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    Question I have a more than 3 year-old Asus Rog Strix G G531 VAL218T, which thermal pad thickness should I use for the VRAM ?

    I live in Vietnam, none of the stores here sell thermal putty, ordering overseas can bump the cost to like 100usd for 100 gram of upsiren u6 pro. Would thermal paste actually work ? Don't it only work in really thin layers ?
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    Question I have a more than 3 year-old Asus Rog Strix G G531 VAL218T, which thermal pad thickness should I use for the VRAM ?

    So this laptop is getting quite old, and Asus used thermal putty to cool the VRAM and VRM, problem is in my country it's nearly impossible to find thermal putty on the shelf to buy, and ordering from another country is tedious and costly, so I intend to use thermal pads (Gelid GP Extreme to be...
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    Question Graphics driver doesn't load or work properly, but I suspect it's not the GPU's fault, details in the description. Help!

    How do I check the reliability history ? Also my C drive is a western digital black PCIe 3.0 NVME ~250Gb drive, but I can't remember the exact model name. And I'm running programs and games on a Samsung 870 evo 1Tb, a WesternDigital Blue HDD 2Tb to store files. And a cheap Apacer 2.5' SSD that...
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    Question Graphics driver doesn't load or work properly, but I suspect it's not the GPU's fault, details in the description. Help!

    So I've been having this problem for years without ever figuring out the answer. Sometimes when I boot up the PC, it feels like the graphic driver for my GPU didn't even load, GPU fans don't spin at all, and I get like 10 FPS, and I need to restart the machine for it to work properly again...
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    [SOLVED] Skyrim gaming problem with SSDs

    So I have a 3 year-old desktop system (Specs below), and was playing modded Skyrim on my SSD (Western Digital Green) smoothly and stable until my SSD died and I have to change SSD, and now whenever I put my modded Skyrim on the new SSD (Apacer Panther AS340), the game freeze upon loading a...
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    [SOLVED] A question about RAM dual channels

    So I'm using a pretty old PC running an MSI Tomahawk B350 motherboard, which has 4 slots of RAM labeled A1, A2, A3, A4. Unfortunately, the A4 slot is dead, so I'm putting my 2x8Gb of RAM in the A1 and A3 slot for Dual channel. But when I turn on the PC I received a notice saying that my memory...
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    Question Is my graphic card dying? High graphic games keeps crashing.

    What type of PSU do you recommend ? Because I'm really on a budget
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    Question Is my graphic card dying? High graphic games keeps crashing.

    I think it's an AcBel iPower G650 650W, made in Taiwan
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    Question Is my graphic card dying? High graphic games keeps crashing.

    I bought this entire PC in around October 2017 and everything was running smoothly until recently everything graphic intensive just keep freezing and then crashing (Windows doesn't crash, though. Nothing ever crashes, just them video games). Here are my specs: Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 RAM...