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Can any harddrive me compatible with any motherboard?

I've been using the 3gb 1060 for bitcoin mining for a while and noticed the old 760 box sitting in the corner of my closet. i did some research and found that this will apparently work for what i need it to do. I plugged it all in, hooked it all up, and then... windows wouldn't detect it. The...

Hi Recently my graphics card died, it was an ATI AMD Radeon HD 7770 1 GB GDDR5, I know its old but I was wondering if its worth anything(broken) or can it be repaired. The temps were quite high sometimes while playing like COD BO3, H1Z1, CSGO with 75 C to 87 C but only in summer and with no...

I'm having a hard time deciding if the extra $25-50 is worth it for an older GTX 970 over the roughly $200 for a 1050ti. I can get a MSI GTX 970 4GD5T OC for about $225 shipped from someone local (they belong to a Facebook group "PC gamers of" Ohio on my case.) Or should I get a 1050ti? I play...

i currently live in a shared house and have done for 8 months, had no issues with the wifi until a new guy moved in last month. now every time hes in the house i lose the connection. this doesnt happen when anybody else is in the house so i find it kinda strange and seriously annoyiny!! my phone...

I have recently been dealing with a memory issue where half my ram is being reserved for hardware in windows. I decided to check to see if one of my sticks wasn't working by placing one stick in slot 1 and keeping the other out. I tried both of them thinking that maybe one was faulty but they...

Hey it is my first time building a gaming PC and i was wondering what powersupply to use. During another post somewhone mentioned that the powersupply i am currently using might not be up to the task. This is my setup: The case: Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-ALPHA Motherboard: MSI B350 PC MATE...

Building a budget rig and only have $160 to do it, found a board with ram included, AM3 socket $80, need the best or close to the best AM3 socket CPU money can buy. Don't try to get me to buy something else i barely have any money and im already buying ebay.

Greetings, Just a quick question for you guys. When I connect my ssd sata hard drive to my motherboard, does it matter which sata slot I connect it to? Here are my system specs Case: Corsair Carbide 400C White Motherboard: Asus Z270-A CPU: Core i-5 7600k GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1070 PSU: EVGA...

How do i reformat my drive including windows windows 10

Good day, community. I've just bought today a Cloud II headset and I'm totally in love with it. There is only 1 thing that kills the joy: I keep hearing static noise in my headphones. It either comes out randomly or before/while/after literally any sound comes up, like the sound of a Youtube...

I would like to upgrade my GPU. Right now i have these specs: intel i7 4790 3.60GHz r9 270x 2gb 8gb ram 128 gb ssd + 2tb hdd 1080p monitor I want to know what the best upgrade is. I was thinking maybe a gtx 960? Can i have some advise please. Thanks a lot

So I recently got some upgrades to my PC and I'm fairly new to building PC's and what not and I have a question. I have windows 10 and a few games on my SSD (as well as all the user and program files on it) (obviously) but now I want everything to start downloading to my HDD games, programs...

Two of the monitors have 4K resolution while the third display has WQHD resolution. Pricing and the release date for all three monitors weren't revealed. Acer Unveils Three New Monitors For Gamers And Professionals : Read more

Hello Community, I recently upgraded my PC with a new Ryzen 5 1600 processor and a fitting mainboard as well as new RAM. My new Gigabyte mainboard seems to have a problem with my old graphics card (which worked just fine with my old mobo) though. Seemingly random the mainboard fails to...

Hello all. Built my last rig in 2011 and my GTX 560 finally died so it's time for an upgrade. My main focus will be gaming/streaming. I'm hoping I'll be able to keep a few of my old components to save some money. Any input/feedback is greatly appreciated! Approximate Purchase Date: Within a...

Graphics card: AMD Radeon R9 390 Hey guys, I've had my graphics card for about 15 months, all has been going well since I got it. In fact, it was working earlier today, but when I opened my computer this evening, I didn't get a signal on the monitor (monitor plugged into GPU) When I plugged...

Hi, WHAT HAPPENED: I got this virus while trying to install Fisheye Hemi a few months ago. The installer was clean but it downloaded some shit that totally screwed up my Windows. After trying Malwarebytes 2.2 and deleting all autoruns from Ubuntu, and quite a few other things I seemed to have...

Hello, I have ASRock Z87 Extreme6/ac with i7 4770k and I would like to benefit from PCIe SSDs as a boot drive: - Will it work with my mother board? - How is it best to connect it? I have multiple pci-x slots and would rather use on of the smaller ones toward the end of the mobo if it doesn't...

Hello evryone , i have problem with this mouse(Roccat kone pure color phantom white) , this mouse causing my pc to boot very slow, and when i unplug it then pc boots normally..i tried on evry usb slot and still same. then i check in bios if usb leagcy is enabled, with and without drivers but...

Hey guys... i am about to get a new PC and i would like to get the i5 4460. Do you think that this processor is good for gaming? PC Parts 2×4GB HyperX RAM 1866 DDR3 RX460 2GB 450 watt corsair PSU Asus B85M-G C2 motherboard Corsair carbide series 88r 120GB Corsair SSD i5 4460

Hello? First time posting here. I would like to ask what is wrong with my Asus b85m-gamer mother board. In asus site the specs said asus b85m-gamer is Maximum shared memory of 1024 MB but in my bios it only shows 512mb? Specs: i5-4570 Asus b85m-gamer Crucial 4gb 1600mhz Windows 7 OS

Hi community, Sorry for all the questions (it's my first pc build), but I'm looking for a decent budget PSU. My pc will be housing: Sapphire R9 380X Nitro Intel i3 6100 1x8gb DDR4 at 2133 mHZ Any suggestions for a decent PSU under $85 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Izaak

greetings im in the middle of building my new audio/video editing and gaming PC and i was wondering which CPU is better. i can buy haswell and skylake but which is better overall for my needs. thanks and cheers.

Hello! Today I was wondering if a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2 supports a Gtx 1060 6gb Also, would it be able to overclock a i5 6600k? If not, any cheap recommendations?

I want to get my RAM to run at 3000Mhz (as advertised on the box) but the board is limiting the frequency to 2144MHz. Would a newer bios version solve this? Also the latest bios (F20) description says "Support next generation CPU * This BIOS prohibits updating to earlier version BIOS". Does...

So my computer will not turn on. It passed the paperclip test. I have tried unplugging everything except Motherboard power, 1 stick of ram and CPU and it still won't turn on. I also removed the CMOS battery to try and reset it with no sucess. There are LED lights on the mother board that are on...

I accidentally poured water into my desktop while it was on and it shutdown around 3 days ago. (It has been drying out near a dehumidifier ever since) Now when i go to turn it on the lights will display for a split second and than the computer will go silent and turn off. Any ideas on which...

I recently switched out my motherboard and cpu (I went from AMD to Intel) and I had Windows 10 installed on my SSD. I've read that Windows is tied to the old motherboard and would not work on the new motherboard but when I turned on the computer, everything works perfectly as is and Windows runs...

I need a laptop that I can use for school and play cs go on.(I only plan on playing cs go on it) my budget is 300 dollars. Any help is appreciated

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Im building a new really good and expensive PC. I cannot risk breaking it at all otherwise I wont have a computer for the next 3-4 years... Is it safe for my NZXT H440 case to rest on top of the carpet as I use my PC? If not what could I place on top of the carpet to rest my case on?

I'm looking for another asus motherboard with DDR4. I'm looking at the Maximus VIII boards or the lower rampage V. For CPU looking at one to fit the board obviously. Which CPU should I get? This is what I have now. Any suggestions to upgrade my system? CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core...

My graphics card has never really ran up to par. I never questioned it until recently. I have AMD Radeon (TM) R9 270 and a CPU Type AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor. I've tried a number of things but don't really know what else to do.

I hope i've posted in the right section. Unsure what the issue is with my current setup, I am experiencing high temperatures (70c+ I normally kill the game/program before I let it get higher but I have let it get to 80c at which point my PC froze and I was forced to shut it down using the power...

I just build a custom Gaming PC for a friend of mine. Everything worked perfectly until he installed the Latest AMD Drivers. After he installed them it asked him to reboot and of course he rebooted. Then suddenly while rebooting Windows said that there was a problem and that Windows couldn't...

Any help appreciated for a solution to PC stuck on Motherboard Splash screen during start up.

Yesterday morning, I restarted my PC and when I started playing my games (CS:GO and Overwatch), they were stuttering really bad. First I though it was my GPU causing problems but after I made a clean reinstall of it's driver and did some testing, I found out that the stutter only happened when I...

Do you guys think 1 will perform better than 2 in games ? What should i also consider when i go with SLI or 1 gpu ? Any tips / sugestions ?

Hi, I am planning to build a skylake system in a few months but would like to get some opinions on what the specs should be? I do not need to include an OS as I can get them for free via my workplace. Build needs to be £1000 roughly, can go slightly higher if need be!