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I don't have a battle station and i am running a suite of huge monitors. I have one basic old Dell with a 100x100 Vesa pattern from work and with me now no longer going into the office I need to have a way to move this more up and down and give myself more desk space. The desk itself is about 5...

I was sitting here in the past hour minding my own business doing nothing of anything and suddenly the left hand side of my monitor went purple and now has scanline looking things. I tried both HDMI ports on the back as well as a second PC, all have the same things so its not the video card or...

It's in a slim line Antec case. It's a bit old so it only has 2 SATA power supplies but now I have there. Everything else is ATA and I no longer have any of those devices. It's a strange size so I am not exactly sure what replaces it. Link...

It's an older BenQ monitor. Bought it back in.. 2007 or 8, I forget exactly, because it wasn't a TN panel and back then TN panels were terrible, if you moved a few inches off center you couldn't see a thing. Now a days I think things have improved but I still haven't used one in a long time...

I am looking through everyone's suggestions and see a lot of monitors but my issue is that everything is impossible to buy. Unless I am going through some eBay seller or getting it imported from China or Korea, I can't get it. With all the issues people have and reports of having to deal with...

PC: 4690k, 1060 6GB, 8GB system ram. Here is the current monitor I am using: https://www.cnet.com/g00/products/benq-fp241vw-lcd-monitor-24-series/specs/ I have had it for over a decade now, it's the only thing on my PC that hasn't been at some point upgraded. From the specs listed on that...

I dont really need any sort of gsync or freesync premiums, I just want a step up from a decade old 24" normal monitor. I play plain old games, nothing competitive online, mostly single player RPGs and such and some light MMOs. Trying to sort through the choices out there and just get myself...

In the BIOS, in an attempt to quiet my CPU jet engine before I get an after market cooler, I have a couple of temperatrue settings I can modify for the q-fan speed control. For my CPU, a 1045T AMD chip, what should I put these settings at, the bottom three on the image, to keep it from going...

The fan that came with this chip sounds like a jet engine, I can currently hear it over the washing machine that is running and the TV that is playing. All the PC is doing right now is playing a Twitch stream full screen and the fan blasts full speed at all times when the computer is doing...

It's a low profile HTPC that has slowly been morphing into a low profile gaming PC hooked up to my tv. I have upgraded the CPU as far as it will go on the current motherboard and running a low profile 6670 GPU. What is the next step I should take in the low profile GPU world to put in the slim...

Core i5 4690k cpu. Moving from a 750 to a 780, is it worth about $100? I figure I can sell the 750 for $80 or what have you bucks and then get a 780 used for $200 or under, so its not that big of an investment. The 780 is only 30 numbers higher than a 750, so will I see an improvement in...

I have had the same monitor now for quite some time, a 24" BenQ that was highly reccomended in it's day and has served me very well for the past 6 or something years I have had it. As the rest of technology has moved on and my CPU has grown from a Core 2 Duo to an i5, my monitor has remained...

Here is the support list for my motherboard: http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/list.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&m=m4a78lt-m%20le 95w only for the motherboard so I can't step up to the 125w stuff, just whats on the list. Are any of those worth upgrading to? Would I notice a good difference with...

I don't need a tower any more, I used to be all into hardcore desktop gaming but over the past years I have switched to doing everything on my HTPC. My desktop, the one actually at my desk, is now regulated more to surfing the web, downloading my photos, and playing MMOs and other things that...

It was originally built as a pure HTPC machine, never thought much of gaming on it as I had my desktop. Now two years later I have since upgraded my TV from an old CRT to a 47" LCD and have switched almost all of my gaming to the HTPC. Earlier this year I put in an ATI 6670 low profile graphics...

I have in my slimline media pc a pretty basic ATI passive cooled card. XFX HD-545X-YNH2 Radeon HD 5450 (Cedar) 512MB 64-bit DDR2 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card It works great for emulators, movie playing, and older games, but I am looking to see if someone makes...

Is there a standard that people follow? I am not looking for a keyboard and mouse or anything like that, I am looking for a straight up WMC compatible remote that will work with W7. I know Microsoft used to sell them and had them right up on their website but all of the links that point to...

I have a Earthwatts 430 and a GTX 460, which is a card that requires two pci-e connectors. I assume that I'll need an upgrade on the PSU to one that has a proper amount of connectors? I can only guess that in the future two will become the standard and I'll need an upgrade at some point, might...

Here are the symptoms on this Dell XPS machine that was running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. The first thing that started to go wrong was that when the machine would try to boot into windows it would get to the point right after the Windows startup logo would appear and then his a...

I dont want to get stuck in the "This file is in use" stuff that can happen when programs are running and you try to do a simple copy paste. I will be moving off of my current 300 GB onto a new 1 TB that I bought, is there some kind of boot utility or something that I can use to make the copy...

I am looking to replace my DVD player with an HTPC but the problem is that I have my DVD on a small shelf above my tv. There is not enough clearance to fit a normal desktop there or a tower on the side. I wan tto build myself a small form factor PC with an HDMI port (or a DVI port like I have...

It's this thing: http://www.amazon.com/GeForce-8800GTS-GDDR3-PCIe-Graphics/dp/B000NDXYSO Bare card, $50 out the door.

What should I do about cooling? I have a Coolermaster Centurion case. When I pop open the side the temp of my graphics card sits around 50. When I close the case it goes up to 64. This is doing nothing but leaving everything the same that happening, just pulling the side panel of the case...

Are all video cards this big now? I just moved from an 8800 320 to a GTX 260 that I picked up cheap and the thing is a monster, it just barely fits in my case, stretching from one side of it to where the hard drives go. Is everything new coming out as big as this thing? I'm going to...

Just got a new (used) card and I remember reading something recently about the latest drivers from Nvidia causing all sorts of crashing. Which drivers should I get so I can just get some stable performance and not worry about stuff breaking on me? Windows 7 64 bit Geforce 260 192

I replaced my fan with a new one and now have my retail Intel cooler sitting here doing nothing. Can I expect to get anything for it if I try to sell it or should I just put it in a box and forget about it?

I'll be switching out the stock cooler of my Intel E6600 for a Artic 7 that is showing up today. How should I clean off the cpu? I am expecting some of the goo from the stock fan to be on the chip once I remove the fan, what's the safest way to clean it to prepare it for the new fan?

Currently running an E6600 Here is what my motherboard supports: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=2456 Is there anything on that list that doesn't cost a whole lot of money that would be worth upgrading to in order to get a gaming performance...

On this page: http://www.powercolor.com/eng/products_layer_3.asp?ModelID=659 There are half a dozen different versions of the 1GB 5770 card, are they all different? Some have different fan setups and look different, but is the core card the same or did ATI make a bunch of revisions that I...

I am starting to think about upgrading my aging 8800 320MB card, but what can my system support? It's a Core 2 Duo 6600 CPU, can that power any of the newer cards or is that chip now too slow to even bother upgrading? I can afford a used GTX 260 but should I even bother or will I need to...

I have no idea what happened.. I booted into W7, everything looked fine, but 10 seconds after I was logged in the colors changed and everything went... bright? or washed out.. or something. The reds are now bright and jumping out, oranges are high contrast, blues are super bright, it's like...

All I know right now is what I want to do, I want to build a dedicated storage system with a bunch of big drives in it that will do nothing other than back stuff up on a semi regular basis and be used as a storage device. I will keep it plugged into the network and use it as a place to write...

Here's the deal, I am working on someone's eMachine pc, an old pretty junky piece of hardware, and I am trying to get it running again. Symptoms: Won't turn on. Person says it just stopped working one day. The mother board is getting power as the green light on it is on indicating there is...

A family friend's computer, some old clunker from 2001, has had it's PSU die. The model that's in there now has no labels or anything and she does not need anything fancy. Just your basic PSU for an 8 year old machine.

Has anyone else noticed this? http://www.ncixus.com/ Google and Firefox now block http://www.ncixus.com/ as a reported attack site. What is happening with it? I thought they always had the best protection coverage for dead pixels..

I am thinking about ordering from them soon but like everyone I am worried about dead pixels in my LCD. I tried to call them but the folks on the phone knew nothing, send an email but still have not yet heard back from them. Read the policy on their website but don't see anything about dead...

The new DoubleSight 24" monitor "Coming Soon" will feature a Samsung S-PVA panel in it. http://www.doublesight.com/product/?idx=5 Now while that seems to be a pretty good iteration of the VA panel tech should I feel good about getting this sort of thing for gaming or will spending a little...

So BenQ has killed off the FP241W. It is still for sale on some sites but no one will carry zero dead pixel policies and supplies will be drying up. So what is someone to do now who wants to get a non-TN 24" gaming monitor? This one was the best of the bunch (I think) but now it will be...

As in TN or MVA or what have you. Don't care so much about brand, just want to know the tech.

I figure I don't want a TN panel because I will also use the screen for watching movies from the couch and I won't be looking directly at it. What is the best 24" non-TN panel to get for gaming and movie purposes? Is there anything new about to be released that I should wait for or is the...