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Hey everyone. Deciding between two MBs. Currently New Egg has some sales and came across two I thought looked pretty good. First https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-strix-z590-a-gaming-wifi/p/N82E16813119371?Item=N82E16813119371 Second https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813157981?Item=N82E16813157981 ...

Hello! I am looking to build a new PC because the market is looking better now. I have the option of a 3060 (for 525$ CAD) [MSI GAMING X Edition] or a 3070 gigabyte gaming OC for 720$. Is the 200$ difference worth the performance difference...

I just bought used RTX 2070 for 290€. Will I regret doing this? I'm asking this because used GPUs are expected to drop in price after the release of RTX 3060 and the release of Big Navi from AMD. I was scouting for about a month to get a somewhat decent price for the RTX 2070. Was it a good...

Hi there guys! So i've been using a PC since I was 10 or less. I had a few MacBook in the past years and they felt comfy, but i always returned to PC because of gaming. I built a High End Gaming PC in 2019 Q3 but now i'm just not playing that much. I have a new company notebook (Dell G5 maxed...

Hi guys! So I was on a used market site, like usual, when I found a super duper good deal! The PC is rocking an i7 2600k @4.2 GHz, an R9 390X 8gb VRAM, 8gb DDR3 Ram, 1 TB HDD, an SSD (i don't know the name and the capacity of it, but is still an SSD, right?), Removed WATERCOOLING FOR JUST 200$...

I currently have two 27" flat screen monitors. I am planning on buying a third so I can play games across three monitors using Nvidia surround. I thought it would be really cool to have a curved monitor in the center of my two flat screen monitors. Would this look strange in any way? or are...

I am making a PC mostly for gaming and some for just using the web,(please don't say that i can have lower end parts for this), and before I make any purchases I wanted to just get multiple expert's opinions on the list of parts I have to see if there is any errors, or any recommendations you...

I've got 10 years old DELL Inspiron 535s slim tower with following config: Processor: Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93GHz Ram : 4GB DDR2 OS: Windows 10 64-bit PCIe: possibly version 2.0 PSU: 250 watt PSU Motherboard Snapshot: How much DDR2/DDR3 RAM can Dell Inspiron 535s Windows 10 64-Bit support ?

Ok so I’m thinking on picking up a new CPU for my PC as I recently upgraded to a 2060. My current board is an MSI B350 Tomahawk which I bought back in the beginning of December. I was wondering if the Ryzen 2600 or 2600X would be compatible with the board straight out of the box or would I have...

Was just wondering if an audio splitter would recognize both my headphones and speakers individually even though the splitter is just using the single port. Also, would I be able to switch back and forth from my headphones to speakers or vice versa just from one audio splitter? When I was using...

Hi all Please can someone tell me the difference between custom cable sleeves and a cable extension kit like the phanteks One? Is the extension kit basically unplugging all the cables I:e your motherboard,graphics card etc. Hiding them at the back and adding the extension kit for colour?Or do...

Just recently changed my motherboard and processor to a Gigabyte Z390 UD and a i5 9600K. Running on my old 2x8 GB 2133MHz I'm probably not getting the Best put of my CPU. But when it comes to upgrading is it worth buying 4000 MHz now or should I go with 3200 or 3600 MHz?

Hi, I have a question about the RGB controller switch that comes with the Cooler Master Masterbox K500. So it comes with a switch that has a button. The instructions included are terrible, but luckily I came across this link, which shed a LITTLE light on things. So it says you can use the...

MY games run perfectly smooth and all the audio coming to my headset is super clear but for some reason my Snowball micropone (that works on other computers fine) sound really muffled, distorted, and trash. What do you think the issue is?

Is RX 570, Ryzen 5 2600 and 8GB 2400MHz CL15 okay for 600€? (mainly asking about the RAM)

Title. I'd appreciate it if someone told me how to fix my error. Thread Link: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/my-fx-8350-is-underperforming.3463905/

Hi Guys, I have a very weird issue i have spent hours on trying to solve it but coudn't find a solution. I have bought a new desktop (specs below). I decided to do a fresh install because of all the new components. Now my computer randomly freezes out of nowhere. Sometimes there is an hour in...

So is having a micron memory still an issue these days i want to buy this zotac gpu (indonesian site) https://www.tokopedia.com/tokoexpert/zotac-gtx-1050-ti-oc-4gb-ddr5-dual-fan-oc-edition its around 170 usd cheapest for a TI i think? also saw a manli and inno3d non oc and one fan only on the...

So i have 2 pc's in my room. One of them is my girlfriend's PC. So we gonna call them PC1 and PC2. So for a long time now, PC1 microphone just doesn't work. I tried to connect it in the back or in the front panel of the PC but it doesn't work. I tried to reinstall realtek drivers, i tried to...

Hello, Another question, another advice needed by you guys. This time around I'm looking for a decent looking case with glass panel and decent airflow for 55-65€. I'm not really limited with space, so it doesn't have to be microATX but I don't mind it as well. Some of the options that I've...

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...

I am trying to do a "windows update" with my laptop, but it takes hours and hours without any response, it stuck on the screen "checking for windows update“ and no next action. Does windows 8.1 already No more updates?

I'm considering to upgrade my graphics card from 1050 ti to 1660 ti but my cpu is a Pentium g4560. I just want maybe max settings 1080p 60 fps avg in games until I can buy new motherboard and CPU... Or should I upgrade my cpu first ? I'm really confused cause people are saying bottlenecks is...

So my laptop hardisk run into some trouble. Before my hardisk is full i dont have any trouble but now my hardisk only have 2 GB left and now it run some problems. So the problem is i cannot delete or cut any file in my hardisk. I can copy but no cut and delete. Also i cannot save my document...

Hello ^_^ need a CPU 775 socket preferably the fastest one for gaming paired with a decent graphics card. My motherboard is a GIGABYTE Ga-945gzm s2 (rev 3.9) chipset is 945gz, 2gb ddr2 slots (I have 800mhxlz Corsair xms2 it posts runs but limits my ram to 667mhz even though it should be 533?) ...

I am using rx 580 and the temp max is normal at 75c but the fan spin so fast it reach 3000rpm should i repaste my gpu or what should i do? I am tested it with software named furmark, i ran it for four minute thanks

Hi everyone, I've just upgraded my PC (full spec below), one of the components is a Samsung SSD 860 EVO m.2 1Tb. I've screenshotted a benchmark result below - the benchmark shows the m.2 drive and also a standard SATA drive for comparison - they are exactly the same. I thought these m.2...

Everytime I turn full screen mode on and use v-sync/adaptive sync, my game locks at 60fps. I would be happy to play on windowed borderless as it correctly caps my fps at 82 (my monitors refresh rate) but every 5 seconds the game would feel sluggish and not feel smooth for a couple of seconds...

Hi, I was wondering if the following motherboard and cpu pair are compatible with each other. I think so, but I want to be sure before buying them. Mobo: https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/Z270%20Killer%20SLIac/index.asp#CPU CPU...

Hello, I get high CPU usage in games like fortnite and bf5. I know that this isn’t technically a bad thing, but as it almost reaches 100% in a single core, i get game stutter and the gameplay isn’t very smooth. I would like to get rid of the stutter and smooth my gaming out. What should i...

I've been having problems with my laptop. For months its been having issues with "programs not responding". I didnt think much of it. Its an older laptop so I figured its just slow. BTW, the laptop is Compaq Presario CQ62, running Win 7. About a week or two ago it got noticebly worse. Programs...

Hello everyone, I just wanted to ask if you think my graphics card is fried or if you think it can be repaired via drivers or something, since I bought it it had checkerboard patterns from time to time and now it just did this. I removed it and used the motherboard integrated graphics and it...

I am not sure what speakers to get for my TV. I don't know anything about speakers and soundbars. I don't really care about bluetooth or other features. I just want the best sound possible for my money. I have a big living room (around 25 square meters) and a 60 inch tv. Should I get separate...

win 7 cpu: i7-3820 (cheap water cooled) mobo: giga x79-ud3 gpu: 1060 (few months older than my problem) ssd: Sam 850 ram: 16gb of some cheap 1333 ddr3 psu: some random 500W that i've had for like 5 years I get a crash and reboot after playing more demanding games for over 30 mins. (Madden &...

I have been trying to install windows 10 on my new “Samsung 970evo” m.2 But I only get a error saying “Windows can not be installed on this drive. The computer hardware might not support booting on the drive. Control that the drive controller is activated in the computer BIOS” I have looked...

Hey, So I peeved someone off in a game of League of Legends - they left the game, and then five minutes later my system started experiencing very intense lag. When I was trying to type, it would input several extra characters, and on the punctuation keys would give me the uppercase versions...

HELP!! After using my laptop for about 5-10 minutes, the laptop hangs and shows vertical with distorted colors and stuff. The windows is inaccessible on that stage and the only way to turn the laptop off is to turn it off with the power button manually. I really need help. I'M JUST NEW HERE...

The problem is easy; no matter what I do the setup is not working. Everything is what is supposed to be, I connected the PSU and graphic card then I plugged black cable (NGFF to HDMI cable) and pressed the power button but unfortunately the computer didn't boot up there were no sign of problem...

hi all, my mother board is a Gigabyte GA-A320M-S2H version 1.0 but i got really confused by youtubers saying qualifeid ram but what would happens when i dont have a "qualifeid" ram. the ram i want to use is CMV4GX4M1A2133C15 it would really help if this gets solved becuse im new to pc building.

I have a Gigabyte 970A-DS3P. I also hav an FX6300 and GTX 960, of which i want to upgrade. I am getting a new CPU first. DO i need new motherboard as i cant afford one on top of a new CPU. thanks luke