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The laptop (Lenovo) is 10 years old, but it was working fine until the owner in a bout of anger hit it hard with their fist :) After that it turns on with black screen, and then after 10-15 seconds starts loud fan noise. I thought the problem might be that hard drive (no ssd) or RAM might have...

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I couldn't find an answer to this question. Precision Boost and XFR for the Ryzen 5 1600 CPU are firmware? So couldn't they just be updated to later versions? Thanks.

I tried to find answer to the question in the title on various forums, but couldn't find anything except gaming benchmarks that showed that if GPU is bottlenecking the system then decreasing memory latency doesn't give any noticable FPS increase. But I'm not interested in gaming and FPS. My...

I'm really confused here. Also I searched if anyone encountered similar problem but couldn't find anything. I'm using AMD Ryzen 5 1600 processor. It is brand new and I haven't overclocked it. HWinfo shows that its base frequency is 3200, and its turbo frequency is 3700: Recently I ran a test...

So I bought this ram stick M378A1G43TB1-CTD, 2666Hz, DDR4, allegedly with timings 19-19-19-32 from Samsung. Then I realized there were better options with timings 16,18,18,38 for the same price, but it was too late. Now I'm stuck with this bad memory stick and even if I'm going to buy another...

The case is almost like the one in these pictures http://www.highonsolder.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/PC_inside1.jpg http://www.highonsolder.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/PC_front-back.jpg It doesn't have any windows on the front panel to where one can mount intake fans.

I'm building a PC with these components: Ryzen 5 1600, BOX Palit Geforce gt 1030 2GB GDDR5 Asrock B450 Pro4 Be Quiet SYSTEM POWER 9 400W RAM Samsung [M378A1G43TB1-CTD] 8 Gb, 2666Mh SSD Kingston UV400 120Gb So I have an old case with PSU mountable on top. It has only one slot for case fan, where...