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I have an old lga 1366 cup cooler (aio) and a new am4 motherboard, how can I use this cooler on the motherboard?

So I just installed a EVGA GTX 970 and I cannot get past the bios. Every time I start my pc goes straight to the bios

Hello. I was wondering if anyone could help me with upgrading my graphics card on my desktop computer. The graphics card I have currently is a Asus Radeon R9 290 OC 4GB. The reason I consider getting a new graphics card, is that one of the fans on the old card has started making a lot of noise...

Hello good people, a HDD of my All-in-One Acer just died, so I decided to disassemble it to swap the HDD. I decided to put a small dedicated GPU into it too, it's just a GT 730, nothing extraordinary. I found out, that I can mount a 40mm fan on the top of the PC. Is that worthy or should I pass...

Question is in the title.. what is the best way to apply this paste? thanks in advance!

First off, some basics. The new Moden/Router is the Netgear Nighthawk C7000. I have Xfinity gigabit internet (can't remember the exact plan name, but it's up to just shy of a gb/s) There are currently a total of thirteen devices connected to the router. Six are wired and seven are wireless...

What do you think ? Intel Core i3 8100 with nvidia GTX1060 or Intel Core i3 8100 with AMD RX580 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 with AMD RX580 ? The Budget is arround $450 for CPU and GPU

I am getting very upset and i wanna cry. I have a really nice PC and get not so good frames. This is my PC: http://a.co/8bezVKH I get around 100 fps on max settings with a 1080 TI while my friend with a 1060 gets around the same with the exact same settings. Even when I pu settings on all low i...

Hi there. I was interested in overclocking and after watching a few videos/reading articles, I'm curious if that's even possible at the moment. Running an i5-3570k (Ivy Bridge) at 3.40Ghz on an AsRock Z77 Extreme4. Using Hyper 212 Evo. Temperatues maxing out around 45C. Does that seem normal...

So I bought some RAM but my RAM wont run at the rated 3200 speeds. Every time I enable the DOCP thingy or XMP profile my computer just shuts off 3 times then boots into safe mode and i'm forced to lower the speeds. Also if this helps I have a strix 1070 TI with a ryzen 5 2600X. And yes...

System specs: Intel Core i59600K CPU 16GB 3200 Mhz DDR4 ram Samsung 970 Evo NVMe ssd (boot) Boot taking over 1-2 minutes and gets stuck on bios splash screen. Windows boot log (ntbtlog.txt) drivers not loading (Im not sure this is the issue, but it seems like a problem): BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED ->...

Hi I have MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GT OC 3 GB GDDR5 memory PCI Express 3 Dual Fan Graphics Card. I was cleaning my pc carefully as there were a lot of dust inside it. I took extra care while removing the GPU. When I put everything back and turned on the pc everything was working fine even...

I'm looking to build a system (Intel based) for a friend for around £1000 mark to be used for 3D modelling and Video editing - would be using software such as Adobe CC Suite and Cinema 4D. It needs to be "overly powerful" I've had a look at some parts but since I'm no expert in either video...

Hi i am looking for a budget 24 inches monitor my choices for now is: Acer kg241q ViewSonic VX2457mhd Lg 24mp59g Atleast 75 hz and if possible 1 ms also a bit aesthetic. If you have suggestions please let me know. My build is intel but FreeSync is fine as long as it is compatible and is also...

Which RGB software can sync to the game you are playing and light up accordingly? I remember seeing a guy say it was a feature on one of RGB parts I was looking for on YouTube.

I build my pc in 2015. At the time I posted in this forum, I wrote that I needed a pc able to edit video and maybe play a game or two.. at the time all these parts and monitor came to be about $1400 and now as you can see the part list only comes out to about $470. Well times have changed for...

Hello, I've made an account just to open this topic, as this forum provided me with a lot of information and it helped me make few decisions regarding the parts that I would go for. So the story is really simple, I'm from Europe (German market/Computeruniverse) and my budget is somewhat...

Hey all I have a problem So my psu is pretty... Odd I got a prebuild so you can't really expect a good psu can you :p https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Builder-Series-500watt-500-Watt-500w-ATX-Power-Supply-PSU-SATA-Black-UK/1505350550 Here is my psu...

Hey there, I just got my GTX 1660 Ti windforce which come with a boost up to 1845 Mhz. I tried GPU-Z plus MSI Afterburner and AORUS Engine an the GPU goes with boost of 2100 Mhz until GPU-Z shows me an error. Does anyone know what I can do to get the regular clock speed???

Hello! Yesterday, I hit a blue screen, and then decided to do a file and disk check. Everything was fine, until my computer restarted without any blue screen or nothing. It then proceeded to the dreaded Startup Repair screen followed by the "Restarting will fix most of the problems (???)" grey...

hello i have a problem of my cpu's temperature, the idle temp is around 37C~45C when full load can reach 90C, i already tried to resit the cpu and changed thermal paste, reset bios setting, i even bought a new cooler but the result still the same, could be a bad cpu? and i also found out the cpu...

Hi, Wanting to upgrade from my old hard disk to something faster, I purchased the Crucial MX500 M.2 (m-key) 1Tb Sata SSD drive. Not knowing any better I also purchased an M.2 to PCIe adapter board so that I could actually fit my new M.2 drive onto my motherboard. This doesn't work. The Crucial...

On my home network, I have a router with two computers connected to it (a desktop and a laptop). If both computers are connected to the router via ethernet, I can see both computers on the network in microsoft explorer from either one of them. The same is true if both computers are connected via...

Recently I have put together my first build, it is primarily going to be used as a gaming pc but I wanted the extra cores and the 1700 was the same price as the 2600 when I purchased it. Specs: R7 1700 stock cooler H500 case stock config (plan to add 2 fans at the front) b450 tomahawk board...

Like all too many people, I've found myself elevated to "Family IT manager" because I took a computer class one time in high school. I'm sorry in advance for any stupid mistakes or misunderstandings that I may have made. Yesterday evening, I restarted my parent's computer in response to it...

I need to clone a Macbook (15", 2018, Mac OS 10.14) to a new Macbook with identical specs. The source drive has a Windows partition which I'd like to clone too. I've done some searching but neither Carbon Copy Cloner nor Stellar Drive CLone support this with Mojave. Can anyone recommend any...

Hello Everyone, looking for some input on whether or not my SSD is corrupt. This last Friday I was updating the BIOS and some other updates through Gigabyte and the software center. When I logged on the next day, Windows was operating funny (things like windows media player not loading, only...

I have a dual-cpu HP Z620 and I want to upgrade the memory, but I'm confused about some things on HP's :http://h20331.www2.hp.com/hpsub/downloads/z620_memory_configurations.pdf - specifically page 2. I have four 8GB DIMMS to put in the four slots of CPU 1. That is clear. One thing is that the...

My MB says it will run 3200+ with my ryzen cpu, but when I go to places like the links below nothing over 2400 is coming up as compatible. My mb is a asrock 350m pro4. I'm upgrading my memory to 8gb 3000, like G.Skill but they say nothing is compatible with my mb...

You guys on "tomshardware.com" are a godsend. You guys help so many people. I have learned so much from you fine folks. Thank You. I was tasked to build a PC for MediaShout for my church. I have experience with building Gaming PC's. However, I am no expert by far. Just a simple novice. My...

I have a AMD dual core a9-9420 APU with radeon r5 and I am wanting to upgrade my GPU without upgrading my processor or sould I upgrade both? any help or tips?

Hello. I want to build a gaming desktop for Sims 4 with all packs and mods/custom content. I want to play Sims at the highest setting possible. I will also be playing other games as well. I really need help on choosing which parts for the best performance but I don't want to pay extra for...

Hello friends.My GTA V is %100 CPU usage :( Help me. System : i5 8400 Graphic Card : MSI GTX 1050Ti 4GB

i have both the gtx 660 2bg ddr5 and a Nvidia Quadro 4000 2GB DDR5 can i use a sli to run both , my system is a amd running the 8350 on a ga 970 ds3p motherboard 20gig ram 1tb hdd 850 power sup

pcpartpicker flagged it as, Unable to verify the Deepcool - TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case has sufficient space to fit the Asus - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB Phoenix Fan Video Card. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/PcFZTB -This is the build, could someone tell me if it will fit?

The specification for a USB 2 port is 5V at 500mA or 2.5 Watts of power. One of my USB 2 ports on my desktop only puts out 4.75V. To provide 2.5 Watts of power, my port would need to put out 526mA of current. Is Watts or power the actual limiting factor for a USB port or is it separately Volts...

System: i5 7500 MSI H270M Mortar Arctic Corsair LPX 3000mhz 2x8gb EVGA GTX 1070ti Black 860 EVO 500gb SSD CM MasterLiquid 240 AIO CX650M Samsung CF791 EDIT: I'm asking because I have read that at 1440p+, the GPU becomes the major player, but I've also read that the i5 7500 is less than stellar...

Hey, so i have been looking around the interwebs and so far i've come up dry. I have an older computer that i am trying to get the dustbunnies out of to make an emulation machine. It was running onboard graphics, but i decided to try putting a dedicated card in for better performance in newer...

actually i want the answer before buying it.so hurry please.........

Hey, I just bought an RX 580 from sapphire and i have noticed that one of the fans is allways spinning at a high speed causing a lot of noice. I did run the fan health check with the sapphire trixx software which told me that the "fan health ok". Is there anyway i can fix this?