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I have this Blu-Ray burner that can no longer read DVDs, and I confirmed it was a hardware problem. It can still playback Blu-Ray discs, but I have a huge library of both software and movie DVDs and that is unfortunately a deal breaker. I wound up having to replace the Blu-Ray player with a...

My old Z77 I just upgraded from used to have that technology, and I'm kind of curious what happened to it after the fact since I haven't heard anything about it since. Specifically technologies like HyperFormance and Virtual V-Sync. I put this in the "Video Cards" section, even though you could...

So here's the story behind it. Skip if you don't care. So fast forward to today. I've gotten rid of the motherboard and have the CPU and RAM all packaged away, but I have this case... and I'm really not sure what to do with it. I don't think anyone would want it, it's OEM-branded and looks...

So, I recently noticed that a motherboard I'm planning to give away for free wouldn't boot up because it kept saying something about Chassis Intrusion being detected. It was odd because it had worked perfectly just a few months ago. I read online that CMOS batteries could fail such a way that...

So, I don't know a lot about packing computer parts. I've usually gotten lucky and had the original packaging around, or else some packaging from a build I just did that fit well, and it somehow did the job. This time the original packaging is long gone, though. The motherboard is 12x11 or so...

I know that the only mainstream sizes manufactured are 16:9 and 16:10, but I also know that there's no particular reason they couldn't make a 5:4, 3:2, or 4:3 panel because I've seen a square panel on devices like the Surface Book. So clearly it CAN be done, they just usually won't do it. With...

I'm having a really bizarre problem with my monitor that I only just now realized was a monitor issue. It's a monitor I bought in 2017 or so. https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/curved/lc24fg70fqnxza-lc24fg70fqnxza/ Basically, the monitor worked flawlessly for three years and I...

So it took me a while to notice this because I don't play a lot of 3D games on this old 560 Ti I had laying around, but I noticed that it's sitting around 68 degrees at idle doing normal desktop stuff and can spike to 80 degrees when watching YouTube videos. I checked GPU-Z, and found the Fan...

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z590-A-PRO/Overview I wound up getting that board because I didn't realize it was the lowest-end model MSI had at the time (I was thinking $189 was perhaps the lower-end of mid-tier, not entry-level). I didn't want LEDs or Wi-Fi, and I did want a PS/2 port for my...

So, I'm building a new PC and I didn't want to deal with water cooling, so I wound up getting a Noctua NH-D15 air cooler because it was said to be one of the best. Supposedly these 125W CPUs run hot enough that my old standby, the Hyper 212 EVO, wouldn't be sufficient to cool it. I haven't...

It's looking like I'm going to need a small computer monitor to play my game consoles, because those have lower input lag than HDTVs according to my research so far. I may also find myself playing Virtual Console games on the Wii U, and/or PC emulators. That means I'm likely to be playing old...

I was planning to play Quantum Break after I upgrade my video card in a few months... but I took a look at the system requirements and found that for some reason, they list i5-4450 as the minimum requirement. What's up with this? Are they just using Haswell model numbers because they're more...

I wasn't sure what forum to put this one in, but Virtualized Computing seems like it would be related to using stuff like VirtualBox. If it needs to be moved, I'm sorry. I purchased SimCity 3000 from Loki Games a while back, and it's never worked right with anything other than Red Hat 6.x. Note...

So, I recently got a Surface Book for my birthday from a wealthy relative (didn't really choose it, just admired the one they had)... and I'm kind of underwhelmed, as cool as I thought it was when it was announced. I like surfing the web on it and using Office, but... that seems to be all it's...

So, I have an old Toshiba Satellite (C655-S5049) with only 2GB RAM. The thing is, I don't generally buy laptops for myself and usually end up using whatever other people discard. Someone thought the machine was broken because it stopped booting into Windows and they couldn't get the OEM restore...

I've been reading a lot online about problems people are having with their 4K monitors and televisions not using integer scaling to bring 1080p sources up to 4K. So I looked online for a hardware scaler... something that would sit between the device and the television, take 1080p in, and put 4K...

I've been seriously considering an OLED television, but there is one major factor that's been keeping me from getting one. I was waiting for the price to fall under $3000, and now it seems to have done so. All of the ones I've been able to find are either curved, or 4K displays. I don't like...

I'm just curious about some strange functionality that my Plasma (LG42PC3D) displays when I use the VGA port. I wasn't sure where to ask this question, and this seemed like the best place to ask. It always defaults to a 4:3 resolution of 1024x768, but the screen itself has an aspect ratio of...

So, I purchased a LIVA X because I wanted something that looks better under the TV than an old laptop from 2002. It works better than the laptop ever did, except in one respect. The Wi-Fi keeps dropping the connection, and the only way to get it back is to disconnect and restart the connection...

There are a lot of great indie games, don't get me wrong. But it seems like most of them are technologically stuck in the SNES/GBA era in many ways. For instance, I've personally never seen a 3D indie game, and I rarely see RPGs or other games with deep stories. It seems like for that kind of...

I'm in a rather annoying situation. My printer was sold as having an Ethernet port, but it turned out the retailer made a mistake and it only has USB. The more expensive model has it, and the printer I have has the Ethernet port blocked off by a piece of plastic with nothing underneath it. :/...

I've heard that SSDs don't last as long as HDDs when you're dealing with write-intensive operations. I really like the speed of SSDs on my gaming computer, but I worry about their longevity in more demanding write scenarios. I have a Linux machine that I like to play around on. I'm constantly...

I've noticed a strong upward trend in monitor size over the years. When I started out with my first CRT, it was only 15". Then, later, I moved up to 17" CRTs and LCDs. And I remember there was a period where 20" monitors were common after that. Now, it seems like the most common monitor size...

I'm somewhat curious about how much power I can actually draw safely through one standard outlet with two plugs. The thing is, I'm going to need to plug in several different devices into this one outlet using power strips in order to make my setup work, and I've heard people say power strips...

Well, I'm in need of a new monitor, but I have an unusual situation. My main limitation isn't really price, but size. Due to the way my desk/workstation is laid out, I can't have a monitor that's bigger than 22" wide, but most of the better models available now seem expect me to make room for a...

I've been thinking of OCing my 2600k, but I'm concerned about temperatures when the side is on the case. I could just leave it off (although that does leave the machine more vulnerable to dust/dirt), but I'm not sure if this indicates a bigger thermal issue with my whole setup. Basically, with...

Read only the bold text if you don't want to be bored with details that aren't directly related to my PSU question. Well, I've found myself in a really interesting situation, due to trying to save money and always finding that the results weren't satisfactory after the fact. I started out with...