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I recently acquired an LG c2 42 inch TV to use as a monitor. I thought to use my older 40 inch 60 hz vizio tv as a second monitor but I'm having some issues. The c2 works fine running GSync at up to 120hz with hdr using a 8k60hz/4k120hz hdmi cable from the the hdmi out of my gigabyte 3080 12g...

Having a strange issue with the bios on an older ASRock fatality z68 professional gen3 As I mentioned elsewhere I was trying to get secure boot to work and as a last try I switched back to an earlier bios. After this flash I could no longer set cpu multiplier above 38x and xmp profiles...

I decided to move an older setup to use secure boot and I'm having some difficulties. motherboard asrock z68 Fatality Professional gen 3; 2.23 bios slightly customized to allow nvme boot from pci slot. 2600K Sandybridge @ 4.3 ; 16G (2x8) mem samsung 840 pro 256G ssd using GPT gigbyte 650 ti...

Need some opinions. I purchased a Gigabyte X570S Aorus Master a few months ago and just recently got around to checking my case front USB-C jack. I got no signal or power for any device I tested. I tried another USB 3.2-C cable and had the same results. The rear USB 3.2-C port works fine and...

So ... I'm uncertain what to make of this. I purchased a Sabrent rocket pcie 4.0 1Tb in hopes of using it as a new boot drive on a new build. I tested it by cloning my sys drive onto it and doing crystalmark tests comparing the 2. The scores are a bit of a puzzle. I had expected the nvme drive...

I got bored with waiting for the 5900x and motherboard to become available and decided to put my old parts into this new case to see how temps compared. case phanteks eclipse 500a; 2600k @ 4.5 +0.01 core; asrock fatality x68 (3) 140mm in front; (1) 120mm in rear arctic liquid freezer II 360...

And now comes memory ... 2x16 gskill 3200 14-14-14-34 https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232899 https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232378 2 x16 gskill 3600 16-16-16-36...

I'm used wattage calculator to spec out a power supply for my max case scenario (16 hours/day) and it came out to ~800 watts and recommended 850 watt power supply. If 800 watt is exceeded the recommendation jumps to 1000 watt supply. For the calculation I used: X570 motherboard 5900x @ 4.6 Ghz...

I thought I'd ask some opinions on MSI video cards. I tend to keep hardware until it breaks or I pass it along to a relative. I'm considering buying a 1080ti as I'm tired of using the 650ti I "temporarily" replaced my 6950 with after it failed, this was like 2 years ago ;) . I'm currently using...

It sounds like a cloned win8.1 partition (backup) would become invalid once the original was upgraded to win10. In which case a complete reinstall of the original OS would be required if a win10--> win8.1 restore went sideways. Am I misinterpreting ? I like to have a working bootable backup...

I've dreaded the moment but after 8 years or so of continuous use my venerable Logitech mx610 is starting fail. I went out today a tried out some potential replacements but wasn't really sold on any. I lean towards logitech as I like the feel of their right hand biased mouse. I initially...

I placed this here as it appears to be limited to wndows 8. Best I can tell I lose access to USB ports while scrolling through webpages in Firefox. It is semi-random and has happened most often while scrolling using my scroll wheel, though it happened while clicking and dragging scroll bar...

I'll thought I'd give you all a try before replacing. I have an old, seldom used Win TV PVR usb2. I recently started up media center to record a program and found that it no longer could find the tuner. I tried to reset and media center just hangs during the tuner discovery phase. The...

I'm looking for a retail supplier of a USB 3.0 internal extension cable. Something similar to this. I've not seen anything from the usual sources. Anyone come across one?

I'm looking to up upgrade my setup come later this year and would like to greatly reduce the fan noise that I have with my current system. I will be looking at mid high end of the spectrum in cpu (bulldozer or 2011) and gpu (580gtx - 6950 sli or whatever is out there at that time). I have a 20...

This sniper 1866 9-10-9-28 F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR and this Ripjaw 1600 8-8-8-24 F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM are currently the same price. Does anyone have experience with either or both? The sniper would appear the better deal. thanks edit - oops price just jumped back up on Ripjaws

Hypothetical - I've never tried this in windows. Say one has 2 small SSD's with OS installed on one. Space is getting a bit tight for installation of \users\... folders. Is there any problem with symbolically linking the \user folder from the second SSD? Auto

This question is nothing new but here are the details. My current 939 system is giving signs of imminent collapse so it is time to make plans. I will likely upgrade to a i7 in the 920 to 950 range though if things hold together I may make it to sandybridge. The motherboard will likely be...

Ok - this is the situation. My gaming is currently done on an old DFI nf4 939 board using an opteron 170 @ 2750. I been piddling around with the newest generation of FPS's - played COD4, Crysis etc, Far Cry2. I'm using sli'd 8800 gts 512's at resolutions of 1920 x 1200. I find that play is...

I have a mildly amusing and potentially educational power experience to relate. So I finally got around to installing an SLI arrangement on my four year old DFI Lanparty. I get a good deal on two 512 8800GTS's and can't resist. I had purchased a decent power supply at the time I bought the...

Rather than continue filling up the already overcrowded p5e-vm thread I'll try starting over. I'm having some slightly unusual results while tinkering with bios 0503. p5e-vm hdmi 4 x 1 g 4-4-4-12 cpu is E8400 7800gtx 256 hauppauge pvr 150 antec AR350 PS I'm attempting to use the speedstep...

I have a small 1380 Antec case - uATX. It comes with an 80% efficient. (supposedly) 350 watt Antec uATX Power Supply. I believe the power supply is rated up to 300 watts and 18 amps on the 12v line. My current arrangement draws ~120 watts under full maxed load. I'm considering exchanging my...

So ... I want a small micro-atx case for a living room htpc. I'm at Fry's and I see they have Antec 1380's on sale for ~$60. This is a very small cube case that comes with an 80+ eff. Antec 350 watt PS. The PS is very small it says it's rated for a maximum of 300 watts on the 12v rail. Is...

I'm considering buying a gateway 2485W for about 400$. One downside is it has no HDMI connector. But, It does have 2 component connections. I was going to run component from both my HD satellite receiver and up-converting 1080i dvd player to the monitor. Does anyone have an opinion on whether...

Hello all, I'm putting together some old and new hardware for a flexible Htpc unit. I currently have: a small midtower case hauppauge 150 tuner card dvd-rw pata 75 g system drive pata 250 or 500 gig data drive sata I was considering for purchase: 680G or 780G integrated motherboard AMD 5000+...

Search here turned up no mention of this one. Is anyone familiar with this monitor or it's 24" big brother ? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824216006 They seem to be inexpensive and relatively well reviewed (the few I could find). $250 for 22" 5ms and $350 or so for a...

I'm a bit frustrated with this memory (pdc2g4000elk). I had hopes of running it 1/1 on a 280 FSB but have had no luck. It is rated as 500 @ 3-4-4-8 and I've tried 3 different pairs and it's lucky if it will do even that on my rig. Now perhaps I ran into a weak batch but none of the stuff I've...

I was going to transfer some old record albums to CD's for listening in my car and wondered if there was a specific hardware setup that was better suited to this process. I'd considered getting a X-Fi card but I've read that they do not play nice with AMD and NF4 chipsets. Will the onboard sound...

I currently use 2 X 512 twinmos and wanted to upgrade to at least 2g. To maintain anything near my current timings the twinmos needs a lot of voltage the bios is set to 3.1V but my DMM reads 3.2V. I was considering buying either 2x512 or 2x1m DDR sticks. Can anyone tell me which if any of the...

Ok, I have been using a San Diego 3700+ @ 2.75 and 2 twinmos 512 running 2-2-2-5 1T downclocked to 5/6 for the last year and a half or so and all has been fine. Recently I've started editing video's and running multiple processes and the slowdowns have convinced me it's finally time to upgrade...

This has been bothering me since I bought this card. No matter the core temperature or loading, the video card fan only runs at 50%. I can start up Winfox2 and leave it on or shut it down and that will force my card to run the fan at 100% all the time. I can't figure any way to increase or...

PSU is enermax 600watt for those with sig turned off. I found it interesting that when I removed my EVGA 6800U from my system and plugged in a little 4meg PCI card ( waiting for 7800GTX stepup) that my 12V rail jumped up almost 0.1V from ~12.25 to ~12.35. Now, even when fully loaded the 12V...

Last night, To my horror, I discovered I can use something called the "step up" program offered by Evga and upgrade my new 6800U to a 7800GTX. Now I can't sleep as doubts and card envy push me towards using the upgrade while I can. One problem is they don't list a price to "stepup" to the 7800...

I need some thoughtful advice from some experts. After reading much I find myself undecided about the 3.3V rail vs 5.0V rail issues involving DFI's MB. This results in a terminal case of indecision. I find that at 2750MHz I can run all my voltages at stock except memory. So rather than bump...

Ok, DFI nf4 sli MB. I just enabled VSB power to USB and PS/2. I went into sleep mode from keyboard then reactivated; My cpu temperature went nuts jumping from a standard idle of 32/34C to 50C. PWMIC and chipset temps both seemed to drop. Anyone else have this happen? I suspect it's the sensor...

This applies to my DFI SLI board YMMV. I was mucking about with the ITE SmartGuardians smart.ini file yesterday and noticed that the ATX +5.0V sensor output is actually linked to the VSB +5V sensor. Also the VSB output header is disabled and when enabled appears offscreen. If you want...

Any recommendation for location and attachment of a thermistor to a memory stick? Thermal adhesive one onto a chip? I would like to place it at point of maximum heat but I suspect each stick and probably each chip will vary some.

Unsure where to post this. Over the last week or two my 12V rail voltage readings as measured by motherboard sensors have dropped for 11.97 - 11.90 2 weeks ago to 11.90 - 11.83 last week now today they suddenly read 11.83 - 11.77. The voltage as measured by a DMM reads 12.17 - 12.20 which if...

For those with bios issues or just like trying the newest thing it seems DFI has released a new Beta BiosNF4 6-18. I haven't tried it so use at your own risk.

stupid 120mm sunon fans have decided they don't like certain RPMs. From about 7.5V to 8.5V they make this irritaing whining sound. I'd try using rubber washers but I suspect it's an internal problem.