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Ryzen 7 is likely overkill for just a gaming PC if all you plan to do is game. If you plan to do more than gaming like video encoding/CPU streaming, or you plan for the long term on the chance that games will use more than 4 cores, then Ryzen 7 is a fine CPU. Otherwise go with a Ryzen 5 1600 for...

I said just after, use something like Prime95 and check temps with HWinfo. Prime95 will pop up with an error if it detects an issue, just launch it as a stress test. Run small FFT to test the CPU, leave it running for 30 minutes or so, if you get no error, try the blend test. If blend errors...

Sorry for the slow reply. I doubt it's the motherboard, since a software change for a different piece of hardware is causing the issue. There is a chance that the GPU could in fact be dead, and it just coincided with the Windows reinstall - one of my systems basically did a similar thing not...

Things became disconnected around the time we moved over to Wordpress, and we just never checked the feeds - kind of silly when we think about it. We have a feed directly from our site that you can use too: https://techgage.com/feed/ We've been making a lot of changes to the site recently, such...

Glad I could help. Both Rob and I like our audio and we're not keen on the virtual surround sound in a lot of gear, so we both ended up going with high-end stereo headphones. Rob went with the closed-back DT770, and I went with the open-back DT990 Pro, both are from Beyerdynamics. Exceptional...

From the ASUS ROG website: "Sonic Studio lets you enable/disable several audio functions like Bass Boost, Smart EQ, Virtual Surround, Reverb, Equalizer and Voice Clarity" If you go into the Sonic Studio, you can enable the virtual surround sound mode, this is in effect what the Sennheiser USB...

RAID 5 requires 3 drives to operate, so it sounds like a drive is not working or not connected, in which case, adding a third 2TB drive will not do anything for storage capacity, but will instead reintroduce redundancy and bring speeds back up to what they should be. This process should be...

The Sennheiser PC 363d is in fact, a stereo headset, the 7.1 is provided by the USB soundcard it comes with, creating virtual 7.1. This will be typically a realtek chip with some software tuning via the the drivers you'll need to install. The SupremeFX on the motherboard is again, just another...

My main issue with aquarium supplies is that they are not really meant for hot environments (>50C), so I don't know how the bearings and seals will hold up over time. I know they are meant for 24/7 operation which is good, but the heat is probably what will kill it in the end. Going the external...

If you want to look into tubing, broaden horizons a bit and think where it's used with both heat and reliability in mind... Try automotive and mariner supplies for cars and boats respectively. More often than not, they will have fitted connectors and such, but it's the tubing you are after...

That's been my thing with red keys, they are not that great for typing due to being so responsive. I'm a sloppy typist, my fingers have a habit of grazing other keys. Under those conditions with a normal keyboard, those grazes don't register. With the red keys, just a slight depression and...

The price of GPUs should reduce now, since the profitability of using a GPU to mine bitcoins is almost reaching the point of using CPUs about 2 years ago. FPGAs and ASICs are beginning to replace GPUs (although the company providing them is somewhat shady), since they are purpose-built for...

You could just share over Ethernet via a switch, or an Ad-Hoc system with USB Wi-Fi dongles. Something tells me though, that you'll probably be more interested in the RPi supercomputer with most of the instructions on how to put it together, here. There is a research paper on the system, but...

You could always start with the RPi's native language of Python, then you don't need to worry about a compiler. Perusing the RPi forum would list a variety of development environments too - or even just the RPi distro, Rasbian, would have everything ready - providing you have an RPi. If you want...

Then it's probably for the best that you ignore Adafruit, terrible, terrible things might happen... http://www.adafruit.com/category/105 Beagglebone and Arduino... terrible terrible things. It's sad really, I haven't been able to carry on with my projects for a while. Now that I have some...