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It's generally a consensus that a i5-6600 can be used with any graphics card, but I've seen some information to the contrary, especially with newer game titles (the witcher 3 and star wars battlegrounds) where the i5 would actually top out at 100% and leave the graphics card dipping below 100%...

Well, I guess I will have to play around with the settings. It is not that obvious unless every text on the display has such purplish AA. Anyway, it's also completely possible that I'm looking into it too much.

Hi! Using Windows 8 64bit here and I have a Asus 27" model display. But the letters have some weird (well, I think so) purple anti-aliasing. I will attach some exapmles. Any ideas what the problem could be? Please note that the monitor gets direct sunlight for about 40 mins or so each day (I...

I use a local account on my stationary computer, because I want to, but for some reason the Windows Store is almost empty. I've seen that people have a similar problem and it's connected with some microsoft account bug, which puts the account in a weird state where the Microsoft Store shows up...

yeah, that's what's hanging around everywhere on the interwebs, but even if I wanted to do that on my own mac devices, it would still do that for every windows pc, but what I want to achieve is: Any Mac sees my PC as a different device It has to be my PC only. Say, if there are any other PCs on...

Hi! You know how in Finder, in the Shared section on the sidebar you get all the local machines in your network? They have icons, representing their hardware (like a macbook would have a little macbook icon). PC's have a old yellowish BSOD CRT monitor. That's fine and I get the humor, but I'd...

The temperatures are OK. Even quite good, I'd say. I would vote that the RAM is the bottleneck for these reasons: 3Gb most probably means that you don't get full Dual-Channel performance. You need to get two 2Gb sticks. While you get new RAM sticks, try to get ones that have low latency It...

One spec is still needed: the PSU (Power Supply) brand and wattage. I would add some faster RAM (so you have 4GB in total) and a faster video card. Something in the Radeon HD5xxx series (HD5770). But you may need to upgrade your PSU. Also, did you have any specific gaming titles in mind...

Got a new PSU and things work just like new. :D

Took the PC to the shop. Turns out the PSU is only partly giving out current. Something must've burned up in there... the good man said that the PSU is not givin the power OK signal and that the FANs are spinning because 5V or 12V (can't remember which exactly) is still working. So, not enough...

I think 500watts might fall short at some point. You always want to have some headroom. Go for 650w and up (80+ rated).

Something else: I didn't tick any OS, because I think that they should be touched only in the sense that: Hardware compatibility issues with specific OSs/versions (like Windows XP 64bit had terrible driver support etc) Which OS is better for which hardware Custom drivers and such

My fathers computer recently had a similar problem (i.e. sudden restarts, BSODs and freezing). Reason was a dying PSU, so maybe try to get a good working PSU and test it out for a few days. But if you've noticed that the problems started when you installed the new RAM, then maybe running...

I was playing for like 30 minutes. But as I said before - all temps were normal last I checked + I have played demanding games for much longer time periods and this problem never occoured - nothing ever occoured - no BSODs or any spontaneous restarts. Around 35 C for the video card at idle and...

Hi. So the other day I was playing Skyrim when suddently the screen went haywire and the system shut down (the specs are in my signature). After like 6 seconds it tried to start up again which is wierd because it seemed to be off, and nothing. The display is on standby and all fans spin at what...

It is possible. The only thing that the specs you posted don't show is what PSU it has. That's the only thing that could hold you back, but I would assume that it's OK. Remember that fiddling around in this system might Void any warranties you may have. There are plenty of videos showing how...

And also don't forget to run stress tests to make sure that the CPU won't overheat under stress. Prime95 is very good for that task.

I'd go for Core 2 Duo - newer architecture and more features. Don't mind the 800Mhz clocking difference - I don't think it means very much (Pentium D was the last cry of the Intel Pentium CPU tree)

How's that on the hardware and overall performance?

Yes, understood the same from my googling, but how is that - I mean how can some people have like 2.3.5 or 2.3.6, but I can't (w/o hacking). Is it really some kind of sub-model variation limitation?a