<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.0"><channel><title>WinCustomize Forums » RSS Feed » PC Hardware Posts</title><link>https://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/Wincustomize/forum/71</link><copyright>© 2006 - 2026 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><description>Recent Posts In PC Hardware</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:30:17 AM -0400</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:30:17 AM -0400</lastBuildDate><docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs><generator>Stardock Rss Generator v1.0</generator><managingEditor>info@stardock.com</managingEditor><webMaster>kwilas@stardock.com</webMaster><item><author>DaveRI</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/436966</comments><description><![CDATA[Had a hard drive that failed.&nbsp; Wouldn&#39;t complete a checkdisk or format.&nbsp; I noticed that during a couple of format attempts it was hanging early on, so I created a 10 gig partition and then another partition with the remainder.&nbsp; The 10 gig partition won&#39;t format (as expected) but the second partition formats fine, seems ok.  I haven&#39;t had a drive behave quite this way before, I&#39;m wondering if the larger second partition might remain usable or if I&#39;m being over...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/436966</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/436966</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 6:38:52 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-11-18T18:38:52-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Anybody ever partition out a bad section of a drive?</title></item><item><author>RedneckDude</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/435622</comments><description><![CDATA[How can it be that I upgraded my SSD to a 256 GB sata III, upgraded my MOBO to a sata III, yet I get the same disk data transfer rate score as I did with a smaller sata II SSD on a sata II MOBO?&nbsp; Even upgraded my power supply.  &nbsp;  &nbsp;     ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/435622</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/435622</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:43:19 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-11-08T12:43:19</pubDateParsed><title>SSD and WEI</title></item><item><author>RedneckDude</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/433828</comments><description><![CDATA[Can anyone help with this? It only happens when I run the Hyperspace screensaver on a triple monitor rig.  &nbsp;  Saver runs a while, then this.  &nbsp;  &nbsp;     &nbsp;  &nbsp;  &nbsp;  &nbsp;  I have been through several driver versions, googled it and found tweaks that didn&#39;t work, disabled Windows FX, etc....  &nbsp;  This saver comes with an open AL driver too.  &nbsp;  I know, Yrag, why all the trouble for a screen saver?  Because, it&#39;s a very cool ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/433828</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/433828</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 1:39:24 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-10-14T13:39:24-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>GFX Driver Crashes</title></item><item><author>BoXXi</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/429923</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi guys.... I just upgraded my system (motherboard, CPU, 8Gb Corsair RAM, SSD). The cpu is an Intel Core i3 2120, and I was reading about it and found that it has the HD2000 onboard graphics. Now, after looking into this, it seems that it&#39;s really quite good and according to&nbsp;a lot of&nbsp;tech sites it is better than most entry level graphics cards!  My current Graphics card is an Nvidia GT220 with 1Gb of ram (and 48 cuda cores, whtaever the chuff THEY are!!). SO, what I would like to...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/429923</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/429923</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 8:57:59 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-08-23T08:57:59-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Need advice about Intel core i3 CPU</title></item><item><author>Hakn13</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/429062</comments><description><![CDATA[hey i get windows 7 and i registered and i press the download button and it opens a jpeg of that shows the picture that they displayed  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/429062</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/429062</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 9:38:50 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-08-06T09:38:50-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>can't download</title></item><item><author>c242</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/427615</comments><description><![CDATA[Well,with Windows 8 in front of the door, this technology would at least drive me to try. Very &#39;Minority Report&#39;ish.     Leap Motion Homepage   &nbsp;  And 70$ only.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/427615</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/427615</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 8:23:10 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-07-05T08:23:10-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Now this makes 'Touch' interesting</title></item><item><author>vStyler</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/426415</comments><description><![CDATA[K so, My bro-in-law got his PC around the same time I did.. about 2 years ago..  Its an i7 940, 8 gigs of Ram.. MSI X58 Pro-E motherboard. Win 7 x64  It had some bad ram a while back that was causing it to blue screen, got new, fixed that, then same sort of issue with a video card, replaced that.  Been running fine for a while now, but then started just restarting every once in a while by itself.  Has gotten worse and worse, now i cant hardly get it to boot at all, if it does boot up its...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/426415</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/426415</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:21:01 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-06-08T09:21:01</pubDateParsed><title>Computer help</title></item><item><author>Lantec</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/425925</comments><description><![CDATA[I drag my desktop &amp; laptop out to the garage about once a month to blast away a bit of dust but this is unreal....I&#39;d be amazed if that computer would stay on for more than 5 minutes.      ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/425925</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/425925</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 8:33:00 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-05-29T20:33:00-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>PC Cleaning</title></item><item><author>copperhill</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/420417</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi guys,  After burning files to a new DVD, the disk&nbsp;is somehow getting closed, the message is always "not enough room on this disk". So I start with a 4 Gg disk, successfully burn about 1 Gg and I get that message. This happens with both optical drives and with assorted types of CDs and DVDs. I have tried numerous burning programs including Ashampoo and Nero Lite with the same results. It also happens with "sending files/burning" with Windows.  Does anyone have a clue what&#39;s going ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/420417</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/420417</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 2:03:02 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-03-22T14:03:02-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>DVD burning problems</title></item><item><author>LizMarr</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/419923</comments><description><![CDATA[I was having my usual argument with a memory sucking graphics program that I use (and love, but what the heck) and the mouse went away and then I had the usual problem of shutting down without a mouse. Then Explorer crashed. Rather than let it restart like I have in the past, I just shut down anyway figuring Explorer would work its magic when it started.&nbsp; When I brought the machine up, Desktop Windows Manager wasn&#39;t working, even though it said it was. So I turned it off and on (little ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/419923</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/419923</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 3:12:43 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-03-13T03:12:43-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Desktop Windows Manager</title></item><item><author>LizMarr</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/419320</comments><description><![CDATA[It had been a long time marriage, even on this temporary machine after I got VISTA installed and all. It worked fine, then "poof" they no longer like each other. I haven&#39;t added any new addons, nothing. So, after installs and uninstalls and reinstalls, even dropped the flash down to release 10 (which worked for some pages). I&#39;m trying to find what other things it might be. Is there anything in the apps that might bug flash into not being nice to Firefox? &nbsp;It seems to run OK until yo...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/419320</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/419320</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 9:33:10 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-03-10T09:33:10-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Grrr, Firefox hates flash</title></item><item><author>Neilo</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/417757</comments><description><![CDATA[Hey all.  Just recently built a new rig and installed the Thermaltake Big Water 760 Plus water cooling kit. This is just for the CPU.  I installed it all following all guides i could find and bleed the system and had no issues. All bubbles were bleed from the system and it was performing fine for about 1 month. Now, starting about two days ago i now hear a water rushing noise. It started off being a random noise, maybe every few hours or so, but today, it&#39;s every few mins, nothing loud ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/417757</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/417757</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 1:47:23 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-02-14T13:47:23-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Water cooled with water rushing noise</title></item><item><author>RedneckDude</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/417748</comments><description><![CDATA[   &nbsp;  &nbsp;  &nbsp;  &nbsp;   http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1068616&amp;sku=O261-6401&amp;SRCCODE=WEM3005BY&amp;cm_mmc=email-_-Main-_-WEM3005-_-tigeremail3005&amp;utm_source=EML&amp;utm_medium=main&amp;utm_campaign=WEM3005   &nbsp;  &nbsp;  I hope this isn&#39;t considered spam.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/417748</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/417748</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 8:18:39 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-02-13T20:18:39-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Great Deal on a Solid State Drive!</title></item><item><author>RedneckDude</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/417520</comments><description><![CDATA[Hey guys!&nbsp; My new SSD arrives tomorrow. I thought some of you who already went there may have some tips?  &nbsp;  &nbsp;  Like, migrate vs clean install?  &nbsp;  Anything I have to tweak?  &nbsp;  &nbsp;       Specifications            OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB 2.5" SATA II SSD      &nbsp;   &nbsp; Drive Type:&nbsp;  Solid State Drive                 &nbsp;   &nbsp; Capacity:&nbsp;  120 GB                 &nbsp;   &nbsp; Interface Type:&nbsp;  SATA II                 &nbsp;   &...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/417520</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/417520</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 1:02:12 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-02-13T13:02:12-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Solid State Drive</title></item><item><author>VistArtXPosed</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/408757</comments><description><![CDATA[All of us here at WinCustomize enjoy making our desktops look like our own.&nbsp; But what about customizing & making our PC rigs our own?&nbsp; Like with fancy lights on the inside?&nbsp; Or custom decals on top of our notebooks?  It's hard to believe that a site like this doesn't have a PC Modding thread.&nbsp; The purpose of this thread is to list the computer you've bought/built, and if you've upgraded it over time.&nbsp; (Buying a new PC doesn't count as an upgrade.)&nbsp; I mean, working...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/408757</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/408757</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 5:57:40 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-02-11T05:57:40-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>The PC Modding/Upgrade Thread</title></item><item><author>VistArtXPosed</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/414817</comments><description><![CDATA[It's just a fact of life.&nbsp; Whenever newer techonlogies come out, we like to think of them as "the next big thing".&nbsp; However, since the trend for technological advances has been accelerating at an alarming rate, i'd like to point out that SSDs may soon become obsolete.&nbsp; The reason?&nbsp; The masses won't want to invest in PC's anymore.&nbsp; They will all be migrating to tablets and smartphones, which have no drives for storage.&nbsp; Those devices only have built-in internal flash...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/414817</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/414817</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 8:38:30 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-01-17T08:38:30-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Solid State Drives:  Already becoming Obsolete?</title></item><item><author>Daiwa</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/415094</comments><description><![CDATA[Have a 3 month old Inspiron 17R laptop, Win7 64bit, Intel HD3000 graphics.  Just had the monitor briefly go blank as I&#39;m typing away &amp; a tooltip message appeared after the display returned indicating that the igfx video driver had &#39;stopped responding&#39; and successfully recovered.&nbsp; That&#39;s all that Event Viewer tells me, as well.  Something I&#39;ve never run into before.&nbsp; Is this a harbinger of something bad or a relatively common experience?  Thx.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/415094</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/415094</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 1:53:05 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-01-12T13:53:05-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Video Drivers Stopped Responding?</title></item><item><author>VistArtXPosed</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/414843</comments><description><![CDATA[The title of this article sounds like a cheesy ad placement, but it's not.&nbsp; Have users ever wondered what to do with a system with a ton of RAM, but not use nearly all of it (like me)?&nbsp; I found an interesting editorial in my MaximumPC magazine about that.&nbsp; The solution:&nbsp; Create a virtual RAMDisk.&nbsp; It's exactly what it sounds like; to use some of your system's RAM as storage.&nbsp; And after using CrystalDiskMark for benchmarking, I can tell you...that it's WAY faster tha...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/414843</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/414843</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 7:06:02 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-01-05T07:06:02-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>How to significantly speed up your PC (without overclocking or upgrades)</title></item><item><author>2of3</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/414478</comments><description><![CDATA[While searching for replacement parts for my Asus laptop, I stumbled onto this site  [LINK]   &nbsp;  I&#39;m kinda worried about buying something online from a site where I can&#39;t read what&#39;s written there. I worry about credit card info theft/fraud. I have actually done some research online and have so far haven&#39;t found any evidence to support my fears. It seems to be a reputable site similar to Ebay.  They have the part I&#39;m looking for  [LINK]  and at a fraction of the pr...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/414478</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/414478</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 9:02:03 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-12-22T09:02:03-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Buying from a Romanian site</title></item><item><author>SimplexDesigns</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/413873</comments><description><![CDATA[So i wanted to build a computer. I went on newegg and started to search for computer parts. Im hoping that everything is compatible and that I have everything i need to boot it. Is everything compatible?  &nbsp;  Case:  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147153   Power Supply:  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817159107   Motherboard:  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121533   CPU:  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/413873</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/413873</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 7:46:19 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-12-01T07:46:19-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Building First Custom Pc-Need  Help</title></item><item><author>Richard Mohler</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/411706</comments><description><![CDATA[             ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/411706</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/411706</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 2:53:13 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-09-29T02:53:13-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>nobody home</title></item><item><author>Jafo</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/411005</comments><description><![CDATA[A friend was after a Lappy to sit on her lappy so she could browse the net...chasing up her home town [Amsterdam], etc ...so I went off with her to the local &#39;Laptop Zone&#39;.  Found a second hand one that looked too good to pass up....  ....and there were two of them, so what-the-heck I got one too.  Acer Travelmate 6592 ....cost $295 AUD&nbsp;with a bag thrown in.  They&#39;re identical ....though now mine&#39;s had the XP Pro replaced with a quick trip to Technet and a Win7 64 Ul...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/411005</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/411005</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 1:07:44 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-08-07T01:07:44-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>OK...so I got  a 'nuvva computer</title></item><item><author>G3mpi3</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/410932</comments><description><![CDATA[Hey Everyone,&nbsp;  &nbsp;  First of all, I apologize for not being as lively around here. I still check in to see what&#39;s going on, I just haven&#39;t had the time to be as active in the community.  Anyway, I recently built a computer and it just died on me! It shut down randomly a few times, and now I can&#39;t get it to start at all. The event log said the computer lost power&nbsp;unexpectedly (no stop code error). I figured maybe it was just a fluke with my new power supply, or may...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/410932</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/410932</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 8:50:21 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-08-03T08:50:21-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Please Help!! Building a Computer</title></item><item><author>VistArtXPosed</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/409306</comments><description><![CDATA[Okay.&nbsp; I've been having this problem for a while.&nbsp; I get a 0x000003b BSOD message after exiting my Maxthon Web Browser.&nbsp; Today, I also got it while running scans for Advanced SystemCare 4 and Privacy Mantra.&nbsp; I think there's two parts to this.&nbsp; A) The BSOD occurs only when trying to clean my computer, and more importantly   I think i'm stressing my 300W power supply.&nbsp; A few days ago, I installed an external Hard Drive case (with an independent power source) and thus...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/409306</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/409306</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 8:28:14 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-06-06T08:28:14-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>0x000003b BSOD issue</title></item><item><author>tlb123</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/177108</comments><description><![CDATA[I have  WWW Link  this motherboard, and I was wondering if there's any difference between using an ATI or Nvidia graphics card on it, besides SLI. The board doesn't say anything about supporting SLI, so I was just wondering what's better, SLI or Crossfire.   Also, will VIVO let me capture video?  I'm kind of confused.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/177108</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/177108</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 8:25:11 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-05-04T20:25:11-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>ATI vs Nvidia on an Intel machine</title></item></channel></rss>