: Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 motherboard AMD FX-8350 CPU Fractal Define R3 case in white Radeon 5970 Not really sure what's new with the R2.0 motherboard, but since it's only a 5 quid difference, might just buy this. The case is...

As title - is the 5970 worth buying today? It would either replace my 2 4890s or go in a new build for my girlfriends rig.

I have access to a CNC machine and materials, so I wanted to experiment a little. I can't really afford a proper watercooling setup, so I'll have some custom water blocks made and see how they perform. I'm not looking for massive overclocks, maybe just a little, but my primary goal is to make my...

First off, some current specs. Asus m4a79xtd evo motherboard AMD Phenom II X4 965BE @ stock 2x XFX Radeon 4890 I recently bought an OCZ Vertex 4 128GB ssd, which was a really big improvement over my hdd, so now I'm wondering if upgrading my motherboard to something like a Asus m5a99x evo would...

I have 2 XFX 4890 cards in crossfireX, I noticed when I start up my PC, the first card tunes itself down to 240MHz, but the second one does not, it stays at 850, this keeps the temps higher until I run any 3D application, only after exiting, both cards clock down and the second card temps go...