New to gaming. Please help me with upgrading my system (PC) with gaming in mind. Also looking for game recommendations. [more inside]
posted by murtagh on Jun 20, 2009 - 25 answers

Recommend a video card that can push dual monitors on OSX86 (Hackintosh) and Linux. Lots more info about my setup inside. [more inside]
posted by fishfucker on Mar 25, 2009 - 9 answers

ComputerHardwareConundrumFilter. I built my PC about two years ago. Works great, mostly. But lately, when playing one particular game, my PC performs for only 16 or so minutes before shutting down completely. As you might expect, there's a lot ... [more inside]
posted by grabbingsand on Dec 1, 2006 - 17 answers

Video crashes my computer after I bought a new video card. How do I fix it? [more inside]
posted by daninnj on Aug 31, 2005 - 15 answers

While in the middle of doing my taxes the other day, my monitor went to displaying a weird character over and over over the entire screen. The computer wouldn't respond at all, so I shut it off manually via the power switch on the back. Since then, whenever I've attempted to start it up, the fans come on, the hard drive clicks a couple times, as usual, and then nothing. The fans keep whirring but there's no beep, no usual startup process, and nothing ever gets displayed to the monitor. [more inside]
posted by DyRE on Apr 16, 2005 - 3 answers