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Hello... I am running Windows 10 and have all the updates installed. I run windows Disk Cleanup every month or so. When I launched it yesterday, I found a listing that says: Compress your OS Drive ---- 112 GB I have never used windows or any other application to compress my hard drive. I...

Dear experts, I would like to upgrade my PC a bit and hope that you can help me. Meanwhile I suffer from missing graphic details. I am playing titles like CoH2, Civ6, XCOM2 or ESO. Average FPS in CoH2 with MAX details is below 30 FPS. ESO is not playable with FULL details. I am bound to 1080p...

My pc randomly freezes wether im in a game or just on chrome it freezes for a few seconds then unfreezes. Sometimes the audio continues while the screen is frozen. It actually just froze while typing this but slightly diffrent to usual, I could move my cursor but couldnt click anything video...

I have an and athlon ii x2 245 CPU in my old rig, but i want to upgrade to a quad core CPU. I have a biostar mcp6p Mobo and have a price range of no more than 45 dollars. I was thinking of the athlon ii x4 645 or a phenom ii but idk. Is there another CPU that's better for the price and compatible?

Hi everyone, simple question - will I run it on the minimal requirements? If not, what should I do? Update my drivers or upgrade something in this old buddy? Please help! My PC: Windows 7 64 bit CPU: i3-3240 @ 3.40GHz RAM: 4 GB RAM GPU: AMD Radeon R7 200 Series Minimal requirements: Windows 7...

For budget build upgrading a old HP office PC I got for nothing. Upgraded to 16 gigs of 1333Mhz ddr3 and putting in a 4 gig Vram 1050 TI gpu in it. But it has a core 2 duo E7600 CPU in it and I want to upgrade. Rig will be used mainly for Divinci Resolve video editing and some light gaming...

As the title says, i have the EVGA GTX 1060 6gb Gaming and, to put it short, its hot. Under default fan curve it steadily goes to 83c and stays there because of thermal throttle. 100% fan speed manages to keep it at 76c under full load, but the fan is disturbingly loud. As such, i have ordered...

Hello everyone, After a destructive short on either the Mobo/GPU caused probably by leftover moisture after cleaning the pc i am awaiting replacement parts and currently deciding on wether to keep the PSU or get a new one. The new components will be Gigabyte AORUS Ultra LGA1151, Intel i7...

Hello. My internet has suddenly dropped form 800-1000 Mbps (download speed*) to 100-250 Mbps (download speed*) last week just on my PC and didn't do anything. I didn't download anything , didn't change a setting or a component. I have a wired connection from the router and a Network card...

I have windows 10 installed on an HDD that won't boot. I can't seem to fix the boot problem so I'm thinking I'd like to install a fresh Win10 on another HDD, then salvage the old installation (programs, configuration), etc as much as possible. Question: If I have a clean install of Windows...

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Before mentioning the issue I would like to show my PC specs- ASUS 540UP Notebook PC OS - Windows 10 64 bit CPU- Core i 5- 7200U , up to 3.18 Hz RAM- 4 gb graphics - Intel HD Graphics 620 + Radeon HD 8500M 2GB 6 mbps internet connection I play games such as call of duty modern warfare 3 ...

I have a set of 2 new 8gb corsair vengence DDR3 Sticks (cmz16gx3m2a1600c10r) from a recent RMA with corsair (replacing the excat same sticks i brough back in june) now if i mount them both my pc will not boot to bios but with one stick it boots as normal. i have tried each RAM stick in each...

So after trying and failing for hours to get my display to stop black screening when using AMD drivers, I decided to just give up and use Microsoft Basic Display Adapter until I can get a new GPU. however there is still the problem of these artefacts showing up on screen...

Hello guys, i want to ask you something, i found a good gpu (gtx560 1gb ddr5 256bit) which i can buy cheap , but the problem is that my pc is low end 4gb ddr2 ram and amd athlon 64 x2 (if im not mistaken) 2.20ghz, so if i put this thing on it, can it harm the pc somehow (too powerfull to handle)...

Hello everyone I was curious about if I buy an PSU from North America and use it in Europe ? Btw I'm planning to buy EVGA G3 850w. Are there's any difference about Voltage/Watts for regions ? Thanks for helping

I recently upgraded from an i5-650 to an i7-7700k. I changed to have more leway on multi processing. Since the upgrade performance went down the drain. I was running it on a g1 ga-z170mx gaming 5. I then switched to a Asus Maximus hero IX (hoping it would be better). Now on the hero the PC is...

Hi, My PC is 3 years old and since a few days i was facing few problems. it started with GTA V. few days back it froze and crashed. i verified steam files and 40 files failed. so, I formatted DRIVE H: and tried to reinstall then after 20GBs of download steam started showing CORRUPT DISK. i...

Can I connect to a workgroup with windows 10 home??? I can't see any other computers on network...even though I have the same workgroup name.

Hi, so I have this kinda low end motherboard (it's hp's don't know the exact model), the problem is that my old graphics card was not working so I recently bought Rx550 gigabyte 2gb, and it had windows 8 but the card wanted win10 so I upgraded to Windows 10 64bit but the thing is that since that...

I have this computer monitor: https://www.amazon.com/SWIFT-PG278Q-27-inch-Gaming-Monitor/dp/B00MSOND8C And I love it except I was surprised that I am unable to plug more than 1 Display port piece of equipment in at a time. So right now I have my computer hooked into it, but I would love to be...

I'm looking for the best upgrade possible within the 100-150$ range. I just wondered if there is a better option then my current processor out there. Im also willing to upgrade to a newer motherboard. My gpu is a gtx 1050 msi 2gb

Installed IO Crest 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 2.0 x1 Controller Card in a PCIe x16 slot and the card seems to be working. I have 4 of my current 6 drives plugged into it to test it. When I try to add a 7th drive, I get stuck at POST screen. I tried another PSU (800w) and its still doing it. In my...

For some unknown reason my liquid cooling unit over CPU stopped while i was in game and my CPU overheated, it got thermal throttled. I could see decrease in game performance ( freezing and fps drop ) however for several minutes I couldn't figure out what happened. Finally I looked at CPU and...

Hello there, I have done quite a bit of research, but not found many answers on Password protecting a system folder such as C:\windows\ Thanks for your help

after i took the back off and cleaned the fan, the LED lights up to show it is charging, however I can not turn it on and I don't know why.

So i have a huge problem with my new buildt pc when i restarted it yesterday it went very slow and now it takes 20 minutes to boot up and when it does boot up i cant press anything without having to wait like 10 min i have seen other threads about this and noone of them seem to help so i hope...

Hey, guys my hands are 19cm long and 10cm wide, and my playstyle is palmgrip. Can you guys help me on a good mouse that fits perfectly my hand?

If you have preordered the game, then you will have access to the Aztecs right from the get go. Otherwise, you'll have to wait three months for them to become available to play. The Aztecs excel at the early game, by going to war as soon as they possibly can and growing strong with every...

Hi, I'm wondering if I connect the GPU directly with the TV, using a HDMI cable, will I need to buy speakers separately, or it's going to detect and use the TV ones?

Alright, I'm at my wit's end with this computer, and I desperately need help. First off, specs: i5 6600k (not overclocked) MSi GTX 970 16GB DDR4 2400Mhz RAM MSi B150M Bazooka motherboard EVGA 750W Supernova G2 So starting in mid-July of this year my computer would just randomly start to crash...

I want to build a media server in my house and stream 4k movies from my bedroom where my pc/media server will be to my TV in the living room via PLEX. What router/modem do i need? What specs of the router will make a difference?

My Laptop randomly spikes to 100 percent disk usage. I've noticed it mostly when I try to play games (can vary between World of Warcraft to League of Legends or Dark Souls). I tried superfetch, windows search, notifications, changing the virtual memory with your ram think in performance, used...

Hey everybody, I'm looking for a cpu, ram, mobo combo so I'd be really grateful if somebody could help m. Budget about 280-300 euro. Thanks a lot.

So I've built my first PC I've got all components installed correctly (It runs fine) however, when I install my gpu it wont display. This is after I've changed to on board graphics, installed all drivers and it says that the gpu is recognised, supported and up to date. however when I go into my...

so my cousins pc is unable to play battlefield 1 and many other newer games. he has a 550ti which I believe is the reason why. I am getting him some more ram and a ssd but need to know a gpu capable of running these games(don't have to be high settings. low/medium will do) and is less than £130...

AMD A10-7850k (KAVERI) or NVIDIA GT 730 1G DDR5 ? Which VC is the best for medium settings on games ? Thank you for your answers.

I started up CS:GO and my screen turned a weird yellow color with darker yellow vertical bars on it. I turned it off using the power button and it wouldn't boot into windows. I took out the GPU and used the iGPU to reinstall Windows 10 using the recovery option. Sometimes it will let me log in...

Since today we have 500Mbps up/down (so we should get ~63MB/s up/down which we get via the speedtest.net results). but when im downloading something via chrome it downloads with 448KB/s. My other other computers download with a max speed of around 1.5MB/s using chrome. via origin 22.44MB/s and...

I've used multiple mobos (same model) and multiple PSU's. I've narrowed the problem down to the CPU, but the chances of a bad CPU are so poor I am refusing to accept it. Please confirm my suspicions. I've tried every troubleshooting rule in the book. Every attempt produces the same result, fans...