ShogunZ

SETUP: LG Ultrawide 1000W PS R9 290 AMD FX8350 Q: So I recently got an ultra wide monitor and the load on my gpu has doubled on the same settings. I need to either go Xfire with my R9 290 or upgrade to a single new GPU. (980/r9 390) Will the CPU bottleneck? Is Xfire even worth it at this time, prices haven't changed too much. Any suggestions are welcome!

Curved 4K monitor and another 290 to support it.

What cable are you talking about?

So I only listen to sound on my PS4 when there's cutscenes or other important story related things happening. Meanwhile I'm listening music on my PC or watching a twitch stream. So is it at all possible to split the sound somehow? I use usb headphones if that matters at all. Also, I play on a monitor without speakers, so that's no option. It's really annoying to put on my Turtle Beach everytime I need sound for a moment.

Sennheiser. Steelseries has won me over recently as well.

So I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 8.1 and after the install I basically get no option to boot to Ubuntu. I don't know what to do. I googled this problem and only found some application called boot-repair which was saying something about this being efi. I took a look at the bios and can't find a thing to help my problem. It's on an Asus laptop. Hope someone can help, this isn't the first time this laptop has given this kind of trouble. Specs: Windows 8.1 Hard drive is partioned into an OS and HD.

Your 4gb ram stick will work. I'd recommend another one though.

Not really.

Found it in msconfig, thanks a lot.

Hello again, I wanted to install Windows 7 next to windows 8 and the setup went wrong, mid install my PC just turned off. Now whenever I boot, I get the screen where you pick what you wish to boot up. All there is is ''Windows setup'' and ''Windows 8.1''. What can I do to remove the setup option? There's no disk inserted, I even unplugged the harddrive that held that partition. It's like a part of the boot files were saved somewhere and now keep returning or something. Cause right now I'm unable to do a Windows 7 install. When I pick the install option it just says to go to the uefi bios or boot up W8.

Wish I could.

I found out that 'Windows Audio Endpoint Builder' was the culprit, one of the 'items'. I turned it off in services.msc. CPU dropped 2-4% and doesn't rise. Problem is that that's my audio. I basically have no sound with that turned off. I reinstalled the driver and checked if it was the latest one but nothing changes. I think it may be my aged speakers, it spams a headphone plugin on and off in sound settings. I'll have a look tomorrow, I think I know enough to fix this, thanks for the inspiration.

Welp, I re-installed Windows 8. I did a clean install, I formatted the whole disk before installing. I check task manager as soon as Windows 8 boots up and guess what, it's still doing it. At this point I want to punch the screen.

The file checker says that all is well. The clean boot, I guess, concludes that third party programs are not at fault. The problem still persists. With so little programs installed and a two weeks ago installed OS I wonder what caused this. I think I'll just do a fresh install on W8, see if it helps. Thanks for the input.

I installed Windows 8 not even 2 weeks ago, I've had a similar problem with Explorer.exe on Windows 7 and am starting to worry if it's not hardware that's causing this.