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Well it's not really difficult to install a video card. You find the slot, push up on the clamps, push the video card in and the clamps come back down on their own. Easy.

Just touch the case of your computer before touching the video card and you'll be golden.

I live in florida, its summertime already for some reason.



How often is "every now and then"? Every few weeks? A few times a day? once a year?

About once an hour. It's an issue with the latest GeForce drivers and no one's sure how or when it's going to be fixed.

Should I be worried about power supply? I looked it up and my computer apparently only has a 300W power supply and the graphics card recommends 450W.

Although all I did to find out my computers power supply was google my computer model, although this same method led me to believe my computer didn't have a PCI express slot and that didn't end up being true. I might open up my computer case again today to double-check my power supply, unless anyone has a better way to find out other than googling it.

But I did look online and find a 500W power supply for only $20ish, so I might buy that, although I'm not sure if it would fit my computer or not. But if every upgrade I get requires me to upgrade something else too, I would have a completely new computer by the end of the night.

Also, with graphics cards, is 2GB PCIE 2 or 1GB PCIE 3 better? Both being GDDR3.

A good power supply is important if you don't want your computer restarting at every power fluctuation.

Is using a flash drive to boost RAM a plausible idea y/n?

Too slow data rate. RAM is really really fast.

And dirt cheap currently.

Ah. I was asking because i use a laptop

@ablu: You're asking about choosing between two cards, right? Current-gen cards don't max out PCIe 2 just yet (so far as I know; anyone else know if I'm wrong?), so even if you could use a PCIe 3 you probably wouldn't get much out of it by that alone. What's more, your motherboard isn't likely to have a PCIe 3 slot unless it's very new and top-of-the-line. While a card designed for PCIe 3 would function in your computer, it would only be operating as if it was a PCIe 2 card.
What's more, a GTX 560 isn't new enough that it's likely to last* far enough to reach the era at which PCIe 3 will be worth having, and even if it did it's entirely possible that having only one gigabyte of memory will be more of a hindrance by then.
You'll want the PCIe 2 card, yo.

*this isn't to say it won't last a long while - it'll max out every game that's out there so far, last I checked, so it's easily got a good 2-3 years of use if you're okay toning down graphics at some point.

I'm trying to use my USB headset with my Mac and the sound works fine, but then cuts out completely after about a minute.

I tried it with my windows laptop and it works fine, so I really don't know what the problem is.

What model are they?
Did you manually install the driver? It's possible that either the system found the wrong driver or you installed an outdated/otherwise bad one.

So I have an asus laptop with an Nvidia Geforce 310M, but I recently found out my laptop wasn't actually using it (I think Nivida Optimus was supposed to turn it on when it was needed but since I couldn't even find the card through Device Manager and such). I went into BIOS and turned it on, but that actually made my Windows Experience Index go down by 0.1. I haven't tested actual performance yet so idk if that means anything.

The reason I'm messing around with stuff is that lately I've been having issues with my laptop completely freezing while playing videogames for a while. I figured it could be overheat, so I'm going to try and clean dust from the exhaust regardless, but when I checked the temperatures they never reached dangerous levels. Another strange thing I just noticed, I can find the 310M through device manager now but HWINFO32 can't find it.

I don't expect Asus would put in a branded GPU that's inferior to the generic option. Have you installed its drivers? Those could give a boost.

Even if you do get better performance out of it, though, it won't be much. Hate to say it, but (based on my knowledge of current number systems, maybe nvidia changed it?) a 310 is already outdated and bottom of the line, and you've got the mobile version to boot.

Well since the laptop is 3 years old, outdated was pretty much a given. I dunno if I should update the drivers since I read that for laptops the drivers are usually optimised for them.