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Thanks for the info just for future reference after putting some money aside what ups model would you recommend based on my computer specs? As there are various models I'm not sure which to look towards.

If it's out of budget at the moment are there any alternatives? I read on another form that getting a cheap ups could sometimes do more harm than good.

Interesting thanks for the info, yes power went out seemed to be a one time thing. The home I live in is really old if I remember correctly it was built around the 40s. My old surge protector from belkin went connected had a light indicator showing both protected and not grounded. Would buying a...

Hi all not sure if this is the right place to ask but recently my surge protector stopped working due to the power going out multiple times earlier in the morning essentially taking out my surge protector, but thankfully all devices are working properly. Currently a UPS is slightly out of budget...

Hello Tom's Hardware forms I have e a quick question I currently own a mid 2017 MacBook air with a 5th gen i5 1.8ghz 8gb of ddr3 ram and 128 gb of storage a friend of mine has a Asus ROG laptop model GL502vt with a i7 6700hq, 12 gb of ram and a 970m GPU he wants to trade me for that laptop. My...

Good day toms hardware I need help choosing a second monitor some thing about or less than 100$ I have 2 in mind one from benq and one from Sceptre I don't need anything high end my main one is 144hz I'm looking to use this for when I stream on twitch or do assignments for my online class to...

Hello the have a question I currently have my asus strix Rx 480 8gb in the pcie slot closest to the CPU where it generally goes but recently I got a after market cooler due to switching to ryzen and now the card and cooler are neck to neck with a bit of space between then also the card is...

i currently have 200 Mbps with spectrum and i am renting a modem + router from them this model is what i received https://www.amazon.com/TECHNICOLOR-TC8715D-WIRELESS-ROUTER-GATEWAY/dp/B01DFM5Q12 a friend of mine recently upgraded his network and was suprising kind enough and gave me his old...

i currently upgraded my system to ryzen 5 1600 and got new ram sticks for it but i cant seem to get them to go up to their speed which is rated at 3000 they are currently at 2400 i really dont know how to mess with and adjust the timings voltage and such in the bios i tried enabling the xmp...

hello thanks for looking i currently have this set up intel i3 6100 16 gb ddr4 asus strix rx 480 8gb i found a deal on newegg for a new mob and amd ryzen 5 1500x around 300 dollars link here https://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.3482317 dont get me wrong the...

My friend just build his pc and it was working fine up until now when he boot his pc he gets past win 10 logo and the loading screen but after it gives him a black screen and won't go into login screen on boot before loading screen the only options he has is f11 under msi logo His build is...