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Hi guys, thanks for any help. I'm looking to buy new monitors. 2 to be exact. I even have a model picked out: https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_700_1104&item_id=241903 Here's the problem: I have not purchased a monitor since about 2007. I'm using a 24" Samsung 245BW and...

ok so it's an old game. diablo 2 is a dinosaur. and it's still a damn good time. i recently got my older son into it. i did not like diablo 3 myself and 4 i haven't bothered with. it's great father/son time, he uses my destop and i set up my laptop right next to him and we play a TCP/IP game...

Just my curiosity....I know some are not happy with win11 and may prefer 10. I had 10, upgraded to 11 and surprisingly I like 11 better. It seems a bit faster, very stable and less nags. I bought 10 retail and was very annoyed that it came with built in ads in the form of apps that were...

About 15 years ago I built my first WC setup. I bought two swiftech MCW60's off the forum's here and put them on two Nvidia 7900 GTO's in SLI. Worked great, eventually upgraded and decided not to do SLI again so sold one of the blocks. So check this out: Over 15 years later in still using it...

https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_1925_1920_1923&item_id=202167 Keep in mind I'm in Canada so the prices might seem high...picked this up used off Facebook marketplace for $700 last night. Not the best thing out there, but not bad either. Price seems right! Less than...

thanks for any suggestions, i've given it a solid try and i'm beating my head against the wall. although i do admit that networking isn't my strong suit. so here's my current setup at home. file sharing within my home network using windows SMB off my desktop. other devices can get at it just...

I'm seriously considering buying a new 16TB drive, WD red pro. Check this out on newegg https://www.newegg.ca/red-pro-wd161kfgx-16tb/p/N82E16822234429?Item=N82E16822234429&Source=socialshare&cm_mmc=snc-social-_-sr-_-22-234-429-_-03292022 That's a pretty serious discount. My problem is finding...

have a VERY old 3TB WD mechanical drive. not sure if it's starting to fail or if something else is going on. what's a good app to test it? not sure what's out there anymore and what is worth using.

my water setup is in need of a new reservoir due to a new rad not fitting.... quick overview. i have a corsair 750D case. for some strange reason, i still have an optical drive in the top. my reservoir is a dinosaur danger den that fits in the drive bay above the optical drive. pump is also...

So my older son is 4 going on 5. We enjoy playing some of my old PC games together every now and then. I'm a little picky in what he is allowed to play, so anyone have suggestions? At his age, I'm really not interested in him playing hyper violent games like FPS games. But at the same time I'd...

Keep in mind that I'm an apple idiot. I know nothing about their stuff. Trying to order an ipad case for the mother in law for Christmas. It's a 5th gen ipad and although I do have the model number, it's not matching up with the numbers for any case I can find. Hers is MP2G2CL/A. Model numbers...

we all know that old is new again...people paying top dollar for nostalgia. prices have increased over the last couple years. found on kijiji someone selling an old radeon 9600....except the pic is defiantly the older rage fury maxx. as in it's a pic of it in the box for the 9600, not a stock...

Figured some of you guys would find this interesting. It was in the news a while back that someone over in Russia had gotten a hold of a bunch of old 3dfx VSA-100 chips and then redesigned the old prototype boards for the voodoo 5 6000 Now here's a review of that redesigned card! Fun read for...

For quite a few years now I've used an old universal gpu water block that cools only the gpu itself. I also attach copper heatsinks to the ram chips....heatsinks that I've been using for years. To attach them I used to use arctic alumina ceramic epoxy mixed with equal part of arctic silver 5...

Quick story that you guys might find useful one day. Mother in law asked me to fix her desktop. I don't do much of repair these days, but can't refuse family. Old system now, remember the q6600? She sent me a text image. Right away I figured hard drive failure. It's a 13 year old drive after...

Did something stupid.... overclock was just a hair unstable. Would make FAH crash maybe once every two days. Odd time I'd have to restart Windows. And then I did a windows update. Hit the restart button and went to bed. Well...turns out my CPU decided to shit the bed during the update install...

PC gamer posted this article about games that were hiding on your computers at school. https://www.pcgamer.com/what-was-the-best-game-on-your-school-computers/ Fun little nostalgia trip. For me it was quake 2. The computers at my high school were nothing special even when they were new so we...

Fun quotes from Intel CEO Bob Swan https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/video-from-intel-ceo-bob-swan-to-computex-did-intel-give-up-on-benchmarks.html "we have to stop worrying about things as simple as the benchmarks of processors" Seems like a desperate move to me. What do you guys think? Is...

seems that oak ridge labs is 3D printing with stainless steel to build a micro reactor. not sure how far this will go, but interesting none the less. there's a video of the printing process in the link. "The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a...

Without going into details (because I really can't), I am going to be considered an essential worker should this pandemic get much worse. I suspect that we may find ourselves isolated in a hotel or something just to keep us healthy. Nothing official yet, but I can see what could be coming...

much of this largely came about thanks to the past help of a few members here. thank you very much, i finally got things sorted out here. bit of background. i'm running a skylake i5 6600k i got several years ago. i'm odd in that i like to run my hardware into the ground firmly before i upgrade...

Card in question is a Asus 970GTX Strix. The stock fan cooler is removed, cooling the GPU with an old swiftech MCW60. It's a dinosaur of a water block, but it does the job. Highest temp I saw overclocked was 50C. However, this card doesn't overclock worth beans. Memory is nothing and if I want...

Yup go back a couple years, I'm overclocking my old GTX970. It's the Asus strix version. My card is on water with a universal block, so just the GPU is water cooled. Temps have not exceeded 50C overclocked, voltage boost and full load. Been using furmark for a stress test. So far I got the GPU...

So I am now the proud owner of a new 1TB Samsung 970 Evo plus nvme drive. I'd like this to be my new system drive but not sure how to go about this. Fyi it will be going into a z170 board with a Skylake i5 6600k. I currently have a Samsung 250gb drive as my system drive. I'd like to make an...

I have. Very old swiftech MCP655 pump in my rig. I've been running it hard for about 12 years now. I got it off eBay used with a busted impeller (bearing cup shot) and a fellow member here sold me the impeller out of his dead pump for nearly nothing. Good bless him, and I'm not even religious...

this is me being a win10 dummy probably... my tv setup is very simple. i have all my media stored on my desktop. previously, i used a raspberry pi with kodi on it. networked with powerline ethernet and the pi plays my stuff. now i have moved the tv so that it's not that far away from my...

This is more a question for those 30 or older. Its a matter of comparison and perspective. I'm nearing 36 years old now. I still like PC gaming even though I don't get much time for it with a child in the home. I've been really struggling to find games I want to play. I find all newer ones...

Call this a rant if you will, but over the last year or so there has been no shortage of articles in the media proclaiming 'the death of Moore's law'. I'm asking the question 'does it really matter?' First, I've always felt that calling this a law is not accurate. This leads us to think that it...

Not sure if anyone can be of help, but why not ask...you guys are usually pretty knowledgeable. I recently got an offer I couldn't refuse. Friend normally shoots Pentax and a little Nikon, came across some used canon lenses cheap. Gentleman had died, his widowed wife just wanted them gone. Well...

i think i nearly have my data storage and backup problems figured out. i'd love some input, i'll try to keep it brief. the problem: desktop also doubling as a media file server over home LAN, have WoL set up which works great. i personally like sleep mode to save a little power. although older...

This is really just my opinion of what I find most frightening in a game. I absolutely love horror games, especially sci-fi ones. I think system shock 2 was the first game to really scare me back in the day, still love that game. But what is it that does the trick? For me I find it's when the...

Hello and thanks for any help. Finding the right long lens has been a real pain for me. So I'm looking for a good telephoto lens for canon, I don't care if it's a knock off like sigma, tokina, etc. Little background: my camera is a t5i. I have no need to upgrade now, but can see buying...

yes i realize that this is late. i actually did the work on christmas eve as i had to go to work christmas day for night shifts....joy to the world! with an 8 month old baby in the home, i haven't been able to get the photos onto my desktop until now. yeah the pics aren't the greatest. low...

So I've never used raid.... Currently I have about 6 tb of data across two USB external drives and one internal, totaling to 10 tb of storage. I also have a 250 GB ssd for os, programs and whatever games I'm currently playing. I have been backing up my data with blu rays......a lot of them...

never really gave it any thought until today, but these old pumps are insanely robust. i bought a used swiftech MCP655 pump off ebay. came defective, impeller bearing wasn't seated right. had a bit of an argument with the seller of this, eventually got resolved. i then found a forum member...

maybe i'm getting old, maybe i'm just a cheapskate, or maybe it's because i take off my glasses when i'm gaming on my PC. or maybe all 3. i really could care less about 4k. it's not that i hate it or anything, just indifferent and no desire to plunk down my money on it. consider this: when i...

It was a Samsung 245bw, she served me well for 10 years. Owes me nothing. I'm still a little disappointed. What are all the cool kids buying now?

Wanted to say great job with the new mobile layout of the main page. Using Firefox on Android and it works great. Very fast and simple but also very functional. I love how articles are displayed now.

i have a skylake 6600k and should be doing the delid and reapply thermal paste soon....wondering what paste is good to use? i have some arctic MX-4 that has been sitting around for a while now, still seems as good as the day i got it. should i be using something more up to date? if we're...

I've finally outgrown my old antec 900 case. I've read some reviews but could still use some recommendations. Still unsure what Will meet my needs best. I've given the corsair 750D a serious look, definitely on my list. My system is pretty simple with the exception of my old water cooling...