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    [SOLVED] Rate this build a friend of mine is offering to me

    Aprreciate the input, i'll probably go with 400EUR as recommended :) thanks
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    [SOLVED] Rate this build a friend of mine is offering to me

    Europe - Slovenia. Which price would you agree on personally? I have to factor in the fact that i'll need to expand on disk storage for sure. And additionally that its supposed to be a "friendly deal" meaning he should charge less than ordinary.
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    [SOLVED] Rate this build a friend of mine is offering to me

    Im not sure where he got them but even if i do a quick google search i can find all the things he listed from sites like amazon and such.
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    [SOLVED] Rate this build a friend of mine is offering to me

    Hello everyone, a friend of mine (friend A) is building a new gaming PC and is offering to sell me his current one. The specs he cited are : Asus hero 8 motherboard gtx 980ti gpu i7 6700k cpu corsair hx 850i PSU corsair vengeance RAM 2666 16gb samsung 840 evo 120gb ssd cooler master cosmos SE...
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    Question Random changes in master volume

    No media controls on keyboard, no bluetooth connections. Someone suggested that the speaker cables are faulty and im not sure how i would go about confirming that, i re-plugged them all and the problem persists (would that even be the cause? wouldnt the sound be completely gone instead of just...
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    Question Random changes in master volume

    Cant pinpoint exactly when it happened but for a while now the master volume goes down randomly by a fixed amount and then goes back up to the original volume after a random period. It happens constantly, watching a movie, listening to youtube, playing a game etc. The amount of time it stays on...
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    Problems with booting

    Hello everyone, my dad has this old pc (10+ years old?) that has recently encountered the "User profile service failed to logon" problem. I googled the issue and found the easiest fix is a quick registry edit via safe mode with networking boot. However when i start the PC is get the "PCIE Gen2...
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    CPU overheating problem

    Ok i think i might have been sloppy at reapplying the paste the 1st time. I did the following 2 things now : 1) I cleaned and reapplied the paste using the "pea-size" method 2) I turned the CPU fan, before it was set so that it was blowing air INTO the cpu. I've then did some research and...
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    CPU overheating problem

    hi, i didnt want to make a new thread so im just gonna update this in case anyone will answe. After a long while i have replaced the thermal paste but it doesnt seem to have affected the overheating issue much. Under load the temperatures still go around 70°C for certain games and up to 80°C...
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    CPU overheating problem

    i havent changed the thermal paste and it'll probably the next thing i'll do if this persists. thanks for all the advice and answers everyone
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    CPU overheating problem

    both times the shutdowns happened were when i played league of legends. later yesterday i tried playing left4dead2 and it ran smoothly without problems for a few hours with the temperatures being under or around 50°C. after that i even went and played some more of LoL and the temperature...
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    CPU overheating problem

    hi everyone today my PC started shutting down completely, it did so on 2 occasions, both while running a game. as soon as i turned it on for the 3rd time i ran Core Temp to find that the CPU temperatures are cruising at around 60°C while idling, while running chrome and windows security...
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    PC randomly shutting down/restarting

    hi everyone, sorry for the late response but i finally figured what was the issue. It was in fact the PSU, i went to a friends place and we started replacing components, the psu was the first thing we tried. As soon as we hooked up his stronger PSU everything started running normally and...
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    PC randomly shutting down/restarting

    Hi everyone I've had the following issue for a while now. My pc started restarting whenever i would play certain games (LoL, Dota2). It would restart at the exact same time at first, which was exactly when the game finished loading, i could see the game map and everything for a split second...
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    PC doesnt detect anything

    Hi everyone, i have the following issue and i cant make any progress towards solving it. I turned on my pc this morning but the monitor seemingly didnt "turn on", as in, the screen was all black and the light was flickering as there was no signal. i shut down my pc by holding the power button...