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I upgraded my ram the other day to vengeance lpx 3000mhz 16gb from a 8gb 2400mhz stick. I noticed in my bios settings that the stock setting for my motherboard is 2133mhz for ddr4 and when I enable XMP, it increases it to 3000mhz. Should I enable XMP for performance gains? Or leave as is for...

Hi all... I Have a peculiar problem. Had to build an economic pc, used my old motherboard and ram and bought the rest. Problem is that after booting it for first time, monitor will show nothing, not even start information. Also side debug lights on mobo will fire like this: a milisecond light...

Hi, I currently started building a PC about 4 years ago with the intention to upgrade (a lot sooner than I am doing) Now i'm looking to upgrade just wanted a bit of advice. My knowledge isn't great but I managed to put it together myself Current spec: CPU: I5-6600K Cooler: Cooler Master hyper...

Hello everyone, my GPU died today, and I'am looking for a replacement. My PC specs: MB: Gigabyte Z170-D3H CPU: i5 6600k + CM Hyper 212X cooler RAM: DDR4 16GB 3000MHz G.skill ripjaw * important - PSU: Corsair TX650w : Would you recommend also replacing this, as it is already 8 years old? What...

Hello, I recently purchased the Asus Prime 310-A. I also bought a new power supply GX-S650. I have a feeling that somehow i have messed up my processor. my processor is i5 6600k and i tried to remove all the parts except for processor and it still has the problem. I thought maybe my casing (K...

Since I bought my i5-6600k, I knew my chip wasn't the best at overclocking. It could never handle an 'average' OC, like other people could achieve with this CPU (for example 4.5GHz at 1.3V). The odd thing about this is that unstable overclocks always hard-freeze my whole PC, instead of BSODing...

I am currently using 6600k with a non-k board so I have to choices. get a 9400f build get and OC board with a cooler and OC my processor. What should I go with? Also if I dont oc 6600k, is switching to 9400f is good or not?

Hello all. I've been having issues with my CPU for a while now, whenever my CPU hits 90+% utilization I get severely decreased performance in particularly video game. Games like CSGO, Destiny 2, WoW etc become virtually unplayable. If I can keep the CPU load below 90 I always 200 frames or more...

My Specs Hello! I have been thinking about upgrading my system lately and I just managed to get a 1080 Windforce OC on the cheap to replace my old 1050ti Gaming X. I am currently thinking of upgrading my cpu (intel i5 6600k OC at 4.5GHz stable) and was considering either defecting to the other...

Hello! I was wondering how this upgrade would fit into my PC. Currently I'm running a i5 3470 being cooled by a Corsair H60 on a Gigabyte H77, 2x4GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Corsair Vengeance, included with a GTX 1060 6GB by MSI, along with a 700watt Corsair PSU. All I need to run at one time is OBS...

Here are my specs CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 motherboard: Asus - PRIME B450M GPU: MSI - Radeon R9 380 4GB Storage: Samsung - 256GB 2.5" SSD Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB Monitor: 1440p Yesterday I bought a new motherboard and CPU (the ones listed above) and installed. The PC worked fine...

I have a Toshiba L750D which suddenly developed a problem where the entire F1-F3 down to x-c row/column of keys does not work at all, not on BIOS, or on Windows or on any rescue environment or Linux from usb media. I thought it was the keyboard. So I bought a new one and replaced it. The same...

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Hello, My computer freezes while Windows 10 starting. After restart, an error occurred 0xc0000f. And there are only Windows 7 options (safe mode, etc.) When I get into safe mode, Windows 10 are running. In MSCONFIG I have as default system Windows 7 and ther is no other option and no Windows 10...

If I put a GT 210 on a PCI-E x16 1.0 how much performance I will lose?

I've got a HP Pavilion with C2D E7600, 4GB DDR2 400mhz RAM and a GT 220. What GPU is the best to pair up with the E7600 and not bottleneck? Maybe exactly on-pair with one another. I was thinking about a GTX 460 or something. Any recommendations? Btw, i'm trying to make this a low budget as...

I am looking for a solution to a problem that requires the least amount of equipment. I use a lot of audio in my classroom - from videos, mp3, etc but also students speaking out. The acoustics in the class are awful - many of the students also have very tiny voices, so they cannot be heard. I...

I have a modem/router combo called the Smart RG. Whenever it rains, my internet cuts out and I go into the browser and it says 'internet is online in routed mode with an IP address of _____'. Nothing loads in any browser and the browsers say that there is no internet connection. But tonight, it...

I just upgraded my computer and clean installed windows 10 Just randomly my screen goes black, fans are still running, and i cant shut it down with power button, i have to kill the psu. i have tryed to fresh install all drivers. ran memtest, furmark, and prime95 with good results. so what the...

A lot of people seem to have different opinions on "how to overclock". The most popular is: "increase it little by little until it crashes or artifacts, then decrease" Isn't overclocking until a crash or artifact terrible for the card? I'm not gonna lie, I increased by card's clock a little to...

So i decided to buy i5 8400 and gigabyte auros gtx 1060 6GB.And idk which motherboard to buy and whats the diffrence between the expensive one and the cheap motherboards and what gigabyte motherboard do you suggest for 1060 6gb

those are my options. whats going to be the better all round card?

Hello, this is my first post on here so if i've dont anything wrong please tell me so i can fix it :) Okay so im trying to run a VM - virtualbox and i keep getting the error VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require...

Right now i am overclocking my cpu and i am just wondering how much voltage should i give to my cpu? I was testing 3.5 ghz with 3.5 and 3.75 voltage but it was unstable. Now i am testing with 4 voltage and i will comment results. My specs: Amd phenom ii x4 960t 3.00ghz Asrock n68 vs3 ucc Hynix...

I am trying to install a SAS HDD into my Desktop. The desktop is not a server and the HDD was purchased due to the very reduced price and the added speed/access advantage over SATA HDDs. Also, from advice on this forum, it was indicated that SAS is the future of HDDs. On this forum, all I have...

Hello! I just upgraded to a GTX 1070 Ti, and I'm only getting 50FPS on CS:GO on low settings. I tried out a friend's 1050 with my i3-6100 and I got 150FPS on CS:GO, and it utilized about 80% of my CPU with a 40% to 50% GPU utilization. However, when I use my 1070 Ti, it only uses about 60%...

I reset my d-link 600 router now i can not get internet service so how i solve this problem

So I am looking to upgrade my Mobo CPU and RAM I'm set on the Ryzen7 1800x and some Corsair vengeance ram but I'm wondering about the mobo I want it's the GIGABYTE AORUS GA-AX370-Gaming K7 (AMD Ryzen AM4/ X370/ RGB FUSION/ SMART FAN 5/ HDMI/ M.2/ U.2/ USB 3.1 Type-C/ ATX/ DDR4/ Motherboard)...

Do I need to format my HDD if I upgrade amd a6-6400k to athlon x4-870k? with the same socket?

Hello all, I will GREATLY appreciate any help you can provide because I am exhausted. This all started with a Windows 10 update. Blue screen after blue screen I decided to go back to previous version. Windows wouldn't even boot. Downloaded a version of Windows 10 to an external and tried to...

I have a Phanteks p300 case and i cant find the front panel cables for switch reset and power led. Please help

Hi guys, I just got back from some short roadtrip with my friends and I'm using nikon d7100 to take photos . During the roadtrip, I tried to view all the photos using my surfacebook and noticed that there is unreadable folder/weird name folder in the memory card and I only can view half of the...

I'm not able to play high games using Intel he graphics 4600 .so ive planned to change other like Nvidia .so I don't know how to do in laptop.of any one knows plz give me a tip

my budget is 720. The MoBo was a gift. First Build. made for gaming. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/krTTvV

In a couple days, I am going to have my new 120GB SSD delivered. I currently have a 1TB HDD in my PC right now, and I wanted the SSD so I could run windows on it for improved performance. The problem is, I wanted to know if I could install windows on the SSD using my windows 10 ISO and boot from...

Hi all. I have this huge problem and i hope some1 could help me out. My build is: GPU: MSI Geforge GTX 1080 Gaming X RAM: 16GB DDR4 CPU: Intel I5-6600k OC 4.1Ghz Mobo: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO PSU: Corsair GS700 My computer works fine. The GPU is brand new and had the same problem with the...

According to userbenchmark.com my SSD drives perform massively below average (1 percentile). So I'm not sure how trustworthy those benchmarks are but I'm wondering nevertheless if something is wrong. I deactivated my virus scanner and rerun the test with the same result...

Hello everyone My friend and I built a new PC today with the following parts: msi Z370 A-Pro i5-7600 Pure Rock BeQuiet Fan msi GTX 980 Ti 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance ddr4 Corsair RM650x PSU Samsung 850 Evo 500GB WD Red 2TB Now since this is not my first time building a PC I am 100% sure we...

I got no wattage labelled on my psu how can i find out the wattage

I've had issue with my computer for about a year now. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kJBMjc . It randomly freezes mostly when gaming but at other random times new. It could freeze after 5 hours, I reset it and it freezes within 5 minutes again. I would not think its software as I have installed...