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Hey all So I recently graduated college and brought my computer back home with me. I went to school in Chicago but I live in Seattle so the drive took me several days, and I moved my computer to and from my car every night so it wouldn't get stolen. When I finally made it home I plugged it in...

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the fans are working on top speed. 3 intake 2 exhaust there is literally 0 degrees difference in temperature stress test 80 degrees gaming 75 GPU almost same room temp 30degrees plus i5 8400 1060 6gb b360m k cabinet fans at 1200rpm

Hi guys, My system is a Cpu; I5 5600 MOBO; GA-Z270-Wifi Video card: Msi GTx 1050 ti Ram: 8gb Corsair Vengeance ram 2400mhz (2x4gb) Psu: 450w fractal design Semi-modular Psu Storage: 500gb sandisk SSD, 1tb western digital hard drive Fans: Stock cpu cooler, one 140mm fan, one 120mm fan Case...

Just as the title sounds - my SSD has randomly decided to allocate 40GB of space to "Unknown", according to WinDirStar. I don't know what could've caused this, and I've done the obvious things like CCleaner, checked pagefile, did a chkdsk, ran virus scans. I'm just at a loss for words for this...

Hi there, I have a Dell Inspiron Desktop 660 MT : BTX Base. My processor is an Intel Core i3-3220 (3.30GHz, 3MB) My RAM is 6144 mb (1x4096+1x2048) 1600MHz DDR3. Can I increase my RAM and by how much? Should I replace or add on? This is new to me so really need advice. Any help would be much...

How difficult would it be to splice the power supply adapter, of a small 10.1 inch display, to use the native 12volts supplied by a corsair PSU? I'm sure it must be possible, because that's Essentially how the Hue+ module, by nzxt, is powered. A round adapter plug spliced to a molex connector...

Intel announced several new Coffee Lake processors and expanded 300-series chipsets based on the Cannon Lake PCH. Intel Adds To Coffee Lake CPU Family, Outs New 300-Series Chipsets : Read more

So I saw this gpu on eBay it is an r9 280x in a gtx 1080's shroud. Can this really work? I messaged the seller and he said it did. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F112877947651 I ended up buying it just to see so I'll say the results when I get them

I was recommended to upgrade my i5-3330 to the Ryzen 5 2400G with 16gb of RAM (budget of £340). I'm confused how AMD cpus differ in performance from intel ones, such as this benchmark shows similar priced CPUs with the intel one seeming to be better. Do AMD cpus perform better with more RAM...

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%...

This is my first time building a computer and I wanted to know what specs are required for an entry level gaming rig at the least?

i am having this weird problem. first let me talk about my components. i am having fx 6300, Asus m5 a97 le r2.0, 8 gb ram. gtx 750 ti, corsair VS650 power supply. The problem is if i switch off my pc from mains then power it on it does not boot up. All fans run, HDD moves but no booting. i have...

Hi guys so I have a PC I've slowly put together over the past year currently I have a OEM h61 Acer mobo, i5-2400, GTX 660ti and 8GB DDR3-1333. I find the 2400 is lacking I plan on getting a more powerful used GPU soon (GTX 970 or better) but I'm worried my CPU wont be good enough I'm not...

Hi, Looking for a good monitor for my ps4. requirements: - 1080p - size: 24" - 27" - obviously low input lag (in 60Hz of course) - HDR will be preferable

I have a 250mbps connection, my main computer is only testing at 93mbps I've run the same speed tests on my laptop and cell phone and get speeds over 250mbps. I thought it was my internet at first before I checked on my other devices, but I'm wondering if it's a hardware issue. Is my Ethernet on...

I am in need of a new pair of headphones. Currently using astro a40s and the mic has gone to crap and the sound isn't the best anymore after 2-3 years. I will be plugging the headphones and mic into the astro mixamp pro just so i can hear my pc and xbox sound together. I have a blue snowball ice...

So, I have a gtx 750 ti FTW by EVGA. Now, the normal clock speeds on this card should be at 1189 MHZ for Base and 5400 MHZ for Memory clock. But... In afterburner they are showing as 135 MHz and 405 MHz. This also shows when in game using RivaStatistics tuner which came with afterburner. These...

Hi, I am having and issus with 2 files on my computer. No matter what I do, it will not let me delete the file. I have tride mutiple things: del "\\?\C:\Users\ etc... DEL /F /Q /A <File Path> Remove-Item C:\ etc... dir file path, I wont find the file Moreover, I have also tried: rebooting my...

I am currently building a PC and I’m a bit of an idiot when it comes to the internet and desktops (I’ve always had laptops). So I’m wondering what do you guys think is the best way to hook up the internet to my desktop. I know Ethernet is going to give me less lag and I’m thinking I could move...

Hey Guys, I want to buy Asus GeForce ROG Strix GTX 1050 Ti 4GB DDR5, but i don't know if that video can fit in my computer case (it's Raidmax Raptor ATX Mid Tower Computer Case). I'm not so into computers so I'm not sure. I will be really thankful if someone can help me about this. I think...

hey everyone, so i had 3 OSes installed on my laptop (ASUS k56cb) i had windows 10, kali linux and ubuntu (had ubuntu because a program i needed wasn't compatible with kal) anyways so today my windows decided to update itself and made kali not able to boot (ubuntu worked just fine) so since i...

So I had my pc restarting randomly every 2 days or so. I tried updating drivers, it isnt over heating so I went to test the ram with memtest86 I booted it throught a usb , once i launched up i simply hit run test ( I never used it , so I followed some tutorial) I left it to go on for 4.5 hours...

Hi there, So I bought a Hyper 212 (I don't know if it was 212+ or 212evo or just 212) back in 2009 i think for my i7 2600k. Mid last year I made a new build using an i7 4790k and kept the stock heatsink on there, today this heat sink is running loud for the last time I need to change it. I was...

Hey, I've been thinking about upgrading my CPU cooler that could cool my i7 8700k good enough to about 4.8-5GHz-ish for a while now, I just don't know which one I should upgrade to. I was going to buy the Noctua NH-D15 because of everyone recommending it but I was just worried about the weight...

i have a gaming system want to know if its ok or i should be worried msi z97gmaing 5 intel i7 4790k (stock cooler) kingston hyper x 2 x4gbddr3 evga oc gtx 1050ti 650psu 3 hd my thing is that when i am gaming i see the temp on the motherboar goes to 65 /67 is something wrong with that temp when...

Can this be done I have limited internet speeds that are in my area and I was thinking about getting this with 2 lines from same ISP to use not for failover.

Updating is the biggest pain the edit. Recently the PC automatically installed Windows Updater Assistant...I don't know how it got installed (I certainly didn't install it), but it's installed now somehow and I'll just leave it at that...So apparently, the assistant will download and install the...

Hi there, I bought my new PC last November, built it myself, everything went smoothly. In UEFI/BIOS, I changed my cpu core ratio to 47, so that my CPU can run at 4,7 GHz. I was testing 48 as well but system wasn't that stable with that setting. Fast forward to about 3 months ago. Sometimes...

For the past two weeks I have been experiencing super slow internet on my desktop computer. I swapped out the Ethernet cables and it is still slow, I got a USB to Ethernet adapter and tested it and it was still slow, and finally to verify it’s not the Ethernet cables I purchased a WiFi adapter...

I'll just give you what I can at the moment, I recently changed a very minor thing with regedit to basically get rid of Xbox DVR. I doubt that's caused the problem. Anyway, whats happened is that already today some games were stuttering really badly, but then they basically stopped doing so and...

I have 2 GTX 970s (Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming and the EVGA GTX 970 SC 2.0) and am trying to run them in SLI on my MSI Z170A SLI Plus motherboard. But it is not working. The SLI bridge came with my motherboard On GPU-Z it says: GTX 970 (Gigabyte) PCI-Express x16 3.0 @ x8 3.0 GTX 970 (EVGA)...

I got my laptop on Christmas 2017 and I dropped it on January 5th 2018. How do I know if it's okay? My laptop is a HP, I need help ASAP. My laptop seems fine, but ask me if it's doing certain things that broken laptops do so I know what's wrong. Make sure to tell me how to resolve it, thanks.

I recently acquired an Acer Veriton X4610g prebuilt off of eBay and also bought a GT 740 to build a very low budget gaming pc. I’ve confirmed the graphics card works on my other pc l, so I know it’s not the card and I’ve confirmed the pc does work. I’ve tried resetting the ram, reseating the...

Whenever I tried to launch I shows that your set up is damaged so if it shows there may be problem of playing but it plays in my friend laptop when I copy from mine to him can anyone help me

Hello, so I have recently switched from wireless to a wired network for gaming. When I'm on wireless the ping is highish but steady. When on ethernet the ping is low but randomly disconnects every 30 seconds for no reason. I have bought a new cat6 ethernet cable and the problem still persists...

My PC is emitting an odd burning plastic smell. I left my pc running overnight to do a virus scan and started smelling after 12 hours and hasn't stopped even after being unplugged. The cpu and gpu temps look normal. The capasitors look fine although I just did a quick check. It is able to boot...

Hi I brought asrock ab350 motherboard, i dont have a cpu gpu or ram currently.just to check if this power ups , i plugged it to an old psu and jump started it by power pins and it didn't show any action, not even the psu fan started. But the old motherboard starts up just fine with same psu. The...