engineering

Hello, just looking for opinions of what laptops any of you would recommend. Open to prices upwards of $1800. I suppose around a 15" screen. I would prefer the 3840x2160 display but I know they can get expensive. Portable laptop. Alot of variables that play into power consumption but I feel...

hi! im a Informatics Engineering student in spain. this is gonna be my third year and i really need to change my (very) old laptop. Ive seen a question template here so im going to answer them so you can help me n 1. What is your budget? less than 3000 euros 2. What is the size of the...

Hi everyone! I'll be starting my first year of computer science this coming September and I'm in dire need of a new laptop, as my current one from 2011 is in no condition to be taken anywhere but the electronics recycling plant. The requirements on my College's website are as follows...

Hello everyone! I am starting college soon and the time has come to choose a laptop. I, as the title says, am an incoming Mechanical Engineering student, and I am looking for a quality laptop to reduce dependence on university computing. Essentially, the laptop will need to be able to handle...

Hello, I am going in to mechanical engineering in the fall, and I was wondering what would be a better laptop choice, the Lenovo Thinkpad P1(Xeon E-2176M vPro 6 core 2.7GHz, Quadro P2000, 32 GB DDR4 2666MHz ECC), or the Lenovo Thinkpad P1(i7-8850H vPro 6 core 2.6GHz, Quadro P2000, 32GB DDR4...

I've been getting back into electronics projects and I'm building a workstation to run the software I would need for 3D printing, simulations, graphics and the like. My GF's mom gave me her old desktop computer a Dell Inspiron 545. I'll be using that as the case and most likely the power source...

My build is in the signature. I have a PC with an ASUS Maximus VI Hero motherboard. For 4+ years I have been able to access the UEFI bios fine. Nothing has changed in my setup. Same microphone, keyboard, mouse, GPU, monitor, etc. since I originally built the PC. I had a mild overclock to my i5...

I can't decide which one is wrong, because something obviously is. Picture 1 Picture 2 My PC is sometimes shutting down, I thought it's a PSU related issue. Now I realize it might be an overheating one. How is it possible the temperature readings differ so much? I have done intense CPU rendering...

My dell inspiron 11 3000 series 11.6 display is totally blacked out and i don't know how to fix it. Please help

My net stops working in pc sometimes, but net is always connected and in between it keeps on working through wifi like in mobile or laptop. I tried changing my lan wire also but that also dint work , it still stops working in between but works good through wifi anytime of tha day. Plz help me...

Our ISP is frontier and we have a frontier model 7500 modem/router. We are only using wireless internet inside of our house. We use 3 tablets, 5 phones, 2 Xboxs, and I use a Gaming PC for gaming, streaming, uploading, and downloading. The very very highest our internet has gotten is 1 MBps, and...

Is it safe to buy windows 10 keys off of ebay like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Windows-10-Pro-32-64-bit-Retail-Key-Digital-Delivery-/272287861865?hash=item3f659f0c69:g:~f0AAOSwepJXZ~Zl

Hello I have no idea how to fix it or what caused it. it beeps 3x pause's then 3x my led screen read out says 4f. it never restarts but it keeps doing it over and over if I press the reset switch then I might get lucky for it to boot windows. google searching it looks like a bios problem on...

will the h100 I from corsair fit my corsair 130t case with an msi m7 mobo.. if not can you reccomend a good cooler

I have a very odd problem, when I have my HDMI cable plugged into my PC my display ports and usb ports don't work, however if I take it out then put my PC on everything works and I can put the HDMI cable back after the PC is on. I can't operate my PC if I start it up with the HDMI cable.

Hello, I am wondering if I should go with the mysterious and yet-to-be reviewed Fangbook 4 xtreme with Skylake/DDR4 or the Gigabyte P35xv4 that is reviewed already? All factors not concerning performance/problems (fans/heat etc) do not matter. Thanks in advance! Fangbook specs: Laptop...

i installed 4 sticks of 8gb of ram g-skill and my computer and windows 10 64bit sees on ly 8 gb? any ideas to help it read the 32gb? it is installed on a sabertooth x79 thanks

Forgive me if this is the wrong place to post... I have registered a domain with 123reg and as part of that they allow me to have email addresses which forward mail to another address. Through gmail, I used to be able to configure it such that all outgoing email would appear as sent from my...

Hi folks I experience a strange behavior with my new 7-ports powered USB Hub (Spacer SPH-208) I just bought. On my laptop (ASUS K55VD with Win 7 64bit) I have 3 USB ports (2 USB 3.0 and 1 USB 2.0). On one of the USB 3.0 I have an external HDD (WD My Passport Ultra), on the other one I have the...

Hi there. I recently reinstalled windows, and noticed that my D drive (Which previously didn't even show up under My Computer) is using 7.5 of it's 8GB space. This is almost entirely down to two files, SPL_WINDOWS.swm (4GB) and SPL_WINDOWS2.swm (3GB). I have no idea if this might be slowing...

Ideally, I'd like to set up a wireless external HDD for my wife and I to back-up our computers to. Obviously, wireless is simply for the convenience of not having to go around with the drive and plug it in every time we want to do a back-up. I think we can get away with a 1TB drive, but paying...

Hello. So I need a solution to get internet on my desktop. I'm primarily going to be using it for gaming, game downloads, and browsing. I'm struggling on finding a cheap adapter and I'm not sure what's better entirely. Powerline adapters, usb wi-fi or pci-e wi-fi all have iffy reviews. I...

Debating on these 2 motherboards leaning towards the Z87 since i don't see myself using mSata/M.2 PCIE port have the I7-4770K. Can anyone tell me pros besides the ones mentioned why should i buy a Z97 board.

I seem to be having a problem with my GPU. I was playing ACIV Black Flag and noticed that after playing for about 15 minutes my performance would drop immensely. So i decided to monitor my gpu with GPU-Z and noticed that my GPU downlocks itself all the way to 405 mhz and stays there. My stock...

I am making a budget entry level gaming computer for a friend for around $500 but I don't know much about APU's or Intel CPU's. I was wondering if the better option would be to get the APU and use the extra money to make other parts better or grab the Intel i5 with GTX 750 Ti and just have...

would higher ram speeds be more efficient if i am not going to be using a dedicated gpu? what recommendations would you have?