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I bought a Schiit stack recently, but from what I can tell, when I use optical out on my Sound Blaster Z (Win 10) it just passes the sound through, because I'm no longer able to control the audio at all with the SBZ control panel. I'm not actually positive if this means the card is no longer...

I've been debating getting one of these for the last week or so, reading as much information as I can find about both of them. Basically looking for an ultraportable 2-in-1 with a decent keyboard and build quality. I've checked them both out in person and they both appear to be pretty much right...

Building a video editing (Premiere Pro) rig for the office, having trouble narrowing down RAM selection. Likely looking at getting one of the MSI B350 boards (B350 Gaming Pro or Tomahawk) or the Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming because of their support for higher rated RAM speeds. However, the QVL list...

Just discovered HiVi and Audioengine brands - never realized there were companies that actually made higher end powered satellite speakers. So it got me interested in finally upgrading from my Klipsch Promedias (note that the sub isn't really that important for me). I have a Sound Blaster Z...

Have a 6700K and a MAXIMUS VIII HERO cooled by a Noctua NH-D15S (with second fan) and MX-4. Case is a Corsair Air 540 with 5x Fractal Design HF-14. Using 2x16GB G.Skill TridentZ DDR4-3200 Cas 14 (1.35V). I initially tried 1.325v in manual mode (with an LLC setting of 6), FCLK set to 1000, and...

Noctua NF-A14 PWM 115.5 - 140.2 m3/h | 19.2 - 24.6 dBA Phanteks PH-F140SP 82.1 CFM | 19 dBA Fractal Design Venturi HF-14 118.2 CFM | 26.5 dBA I plan on getting a Corsair Air 540, and need to get some fans to go with it. Either two fans to supplement the Corsair AF140's that come with it, or...

Since I have to build a system now I'm going with a 6700K, but I'm likely going to buy Microcenter's $30 warranty plan which will essentially let me bring the 6700K back and exchange it for a 7700K by paying any difference. I'd have 2 years to do it but I'd probably do so as soon as release + my...

I'm highly debating going back to air (or a closed loop system) for the current build I've been planning. I've been trying to figure out what cases these days provide the best cooling, but a lot of reviews I've been looking at don't test thermal performance, and some that do only include a...

I have an NZXT Switch 810, which I don't believe is particularly known for its thermal performance. I got it originally for its known compatibility with my rad - a Swiftech H2O-320 Edge HD, which I believe takes up a bit more space than a normal 360 due to the space the built-in res occupies...

I may have gotten a little overly ambitious with storage ideas for my new build and purchased two of these things. I wanted to try the NVME drives, but I also knew I wanted ~1TB of SSD storage space, so... I definitely don't need the performance of RAID0, but it would be more convenient to have...

First off, two months ago there was a flood in my house that originated from the bathroom next to my home office while I was out of town. It looked like my computer came out of it unscathed except for some cosmetic damage on the very bottom of my case (an NZXT Switch 810), although now I'm not...

I'm moving to a larger case (probably an Air 540) and thought this would be a good time to expand my watercooling setup. I have a Swiftech H2O-320 Edge HD, which is basically an Apogee HD cpu block paired with a Swiftech MCR-320 Drive Rev3, which is a 360 rad with a built-in res and MCP35x...

I've been debating primarily between these two displays ever since my Samsung F8500 was ruined by an indoor leak in my house a little over a month ago. I have about $2000 to spend, and the KS8000 series is on sale but only through the end of today, which is kind of forcing my hand a little in...

My motherboard (MSI Z87 Mpower Max) was damaged in a home leak that occurred while I was out of town. I could just get another socket 1155 motherboard, but I also had thoughts of just doing a full upgrade (mobo, CPU, RAM) to upgrade to a 6700k. My 3770k was only at 4.2 GHz (I had it higher in...

I decided to get an old computer back up and running again. It was well stored and in good shape. All I had to do was install a new PSU and re-wire it and stick a video card back in. Intel 2500K ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 16GB DDR3-1600 4GBx4 XFX HD 7970 / MSI HD 7970 (Not using both since I don't...

I'm using some old spare parts I have lying around to throw a computer together to stick in my (non-home) office so I can stop dragging my laptop around. Doesn't have to be (nor do I expect it to be at that price) an amazing case, just something that works. The thing is, the old parts I have...

I can't tell where it's coming from - but it doesn't sound like any coil whine I've ever heard before. I want to say it sounds exactly like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFPrxro4aoc Interestingly I also have an MSI Mpower like the guy who posted the video (maybe not the same...

I just upgraded to a 1440p monitor from 1080p, and now stuff is smaller than I'm really comfortable with (even with vision correction). Don't get me wrong, I was expecting this, but I also figured I could use the "Make text and other items larger or smaller" option in the screen resolution...

I bought an IPS monitor in 2008, but replaced it with a 27" 1080p 120hz Samsung in 2012. Even though the IPS looked better, the TN panel just felt like it provided a smoother (and significantly better) overall gaming experience. The IPS had decent input lag, and I don't think I'm all that...

Been getting major lag spikes in online games the last 4 or 5 days. For a while I thought it might just be Guild Wars 2 until I tried playing Smite. Between Comcast and my schedule they can't get a technician out here for weeks. Here's what I've done so far: - Tried bypassing the router and...

I'm debating upgrading my 7970s in 1-3 months, and thought the 290s looked like a decent option. The plan was to stick the old cards in my old i7 920 rig and have a go at bit mining or just sell them off. I'm not really partial to AMD, I probably would only have considered SLI had AMD not...

Basically, all I want to do is get a capture card for my secondary rig, split the signal coming out of my main gaming rig, and send it to it to record. Ideally send game audio as well, but preferably not Teamspeak or music audio. Problem 1: not sure which capture card to get. Blackmagic...

I need compact speakers with surround sound. Headphones aren't an option for me, and I really like rear speakers for gaming. The way I see it I basically have two options: 1) Buy a Logitech Z906 (doesn't seem like you can buy anything else that is even remotely comparable these days)...

I reformated Win 8 this evening, installed the built-in Killer NIC drivers on my M87 Mpower Max, and everything worked fine briefly until a few minutes later when I noticed I could not only not connect to the 'net, but I couldn't access the router (six week old ASUS RT-AC66U) through my...

So I set up a new rig (all new except PSU/video cards/speakers/monitor which I previously used and knew to work fine), and discovered the audio sounds like garbage. It's a little hard to explain, screeching and other noises that shouldn't be there... just by how it sounds I would blame the...

No matter what I do, these screws will not catch on the radiator screw holes. After making sure I had the right screw thread (apparently the older models use M3.5, though the manual makes it sound like it's interchangeable with 6-32 as well), I managed to get one screw in. Then spent the next...

This might seem like a silly question... but it's completely stumping me. It seems like these screws just refuse to penetrate the screw holes in the radiator (Swiftech MCR 320 Drive Rev3). Yeah, the screws that came with it. It's hard enough lining up the fans properly when trying to...

I need: - Decent voice quality. Not "I'm recording music" quality, just "people can actually understand me over TS3/Vent for a change" quality. Ever since my ancient (i.e. can't-find-it-anymore) cheapie Sennheiser died, I've had rotten luck with the ones I've tried, even though they seemed...

GPU1: XFX 7970 925/1375 1050mv GPU2: MSI 7970 1010/1375 1112mv Both reference cooler I've used both these cards separately just fine. I used them in crossfire fine for a few weeks. The other day I tried a small overclock (bumped the core on the XFX to match the MSI and raised the memory by...

Happens infrequently and is unpredictable, so trying to determine the problem by trial and effort is going to be frustrating. Just for the sake of finding a good place to start, does this sound like a monitor issue as opposed to a video card one (or something else)? Have to wait for a new...

So I know Comcast says they're not enforcing the 250GB bandwidth cap anymore, but they still say they're calling people, and I don't think anything particularly bad can come from fixing whatever problem is going on. On the 8th this month I noticed my bandwidth was 174GB, after estimating it...

I got a 256GB Crucial m4 mSATA drive to stick in this thing... did so, secured it with a screw, replaced the bottom laptop cover and booted into Windows 8 (which is still loaded on the 1TB HDD that came with the system). It doesn't appear to see the SSD at all. Not in Windows explorer, not in...

A few days ago I started getting BSODs. My computer would restart, and won't see the OS drive (a 128GB m4) in BIOS (thus not being able to boot into Windows). If I disconnect the drive and re-connect it, I can boot into Windows until it BSODs again. So I set that drive aside and installed...

So, I have an X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro and a set of old Klipsch Promedia 4.1's. Lately in certain games I've noticed a distinct bias in terms of audio in the rear speakers. Sound still comes out of my rear left speaker, but it sounds like positional 3D audio where stuff will be louder on...

I have this Swiftech kit lying around, of which I plan to mount the rad at the top of my HAF-X to cool my 2500K and 7970 (plus likely a second in the near future). However, I'd like to expand it to do two things: 1) Make filling the loop easier. From what Swiftech has told me, it's a pain to...

The problem is I'm planning on moving to eyefinity in 3-6 months, and can afford two additional S27A750Ds, but not two S27A950Ds. So it would have to be a hybrid setup, and the lack of heigh adjustments on these monitors has me a bit concerned. I'd have to wait an indefinite amount of time to...

Learned a lot from the people over at EOCF, but this place is also becoming my new haunt, so thought I would get some input here as well. Looking for something to cool an OC'd 2500K and 7970 in my HAF-X, and eventually most likely a 7990 once I move to eyefinity. Thought I would get a 120.4...

Built a new system within the last week or two: 1) At some point, while installing drivers on a fresh Windows 7 install, two 4GB USB drives were killed simultaneously. I think it happened during a reboot. 2) Sound isn't always clean. Obvious crackling noises here and there; this is using...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc2) 99% gaming. Have a workstation right next to my gaming rig (which is technically being replaced by my current 1366 rig). Play pretty much everything. MMOs, RTS, FPS... quad boxing in EVE. Yeah. What's your...

I have a 26" Planar PX2611W that's kind of spoiled me. I'm looking for an additional monitor I'll be using for gaming, which is why I'd like the 16:9 aspect ratio specifically for its field of view in certain games. That's not it's only purpose, I need an additional monitor anyway to...