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I have a H100 v2 Corsair liquid cooler and my case is cooler master force 500 ATX mid-tower case. Apparently,there is no possible to fit the coller in this case. But theoritcally it is compatible.

My ASUS L403N which I recently bought about a month ago no longer turns on. The charger is plugged in correctly, and I've tried multiple outlets (no plugged in light appears). The battery is non-removable and there is no reset button. I've tried a hard reset by holding the power button for...

Hi, I don't know if its the right section or even such questions are answered here so I will post it here and if its against the policy of forum or such questions are not answered here i will close the post, So here's my question or rather a doubt, yesterday I asked my ISP for better plans and...

Hi all, long time reader here, first time poster. Anyway, my new build is doing my head in. Gameplay is stuttering badly in GTA V and slightly annoyingly in Battlefield 1 and Sniper Elite 3. I haven't bothered downloading any of my other games just yet as I assume its not just down to those...

My computer's main and only drive is a crucial mx300 750gb, the logic being that since I won't be filling it up too much I should be able to keep good speeds throughout more than the month and a half since I built it. The weird thing is that I've noticed significantly higher bios times and login...

Hello guys, The motherboard I have currently is the MSI 2a9c and at this moment in time I have 4GB DDR3 plugged. I bought the desktop ready made (big mistake I know) roughly 5 years ago. I'm looking to upgrade to 8GB or maybe 16GBs. Along with the RAM upgrade I'm planning to upgrade my CPU to a...

For almost a year i had been using my monitor that has a DVI-D port with a gtx960 that has a DVI-I Port. Today i have used an adapter from DVI-I to VGA and conected my old CRT monitor, it runed fine so i dissconected it, but when i tried to conect my DVI-D monitor it just dosn´t work, it says...

Sometimes my memory usage % goes up to 90 % and even though I exit all programs it still shows high memory usage. The only way to lower it is to restart the pc. Is there something wrong?

i was wondering of what liquid coolers i could find on newegg for an amd 8300fx

I want a motherboard best for core i5 6600 in budget . How much is price difference between H170 and Z170.(is Q170 Q150 ,B150 worth). I dont have specific price point But i would say like 150$. Should i consider H110 ? Please Help Thanks

I've got a Dell Oplex 960 with a intergrated graphics card on the motherboard, I know nothing about computer hardware. Can somebody tell me how to swap out my graphics card without losing all my data? my case comes with a case key if that matters. Here are my specs and the card I'm going to put...

When i plug my hdmi cable into my gtx 970 it doesnt display anything when i look at the graphics card itself its the fans are moving is there any way i can check if it works if you guys have questions please ask them.

Hello, I have been thinking about getting this colelr however I read that they dont give you the montage components to montage on i7 6700k cooler, is there anyone who can confirm that ?

So I have a bit of a weird problem. I have a pair of iphone headphones and when I first plug them into my laptop they don't work. They only work if I restart my laptop and the headphones are plugged in when it restarts. However, if I ever take them out and put them back in, it doesn't work again...

Hi everyone, I'll start with a quick description of the issue and delve into the system's details and background below. I've recently replaced my previous graphics card (Gigabye AMD HD6870) with a newer one (Sapphire Toxic r9 280x). Since then, I see these weird distortions in my display from...

I think this is the best build I can make without spending too much money. I don't know a lot about computers but do all of these components seem compatible? How do you think it would perform for gaming? Link to my parts: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/sMGBf7

Hi, After recently upgrading to windows 10 and doing a fresh install of windows, I have a problem with the search tool. I can't search any applications that are on my D: Drive. For example, I can search "chrome" and it comes up with it as it is installed on my C drive, but when I search steam...

My keyboard and mouse won't turn on until after the bios screen shows up, I just recently got a new SSD and i want to put windows on it, so I wiped my hard drive and cloned it to my ssd, now I was told to choose the boot device in bios as the SSD. But I cant do that because my keyboard wont turn...

Hi I bought a new graphic card gtx 960 4gb to replace my old gpu gt520. But after replacing the card the screen doesn't get passed the boot menu. It starts for 20secs and then turns it's self off and again starts and keeps repeating the process. My pc boots normally with the old card. My bios is...

Yesterday my HD7950 vapour x died on me, ive done a bit of research and found that the R9 290 performs quite a bit better in bechmarking than the R9 380, But from what ive seen the R9 380 is more commonly recomended. Which one should i choose? Are there any better cards in the same price...

Just built my rig 10 days ago and everything has been going smoothly, except i just encountered this (look at the white background and the start menu... especially the weather tile) : It started while playing Rainbow 6 Siege. I'm a total noob at this, but I immediately closed the game and...

My gaming PC Build: CPU I5-4460 MB Asus H97M-Plus Windows 8.1 1TB HDD Nox Nx200 XFX TS Series 550W 80 PLUS BRONZE RAM 8GB DDR3 Gskill Ripjaws X CL9 1600 (2x4) So, there´s the Asus Strix Gtx 960 4GB for 249€ and then there´s Gigabyte G1 R9 380 4GB for 255€. Which GPU should I go for? My parents...

Having not owned a laptop are there considerations I'm neglecting? Budget of approx £600, been looking for a laptop, and while I'm not after a dedicated gaming laptop (favourite devs are console focused anyway) I want to see what I van squeeze out performance-wise for the budget. Been looking...

I have a Gigabyte 980 ti g1 gaming and i get around 74 degrees on full load but i have seen it go up to 77 degrees. I know that the reference gtx 980 ti full load temperature is 84 degrees. But is my temperatures too high for this specific card? I read the reviews and i see that on most...

Hi guys i have question AMD Phenom II x4 965 will bottleneck a gtx 960/radeon 380 without oc thanks for anserws.

I have been playing on consoles my whole life, and recently I want to get into computer gaming. One of the biggest reasons I haven't is because every time someone who plays on pc hears im on consoles They make fun of me, such as console peasant then yelling pc master race. And I don't want to...

Hi what motherboard is better (overall) for oc, and general usage? Gigabyte ga-z170x-ud3 Asus z170-a If there is any less expensive motherboard that is very close to those can you recomand? I personaly have experience with only gigabyte motherboards in last 10 years and only had one dead board...

hello guys I just changed my fans in my case and I removed my ram 2x4 gb 1600 MHz so I change lanes and instead of putting them in 2 blue lanes I put them of the black lanes and when I opened speccy to see the timings it was 11-11-11-29 instead of 9-9-9-21

I bought this collection of parts over a year ago for $90, and installed them into a Cooler Master N600 case, added a 500GB Western Digital Hard Drive and Asus CD/DVD Drive. Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 Intel Celeron G530 @ 2.40GHz Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology RAM 4GB Patriot Sector 5...

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen Background: My Rig Processor: AMD FX8320 Motherboard: Asus M5 A99FX Pro R2.0 Ram: 32 Gig DDR3 Video Card: Radeon R9 200 Series (PCIe 2.0 x16 slot, blue color) Sound Card : Creative Blaster Z (PCIe x4 mode, black color) O/s: Win 8.1 I have hooked up this rig to my...

Using h100i max pump and fan speed Idle temps 32-38 Use prime 95 for half a second and they all max to 100c Running at 4400Mhz Is there a problem with my h100i?

Im planning to build my own gaming desktop with an i3 and a Msi R9 380 Gaming 4Gb My question is: Will the i3 bottleneck the R9 380?

I've been looking around for my first gaming PC lately and I've come across two that I like. They are identical in specs but one of them has a mini tower case while the other has a mid tower case with five pre-installed fans. Mini Tower Case...

I have an a8 5500 and I will upgrade my graphics card soon. I am wondering if my CPU will playable fps. If not, will a 860k be good enough?

Someone I know purchased a CX750M and after adding a video card in the motherboard, there is this unbearable coil whine. I thought it was the video card at first because "gigabyte gtx 970 g1 gaming" is known for its coil whine but I pinpoint its from the PSU because I hear the noise more...

I want a new monitor and i want a biggish one but the one I'm looking at is 27" but is only 1080p and i wanted to know if their would be any stretching or pixelation? if so should i settle for the smaller 23.5" 1080p

So today has been one to forget. My parents have a PC that I built for them a few months ago and the 750W power supply I had in it decided to quit working; all parts are fine so that was a relief. I plugged my power supply in to test it. So when putting my PC back together I noticed that my...

I will be doing a new build at some point, i will be putting my os on an SSD, but should i get a second for programs, or just partition off the one SSD and put other programs on same one. am getting a HDD too for files.

Yesterday I installed a graphics card as well as a new power supply to support it and pretty frequently while playing games, the screen freezes. The graphics card is a AMD Radeon R5 230 and the power supply is 520W. My computer Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) IIx4 635 (4cpus) 2.9GHz 8gbram

I wanted to upgrade my HD 7950 to a EVGA GTX 970 but the PC is not booting after installing it (physically). BIOS splash screen appears for a long time, after that a single beep. After some seconds another single beep and a black screen with a blinking underscore appears. There seems no BIOS...