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As the title says, Windows forced an update on my computer and on attempted reboot it was showing Post Code 00. With my 7950x roughly every third or fourth time Windows has forced an update it has altered or outright corrupted something as it would repeatedly crash on restart and forced me to...

Making the jump to AM5 means DDR5 and I've narrowed down my RAM to four likely possibilities one of which is, as the thread title shows to buy 6400 and downclock to 6000: 1) The cheap and easy route of buying a 32GB 6000 EXPO kit like this 30-38-38 kit -...

VideoCardz had posted that AM5 had been dropped in price over at some European retailers / e-tailers and now both Newegg and Amazon have followed suit. 7950x is down to $549.99 at Amazon (but backordered till December 6 or so) and is $574.00 - $20 promo code at Newegg (but also backorder till...

For those of you who, like me don't live near a Microcenter, this is Amazon being practically on par with them. So if you can stand to buy last generation's chips, or don't want the extra 100 watts of a 12 series, or can't find DDR5 then... i9-11900K - $459.98...

I bought a Klipsch Reference Theater Pack 5.1 Surround...

If you want a fast M.2 drive, but not necessarily a large one, Amazon is selling the WD Black SN850 for $94.99. Camelzon shows it as the lowest price yet. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KFN1KT1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I need to do a quick build for an office...

Adobe's "activation" servers are refusing to recognize any of my computers that for one reason or another "MUST" still use Win 7 and thus shut down my licensed DC Pro access on those machines. Therefore, WTB non-subscription Acrobat XI Pro license, preferably with an install disk/dvd.

I had been using the same two pumps since my very first water cooling project, a pair of Swiftech MCP35x's working in serial, which had always been more than sufficient to easily pump a nearly gallon's worth of in-system water (lots of thermal mass!) through 6+ feet of tubing into two 480, 80mm...

Samsung has just about every major vendor moving in lockstep from the list price to a listing of $384-85. However, Amazon has it listed right now for $357.29 with same day delivery, which is the 4th or 5th lowest price since release and about $25 off the all time low according to camelzon...

It was time for another GPU upgrade so I had just finished rebuilding my water cooling loop and after powering on, the motherboard started beeping and gave me error code 67, which apparently is also error code B7. It did that several times where it would power cycle and begin beeping at me...

As the thread title says, I have about a dozen old passwords stored in my Login Data file that will not populate into my chrome://settings/passwords When I open the file in notepad, I can obviously see the websites and user names but not all of those old passwords. About half of them I can...

If anybody has grown tired of their CaseLabs cases and wants something other than the industrial design aesthetic, I probably want to buy some of your used parts, especially if they are black powder coated and in at least decent-ish shape. Looking for: 1) a USB 3.0 or 3.1 front mount retrofit...

All of the sudden I've started getting a weird corrupted text issue in Chrome. Here's a sample: The issue only seems to happen in Chrome with live updating text and/or text that can have mouse-over or popover features like twitter or the comments section of Videocardz. It doesn't happen with...

For about the last two-years or so, I've had a Samsung M3870FW printer in my office as my personal printer and as the backup office scanner, but I've been thinking about replacing it for a while now because I've never really liked its quirks. Since the office doesn't have a color printer I was...

What are the odds that AMD will release a single socket Naples with an unlocked multiplier? Intel tends to release single socket Xeons. Having Zen cores with more memory channels and HEDT beating PCIe lanes would be a real winner. If it could be clocked to near 4GHz I could seen charging in...

Have any been revealed yet? My case has the space and I would like to see it put to use.

I have a few of these at the office and at $129.95 its the best price I've ever seen one for. Only about 4 hours left on the deal for a high-ish wattage UPS with a fairly decent sinewave output...

The well reviewed but over-priced Netgear Nighthawk X4 is being sold on amazon for $149 instead of its usual price near $280. http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Nighthawk-AC2350-Smart-Router/dp/B00MRVJY5C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447793947&sr=8-1&keywords=nighthawk+r7500. It does not look like a...

Finally going to try out having a wireless router in the house. I need a signal that can, at the farthest, reach about 70ft and broadcast through 1 internal wall of made out of a double set of 3/4in drywall. Any suggestions?

For the past few years or so, I haven't gotten much more out of my hexacore that I was getting from my i7-950. Not much noticeable change in games since I don't play first person shooters. Until now the biggest improvement was native SATA III for two of my SSDs to RAID with. Well it...

My HP Laserjet 4100 was done in when some of the office wiring blew. I'm looking for a new nonchrome laser printer. As tempting as color lasers are, the major cost of extra toner and small black toner cartridges likely make it a non-starter. Basic duty cycle is about 500-1,000 pages a...

Rakuten.com, formerly buy.com, is running a big sale where you can 20% in points towards future purchases at the site, capped at $250 in points. The rules seem pretty straightforward: 1) applies to unique purchases for items that cost at least $20 WITHOUT tax or shipping; 2) buy 1...

It's long past time for me to get a proper 4K screen and retire my 37 inch CRT to strictly classic gaming duty. I'm looking for a TV that outputs 60fps at 4K res, but does not have any built in microphones or cameras. Those things really, really creep me out. I also have a obviously...

So I was building a "new" work computer from some old spares of mine and when I went to power on the computer after installing DDR modules 2-6, the plastic pins holding the on/off rocker switch for the psu snapped and so the switch popped out. I am not going to try to jury-rig or repair the...

So my grandma's Core 2 Quad finally gave up the ghost. As she was nearly 80 back when 775's were new I expected it to be the last computer she'd ever need. I figured I would do this build for her birthday next week and also end her complaints about the old computer being slow: Intel...

As per my sig, I have two Caviar Black 1TB drives in RAID1 with drives set to RAID in the motherboard's BIOS and RAID enabled through the Intel's native on board drivers (accessed with Ctrl+I during boot). The two drive RAID1 was used for backing up active files and general media storage...

Since I now have 1TB of SSDs it's time to upgrade my RAID 0 from 2x 1TB to 2x 2TB drives. I prefer WD Caviar Black lines for the 5 year warranty and have only ever had one WD drive die on me. However, I am split between the regular home FAEX drives for ~$160 each or should a I get a pair of...

A couple weeks ago the DX79SR and 3930K combo for my long delayed water cooling project had died. At the time I knew the board was thoroughly dead (not even the POST led would light up), but I did not know if the chip had also died. I called Intel for warranty replacement and was told...

Noctua is finally going to be releasing some of their fans in an all black color scheme! Not only that, but the fans will apparently be slightly cheaper because the ugly two-tone brown seems to have made them more expensive. Techpowerup has the story...

So I got a pair of Samsung 840 Pro SSDs last week for a system upgrade. I wanted to run them in RAID 0. In the SATA devices menu I changed the drives setting from AHCI to RAID. Doing this allowed me to set a RAID 0 array through the INTEL RAID manager (stripped w/ 128kb Blocks). The board...

I just started OCing my 7970s again now that I finally have three working ones (and other aspects of my life have calmed down) and am suddenly getting weird throttling/downclocking issues while benchmarking. For the record I am using Catalyst 12.11 with no mods/packs/ or betas and all of my...

Now that Amazon has been aggressively price matching Newegg I have not been buying much from them. The main times I used to buy is when I could use individual $10-$20 discount code for one or more items that was/were also being bought as part of a combo. That doubled up savings really made...

My 3930K and Intel DX79SR board came a little while back and I did a test boot with a spare 2GB stick. Now it is time to upgrade in full. I would rather go with 4x8GB rather than 8x4GB so I have the option of going to 64GB later for RAM disk fun. 1.5v keeps me well under the 1.65v...

So I have finally been able to start water cooling (Project Leaky Water Cabinet will resume) and have run into an early problem with my EK-Multioption X2 Res 400 Advanced. The fifth port on the tube bottom (the one that is not aligned with the inner portion of the tube) will not accept any...

My Rampage III Formula board is starting to show its age. So now that the 3930K has come down to a sub $500 price, I thought about upgrading to take advantage of PCIe 3.0 and to properly use my SATA III drives. I need a board that can comfortably accommodate 3 dual slot video cards all evenly...

So the condo I am renting was built during that sweet spot when aluminum wiring was popular. A breaker for a half dozen or so units, including mine, blew recently due to being very very old according to the electrician I called out (and the one the building hired to confirm my guy's opinion)...

Back in 2010 I bought a retail copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit for the computer build. I have done a bunch of drive formatting and re-installing over the last 2+ years mainly when my storage configuration or video card configuration changed. Several months ago I formatted and re-installed...

Fan reviews generally include scale showing the decibel level of a given fan (and how that value was derived) but do not necessarily provide a description of the type of noise produced. At least to my ear, both AP 15's I have tried so far (out of four) have a bit of a high pitched whistle...

So I just transplanted the title motherboard out of its old case and onto a test bench to test out my new video card and to try tri-fire because all three cards together would not fit in my soon to be discarded case. After moving, the PWR_FAN header has stopped working. All the other fan...