Disk Drives

Hello, I bought my computer as a custom workstation from an online store many years ago. I've gotten a new computer and I wish to sell some of the disk drives from the old computer. The 4 Intel DC S3500 Series 800GB SATA III SSD are in RAID0 with a MARVELL controller. They are not the OS drive...

I booted my SSD today and I got the Orange Screen of Death. My screen is covered in vertical white and orange bars and I have no idea how to fix it. I turned off my PC and tried rebooting. It booted up, however this time I was on the HDD. I checked Device Manager, and even after waiting 15+...

Hi. I'm currently replacing a motherboard, CPU, and RAM for my friend. I installed all of the components and booted up into bios, but none of his previously used drives or SSD is being recognized by the bios. I have my power and sata cables attached, yet none of them are appearing, despite me...

Hey, I'm looking into building a PC with a high budget. Budget around £1500-1700. Thats in pounds, so roughly 1931-2188 Dollars. Although prices do differ between USA and UK. I know I want at least an i7 9700k, perhaps even an i9 9900k if I have the room. The gpu is undecided on, but at least...

I would like to play farming simulator 18 on my pc without internet.

I have 2 choices: PS4 slim 1tb @ 230$ and PS4 pro 1tb @ 340$ What choice is better? I have a 4k tv but I will play it only at night. During the day, I will play on a full HD monitor. My use of PS4 will be for Red Dead Redemption 2, Spider Man, God of War 4 and maybe a few other exclusives...

I have a dh61ww intel desktop board and I can't run any games on it (except cs1.6 and vcop2 and some other flash games). For eg: Gta vice city says it needs at least 12 mb of ram. I have 4gb ram. The main problem is the integrated graphics card. When i install the latest graphics driver the...

The other day i randomly started dropping heavy frames when gaming and soon realized it was due to cpu usage by the antimalware service exectable, which from what ive learned is Windows Defender. After scouring the internet in search of answers these are the things i have done : I tried...

Hi, I've just bought a new PC. It has a GTX 1060 graphics card and Ryzen 2600 processor. The problem is the monitor/tv I used for my PS4 which displayed games at 1920x1080. Windows 10 is stating the recommended resolution is 1366x768. The monitor/tv is the Samung ue28j4100. If I change to...

connect 2 routers to 1 modem! I am looking to have different SSID's, and I want to connect 2 routers (Generic router from ISP and Linksys WRT 1200ac v.1 Smart WiFi router). Please provide expert opinions.:)

Bros,i have 1×8 gb gskill 2400mhz ddr4 ram and can I buy vengeance 1×4gb ddr4 2400mhz ram and work both them together in dual channel Mode?

Can anyone recommend a CPU cooler that will fit this spec... Case mid tower atx tower with a microatx ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 9by9inch motherboard with a a3+ socket and amd fx8350 CPU. my tower case size 16.5 inch(D) by 17 inch(H) by 7 inch(W) PSU 500W Thanks for the help:-)

Is it normal for my CPU (AMD Athlon II X3 455) to run at a constant 52 degrees celsius under a CPU-Z stress test (all cores at 3.3 GHz, also I noticed the fan always spins at 3000-3200 RPM even when cpu is idle)? I have a stock cooler and recently I added MX 4 thermal paste between the CPU and...

I have Lenovo 110S laptop and it want type anything.

I've got HP t5740 / HP T55xx PV900h Thin Client motherboard (P/N 621769-001). I would like to have 4 GB instead of 2 GB RAM, therefore I've bought used chip - Goodram gr1333s364l9s/4g, but when I swap chips, thin client does not start. I am not sure what is wrong since from my research it...

Hello, my hard drive was just recently corrupted and completely broke. I had to install a new one and lost all of my data on my old drive. After booting up Windows 10 on the new drive, I find that I need the product key to fully activate my copy of Windows. Unfortunately, I misplaced the key and...

A r5 2600x with a h100i v2 or a r7 2700x without Or even an i7 8700k with a h100i v2. I will use it for gaming, some video editing and maybe streaming.

I have an Nvidia gtx 1080 ti, and installed the most recent drivers (397.31) two days ago. The windows driver updater and the driver properties both recognize 397.31 as the current installed driver. However, my DxDiag says that the driver was last updated June 26, 2017. I built this computer...

I want to upgrade my Processor and Memory on my computer. I have a i5 6500 with 8gb of ram, a gtx 1060, ssd and hard drive. I want to upgrade to a i7 and as well as 16 gigs of ram. I plan to stream and record games as well. Can somebody help me as far as what CPU I should upgrade to. I have 600w...

Hey, I've been playing modded kerbal space program on my laptop with few graphical mods. My gpu bottlenecks my cpu all the time so the cpu is running at around 70% having it work at this level for an extended period of time made my cpu average a temperature of 100 Celcius all the time...

Hi, I am looking for the best value b350 board and my heart became set on the strix b350-f, however now I'm seeing people say that if I get that board I should get the x370 prime. I'm only using an r5 1600 since thats one of the best value chips I can find and I may overclock a bit. I don't know...

So have a 1080 card on the way. Rather than use a 1440 144hz monitor I was thinking of spending the money on a new 4k tv preferably a 65". As I enjoy gaming on my couch on a big screen more than the desk. I understand that the monitor would give better Framerate and such. But as a guy who...

My old Lenovo ThinkPad x201 has been experiencing, well, "old laptop" issues for a while, but has still worked fine. However, randomly, a few weeks ago, it won't turn on. What will happen: the charging light is on (if plugged in) and the sleep light is on, if I turn it on, every light will flash...

my pc specs: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02870583 Graphics currently using: NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti I want a better graphics card to run games like the evil within 2,cod ww2,gta 5 at high settings 1080 but i don't know which one to get or if ill need extra stuff like CPU or something. Help...

So, I just built a new PC and plan on adding an SSD very soon. My roommate tells me I need to reinstall windows 10 because it has all my old drivers for my old motherboard and it might conflict. I also sometimes see prompts to reinstall. I would like to move all my old programs to the new SSD...

My computer randomly turns off after several hours. It doesn't normally turn off either, my monitor will go black and my keyboard and mouse led's turn off, but my cpu fan and other fans still work and spin. I try just manually turning it off and then on, but sometimes it posts and goes to...

okay, i have the masterliquid 240 and this is the specs of the fans that come with it Fan Fan Size 2 Fan Slots (120mm) Fan Dim. 120.00 x 120.00 x 25.00mm Fan RPM 650 - 2000 RPM (PWM) +/- 10% Fan Air Flow 66.7 CFM (Max) Fan Noise 6 - 30 dBA Color Black so I would want two 4-pin 120mm fans right...

Before I start with my problem, I have gotten Fallout 3 to work on this PC before. Auto detect set my graphics settings to Ultra High. I have uninstalled it since (this was about a year ago that I last played this game.) Upon re-installation I am beset with this error. I ended up giving up and...

I want build a middle-level gaming desktop. Not to spend much money (because I have to spend lots of money for a graphic card), I want to transfer some of my laptop components to the desktop. HDD is pretty simple to transfer. I can also use my mobile RAMs in the desktop via an adapter such as...

Hello, I'm looking to buy a gaming laptop for around $750-900, has to have a backlit keyboard and decent enough to run high end video games. I was looking into some MSI laptops but they seem to be kinda expensive. I've also heard Sager laptops look very unattractive. Looking to any suggestions...

Hello my GPU temperature according to SpeedFan is about 40 idle and around 60 while gaming. Is this a normal thing? I have 4 gigs of RAM but my CPU usage never goes above 40%. I have a Nvidia gtx 710 graphics card

I currently have single channel DDR4 2133MHZ HyperX Fury RAM and I heard that the quantity of the other stick of RAM doesn't matter unless you want a certain amount of RAM.

Hello, So I originally had Windows 7 installed on my PC. I still have the Windows 7 OEM Disks. Since then I upgraded to Windows 10. I am planning on doing a fresh install of Windows 10. I have heard that you don't need a windows 10 key since it hardware locks onto your MOBO. So essentially, I...

Alright boys this is just for curiosity's sake but here is a strawpoll so CAST YOUR VOTE here: https://strawpoll.com/g2r43wb Every vote counts....because no one is going to read this.

I did about 10 minutes of research as to how much voltage each light on a string of christmas lights runs. About 2.5 volts. A string of 48 lights at 2.5 volts each adds up to 120 volts on the string. These lights will accept AC or DC power. good, good. So! A 12v Molex divided by 4, 2.5 volt...

Okay so i need cash, and I really don't feel the need for 2 monitors anymore, if anything it seems to interrupt gaming when some games let the mouse drift off screen. My first monitor is a Dell Ultrasharp 25' at 2560x1440 60hz My 2nd monitor is an Asus VX248 24' at 1920x1080 60hz I play most...

I recently upgraded to a Gtx 1070 and realise i've been getting much lower fps than i expected. In csgo i struggle to get over 200 and sometimes drop below 144. I Know Csgo is a cpu intensive game so i also overclocked my cpu to 4.3Ghz. Btw csgo is on all low setting and 1920x1080. I tried to...

What is considered a better choice for gaming..

Hi guys, i'm Helton from new jersey, and i would like to ask you if someone knows if a different model of case can fit in a certain different model. like AM14R000530 cases on a AM14R000300 laptop. and if you have any link for shop. i appreciate your help since them. thank you! Why do i need...

Hello I have a rx 470 sapphire nitro+ 8Gb. This is my first time with an amd graphic. My last Graphic Card was a GTX 750 Ti. I tested my rx on fallout 4 on ultra i get 60-45 fps because i have i3 too xD, but it's a huge upgrade! Anyway temp for a hour of fallout 4 were 70 celsius. I know is...