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My motherboard model is a Lubrin 82F2 motherboard. It'd an H270 board. I wanted to swap cases but turns out, the motherboard mounting holes don't match up with the standoffs of the NZXT H500.

Hello guys. I am new to this forum this is my first post!!! ☺. I purchased my new coolermaster masterliquid 120l RGB for my FX8300. My Mobo is gigabyte 970a-ds3p. That Mobo has a 4pin cpu_fan header, a 4pin sys_fan header, a 3pin sys_fan header & a pwr fan header. My question is, where should I...

Whenever I play a game like Siege, Witcher 3, Soul Caliber 6 etc., my temps suddenly spike up to 85 C and stay there until I stop playing them. Because of thermal throttling, my games perform poor, making it really uncomfortable to play them. (My laptop is ASUS ROG G771JW) I've cleaned the...

My husband has an Inspiron 3647 which has the small case. I want to replace his hard drive with an SSD. Will I need a bracket? Thanks!

I bought a thing that plugs into the 20-1 pin USB 3.0 connector on the motherboard that gives me two additional USB ports at 3.0 speed. They worked great until the USB port on the left stopped working. The one on the right still works. I bought a new thing and the left USB port is broken...

I'm running Deluge on Linux. I've never seen this before, so I'm a little confused, but when I'm connected to my home network via Ethernet cable, I get either less than 1MiB/s, or 0 traffic at all. If I switch over to my WiFi, it'll open the flood gates and download/upload at around 40MiB/s...

I built my gaming pc 3 weeks ago. Here are the specs 1. Asrock AB350M Micro motherboard 2. AMD Ryzen 3 1200 CPU 3.1 stick of G.SKILL ripjaw 8GB ddr4 RAM with one more stick on the way to make 16GB 4.EVGA GTX 780 SC Video card 5. 4x case fans 6. Team Group 240GB SSD 7.Kingston 240GB SSD 8...

Hello Community, I am searching the internet whether to go for monoblock or just cpu block for my Maximus X Hero. Is it worth putting monoblock when cooling vrms as well to have more stable overclock status? Or is it already good mobo that I wouldn't necessarily need it unless for aesthetic...

I want to buy used gtx 1060 3gb but my power supply dosen't have 6 pin connector. So can I use molex to 6 pin adapter ? Or do i need to buy new psu?

Heyo guys I was hoping for some quick help, this probably hasn't happened to many of u but basically my pc is up and running, the fans, cpu, gpu but basically to install windows I'm using a USB key, and well not a single one of my usb ports work, meaning that I can't physically access windows...

Is this normal?

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.

where to even begin... i want liquid cooling, but have absolutly flipin 0 idea how to do that. ive only known about the liquid cooling that you buy that is basically just acouple of fans with a tube that connect to a cpu but apparently it is way WAY more complicated than that and has lots more...

When I tried to boot my new PC for the first time, the CPU Cooler light and GPU fans/lights flicker for only second and then the PC is unresponsive. Before I press the power button on my case, the motherboard has RGB lights that seem to be working fine but the lights on my other components do...

Please give me a compatible 2gb graphics card on my intel DG31PR

Main problem is laptop is booting up with welcome screen but not loading windows 10 , so how can I use seatools for it and what I have to do to install it. I am not getting it.

Hey guys, So my router is in the living room and my PC is in my bedroom (3 bedrooms + 1 living room roommate apartment) and I need a network solution for that. Network over powerline won't work since my bedroom and the living room are not on the same electrical phase and I can rearrange them...

my laptop dell inspiron 6400 take several times press up of power button to boot. when i press the power button it turns on but there is nothing on the screen, whereas when i press it again and again as turning off by pussing for a while and again push it to turn on it starts in multiple times.

So I know what g sync monitors are it basically is like having v sync on but it doesn't effect performance. So I do not have a gsync monitor but I would like to ask if there is any sort of software that could simulate it. So let's say you are watching on youtube a 1080p60fps gameplay of your...

Hello, I turn on my computer after 3ish weeks away, and it powers on no problem, fans turn on, LED's show up, no beeping from the MoBo at all, but the monitor displays no signal. I have tried: Using a different HDMI cable - no luck. Turning on and off both the monitor and computer. Changing...

Hello i will build a new pc for around $350 and i have two choices for cpu. G4560 and G4600. Firstly i will use the system with igpu and later i will buy a external graphics card. Is hd630 that much bettter than the hd610 or its not worth it to spend extra $20-25 on g4600. I will use the system...

I recently bought an acer laptop E5-575G-54YE then I installed applications for my school works. (staad and auto cad). While doing school works (in staad program) my laptop suddenly shutdown and showede this no bootable device. I dont know what happened

Pc specs: Evga gtx 1060 3gb single fan graphics card i5 6600k cpu processor Msi h110m motherboard 16 gb g skills ripjaw v series 2400MHz ram 250gb samsung ssd Zalman z9 case which has three blue led fans to cool parts 1tb WB harddrive Hyper evo 212 cpu cooling fan 550w power supply Windows 10...

Looking for the best free game recording software that does not effect my FPS. I have never really used any of them but recently tried the Razer Cortex and its easy to use but I lose 10+ FPS. Anyone out there with experience able to suggest a better one?

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/bPyVxY Right, first off, don't suggest Ryzen cos I don't have and won't have the money for 3-4 years at least, I jist want something a little more capable. Second, I already have everything but the CPU, motherboard, and RAM, I would just like to be double sure...

Hello.I'm looking to buy a ryzen 5 1500x but i can't find a good mobo and some cheap compatible rams. Any suggestions please? Budget around:180$? Not my currency so this came out of the converter

I just installed a new Z170 mobo to my PC and I cannot get it to boot. Below is a list of my PC's specs for reference. -Asus Z170 Pro MOBO -i3-6100 CPU -XFX RX 480 8gb GPU -Corsair 500w PSU -(2x8gb) Crucial 2133mhz RAM Here's a list of things I've tried so far: 1. Reset CMOS by removing the...

Will Amd threadripper 1950x work with windows 7 ?

i have a ROG Swift PG27AQ 4k 60hz g sync screen, am i suppose to turn on v sync in games so there is no stuttering or lines ?

So I had my windows installed on a SATA SSD which worked fine but when I installed a new M.2 SSD my old SATA SSD is no longer detected in the bios.

So i installed my new m.2 and in my Asrock bios I can confirm its working correctly because the motherboard sees the M.2 plugged in. So when i boot into windows and when i go to disk management my m.2 is not showing up at all. But in device manager when i go to disk drives i can see both my HDD...

I'm looking at getting a 2 in 1 laptop and found two that are $5 apart in cost after tax, and they are almost identical specs except for the Lenovo Flex 4 has a dedicated graphics chip. I'm having a hard time deciding so which laptop would you get and why? Lenovo...

Im planning to get a gtx 1060 laptop, But I heard that there is this gtx 2000 series GPUs coming next year, what should I do?

I have problem to sing in in my Acer,because I forget my password. So I need helping to sing in aspire es15

Hello I am a relatively new builder, Only 4th build and I have come up against a particularly weird problem. Firstly I breadboarded the PC to make sure that it seemed like the components worked but I didn't check the display output and I can't remember if the PC made the boot beep but a month...

So i downloaded speedfan just to check the temperatures of my PC. Now I didn't touch anything else, nothing else configured. I was wondering if maybe speedfan automatically sets the fan speed or changes something without me knowing and is it ok if I uninstall it?

PSU--> Chieftec Iarena GPA-450s Mobo--> Gigabyte GA-B250M-D2V CPU--> Intel i5 7400 So the problem is that my PSU has one 4-pin connector and on my Mobo is a 8-pin CPU connector. I can plug in the 4-pin. Does my CPU get enough power with this 4-pin or I have to buy an other PSU?

I've tried checking the forums and Neweggs recommendation checker, but still not an exact answer. I have: DeepCool Tesseract Case with 2 Led Fans GTX 1050 ti i3-7100 Gigabyte B250M-DS3H MOBO 2 8GB DDR4 2400MHZ and as far as Hard Drive, I'll be buying one from best buy 1tb, not sure of the...

Is 450 watt PSU enough for Zotac GT 730 2GB DDR5?

Hey guys is this build and good and is it good for running games such as Fallout4, subnautica, GTA V and 7 Days 2 Die at decent quality? And also is it compatible together thanks It has - Corsair VS650 650watt power supply -intel core i5 7400 3.0 ghz. CPU - Asus expedition GeForce 1050 Esports...