Recent content by kenzimarcel

  1. K

    [SOLVED] Need help upgrading my old PC.

    yeah i was thinking he could have bought a high value item or something and sold it soon for a good price in cash, but it would take a while and you might not even get any good buyers espec with corona causing a lot of unemployment
  2. K

    [SOLVED] Is it safe to use tcpvpn.com free vpn service

    if you are just getting an openvpn config file, then there is nothing they can do on your pc. just use a known safe client, like openvpn connect, and use it. just remember to not put detail in on sites that dont have the padlock
  3. K

    [SOLVED] Would a Raspberry Pi 4 8gb be a sutible minecraft server?

    see if you are running out of ram on the pi, if you arent then its probably your cpu limiting you. minecraft is largely single threaded, so i am not surprised the rpi is struggling with a few players. consider switching to paper or tacospigot or another fork that could help with performance
  4. K

    [SOLVED] Need help upgrading my old PC.

    he cant wait, and the only b550 boards are overpriced
  5. K

    [SOLVED] Need help upgrading my old PC.

    the 10700 doesnt oc, and you dont get nice things like pci4. personally i would take the 3700x/3800x/t and b450, but anything b450 or better is good.
  6. K

    [SOLVED] Windows cannot boot after switching sata ports.

    what do you mean portable ssd? i mean as long as you are getting it moved, youre doing alright. nothings worse than losing all your data. well maybe some things, but it still sucks
  7. K

    [SOLVED] Is it safe to use tcpvpn.com free vpn service

    there is not actually a lot of data it can steal. if you are using https, then they might know you have visited your banking site, but nothing else. https is the padlock displayed by the url in most browsers. its commonplace and every bank will use it. the only data they can steal is...
  8. K

    [SOLVED] Why is my PC going mental? High SSD activity

    just go on pc part picker, storage, select ssd and sort by price per gb. take the first one of the size you want, and optionally take a well known brand like sandisk or samsung.
  9. K

    [SOLVED] Hard disk problem

    and so i maintain, its a rare occurence. even with windows on other drives, it doesnt always use that bootloader, as i have experienced. if however this is the case, then you can create a windows recovery disk, and use the command line to create a new boot partition. the answer here should...
  10. K

    [SOLVED] Need help upgrading my old PC.

    the 5700xt is great, a welcome upgrade over my hd 6750. iirc the 2070s does outperform, and nvidia does have a lot of nice-to-have features. i would reccomended the 2070s if its within budget. also, that mobo is a solid choice
  11. K

    Question Safebrowse.io???

    this is comcast at its finest. download the xfi app and disable safe browsing. if youre not on comcast, then check your extensions or something, download another AV
  12. K

    [SOLVED] Hard disk problem

    opening a drive is not that bad. unless he took a knife to the platters, its still fine. also, lets be real, if he had a backup, he would have already used it.
  13. K

    [SOLVED] Hard disk problem

    every time i have installed windows, i have had multiple drives, and not once do i even get an option to move the boot drive. i just pick a disk and it formats the disk in its standard way.
  14. K

    [SOLVED] 95º with Ryzen 9 3900X and Arctic Cooling Liquid Freezer II 240

    you might also want to check the pump is plugged in, and in the bios fan/pump settings its on
  15. K

    [SOLVED] Samsung A40 - Self rebooting after battery saver

    its not meant to reboot after enabling power savings, unless thats an a40 thing, since my note and other s series dont do that. if its doing that, it sounds faulty. https://www.samsung.com/uk/smartphones/galaxy-s9-need-to-knows/battery-life/diagnostics/ maybe try something like that and test it.