Recent content by Rangan Das

Replaced the stock thermal paste on an HP 15-AB125AX (AMD A10-8700P with R6 GPU and AMD R7 M360) with Cooler Master's paste. With an ambient temp of 30 degrees centigrade (+/-2), my CPU is running at around 45 - 50 degree centigrade on idle. I did a stress test using AIDA64, the temp stays...

Got a small office with 6-7 year old computers (Quad Core AMD A8 processors, 4 GB RAM) running Windows 10, all connected to the internet via a central router. Most of these are for document/spreadsheet work and occasional internet browsing, Dreamweaver and Visual Studio and light graphics work...

Case 1: Are you getting Dual Graphics configuration? If so, is it enabled? Try disabling that and see. Case 2: It seems that the issue is that R6 is your primary adapter and R7 is the linked adapter, if you have dual graphics. Try making R7 the primary adapter and R6 as the linked (secondary)...

My home PC is my primary work and personal device. I usually keep it secure with a premium AV and I have switched vendors time to time. Two days back, my PC got infected with a virus from a flash drive that AVG Internet Security could not detect. Only after an update (I am always online), it...

Try out phones by Lenovo too. They are good too. I do not know much about the after sales and the software updates that will follow (Samsung does not even update firmware of the lower end phones much). But you can consider phones by Lenovo. Then there is Samsung, if you do not like Lenovo...

So, the 2015 versions of the security suites are being released and I am badly in need of one for my desktop. I have tons of projects, college work and documents that I just cannot afford to lose. I was using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware that I purchased long back. I upgraded, but it was not worth...

Lately, I have been messing around with an unlocked version of Realtek HD Audio driver that apparently gave me Dolby Advanced Audio, DTS Surround sensation and even SRS Premium Sound. I had purchased SRS Audio Essentials years back and I have decided to uninstall that as DTS acquired SRS and it...

I have an FX-8320 and a Radeon 7850, with 8GB RAM and traditional hard drives (no SSDs). I need a video converter can convert 2 to 4GB (2-3 hour Blu-Ray rips) full HD contents to 720P videos with stereo audio in a really short period. All the video converters out there are talking about NVIDIA...

My system configuration is as follows: MB: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 CPU: AMD FX-8320 with stock cooler GPU: AMD Radeon HD7850 2GB DDR5 RAM: 8GB DDR3 HDD1: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200RPM (single partition with Windows 8 installed) HDD2: WD Green 2TB I need my PC for heavy designing using Adobe...