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I upped the voltage .01 up to 1.135 and ran intel burn test for 10 runs. I didnt BSOD during it (and i reached a maximum of 91C on two cores) but one thing i noitced via CPU-Z was my voltage was actually going as high as 1.2 during the intel burn test so idk if that factored into it not BSODing.

Hello all. Over the past 2 or 3 months i have been getting this random BSOD. It usually happens every other week and its random in the sense that sometimes i am browsing the internet, sometimes im playing a game, sometimes im just organizing my files. There dosent seem to be any consistency to something "causing" the cause of the BSOD. With that said though the "reason" for the BSOD is the same (hal.dll and ntoskrnl.exe). Im not sure what could be casuing this BSOD and it happens so infrequently to be able to do any real testing on it (but it happens frequently enough to be annoying and worrisome). My setup: i5 4670k @ 4.2 ASUS Z87-A 8GB(2x4) 1600mhz RAM ASUS R9 280x Corsair CX600 It might be worth mentioning that i have had my CPU overclocked for about 9-10 months now and only as of about 3 months ago have these BSOD's started. Also i run a dual monitor setup that uses both my 280x and the integrated 4600 graphics on my CPU. If someone could tell me possibly what is wrong and how i could go upon fixing it, i would greatly appreciate it. Link to the DMP file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i258qzyorcdywrh/071915-9609-01.dmp?dl=0

I tried that and got nothing

Hello all. I am having a bit of a ongoing network issue while playing games (Especially battlefield 4 and battlefield 3). When i play BF4 my ping will constantly be spiking up to 150+ causing massive rubberbanding and making the game pretty unplayable. Usually i dont have this issue and i know exactly what the issue is but i need a way to fix it. Basically I have a somewhat high amount of devices on my network (on average there is 18 devices, only 1 is connected via ethernet). I have 10 devices in particular that are streaming videos 24/7 which make a slight dent in my connection speeds (testing via speedtest.net my DL drops from 17 to 15 when these devices are on and streaming) and this leads to the ping issue in battlefield 4. I have came to this conclusion because i went into a match on BF4 experienced the bad ping, and then went and stopped these 10 devices from streaming and everything went back to normal. I would assume this would be a priority issue and i have went into my router (asus rt-n66u) and enabled QoS settings and set my PC to highest priority and then set these 10 devices to lowest priority, yet the issue still persists. Any help on how to solve this issue?

Hello all. I had made a post over on teksyndicate about a network issue i am having and i was told over there that i need to get a new router. I would like to hear some input on the situation from you guys over here and if you could recommend me a router (on amazon) to get it would be greatly appriciated. Link to TS thread: https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/need-help-with-a-networking-issue/80399/11

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Im not really sure unless im missing something in the product details. Here are a few that pop up first on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Edimax-Gigabit-Powerline-Adapter-Through/dp/B00NBPD2HY/ref=sr_1_8?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1424579913&sr=1-8&keywords=powerline+adapter+pass+through http://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Powerline-Wall-Plug-Adapter-Starter/dp/B00D7GF5MM/ref=sr_1_7?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1424579913&sr=1-7&keywords=powerline+adapter+pass+through http://www.amazon.com/ZyXEL-Powerline-Wall-Plug-Adapter-PLA4215KIT/dp/B006L6X7PM/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1424579913&sr=1-5&keywords=powerline+adapter+pass+through http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Powerline-Adapter-Built--TPL-407E2K/dp/B009ZRBXMI/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1424579913&sr=1-1&keywords=powerline+adapter+pass+through

Im not sure exactly. What would be the starting point for a "quality" kit that has passthrough?

Ethernet isent a option due to distance and not wanting a cord going all over my house. Powerline is possible but based on my power outlets i will probablly require one that allows passthrough since from my research you need the powerline adapter plugged directly into the wall rather than a power strip On wifi my router doesent support AC so that would mean buying a while new router on top of a AC adapter. So it seems powerline in that case is the only option but i dont know which one to get

Hello all. Recently i got a second PC that im going to be putting in another room in my house that isent within direct range of my router. My question is how should i go upon connecting this device to the internet, wifi or powerline? and either one could you suggest what i should get on amazon?

For the time being i have lowered down to stock settings. Just hoping somebody can help me out on this

So, can someone give me some guidance on this?

Hello all i am getting into overclocking my system and i am currently at my GPU (i suppose i also have a question regarding my CPU OC and how it potentially is affecting my GPU performance). I have the Asus R9 280x which comes with a core clock of 1070mhz and a stock voltage (atleast when i went into GPU Tweak) of 1138mV. I tried to determine what would be a good safish voltage to set my 280x to and after some searching i came to the conclusion 1.2 would be a good starting point, i set the voltage and then started raising my GPU clock first to 1080 and then from their i increased it 20mhz every time, i got to 1140 and that was all fine and dandy it seemed when i was testing it in the Valley benchmark and in BF4 and BF3, played those for awhile without any artificats that i could notice and no crashes, my temps would sit around 74C when i was testing these games without any kind of FPS cap and was just letting it go full load. After that i decided i would stick with that for awhile. Today though i went and played bad company 2 with aforementioned overclock, not testing the OC just playing the game normally, i had a FPS cap so i wasent stressing my GPU in anyway really, at most i was hitting 55% GPU usage playing at max settings. Then all of a sudden my game froze which i thought was weird. So i went back into the game but this time uncapped my FPS and tried to stress the card and it pushed it to the 88%-99% range then after 10-15 minutes of doing that my whole system froze and my speakers started buzzing, i had to hold in the power button to restart to resolve this. My question is, is that normal for seemingly more demanding games to work perfectly fine with a OC but a older less demanding game not work fine? The next question is should i raise my voltage in this situation? and i couldent really find a clear answer to this with my research but could somebody possibly explain what the power target is for and if increasing that would assist me in my OC? Now back to the question i stated at the beginning regarding my CPU OC, I got my i5 4670k to 4.2ghz, during most games it never pushes it past 50-55C and i was pretty content with the OC and it didnt really want to deal with trying to push it further. After watching linus's video on haswell OCing i set my CPU to adaptive voltage so when one the desktop completly idle it will go as low as 800mhz and then in intensive tasks like games it boosts up. At first i started monitoring this and noticed ever in games it would not boost up to and stay at my specificed 4.2 frequency, it jumps about from 3.9ghz-4.2ghz. Now with that out of the way before i started OCing my GPU, i was just monitoring my CPU and GPU usage and temps while playing BF4 and BF3, while playing these games at a uncapped FPS i noticed that randomly during gameplay my GPU usage would drop from the high 90%'s down to low 80%'s which from my understanding would imply my CPU was maxing out in usage and therefore my GPU was being slowed down, in these occurrences though my CPU usage was not at 100% so unless there is something im missing there. My question is that issue im having possibly related to my CPU frequency jumping around that 300mhz or is it something else? I know this has been a long post and im not that good at condensing things down so pardon me. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out on this.

My oldest: Celeron D340 2.93GHz (atleast thats what the intel site says, for some reason i oddly remember it being something like 2.66ghz) Current: i5 4670k 4.2ghz

I already did that initially. I rebooted my system and the issue went away, hopefully it dosent come back

ok i did that and now it works. Now a issue im having is i was playing battlefield 4 and my CPU didnt lock into 4.2GHz at my set voltage, it just kept going all over the place like when on the desktop which resulted in 1fps

Hello all. Recently i was overclocking my 4670k and got it to 4.2 GHz @ 1.125 V I also remembered something about a different voltage mode in linus's overclocking guide for haswell. I went back and he talked about the adaptive voltage and said that you should use that as your daily driver. From what i got from the explination is that when idle your voltage should be stock and under load your voltage will increase to the desired voltage. I set up adaptive, left the offset on auto and put the turbo to my voltage. My issue is that once i get in windows the voltage just fluctuates between 1.132 and 1.136 both while idle on the desktop and playing a game. what am i doing wrong? because now its just using more power and never saving any.

Hello all, about a week ago i noticed a odd black spot on my screen. At first i thought it was a smudge on my screen but after closer examination it is a dead pixel. Is there anything that can be done to fix a dead pixel or is there no hope?

Hello all. I am considering rebuilding a computer i have sitting around so i can use it. Its a A10-5700 with a F2A85M Mobo. All i need is RAM, a HDD, and a OS. Regarding the RAM i get for this system to my knowledge the higher frequency the RAM the better for a APU in terms of gaming performance. According to the mobo's spec page (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/F2A85M/specifications/) it can support up to 2400mhz ram. Is it worth it to go all the way up to 2400mhz ram or does after a certain point does the performance increase drop off?

This is for the nexus 7, which is a tablet

Hello all recently i got a nexus 7 2013 edition. I plan on using it at school compared to the crap ipad mini's that are provided. My main issue right now with taking it to school is i have no case for it and dont feel safe taking it out of my house without protection. I want suggestion on cases. Im looking at a max of 50-60$ and it has to be on amazon

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I have no such software. Not one of my 3 monitors have any built in feature to turn off the monitor after so much time

well that isent much of a solution. I like my monitors to shut off and my PC to go to sleep after so much inactivity. I want to fix the issue's not change how i use my PC to avoid them