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I have an i5-4670K OC'd to 4GHz, purchased > 5 years ago. This morning I was looking around at black Friday deals and thinking maybe it's time to give my core system components (CPU/MB/RAM) a refresh. i5-8600K or Ryzen 7 2700X seem like good bang-for-the-buck upgrades, along with some DDR4...

I'm rocking an 11 year old 24" BENQ LCD that is still chugging along fine, and have been waiting patiently for the holy grail of displays. I'm itching to upgrade, but it (always?) seems like an especially bad time. On the one hand, you have high refresh rates and VRR. On the other, you have...

This one is starting to drive me crazy. During gaming (e.g. DOOM) the PC will reset after some random amount of time (5,10,15 min). System is a few year old Haswell build, and has been solid up until recently. I noticed this in a few games, knew my PSU was nearly 10 years old, assumed it was...

I'm not making this post to discuss which is better or to discuss the technology itself - based on all the reading I've done, it seems that as long as you are pushing frames at a rate that exceed the monitors minimum refresh rate, you're going to have a pretty nice experience in both cases. I...

Hi, I have an i5-4670K processor with HD 4600 graphics. I have no other video card in my system at the moment (my primary PCIE card is likely dead so I wanted to try out the HD4600 until I can sort out a replacement). I installed the HD4600 graphics driver from Intel's site, and that seemed...

Hi, So today when I got home and powered on my PC, my monitor didn't detect any signal from my video card (HD6950). Since I was pretty much handcuffed until I could see anything on the display, I pulled the video card, reset my motherboard (asrock z87m extreme 4) CMOS, plugged my monitor...

I have a strange problem that has manifested itself on a new system I am building. I recently bought a haswell MB (ASRock z87m extreme 4) + i5-4670 and some RAM. I built the system using the onboard graphics and everything was fine. I then moved the HD6950 from my old machine over to this...

I spent some time playing around with overclocking my i5-4670k and found what feels like a stable number (4.4 @ 1.235V manual override voltage). I then read about Haswell's adaptive voltage settings and enabled adaptive voltage with a 1.235V cap. Once I've achieved a stable overclock, is...

I'm using an ASRock Z87m Extreme 4 motherboard, and I'm playing around with overclocking my i5-4670k. One thing I can't figure out is if there is a bios setting to prevent the CPU core speed from dropping down when it's idle/not busy. If I load the CPU (e.g. aida64) I see my proper...

My system currently consists of a Q6600 OC'd to 3.2GHZ, 4GB DDR2-800 memory, and a GTX280. I typically game at 1920x1200. If I upgrade ONLY my video card from a GTX280 -> HD6950, should I get a significant bump in performance or will I start finding myself CPU bound? My main goal is to...

I'm currently running an X1900XT with an Enermax Liberty 500W PS. I've been waiting and waiting to upgrade my video card, and I want to finally get things moving. I was hoping the 4870X2 would be the ticket ... but I'm starting to lean towards the GTX280 instead, mainly because a 4870X2...

I am attempting to overclock my Q6600 ... going for 3.2 right now (8x400). Mainboard is Gigabyte P35-DS3L. Vista Ultimate 64. RAM is operating at spec ... no overclocking there. After some playing and slowly increasing my vcore, I seem to have something Prime95 stable, however there is...

I was thinking up grabbing a dirt cheap MB (P35) + CPU (Q6600) + RAM after the intel price drop, then hold off on upgrading my video card till the summer to catch ATI or NVIDIAs next offerings. Then I started to wonder if these new video cards are going to be PCI-E 2.0 and have performance...

I was wondering if anybody knows of a Canadian online retailer that is selling the new Western Digital WD6400AAKS ... I haven't even seen it listed at any Canadian online sites (NCIX, TIGERDIRECT), which I find pretty strange. Are there shortages of this drive?

Are there any solid and recent benchmarks/articles measuring the performance difference between dual and quad core Intel processors on games that supposedly take advantage of multiple cores? I'm thinking of Crysis mainly since I've heard it is designed to benefit from multiple cores but I have...