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    need help to pick cpu please help

    i have a H110 Chipset Motherboard and my budget is about 160$ or 170$ i was seeing if i should just get a core i3 and 4 more gb or ram or just save up and get a core i5.
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    Gpu crashing pc during games?

    I have a problem with my computer and i am completely clueless. Ill be playing a game the fps will stutter, the screen will go black and sometimes it will recover and put me back in the game or restart my computer. I thought it was my gpu, so I downloaded evgas oc scanner and while testing I get...
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    Low budget graphics card

    I need a good low budget graphics card the psu came out of a dell inspiron 570 4 GB of ram came out of inspiron 570 and I have a gigabyte am3/am3+ 970A-DS3P v2.1 CPU AMD FX 6300
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    Severe FPS drop during movement in Gameplay

    Hey All Please help I am running: Asus ROG Z370e i7 8700k OC to 4.9Ghz 16GB DDR4 3466 250GB Samsung NVMe M.2 Corsair H100i V2 AIO GTX 1060 6GB OC 2Ghz I am running games like PUBG and BF1 and various others... games all run fine until movememnt in game where i get terrible screen...
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    High fan speed.

    As of yesterday, my CPU fan is suddenly having long periods of running much faster than usual at idle. (700-800 rpm) Normally the system is barely audible but now the fan suddenly ramps up a few minutes after boot, and can stay that way for a long time, maybe dropping off after say half an hour...
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    how can i find a case to support my motherboard

    So i was looking to make a super budget old sandy bridge system and i chose all the parts and realised that the Asus P8H61-M that i chose has a form factor of "UATX". thats what it says on the specifications on asuses website. i was looking to use this case i have lying around but im sure it...
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    Second monitor is cutting out when playing certain games

    So if I’m playing PUBG, Fortnite, or sometimes DayZ my secondary monitor (idling or with a webpage open) will start flickering black and then come back for a couple of minutes and keeps doing it until it completely cuts out, only when I close the game it will come back slowly, I’m unsure whether...
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    How to migrate to an SSD

    I want to migrate all the important things like my OS, CSGO, and all my important drivers like mobo drivers onto my SSD, so that I can format my HDD, how can I do this and be certain I've moved all the important stuff over?
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    Overclocking Ryzen to 3.7-3.8 Ghz on Corsair VS450 PSU

    I have the PSU Corsair VS450 450W . I am planning to get a Ryzen 5 1600 . Already have a GTX 1060 6gb DDR5 Mini. Can I overclock my Ryzen to atleast 3.7-3.8 Ghz ? Or will it be pushing the PSU too far ?
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    Gaming Issue at 4k

    Hey guys and girls, So I just recently purchased a new 4k television which I am using for a PC monitor. I made a few upgrades to my rig to help support it. Prior to the upgrades i was running at 80+ fps at 1080 by 1920. My current specs are: CPU: AMD 6300 8 core GPU: Nvidia GeForce 1060 6G 16...
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    PC Can't Turn On

    So recently my computer gone wild. I can't turn it on. When I try to turn it on, than the monitor just works. Keyboard and mouse aren't don't light. There is the biggest problem, I can't even get to BIOS. And when I try 100 times then it loads. Once I needed 1 hour and 30 minutes to turn it on...
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    X58 motherboard finally crapped out, best steps forward?

    Hey all, My Gigabyte X58 mobo finally died. It's been running since about 2010, and traversed 3 countries with me. No shock that the CPU pins finally had enough. Motherboard performance degraded slowly over time, until not it's completely unstable and has lost 3 of it's 6 DIMM slots. I've...
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    Asus laptop black screen

    I have a Asus laptop. A few days ago the screen started to go black after turning on, I tried restarting it but once it loaded it went black again. The battery is internal so i cant take it out. I dont see a reset button or hole as mentioned in other post's, I do have a small hole in the cd...
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    GTX 1070 or 1070 ti?

    I'm planning on buying a decent graphics card and thought of going with 1070 but after some research i sathw that 1070 ti released a month ago was like 50$ more from 1070. So i was wondering which one would be better to get for the money? Also heard that 1070ti got some factory overclocking...
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    How to install

    I’m building a new pc and need to install windows 10. I’m thinking of buying an oem from new egg although this only comes with disk. So as I see it I got to Microsoft’s website and install the windows download on the USB and from there plug the USB to my new pc and then put in the key that came...
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    only 2.92 gb ram usable in 6 gb ram

    i have 6 gb ram (2+4 gb) but only 2.92 gb is usable. please help me to solve problem. i have win 8.1 pro 32 bit.
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    Is it possible to remove pin from USB plug?

    I purchased a fractal define R5 back in April of this year and I'm absolutely loving it so far. One problem I've had with it is that a while ago I accidentally snapped a USB 3.0 header on the motherboard in such a way that it got stuck in the connector that links it to the cases front IO. I...
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    Can hard drive cause computer to restart with no warning?

    My computer shuts off and turns back on while only playing games can a hard drive cause this?
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    Price my PC

    I’m looking to sell my pc. I would like to know if 1,500 is too much or to little to ask and some pricing suggestions. Some of the pieces are limited and have no real standard price anymore. i7 4790k ASUS Mark S Savertooth z97 limited edition Zotac Gtx 1070 amp extreme Stock cpu cooler...
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    Is cpu bottlenecking gpu

    Athlon x2 220 2.80GHz Geforce gtx 960 Load usage 100 cpu Load usage gpu 91
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    Should i upgrade my PSU for GTX 1070?

    Hello guys my current specs are: Intel i5 4590 3.30Ghz MSI H87-G43 Gaming Motherboard 16GB RAM DDR3 HD 1TB / DVD-RW GeForce GTX 760 GAMING 2GB Corsair CX-600W 80 PLUS BRONZE I am looking for an upgrade, i'm thinking in buy the GTX 1070 FTW for $429,00. My current 600W PSU should be fine, but...
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    Could I build a better gaming computer than hp 580-280w for 500-600$

    Gaming computer questions
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    My speed-test says 46 megabits but whenever I upload to streamable I upload at 46 megaBYTES. Anyone have any idea why?

    To be clear this only happens with streamable.com whenever I download something off of steam I download at like 7.2 MegaBYTEs ps. Which is 46 megabits. However whenever I upload to streamable it uploads at 50 megaBYTES. Can't make sense of it worth a damn. Heres links for proof Streamable...
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    Where the heck can I find an external 4K-blu-ray player for my rig?

    Seriously, does this not exist? I've finally gotten a 4K-rig and am loving the res. But now I want them movies. Whaaare should I look? Kind regards from Denmark
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    My Acer laptop is very slowly shutdown

    My Acer laptop is very slowly shutdown Aspire E15(E5-575G corei5 -7th Gen) since 15th nivember 2016. I bought it two months ago. I want to know the reason for this and how to fix this problem. I saw there is some temporally solution like press power button few seconds. But those thing is not...
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    Gpu slowed down my pc

    I both a new gpu gtx 1050 i istalled it and works realy bad drivers are up to date i tryed ■ to reinstall windows didint help I3 3220 3.3ghz 8gb ddr3 Gtx 1050 b75-d3v motherboard 500w psu What is wrong??
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    I think my fps are very low compared to my friend build

    Intel I5-4690k overclocked to 4.5GHz Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo 2x8gb Kingston HyperFury, Crucial Ballistix 1x4gb = 20GB EVGA GTX 980TI FTW Edition 256 GB SSD Samsung 850 evo, 640 GB HDD Seagate, 1 TB WD BLUE Asus Z97 Pro wifi ac EVGA 600w 80+ bronze I mostly play h1z1, which is cpu game, and...
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    Computer turns on for a split second then turns off.

    When I turn on my computer it powers on for a split second and then turns off and refuses to turn back on. What could the problem be?
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    Hearing a pop or a short static sometimes from headphones.

    Could be that the headphones are dying, but I wanna make sure it's not the drivers so I want to install the latest drivers for my Motherboard, and I have downloaded the Winrar file but.. there are like 9 different setups there.. Which one is the right one?
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    Dell Inspiron not giving signal when starting up

    Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1440. Whenever I press the powerbutton, it receives power, but it won't boot up. I get a completely black screen with no reaction at all. In the first second of powering up I can hear the fan, but afterwards nothing. When I press the powerbutton it shuts down...
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    Hard drive detected by the OS but not by the BIOS!

    I run Linux Mint on the old MSI mobo KV8SE De Luxe. I have connected 4 ATA drives and like to add a SATA drive. The SATA is detected by the OS and working. But not by the BIOS! So I cannot boot it. I neither can boot it through GRUB2 from one of the ATA disks. Very strange! Any idea?
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    Is q6700 quad Qore compatible with g33m02 motherboard

    Hello i want to upgrade my cpu from e8600 3.33ghz to q6700 quad qore Is q6700 quad Qore compatible with g33m02 motherboard ?
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    EHD just Blinks, not recognized by Device Mgr, can't access

    We had a power problem yesterday and after that I could not access my EHD, drive letter "R". All it does is blink away like it is being read. It is recognized by Explorer that I have drive R plugged in. I cannot access it, get the message R not accessible, parameter incorrect I tried CHKDSK and...
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    Ryzen 1700 and 1080 bad performance

    I'm coming from this thread because I have determined that it is not the gpu. I decided to ask about the entire system in a new thread. If you read through that thread you'll see what I've tried so far. I will try anything and will pay for a working answer.
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    Intake to Exhaust ratio

    I'd like to know what would be the best setup for my case, I have a Deepcool Tessaract. I have 2 front intakes, 2 top intakes, 1 side intake, and 1 rear exhaust. At idle I'm around 29-31c, and never go above 62c while gaming. Is there a better ratio I could do to further lower temps or remove...
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    psu smoking and leaking

    So my psu started to smoke and smell so I unplugged it. Then I took it off the pc and noticed that there was some liquid on it. Now Im wondering why this happened, it was a corsair tx750m, maybe it was this surge protection extension that I bought 2 months ago but I don't really know. Now I'm...
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    Ta790gx a2+ dimensions

    I just ordered a new case for pc. Im beginning to wonder if my board will fit. The apevia x sniper 2 fits atx flex micro and mini atx forms...my board says it's atx 30.5 x 22.5 (12 x 8.8) but the case says atx (12x 9.6). Is this case gonna work. Board...biostar ta790gx a2+ Case...apevia x...
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    Need help to change my graphic card

    hi I have a acer predator g3610 and i want to change the graphic card is the SAPPHIRE AMD RADEON RX 460 4G GDDR5 will be good? and is it compatible? If you you have something better to prpopose don't hesitate Thanks
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    I have 150 Windows updates

    how do i do all of these without it trying to rollback for hours?