As an owner of an A770, I thought I would give prospective buyers my experience with it.

I originally bought it because I was dissatisfied with the performance of my 6600XT. At the time I played alot of Arma 3, which is a horribly optimized. It would run horribly on the card. And performance wasn't much better in other games as well.

Simply put 8GB of VRAM is simply not enough nowadays. So My personal recommendation is minimum 12GB. (Full Disclaimer: I later found a BIOS setting that was holding back the 6600XT, but the performance in game was a little better, but not by much.)

Once I bought the card and installed it. It ran like a dream. Performance in Arma 3 was much better. and I had no problems. I should mention at this point that I bought this card long after Intel got their drivers properly sorted.

I ran every game I had in my library. I have alot of games from both steam and GOG. And the oldest one, X-wing tie fighter, off of steam ran no problem.

But!

Here are the prob

Today I was testing the RAM of a friend in my PC and since I had it opened up anyway, I thought I could renew my thermal paste as well. When removing the block from the CPU, I saw this:

To me, this looks like corrosion. The AiO is roughly 6 years old, so it's nearing its end of life anyway, but is that normal? Should I still use this?

Thanks for any advice.

I am going to buy myself a new video card for Christmas. When I look online I see that XFX is usually the best priced card. Are they a good company? Are their cards made well? How about their warrantee service?

Hi there, am looking for a new and powerful laptop that can handle music production quite well, but am not sure what to get. So far I've understood that its important for this laptop to have:

• 32GB RAM (DDR5 preferably)
• Top-notch processor
• Good graphic card
• at least 1TB of SSD Storage, planning on buying external ssd later.

Anyone have any good recommendations for this? The budget is around 2,250 USD / 2,137 EUR.

• 9800x3d
• Asus Strix X670E-I
• Teamgroup 2x16GB @ 7800MHz (may swap for some 6400MHz sticks)
• WD Black SN850X 2TB
• Cooler Master V ATX 3.0 850W
• Noctua NH-D12L

Coming from an 8700K so will be interesting to see how Assetto Corsa and Path of Exile do with the significant cpu upgrade.

Cooler didn't arrive until after dinner. If I were twenty years younger I'd have stayed up all night. 😆

As I suspect a lot of people are doing, I'm going to keep using my existing graphics card until RTX 5000 series drops in January. Everything else is new, though. First build in seven years.

I have a Naga Hex 2, which I really like. It recently lost sensitivity to horizontal movement. If I move the mouse slowly, the cursor doesn't move. Moving the mouse fairly quickly, however works fine. Vertically it works as expected as well. I've had something similar happen to other mice in the past (different computers, etc.)

Is this common? Is the mouse broken? Has this happened to anyone else?

I can't think of the words to bring back an answer in a search engine.

I'm considering upgrading my laptop and giving my current one to someone else. I'm looking for a device with a 15.6" FHD display, at least 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, HDMI, USB 3.0, and an audio jack, all within a budget of under 500€.

I've found some refurbished options at a good price, and these two seem like the best choices:

1. Lenovo ThinkPad L590: 15.6" i5 8365U, 8GB RAM, SSD 256GB, Full HD, Grade A
2. Lenovo ThinkPad T580: 15.6" i5 8350U, 8GB RAM, SSD 256GB, Full HD, NVIDIA GeForce MX150 2GB, Grade A+

Which one would you recommend?