Recent content by SirCyber

hey guys! it's only been... 7 years since I last posted? I guess that's a different topic though. So I checked out a few of the topics for folding, back in the day that was a pretty shiny topic. Is there any real-world help this provides anymore? I've been folding for about a week, have 1.2M...

gparted brought the same issue... customer picked up computer today to ship back to manufacturer. :/ first time that's happened in a long time. thanks for that info though carnageX and PP Mguire... unfortunately I just waited to long to give the forum a shout for help.

PP Mguire, I had done that several times... enough times that I have the Windows Key memorized lol... Carnage X... I will try that with GParted... hadn't thought of that one yet. Adding to that, I learned a little about the UEFI structure, seems that some drives now have a GPT partition, as...

Hey guys I know it's been a while since I posted here, but I have a perplexing issue with a clients computer. Customer would like Windows 8.1 installed on his computer but I can't get the install to take. Customer has a SanDisk (Model SDSSD-128G) SSD. After the initialization of Windows is...

OT: just a question to spark interest. when I first started building, I, and tons of other people, swore by Arctic Silver 5 for cooling. I need some current info on top rated thermal. any thoughts? Links welcome for comparisons if you can find em

That last statement is precisely why my phone has seen all of about 15 minutes outside of it's Otterbox case... and that was just the time it took me to get from the store to home to put it in. if I took the case and screen protector off it would be a mint condition phone. On the camera issue...

Hardware integration, compatibility, and implementation are truly the only reasons to upgrade, even from an XP standpoint. if I was running a q6800 or 6600, DDR2 and whatnot, I would not budge from XP, but there's better hardware out there that just doesn't work as it should on newer OS's. now...

sweet. thanks for the additional info there, and also for the advice for the GPU blocks tieing in with the AIO that I chose. I do want to take a full on plunge for liquid cooling, I just need more time to warm up to it. your advice has been most helpful thus far, I will be making some...

you have some good points. Allow me to explain. This is meant to be a gaming computer, very simply. Cooling has always been a focus so the GPU was chosen due to compatibility with the Kraken. I didn't want to get fully immersed in liquid cooling quite yet, so budget cooling AIO's seemed the way...

not a bad build if you want something pre-made. PP_Mguire has a very good point if you want to get your hands dirty

I have run replacement GUI's since XP. when in XP, it was experimentation. 7, turned into very fruitful versatility. 8 and up will be necessity. Pattern... windows GUI is getting worse and worse the farther along we go.

Ok guys, time to get the guru advice that you offer. Last time I did a system build I went monster big, not realizing or refusing to accept that what I was getting wasn't necessary. Now, that monster case and eATX board are going to be turned into a media server, getting more data headroom, and...

your guess is right on the money. The fans that were offered as suggested all use molex connections, with the exception of the PWM fans. Those are all for direct connections to the motherboard, not the case fan connections you have if you just replace the FAN no, you will not need to do...

sounds like either your onboard network interface card drivers are out of date or that it died. if you have a spare NIC lieing around I would try that. You have no default gateway enabled and your DNS server allocation looks suspicious. you might perform a dns flush ipconfig /flushdns and see if...

Not to doublepost but I just read the two posts before mine *I started my post before they were up there* to change the FAN ALONE you will only need a phillips head screwdriver. remove the screws from the fan, disconnect the PWM (CPU-1) connection, put your new fan on using existing holes...