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The laptop is an HP 15-dw3363st aka 4Z3A9UA#ABA. https://support.hp.com/ph-en/document/c08015536 The CPU is an Intel Core i3-1125G4. The whole thing functions OK, but it’s not a speed deamon. I accept that. I currently have an 8 GB Samsung M471A1K43EB1-CWE SODIMM in the laptop. I have a free...

Yeah, your PSU choice seems to be the most cost effective. Of the “mid-range” PSUs that are listed on Shopee the Corsair CX550M looks to be the most reasonably priced. There are 2 new/non-used offers there for Rp805.000. There are more offers at higher prices. Up to Rp999.999 the CX550M is the...

The website that the PSU Tier List is on seems to be down or having some difficulties right at this moment. A copy of that web page can be reached by the link below. https://web.archive.org/web/20220607215317/https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/ [EDIT: Oh, now the web page is back up...

BIG OOPS HERE … I said: How about this for your PSU? Cooler Master MWE Elite V4 White 500Watt PSU Rp605.000 OOPS! I made a mistake with that one. On the Shopee web page for that offer the title says “Cooler Master MWE Elite V4,” but if you look closely at one of the pictures the model number...

Because you do not have high demand video needs and you want to spend a moderate amount of money I am going to recommend a Geforce GT 710 GPU. It is “not much of a GPU,” but your needs are very low. It is somewhat cheap and will do the job. The brands on Shopee that I see (of this card) and know...

How about this for your PSU? Cooler Master MWE Elite V4 White 500Watt PSU Rp605.000 https://shopee.co.id/Cooler-Master-MWE-Elite-V4-White-500Watt-PSU-Power-Supply-500W-80--i.15607053.3745679217 Of course, there are tons of other options. Brand selection seems a bit limited in Indonesia...

That all sounds pretty good. You want to upgrade the following components: PSU, GPU, CPU. The current PSU capacity of 500 watts is enough for the type of computer you have. The most important thing about getting a PSU (after wattage) is to get one that is good quality. For the GPU you do not...

OK. You are getting BLACK screen shutdowns, not blue screen (“blue screen of death”). Could you please confirm that? In this case black screen crashes might be worse than blue screen because a black screen crash could be caused by the power supply/PSU. There are other things outside of the PSU...

Wow, this is not a pretty situation. Your CPU & vid card are 10/12 years old and your current system only boots 1/2 the time (or less). I'm not sure what we can save here. If we keep your RAM you can't move to a mobo with a Ryzen because they all take DDR4. That might mean we cannot reuse your...

It has been quite a while with not a peep from anyone ... The flip side of that coin is that you seem to have serious problems that could be difficult to diagnose remotely. You need to start with basic building blocks. Does the PSU work? Can you get through a RAM test? You have a "normal" PSU...

The title question is a bit limiting. So I’ll restate it. Has anyone here on Tom’s seen a recent Gigabyte monitor display a 1080i signal at least reasonably well? In my experience 1080i would typically come from a cable or satellite box. I’m thinking of buying a Gigabyte M32QC ($229), based on...

Using a be quiet! SU9-500 with (Asrock B450m pro4 + Ryzen 5 2600 + Rx 570) should be OK, in terms of not getting blue screens. You should Never be getting memory blue screens. 8 GB RAM should be enough, but if it isn't the Windows will "page out" whatever was used the least recently to the...

Like rgd1101 said: "the ssd. looks like it might have failed." This a bad situation. SSDs do not normally fail as they have no moving parts. Yours looks like it is down for the count. Even if that SDD can be brought back to life I wouldn't use it again as my boot SSD. Once burned, twice shy...

I'm not intending to step on your toes rgd1101, but drvmln may have trouble getting a screen shot from an unbootable system. On the other hand, they certainly did say "as you can see in the screenshots below." Drvmln, can you shoot a pic with your cell phone camera and upload the img? Drvmln...

USAERet has this one exactly right. Copy the files to some other partition / HDD / thumb drive. If your old system is a prebuilt (Dell/HP/etc) then you likely have a recovery partition on that MBR HDD. You could remove and recreate a different partition in that space and then copy your files...