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I bought a social club key, (biggest mistake of my life) the damned servers never work, frequently disconnecting downloads, so i was wondring, are there any alternative servers or torrents with complete data so i download from there and kater verify from SC launcher?

Hi, I just build my first ever pc and was first having problems with it flushing lines on the screen and going black every couple minutes. I then reinstalled windows and the and drivers and that fixed that issue. But now my mouse is laggy all the time and if I try to stream any video it is very...

I got new ram that's exactly the same as my old ram. I had my old ram in same slots as I put my new ram and the new ram worked. But when I try installing both pairs of 4gb for 16gb, my pc just keeps trying to start but shuts down and it continues to do this till I turn it off. I'm assuming...

Hello So yea, i fucked up my computer somehow, and i had to reinstall windows 10 However, since then, my hdd isnt showing up anymore Its not in bios, nor in disc management, nor in window explorer I tried few tricks i found online like upluging, restart, replug I even changed of SATA port...

Hey. I tend to keep program short cuts on my Windows 10 desktop and am tired of putting them in corners or grouped together on the desktop. I'm looking for a program when i hover my mouse over it would extend/preview what file/shortcuts i put in it, i am then able to open or drag out...

Hi guys! Simple question: Wich music player has the simplest audiopath (on Mac)? Where the music file goes the straightest way from it's location, to the sound card, and to my headphones. (WITHOUT any excess rendering, processing, upsampling, modilation and so on.) The Straightest Audio...

I have this pretty new pc i bought 2 months ago. It hasn't been experiencing any issues until this very annoying black screen. A few days ago my pc completely froze, so i waited for about 15 minutes but nothing happend so i restarted it. After the restart there was no sound,no intetnet and...

Hey guys ,so my PC now has a poor CPU and i wanted to upgrade it but im on very toght budget CPU:AMD A8-7600 GPU: GTX 1050ti Ram:8GB and around 7 useable I got a offer for i7 4770k+Z87M mobo for around 180$ and i think i can go for that and later upgrade my ram or get an SSD,and maybe get a...

Hello i got 1060 before over clocked i used it for 6 month no problems at all i install now 1080ti everytime I play 1 game it crashes any help Pls alao i formatted my pc after this happens twice and it still the same i got higher framework than 3.0 Z 270 pro series msi 1080ti manali 32gb rams...

Hi, I just bought a connector to allow me to run PWM fans from the graphics card fan header, so I can control fan speed for one of my radiators based on my GPU temp. I have Noctua Industrial fans which go up to 3000 RPM, so they're pretty loud, and I want the RPM to be as low as possible while...

When I load up BF1 the first 1 or 2 games I average around 120 FPS on custom settings at 1080p, however an hour or so into gaming my FPS starts to dip and average around 100. I know my card isn't overheating with it running around 63*, and BF1 is well optimized. What could be the reason(s)...

Hi, I'm playing games, any games. And every 10 minutes or so it will minimize the game. No popups are appearing so it's gotta be something in the background. I've got windows focus logger open, I pressed start and when it minimizes the game, nothing is showing in there. I dont know if it's been...

Hello community! Today Im passing through problems booting my computer and Im looking for help and some advices! About a month ago I was playing with my computer while I was doing some crypto mining with nicehash. After a few hours and some overheat my computer turned off and I realized I...

Todayi wanted to use my lap top and I open it up and proceeds I did I noticed that the last time I try to pull it up the Wi-Fi was not on it so today I press the power button it took longer than usual for it to come on then it popped up the screen came up and it worked said Dell then poped up...

FIrst off, specs: GTX 1060 6GB AMP! Edition (Zotac) AMD FX 8300 Gigabyte GA78LMT USB3 mobo PNY Anarchy 8GB ram 500w PSU Anyways, I was just wondering what I do exactly to overclock. I've looked into it (albeit not very extensively) and I'm assuming I just gradually increase my GPU and MEM...

When I get into bios/overclock, I see cpu ratio set to auto. How do I change the overclock to 4.3. Everything I try just reverts to auto.

So my old laptop battery died so I decided to remove the battery and only use the charger as the power source at home. I rarely use this laptop and I wanted to set it up to help me render some animations. After doing some tests I noticed I rendered quite slow, after checking the CPU usage I...

So my friend gave me a GTX 1060 6gb GPU by ASUS from a pre-built pc. He told me that he had the pc for around 4-6 months when error code 43 popped up and told me that he had no display either. I tried finding a way to fix it, thinking it was a problem with ram or something but when I tried it on...

hey guys,quick question, I have a gtx evga 1050 that im using with a monitor, via a converter trough the hdmi port to the vga of the monitor itself. would I notice (if there is) the difference if I had a monitor that would connect to the gpu with no "middle man" ? like, if maintain the...

Hello all, I am having trouble getting some of my home devices to connect to my printer. I've had various issues with it from time to time, but right now I cannot get my wife's laptop to connect to it to save my life. I'm going to post a picture that shows my home network. I think it's a bit...

I have a LG 42LB650V TV and today while repairing the backlight i accidentaly broke the tv panel and it shows only black lines. I want to know is it worth it to search for a replacment panel or should i buy a new TV. also if searching for replacment where do you think is the best place to buy...

I bought a headset only to find out that it uses two jacks is there any way for me to connect these headphones to my ps4.

What setting are in this video ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5oGW6olOmw&t Resolution 800x600

I'm thinking of buying the ASUS ZENBOOK UX430UA-PURE14 All I need is a pc for studying and I think it looks slick. But what I don't know if can render vegas pro movies, or reliably stream video from the internet. Quick specs Intel® Core™ i3-7100U Processor 8 GB RAM 256 GB SSD 14" FullHD...

Specs:core i3 6100 3.7ghz tdp 51w rx 460 4gb tdp 75w 8gb ddr4 ram 300w silent psu of circle. please tell me this psu is enough for my rig and does it will work on full load without any problem while gaming? (sorry for bad english)

Hello, im new to building computers. Ive been intrested in a build i came up with. I would like some expert tips. Cpu: Ryzen 5 1600 (should i go with the ryzen 7 1700?) mobo: MSI B350 Tomohawk (latest bios will be installed) Storage: 8gb of ram, 500gb ssd, 2tb hard drive. (Also will i be able to...

So I installed msi afterburner to maybe overclock my graphics card, but I didn't, and to see it's temperature. But realized I didn't really want it because it was eating ram in the background. I didn't mess with any of the setting besides the on screen displays, like the GPU temp and stuff, and...

Hi, I'm looking forward to get i7 8700K processor with ASRock Z370 Extreme4 motherboard. But I'm little bit confused about the cpu cooler. I choosed a cooler of Gamdias. The full name of the cooler is "Gamdias CHIONE E1 120 RGB CPU Cooler". My question is that, will this cooler can handle the...

I just got a new WD Blue drive to run alongside my WD Green. I installed Linux Mint to the WD Green because Windows 7 broke everything a while ago. I installed Windows 7 on my new drive, and it boots to Windows and works just fine with only the WD Blue plugged in. But as soon as I plug in the...

i have a dell inspirion laptop (it's 6 years old now) and so we decided that we have to clean the fan and we did..there was a sponge of dust anyways...and the fan started working again but here's the proplem: before we cleand the fan i could play games normally and the laptop wouldn't shut...

Greetings. I recently acquired a Windows 10 pro license and I wish to install in in an ssd. However in the same pc, I have pre-installed Windows 7 (oem) in hdd which I wish to keep for the foreseeable future . I have several questions about the procedure. 1) Will it affect my hdd in any way...

So I'm wondering, can I use an usb as bootable but have other files in it? For example if I have windows 10 loaded in my usb can I also have say a zip file?

I bought a Dell 7577 laptop a few months ago and ever since I got it I have felt like the HDD is slower than even my older 6 year old laptop. I always loaded last in the games I played with others, even compared to my friends with really low spec laptops. A lot of the time it is locked at 100...

im new in updating amd drivers...Do I really need to uninstall the old amd driver before downloading the new one?

Hi all, what do you think about the difference between Intel Core i7 8700 and Intel Core i5-8500? Is it worth it getting i7 or i5 is completely fine, are there any drastic differences that would improve my working experience on them? My work is based on Web design/development (Photoshop...

In windows 10 to have two Ethernet ports on the same private subnet with internet, happens by bridging the 2 ports. How can this happen in Windows server 2016 CORE?

Hi guys. I bought parts for my pc and I assembled it with a friend of mine. We booted it up downstairs when everything was in the pc, but without a monitor, just to test. The pc turned on, every rgb worked, the RAM lit up, GPU lit up, CPU cooler lit ip, all the fans were spinning so we were all...

I'm attempting to setup a minecraft server, I have port forwarded the port, and booted up the server. The server is set to a static IP Attempted to run multiple testers online to see if it was open, as well as used telnet on port 25565 from a computer other then the one the server was running...

Looking to spend £1600-1700 on desktop pc. Want to be able to run games like Farcry 5 on a HDTV. Is a 6GB graphics card enough or is 8GB better? Should I choose four or six core i7? What rigs do people recommend for this?

i have an hp laptop, core i5. and i use internet through a wifi device in which a sim card is used. sorry i dont know any technical terms, i dont have much knowledge about computers. my problem is that my internet was working perfectly a week ago, then the package finished in the sim. and ever...