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Hi, I just switched from a 560Ti to an R9 290X. I'm used to clock speed being as follows: Idle: 100~ Mhz Non-Gaming Load: 450Mhz Load: 950Mhz But this one fluctuates a lot. I'm assuming it's some kind of feature, could someone explain? I'm especially curious as to why it doesn't go below 300...

Hi, 4 months break from Uni and my Steam account is calling. Only problem is, it's been a while since I did some PC Gaming and I fear my 560Ti is now a little old for the AAA games. I've also upgraded to a 1440p monitor. In addition, my 560Ti seems happy to hit upwards of 80 degrees when...

Hi, Over the past few weeks I'd occasionally been getting stuck at POST with the error code 'A2' in the bottom right of the screen as well as on the mobo LED. Sometimes the error code was glitched and I couldn't make out what it was, but never thought to check the LED. A reboot fixed it. Then...

Hey guys, I need your help again! I know how awesome you are with cases, I would go off Tom's reviews a lot but I am an air cooler myself so large parts of the reviews are quite irrelevant to me (I think). So here's what I'm looking for: 1) Avoid full towers if possible, it's not the height I...

Hello,* I'n going to explain every single detail that I can, to minimise questions and maximise answers, since I actually freaked the hell out after getting this issue, and I'd rather not have a heart attack aged 16. Disable usb keyboard thing My specs are in my signature. I installed Windows...

Hello, I've long considered getting this Dell 24" IPS display that is 16:10 (1920x1200) however I play a lot of games where only 4:3 or 16:9 resolutions show up in the options menu. Are they just hidden, or am I screwed? And furthermore, what happens? Does the screen get stretched, or are...

Hey there, A week after my holiday I return, turn on my PC to play BF3, and it's running at 7FPS and worse. MSI Afterburner shows the graphics card. I have a feeling it's not being used. Sony Vegas also crashes at start up when it says "initializing GPU acceleration" or something. A restart...

Hey there, Should I come across some money in the next few months one of the options I'm looking at is a graphics card upgrade. At the moment I have a GTX 560Ti HAWK which gets pretty darn hot if you don't put a 60FPS cap on games. And even then some games get it to rocket in temperature. To...

Hey, I bought an Xonar DX off eBay because I had the DS but it was PCI so my new mobo doesn't support it. It works great apart from when I am playing games. There will be a sort of "buzzing" noise like a bee when I record from my microphone. It only happens when I play games (when the GPU is...

Reviving this thread a bit. The first thing that appears on my POST is the screen for the external SATA controller in IDE mode which lists my 2 drives. This confused me. I posted here earlier about forgetting to install Windows 7 in AHCI mode, but when I went to my mobo settings I saw that my...

Hello, I'm in the process of replacing my motherboard, CPU etc and have come across a slight problem. One of the screws between the motherboard and the case will not come loose. When we come to unscrew it, it "clicks" back into place. It's just this one screw out of 18 or so that doesn't come...

Hey there, I just realised that I no longer have the correct backing plate for my current water cooler and therefore I'll need to get something else before my Ivy Bridge upgrade. I really wanted to get the Phanteks PH-TC14PE_BL (Love the blue colour) but unfortunately it doesn't look as though...

Hey there, Please excuse me if I'm getting things mixed up, my BIOS looks scary and I wouldn't be able to understand most of it anyway. Since I got my SSD I've used it in AHCI mode and installed Intel Rapid Storage Technology software. I'm about to upgrade to an MSI Z77A-GD65 and Ivy Bridge...

Hey there, I'm about to buy this and I was wondering if anybody had any specific reasons as to why I shouldn't. Just in case I've missed something as I've been looking at reviews. It'd go in this (future) spec: MSI-Z77A-GD65 i7 3770K I was going to get Mushkin Redline Ridgeback but I'm not...

Hi all, I'm going to be able to upgrade a lot of my parts very soon and I was wondering what your advice would be. I had parts that I thought were pretty much set in stone but since there's so much I could do it's spun it all around again! Here's a list of the parts I need and any others I...