Recent content by beedubaya

I haven't built a PC since 2011. My last PC was an iBuyPower desktop and honestly, it's been a great system. It had an i7 6700 and GTX 970 and still chugs along at 1080p even for today's games. That said, it's been about five years since I bought that desktop and I'm getting the itch to do a...

Does anybody know if there are actual differences in image quality between DisplayPort and HDMI at lower resolutions i.e. 1080p? I've seen some people say that there is no point in DP below 4k or even 5k while others say they get a clearer, more vibrant picture using DP no matter the...

I'm not around here much anymore but I do lurk from time to time. This site was pretty much my home back during my college years from around 2004 to 2007ish. Amazing to see that it's still active when so many other sites are long gone.

I concur with others that gaming today is almost always about the GPU more than it is the CPU. My old rig had an i5 processor at stock speeds and it worked just fine. I haven't had the need to overclock a CPU since my old AMD Opteron in 2007ish.

Has anybody here played the new Doom game yet? I really like this game so far. Somehow, they have managed to bring back that feeling you had when playing the original Doom without making it feel like a rehash. I really like that it is fun and action packed right from the start, without 20...

Don't understand why MS has always had this jealousy towards Apple. The more MS tries to make Windows like OS X, the more I consider just doing away with it entirely and actually using a Mac. Gaming is literally the only reason my most recent desktop purchase was a PC and not an iMac. I like...

No DVD in the drive lol. CMOS battery is a thought. Would it cause a random reboot though?

It was resolved by changing the boot order in the BIOS to check the primary hard drive first. The computer never had issues seeing the hard drive. I haven't had any issues since so I think if it was something like a loose cable, that wouldn't have fixed it. I discovered a Trojan on my system...

A got a new computer about two weeks ago. This morning, I stepped away from it and when I came back, it apparently had rebooted and the message "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" I went into BIOS and made the system hard disk...

Thanks for the responses everyone. Being the Nvidia loyalist that I am, I went ahead and went with the eVGA GTX 760.

I do have the dual-core i5 650. I built my current machine on a budget back in late 2010 and haven't done any upgrades since. Can I get by with this processor or will I need an upgrade? I would rather just upgrade my GPU if I can get away with it. I would prefer to spend between $200-$300 on...

I am ashamed to admit I have somewhat fallen out of the loop concerning today's high-end gaming hardware. Here is my existing system. -Asus P7P55 LX Motherboard -Intel i5 650 Processor -Nvidia GTX 460 SE -8GB RAM -EVGA 600W PSU I would like to upgrade it to be able to play today's games max...

I have recently tried downgrading to driver version 314.22, being that people have reported multiple driver issues with the newer Nvidia drivers.

I have an Nvidia 460GTX graphics card and ever since replacing my power supply and reformatting a couple of months ago, I get sporadic nvlddmkm.sys BSODs. They don't happen often and sometimes can go weeks without happening, but it always will. I have tried the various remedies like completely...