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So I'm playing on old integrated graphics. Due to my family computer having an apu. Trying to play fortnite with friends but it's hard as I find fps constantly dropping resulting in a semi non playable and extremely unsatisfactory game play. Thinking about getting a gtx 1050 as they are...

Hi, I'm looking at buying a new rig that has a MSI Z370 GAMING M5 ATX motherboard. The on-board audio is Realtek 7.1 and under the features list it says, "Audio Boost 4: Isolated audio with a high quality audio processor & Nahimic 2+ for the most immersive gaming experience." (I have no idea...

What does it mean by directx 11 sound device? Does my motherboard Gigabyte G31M-ES2C has it? I pre-purchesed https://store.steampowered.com/app/866800/The_Walking_Dead_The_Final_Season/ which has 'directx 11 sound device as system requirements, plz explain. My graphics card is GT 1030 gddr5.

Hey everyone, I just got a new laptop a couple of days ago (Dell G5) and it runs great except for the desktop. Whenever I try to do anything on the desktop (including a simple right click), I get the spinning blue wheel for a few minutes. It only does this on the desktop. I cannot see any...

Im trying to Forward the ports on my router, but when I test them online, it says that the port is closed. I have used both UDP and TCP protocol on 62842, and I've used 192.168.1.5 as the internal host, I disabled both the windows firewall and the router firewall, but it still doesn't work.

on win 8.1 i setup user login with gmail account when i try login to the new user gmail account password doesn't work. when i add the new user gmail account it does not ask for a password. so is there a default password?. can anyone help with this problem. ty chris

I was thinking the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, but I'm worried it won't be enough. First time Gaming build and this is the last component. I originally though of using NZXT Kraken X62, but people said it was overkill. I have never done any overclocking before but with the 8600K I think I'll...

Did a new build recently, used Windows 10 pro as my OS on an M.2 drive. Everything worked great. I then tried downloading Star Citizen through their launcher but had lots of trouble to do that. One of the fixes recommended was to take complete ownership of my primary drive. Windows did not like...

As the title suggests, I'm having some trouble with my gamepads developing phantom movements over time. At first, through a little google search, I thought it was just xbox gamepads that had the problem because that's all I ever see results for, and that's all I ever had before. Now, however...

Hi, i want to buy new cooler for my r5 because stock cooler is loud for me. Here are cooler that i chose and dont recommend me any other please! Sorry for bad English First: Be Quiet Pure Rock Second: RAIJINTEK Leto PRO Black white LED Third: COOLERMASTER Hyper MA410P RGB led Now, i read that...

Hi guys, my question is a little long so pls read it carefully: Currently building up a new gaming pc, I have chosen these parts for my build: - core i5 8400 - B360M-D3H Mobo - GTX 1060 6GB - RAM 2x8GB 2666Mhz - 2 HDDs 1TB WD Blue 7200-RPM Finally i got confused about choosing a case, the...

Many people say that cleaning the Windows registry improves performance and stability and others say that is it useless and may mess up your PC. So I would like to know which saying is true, and please give an explanation with your opinion.

I know which module is broken, I don't know what's wrong with it, and Corsair wants me to send both sticks back in order to return them. I was just wondering if there's anything I can do in windows in order to like, reset the ram stick or something to fix it, or at least attempt to. I know it's...

I have lenovo w8.1 laptop with 32gb ssd and I want to plug in 500GB sd card which shows up as "D" drive. I want to change default save(docs) to this D drive

What are the procedures that are followed when opening a laptop

Which one would would be a a good product to buy GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G or Gigabyte Radeon™ RX 560 Gaming OC 4G for MSI Z170M motherboard?

high everyone, I bought the new dell g7 gaming laptop. configured with 16gb of ddr4 2666 MHz ram, i7 8750h cpu, and a gtx 1060 6gb max q video card. the thermals are pretty good, the question I have is that the fans stay on when leaving the game the fans stay on till the temp reaches around 39c...

Hi Toms Hardware. I'll try to make this sound intelligent. I'm playing rally games (currently WRC7) on triple 49" 4k TVs. Using Nvidia surround at a resolution of 11520x2160 @60htz. GPU is a GTX Titan X Maxwell. Now the game can be selected in the display settings to output this resolution...

I have seen some eBay listing and they seem to be going around $170. I saw one listing that is selling an r9 290 for 160 buy now. is that a good price for a 290 or there are cheaper and better cards out there. and also there is a reference card for 100. if I do get a 290 should spend the extra...

Hi, I upgraded my pc a couple of times and now i think its time to upgrade my cpu , mother board ,hard drive and case. My current build is: CPU :intel i5 3550 3.3Ghz 6mb MOBO :asus p8z77-m GPU :gtx 1060 6gb HDD :Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 500mb RAM : corsair vengeance LP 2X4GB DDR3 1600MHz PSU...

Acer X27 4k 144hz, finally! Will test and do a review on it. Which system will be faster? Planning to run some of the top games, 3d mark, etc. 5ghz 8700k with 2x titan XP SLI stock 4.8ghz 7900x with 2x 1080ti sli, watercooled and overclocked Stay tuned!

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My son wants a laptop to code and browse the web. I'm not sure whether to get a chromebook or not. Lots of people have suggested a business class laptop like the thinkpad t420 refurbished like: https://www.ebay.com/itm/311439017491 and to buy it a battery...

I recently noticed that something has been eating up a lot of RAM, even when my PC is idle. My memory usage would occasionally hit between 60% and 70% whilst idle, 80% if I was using Chrome. I know Chrome hogs RAM, but this was never usually a problem until recently. I tried to find out what...

I Have an old DLink DIR-615. I would like to connect it wirelessly to my current network in order to be able to use it as an access point via an ethernet cable for another machine in another room that isn't wifi enabled. Is this kind of thing even possible? I worked through this tutorial...

what is the best budget motherboard for an I58600 non k with easy overclock to be able to boost the CPU to turbo frequency

Can someone build a pc with i5 8400 with carbide spec 03 on http://www.nanotek.lk/ and if u can take a screenshot of the build and upload on imgur and send me :) the reason why im telling to build in this is because im gonna buy from this shop. pcaprtpicker not work for me because i cant pay...

I was wondering if i could replace the psu in this pc so i can add a graphics card into it?

PC stability issues. Unable to root cause what piece of hardware is the culprit. I have a bit of a Frankenstein build, so if more info is needed just ask. CPU: AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor RAM: 2x G.Skill Intl F3-12800CL9-4GBXL (8GB total) Mobo: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P (bios version FB)...

Hello, I have this pc for 1 year and worked perfectly. But today I pulled out one RAM stick, worked perfectly again. And then I've put again the RAMS but in not the same order. And now, I have the motherboard ASUS Z170-A and on it, is a red light,that stays lit. (MEMok / DRAM button) What...

This started about a month ago, but using voice chat applications, or playing games totally bombs the internet for just me. I live with a family of 3 and there's no difference in my internet when they're streaming video or anything like that. The weird thing is that when I play games, ranging...

When I first come to the computer, it has the normal screen but as soon as I touch any key the screen goes black with only the cursor showing. Doesn’t matter what button I push nothing happens. I have tried alt ctrl, delete, and nothing?

My HCL L1114 Model laptop does not opening windows..it is showing the folloing options i followed those even though it is not responding... options are like this. F2 or Del to setup F12 Boot from LAN F7 Boot options Tab Diagnostic ...please help me to come out from the problem...

Hello everyone and happy Saturday, I just had a question on my current motherboard, it's mediocre at best. However, from what I am seeing on PC Part Picker it's saying everything is compatible. My concern is if my motherboard can handle a new CPU. My current CPU is a Model: Z1-7641 or MSI...

I got a M5A99X EVO R2.0 and I bought a new procesor for my PC. I got a Corsair with 800w power suply, 16GB - 1600 speed, video card - Sapphire Radeon R9 280X. The problem is that after I play a while, my computer freeze. Before I got this power suply, I was using a 670w power suply. The temps...

Hi guys, currently i'm building up a new pc for gaming, and because i wanna try so many games with high spaces i decided to buy 2TB HDD Western Digital Blue. But i have found out that the WD blue HDD 2TB is only 5400 RPM and i was hoping for 7200 RPM, honestly i have no experience about...