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Hi, I'm currently thinking about building a workstation/gaming rig in the coming months, as I'm starting to take on more jobs for 3D modeling and game art/dev, and will be going to university in a few months to pursue a degree in a similar field so having a PC capable of handling the sort of...

Hi Guys HP All-in-One PC Core i5 8/512GB or R5-4600H/16GB/512GB for running Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Pro What are your general thoughts for using a HP 24" All-in-One PC Core i5 8/512GB White 24-df0026a for some basic home use work as well as some occasionally running some of the Adobe...

My mother's desktop computer recently had issues. After using the computer for a while, these lines (picture links below) would appear on the screen. Sometimes everything on the computer screen would freeze (even the mouse cursor) after using the computer for some time. She had to restart the...

Can you recommend a paid search engine and FTP software for PC?

Is there any dongle or device or software to watch online video on PC and prevent connection damage?

I tried to turn my desktop on today and got no result, I’ve taken out the psu and put it back in to no avail, but when jump started using a paper clip the psu ran fine. I tried removing the clock battery, holding the power button for thirty seconds, and waiting for a few minutes before...

Hi, I’ve this problem with static electricity and my newly purchased desktop. Question: Might a PC being overly sensitive to static electricity be indicative of poor workmanship/design? I’m within the return period and it’s the 2nd in this household (same exact make and model) with the same...

Hi! I have 2 1080p monitors in duplicate mode. I want to replace one of the two with a new 1440p monitor but keep them in duplicate mode. Will it work, or it will downscale the 1440p scale monitor to 1080p?

I recently built a desktop pc with an AMD Ryzen 5 3500X and an MSI B450 motherboard but reused the hard drive from my non-functional, HP made, Intel i5-7200U laptop. The hard drive had over 1Tb of data on it and I didn't want to do a clean install of windows because I would lose all of the data...

Hi, I want to know if I can use two strips at the same time on my pc. i have an old power strip that is: https://mega-gospodar.com.ua/p1193256220-setevoj-filtr-udlinitel.html Surge protector 2.5 m with universal power outlets (standard Europe, America, China, Australia). Characteristics...

A grinding sound is coming from the inside of my desktop case. It isn't noticeably affecting performance, but the sound is annoying and I want to address it in case it actually is a problem besides just the noise. Some suspect it is a fan issue, but I am skeptical from prior experience. This is...

Hi, My Dell Laptop's motherboard got fried rendering it useless. I have now shifted to a Lenovo Desktop. Is it possible to use the LAPTOP's integrated webcam on the Desktop? Any steps on how to connect? Can the laptop's RAM be used in the Desktop? Unable to find any article/video on...

Approximate Purchase Date: within six months Budget Range:£1500-2000 System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming Are you buying a monitor: Yes (samsung g9) Do you need to buy OS: Yes Preferred Website(s) for Parts: pc part picker Location: South Wales Parts Preferences: samsung g9...

First, suddenly pc turns black then locks but it is still open. After a few hours, the pc shutdown while after a few hours while in use. Sleep settings are already turned off. Is it possible that it is overheating? PC Specs: Hailan All in One PC CPU: i5 7th Gen GPU: Intel Graphics HD 630 RAM: 8...

So I have had this problem for a few months now but I thought that my mic was just bad (I have a Neewer 8000 Usb Microphone), but I looked at some videos of the mic that sounded perfect quality. I had finally had enough of this problem, so I looked up some fixes and did some testing. The PC that...

Hi there fellow gamers and computer enthusiasts. I've been having a gaming PC with an i9-9900K, RTX 2080 Ti and 32GB of RAM for 1 year and 4 months now and I never changed it's thermal paste. Aside from this, like 2 months ago the rear case fan, the one which takes out the air which my Noctua...

My very first desktop PC was built in 2004 and it had an AMD Duron 950 MHz CPU 😄 Specs: https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Duron 950 - D950AUT1B.html

Hello everyone! Recently, I've been having a recurring issue on Xubuntu 20.04 LTS where my desktop freezes up but I can move my mouse cursor around and access TTYs. Somebody told me that this issue has been happening with other Linux distros as well. I also found out that a bunch of people who...

Below is my machine's hardware information on speccy profile. http://speccy.piriform.com/results/oTGtNCwmvRrxKFEUnWl7gVe When I press the power button on my desktop it turns on and I see the LED indicators ON and cpu fan spinning and no display. Within few seconds it turns off completely and...

So, really weird issue here. I've been getting bad packet loss while gaming on my desktop for quite some time now. All this time, I assumed it was my ISP's fault, but I'm starting to think i was wrong. I used another laptop in my house to ping to the router to test packet loss, and i get NO...

Hello, i have a quick question which is annoying me quite a bit. My desktop is connected via an ethernet cable in a power line adapter. I usually get around 10-15Mb/s download speed (which is way lower than it should be). So i tried connecting my laptop to the same power line adapter using the...

i was just playing injustice 2 and streaming at the same time using streamlabs obs, when suddenly my pc simple shut down with no meesage nothing, just black screen on mymonitor, but the pc was literally shut down. when i turned it back on and i checked event viewer this is what came out from...

Hi, My monitor does not seem to be receiving signal from my desktop PC, I have tried swapping the cables and using different monitors and it does not receive signal. I opened the side panel and turned the power on to check that everything was working, and the GPU fans, case fans and CPU all...

Hello there, wasn't sure if this should be posted as a question or discussion, but ultimately decided the former as that is what I originally wanted this post to be. It might be a slightly lengthy post, because I have a little explanation to do and a lot of pieces to gather opinions about. To...

Hi All, I've been really struggling to resolve this issue and would really appreciate some help, basically, after upgrading my ram to a new 4x8 kit (from 1x8) and starting to play cyberpunk and borderlands 3, my pc started crashing where the monitor goes black, audio glitches occur (depending...

So lately I've been having this problem where I've noticed that my cursor hasn't been running as smooth as it should be, but only after the pc has been on for a while. Meaning that when I first boot my pc, my cursor is fine and everything is fine but as the day goes on, the motion of the cursor...

Here are two pictures View: https://imgur.com/a/EOninXW the first one is how my icons look in file explorer but on the desktop the look normal and on the second picture is this thing that pops up when i start my pc, this has not happend before i updated in the microsoft store and yeah. Also...

I am out of ideas after working on this machine for few weeks. Please help. and thank you. System was working fine then one day it won't boot anymore. System fail on boot. When turn on, it will flash normal system boot messages and turns off. All within 3-5 sec after seeing the messages. After...

I've recently made my first build. After booting it up, the system showed that both my SSD and HDD were connected, however only the storage capacity of the SSD shows in storage settings. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hellooo, I recently decided to boot up my old PC after about 2 years of not turning it on. It’s running an AMD A6 7400k 3.5GHz Dual Core Processor with 8GB of RAM. Its running much slower than it used too. It’s even slower than my old 1.4 GHz 4GB 2014 MacBook Air. I’m going to be using for...

I got and built my new PC a week ago (first ever build, and I had help because I'm a bit useless with this stuff), and it has been a sad, blue disaster ever since. Started with BSODs on the first night, and has happened at 5 minute to a couple hour intervals ever since. We have tried many many...

I am purchasing a new Desktop PC for Video Editing and I don't have access to my current Windows 10 Pro license key code the current PC I'm using I bought used. I would rather have a fresh install of Windows 10 that comes with the new PC I'm buying but that computer comes with Windows 10 Home...

I dont know if Im in the right thread, so let me know So I have watched this video: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJTCwSX9Ym8 and followed it. After the method in 25:28 I found my self on an empty desktop with all my valuable files wiped. The script I run deleted OneDrive. However...

My 6 year old desktop died nearly 2 months ago and I've been working on a budget build for my graphics design job so far everything appears to be working fine except the boot LED is on and this is because I'm trying to boot of my old hard drive from my old PC I I plan to just wipe the hard drive...

Hello, I just came on hear to hear some thoughts and opinions on my PC rig. I have recently done some upgrading and am considering upgrading my RAM as well from 16gb to 32gb. I usually only play games, don't stream often if any.. so just would like to hear if there are bottlenecks any where. I...

I got gigabit connection. while i'm downloading at full speed, when the download speed reaches 25MB/s ( so for instance when the download is starting to reach max download speed) i completely loose internet connection for 10 seconds, the download speed goes to 0bytes and then starts over, unless...

I am wondering if it is possible to build a desktop computer with multiple discrete GPUs that can be partitioned off into usable hardware for multiple virtual machines. For example, a computer build something like this: 8-Core CPU 4x 4GB RAM 4x GPUs (no SLI or Crossfire) Storage Etc...

Hi everyone I live on a island so the climate is humid, and today when I was going to clean my desktop I noticed some kind of water on the I/O cover, on the back of the Gpu (backplate) and on top of the case (inside, was dry). PC specs: Asus Rog Strix B360-f gaming; i5-8400; Gigabyte 1660...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0145S5Z8O/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It matches the same speed, and same ram type (DDR3) that the computer currently uses, so I was wondering. This is the PC I'm talking of...

Hello everyone and thanks for reading. A few months ago I bought an old HP Pro 3010 MT with the following specs. MoBo: IPIEL-LA3 CPU: Pentium e5300 (775) HDD : 320Gb RAM: 4Gb DDR3 1066HZ As soon as it arrived home I tried to replace the pentium with a CORE 2 DUO E8500 I had laying around, after...