Christmas

Innumerable people will be acquiring new systems this Christmas season and alongside that come new Processors. It is the beauty of incandescent power to stream prettily under gaudy nocturnal lights and behind blue doors that the aforementioned components provide on the monitor, polishing frame...

new graphics card not working as hoped, need help! Have had my pc since 2018 these were the specs: Gigabyte B150N Phoenix WiFi Mini ITX Kingston HyperX Fury 16gb DDDR4 Corsair H60 Corsair CS550M Modular 80 Gold Phanteks Enthoo Evolv Mini itx i7-6700 1060 turbo 6gb Has run very well these past...

Hi all, This holiday season I am planning to upgrade my PC in either the GPU or CPU department, but the problem is I don't know if it will work or if it is worth it. I currently have a Ryzen 3 3200g CPU and a GTX 1650 GPU running on 32GB of RAM and an ASUS PRIME A320M-K motherboard and a 500W...

So a lot of leaks are saying December the 2nd but will the actual card be released on the date or just revealed? Thankyou

So I was planning on building a 3060TI R5 3600 build (not 5600x because only small clock speed difference) Is this a good time to build a PC around the Early December mark before Christmas or wait and if yes to the wait how long? Thanks in advance :D

so recently I bought an M.2 SSD and put my OS on it. I had a few difficulties to start with but ended up figuring most of them out except for one. I can now install things to my old hard drive but I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to only use the SSD is a boot drive and use my...

Looking for how much money a Hp Pavillion Xt 1000 entrrtainment edition is worth?

Is the upgrade worth it from HD 7970 to RX 570 for 1080p gaming? My specs: Asus ROG Strix X370 R5 1600 2 x 4gb G skill 3200mhz Ram 550w Super flower 80 plus silver 24 inch AOC 75x free-sync 1080p monitor

Hey all, I have been living abroad for a while and have had a cheap office computer, however it has a lot of important files on it, so I brought it's drive back with me when I came home. My plan was to move it into my gaming PC, and either be able to switch back and forth by choosing which...

Hi. I want to play and record gameplays at 1080p 60fps only with Intel Quick Sync. The game is Wow (wotlk). Searching on web sites I found several tutorials and guides oriented to whose have at least 1 external (or dedicated, through PCI-Express) graphic card and that guides explain only "how...

Hi Guys! So I want to build a rig and I want to build a Skylake build. What is the best BUDGET motherboard for i3 then I will later upgrade for i7. I prefer motherboard that can oc cpu. Any suggestion guys? Thanks in advance!

After buying computer from Newegg, (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227507 this one), I have never been happier because it was my first computer with decent specs. Now, however, I wish that I could get more performance out of this gear and found out one could do it by...

So i'm replaceing a screen for a toshiba satellite s875d. It's my first time doing it but was quite simple. Only problem is that the screen is not working, it's just black. Now i'm doing this for someone else and they ordered the screen. The dimensions of the screen are identical, in fact it...

Ive found posts saying they are and are not compatible this is my first computer build all i need to know if they are compatible I'm not exactly tech savvy but on this link: https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/Z97-GAMING-5.html#hero-overview it says its compatible with Intel core 4th and 5th...

Hey guys! I'm almost buying all my components, but one thing is in my mind. Is the non k 6600 worth the price difference from the i5 6500? I saw some benchmarks on digital foundry and the performance between the 6500 and a non overclocked 6600"K", that is 3.5ghz on stock, was minimal. Thank...

Just bought a Zotac GTX 1060 Mini. When I mount it to my mobo, my unit does not boot. It's locked in place and the 6 pin is connected as well. Specs of the unit are: i5-6400 http://ark.intel.com/products/88185/Intel-Core-i5-6400-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_30-GHz Thermaltake Smart SE 630...

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I have a set off really good speakers but unfortunately they only have a lightning dock and no 3.5mm input. Is there some sort of adapter or other way I can play music from my Android Phone?

Ok, so I built a media center PC (Which I use for media, video editing, internet, and some PC games). I carried over my EVGA 750 ti GPU from outdated rig. I notice the GTX 970 GPU is almost the same price as the PS4. I notice you can not get Madden for the PC since 2007 (Sell outs), and I can't...

Hi, I'm going to be building a new PC with a GTX 970 and an i5 4690k and I was wondering whether or not running PC on a 1080p 60hz monitor would be bottlenecking me and then making my parts a bit invalid. Any help is appreciated.

I recently purchased a used Acer laptop and after installing an SSD the keyboard does not work anymore. I followed this thread in order to replace the harddrive and everything seems connected: http://www.tomsguide.com/forum/id-2405279/disassemble-acer-aspire-v15-572-5217.html I had to...

Hi there. I'm looking for a gameplay recording software that I can stick with for a very long time. My first one was fraps and that didn't work out too well because it lagged my gameplay quite often. Used OBS (Open Broadcast Software), it's light but doesn't have enough features in it...

My computer is a 3.4 ghz i7 with a GTX 970 and 16gb of RAM running windows 10. My games used to run flawlessly when on Windows 8.1 and now that I am on Windows 10, my games now stutter randomly and my average FPS has dropped by about 10. What are some tips on how to make Windows 10 run faster? I...

Every few minutes I get a sudden FPS drop/spike that makes almost every game unplayable. Running h1z1 on mixed High-Ultra settings with an average of 60-80 fps suddenly drops to 10-20 every now and then, making the game unplayable for 5-10 seconds. I understand alot of people have this but I...

I've been spending more time than I would like to admit researching possibilities in my options for how I would like to set up my new upcoming PC build. So at first I was thinking it would be cool to do a RAID0 with two SSDs for my boot drive, but I feel there isn't really enough of a...

Hello, I'm wondering what is the next upgrade I should do for my PC, because something is wrong. My PC : GTX 970 Asus Strix OC'd edition X4 760K OC'd 4.2GHz DDR3 1600Mhz 6GB (1x4GB 1x2GB) MSI 2AE0 EVGA 500W My problem, It seems as if I have VSync on, on every single game (I don't). It just...

I want to build a mid rang PC that can surf the web and play some games and i want to be cheap. I know the hardware is a tad old but i don't care for I'm not a hardcore gamer. heres the link to my build http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3rxy23 . also i almost forgot did i make a good decision for the...

I'm unsure what triggered this change, but all of a sudden neither my keyboard nor my mouse work in Windows 8.1. I've tried an alternate keyboard as well as an alternate mouse and no luck. I've changed my mobo recently, but it was working for a week before this happened. Messing with legacy USB...

Okay so I'm planning on live streaming with 480p and 30fps here are my specs CPU: Intel core 2 core quad GPU: Nvidia gt530 Ram: 6gb Storage: Western Digital 1TB Is this enough to live stream?

My motherboard is not powering up thus the computer is not booting up, I tried the list of things to do and none of them worked,this is my hardware -Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-H Micro-ATX Motherboard -ASUS EAH6450 SILENT/DI/1G -AMD Athlon X4 860K - 3.7GHz -G.SKILL Value Series 8GB 240-Pin DDR3...

Hello, i just installed my new MSI GAMING 7, with realtek audio hardware. However after checking 10 times my 3.5mm jacks for being setup correctly i cant make the subwoofer play at youtube videos or anything, unless i use the swap center-woofer option, but the sound is weird. I had NO problem...

Hi all I recently bought my First rig: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO Asus Z97-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Samsung 120gb SSD XFX Radeon R9...

Hi everyone. This is a thread long time coming, or else I have missed something. I am planning on buying a 280 (non X) next week and I have searched high and low for answers to my questions and general info all together on this particular setup. All I ever find is on the 7900 series and the...

After adding 8 gbs(2x4 G.SKILL ARES) of RAM to my existing 2gbs of RAM(2x1 G.SKILL RIPJAWS) to my pc (GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3P motherboard) my computer no longer boots. It either boots up then continually beeps rapidly until I turn off my psu or fails to boot at all(most of the time it is the...

Hello, Couple of months back I've bought h100i cpu cooler and installed Corsair Link onto windows 7. Everything worked great until I upgraded to windows 8.1. I have noticed that if for instance I set the led color to bright red, the next time i turn on my PC it turns pink at start up. That...

i already have a 1tb hdd in my pc with everything on it... ill be upgrading with a 120gb ssd for my boot drive and a few games installed on it. if i install a few games onto my new ssd, will i need to download any gpu drivers onto the ssd as well? or any other notable drivers?... Thanks in advance

Hey guys, recently got the i7-4790k....L3 batch. Im using a phanteks PH-TC14PE cooler in a corsair 540 air case. CPU runs 4.4ghz turbo with 1.374V, but the temps are so sporatic using Realtemp + HW Monitor im getting spikes of up to 70C just browsing webpages. (Not using the IGPU). Anyone...

Hello there, I am going to build a new pc and I wonder... if it would be better to buy a FX 6300 with 2x4gb ram at 1866ghz OR a FX 8320 and a 1x4gb ram at 1866ghz and upgrade to 8gb in some months...... I am going to buy a ga-790-a ud3p motherboard... what do you think? would 4gb ram be...