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Thanks for the advice. I'll have to see what I can do. At least it won't catch fire or anything... Much appreciated!

CyberPower is BAD? Bloody hell, I bought it based on reviews saying it was one of the better models. Is it likely to be dangerous? I don't think I can return it, it's a few months old. I didn't unbox it until about two weeks ago, but unless Amazon is feeling really generous it's outside any...

Greetings, I hope this is the right forum to ask about this, my apologies if not. I recently replaced an ancient APC UPS with a CyberPower CP1500, and it's having a strange issue. I can sometimes detect a very high-pitched ringing sound. This isn't an electrical buzz or hum, it's like someone...

It's an ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-E, BIOS version 1802, Realtek onboard sound, just the Windows-supplied drivers because when I tried to install the Realtek stuff it was a mess. I've been messing around a bit, and it seems that somehow the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is changing this setting...

Greetings, I'm having a weird problem. It seems every time I restart my computer, quit a game, or just walk away for a while, Windows 10 decides I want all sound enhancements disabled. I do not, I want the loudness equalization enabled, because otherwise every sound in a game is muffled and...

Absolutely! Thanks.

Thanks... I would build it myself, if I could. I've been building my own since 1995. But my health has taken a downturn, and I'm no longer able to. I'll play around with the configuration some. Appreciate the advice!

Greetings, I'm trying to find a good computer for my father, who mostly uses it for web surfing and watching Hulu and so forth, but who also enjoys flight sims and wants to get MS Flight Sim 2024. Would a Dell be good enough? If so, would a Core i7 14700 and nVidia 4060 Ti do the trick for...

Thanks, that was what I thought would continue to hold laptops back, but when I googled for it I saw all these articles about people switching over from desktops, so I thought I'd ask. It's been ten or twelve years since I last looked, something might have changed. I'm in the US, and my budget...

Greetings, I find myself needing to buy, rather than build my next computer. The last time I did that, it was a Gateway (yes, in the cow box), and it was why I started building them myself. I'm hoping to avoid similar trauma this time, so I'm seeking advice. What would be a good company to go...

Thanks, that's what I thought, but since it's an ASUS program and motherboard I thought I'd check and see if something I didn't know about might be going on. Maybe I'm overreacting, since it's one error in five-plus years, and everything seems fine since. But sometimes the first error is not...

Thanks for answering! I'm hoping to avoid taking anything major apart unless it's absolutely necessary, but it probably isn't an issue with the thermal paste. At 100% load, the CPU has been running at 62 C. I'm now wondering if this is related to the ASUS FanXpert program's latest weirdness...

Greetings, I'm using a computer I built four, maybe five years ago. It has worked perfectly every day, no problems but occasional Windows problems, until just now: I received a CPU Fan Speed Error on boot. I looked in the case and could see the CPU fan spinning. I turned off the computer...

I guess I did misunderstand the process. I thought that by taking over from vsync, the monitor reduced load on the GPU. Well, I don't think I can afford both a new monitor and a new GPU, so I'll stick with what I have. Thanks! :)

I have an RTX 2080 video card, currently performing very well with a 1920x1080 monitor. I'm thinking of upgrading the monitor, possibly to a Samsung G7 (if they go on sale), but I'm not sure how well this card will handle the higher resolution with newer games. Does G-Sync place enough of the...