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I have two computers: A laptop and custom built desktop. I can't link my laptop or Desktop specs (via link) apparently. So I'll just say that I bought it on Amazon. It's title is: CUK ASUS ROG Zephyrus M Ultra Slim Gamer Notebook (Intel i7-8750H, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD + 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GTX...

I had WD Passport which I replaced with a brand new Maxtor 4TB. On WD I could watch video straight from the disk unlike Maxtor which has constant split-second freezes, say every 15sec. If I copy the video to either of my local disks, ssd or hdd, it plays smoothly. Any help would be greatly...

I wanted to add an ssd to my laptop but it only has room for a 2.5 inch ssd and is 1TB 2.5 inch hdd. I can't afford a 1TB SSD though I do max out my storage all the time as I do lots of recording and video editing etc. I have USB type C on my laptop so I was thinking of getting a 500gb ssd for...

More info: Drive: Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive Enclosure: MyDigitalSSD M2X Portable USB 3.1 Gen 2 M.2 PCI Express SSD External Enclosure Adapter Laptop: Huawei KPL-W00 Note: I tried changing power settings. I tried to change usb adapter...

Hey. Recently I asked my brother his external 3Tb hard drive because I needed to make a save of some of my files to reinstall Windows 10. But here comes the part when I messed up like a fkin idiot: so I also asked him for a USB key in FAT32 to put Windows on it, the thing is, after 3attempts, it...

I would like to max out thunderbolt 3 5GB/s speed. 2 raid 0 ssd m.2 nvme should do it. Are there any enclosures that would do it for me? Only solutions with thunderbolt 3 i see, have 1 ssd slot, and speed maxes out at 3 GB/s.

So Im going to build pc soon and I have a prebuilt pc that has an i7 and I would like to reuse it because Im going to play games that are very demanding and a new i7 would be expensive so would I be able to reuse the i7?

I have a 1TB SSD and two 1TB hard drives currently and they are all maxed out. The one is starting to fail according to crystal disk info so I kind of want to take advantage of the situation and just upgrade to a 4TB drive and migrate everything from the failing one over. I found these two...

I have an 550W Coolermaster bronze certified PSU and currently running a ryzen 2700x with an GTX 1060 I'm planning to upgrade to an RTX 2070 soon but do I need to upgrade my PSU? (Cooler master GM550M

I am looking for workstation graphics card recommendations. I have a stock trading station and need better display performance (no gaming). Below is a list of questions I've thought of and my setup. Note that although connecting directly to the card would be nice, I already use HDMI-USB3 4k...

Hello so I have been having a quite annoying issue, Yes I know this laptop old but I mainly use it for a network hotspot and sometimes I use it to watch dvds on it. The issue I am experiencing is that video drivers (It has a xpress 200m) it will not load no matter what I'm pretty much stuck with...

I've got the Asus VG248QE (144hz 1080p) monitor with DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort. I just bought the RTX 2080 (Asus Dual OC) and forgot about the cables... It has 3 DPs and 1HDMI. My goal is to have a connection that will allow me to play on 144hz but I only have the HDMI to HDMI cable which...

I just received Cooler Master - Hyper 212 LED Turbo cooler (which is 163mm H), and found the Cooler Maser MasterBox TD500L case (which can fit a max of 165mm H). Do you think that this cooler will fit the case? Worried that 2mm might make a difference. Also, if there is an aesthetic part of...

More RGB, more performance. What else does Corsair’s latest Dominator Platinum kit have in store for us? Read more here. THOMAS SODERSTROM @Crashman Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.

Current rig: Cpu: I7 7700 (non k sku) Gpu: GTX 1060 3GB Ram: Adata 16GB ddr4 Power Supply: Corsair cx650m SSD: Adata 120GB HDD: 2x 1TB western digital blue Motherboard: asus not sure model, system was originally a prebuilt. I want to get the rtx 2060/2070 with presidents day sale i can get the...

I want to play a game on a resolution (1080x1080) that is not the native resolution on the monitor (1920x1080), but when I do it, it does not stretch across the entire screen and it just has two black bars on the side. Does my monitor not support it or is there a way I can change it in the...

I have an H96Max+ Android 4g/32g box - just upgraded my cable internet from 100mbps to 400mbps. My wifi signal is faster (282mbps) than ethernet (140mbps). It wasn't like that before I upgraded. Help?

I want to upgrade my pc but I am kinda low on money at the moment.But I can afford buying all components except video card for now.I calculated that I can buy psu,ssd,ram,motherboard and cpu for about 385 euro. Ryzen 5 2600 Thermaltake Smart RGB 700W G.Skill Aegis 8GB DDR4-3000MHz...

I need to insert letters in a word. How does the 'ins' work, which keys besides the "ins" key do I need to press?

Hello! I want to find the best solution to cool my pc. I have drew (poorly) three options that could use. Of course I'm ready to take up new options as well. At idle pc cpu temps ~37-40 celsius. While gaming temps ~64-76 celsius (depends on which game). I prefer silence before temps but I avoid...

Hello, I am wondering if my 24 pin motherboard cable is bend badly? Is there a reason I should be worried? Can it cause damage to the motherboard itself or the PSU? https://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo/full?photo_id=501556532862 https://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo/full?photo_id=501556533048...

Hi guys. I don't know if i am the only one having this issue but whenever i turn any kind of vsync in nvidia control panel LOL is the only game that wont have any effects from it. i tried reinstalling gpu driver, i even reinstalled windows 2 times (not because of LOL but also because i was...

I have MSI GE72MVR apache pro laptop. i7-7700hq, 16 GB ram , gtx 1070. Fans are clean. No hardware issue was found in the service center. I'm using throttlestop . -125mV undervolt. Cooler Boost 4 active. Thermaltake massive 20 laptop cooler. I have did factory reset. Drivers are up to date...

Hi everyone, I have a question (hoping is not a hardware problem). I've bought few days ago a new Sapphire Nitro+ Vega 64 (standard edition, 3 fans) and I noticed that fans start spinning as I switch on my PC, specially the more internal one. This creates an annoying air noise. I can see also...

Hello! I made a pc a few months ago and didn't understand what an SSD was so I didn't get one and I just got an SSD because I now understand that they are faster (SSD: Samsung 970 Evo M.2 NVME) I put it in my PC and then I used Samsung data migration to migrate everything onto it, but it still...

My friends know I build and maintain my computers and I have even repaired a few of theirs. They sometimes end up giving some of their old systems that they have replaced. Most of the time these are old off-the-shelf pre-builts, and most of of the time they do not work. They think I might be...

The ram led comes on at start up but doesn't stay on. Nothing gets displayed to the screen. Motherboare: Asus ROG STRIX B360-H Gaming CPU: i5 - 9600k GPU: ROG STRIX RTX 2070 PSU: evga Supernova NEX 750B RAM: 2X8 Corsair DDR4 2666MHz

My headphones, speakers and earpiece all use 3.5mm jacks. In my use case I need to be able to route sound to them all independently and have them all play different audio simultaniously. Windows has some limited support for this but im also running out of audio outputs. I'm hoping a sound card...

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So I'm in the middle of building a new PC(my first build), everything working out great so far, building on a budget, since i have 3 kids and Christmas coming up. I've never had a super amazing gaming rig, I've had an off the shelf HP ENVY h8-1409 and this has been my go to rig for the longest...

Hi, So im kinda having some issues with my moniors input/outputs with my GFX card input/output streaming with 144hz... So I own 2 monitors, BenQ XL2411Z, and a ASUS VN237 23.4". My graphics card is a EVGA Geforce GTX 970 SSC+ 2.0.. the XL4211Z has 1 HDMI, 1 DVI, 1 VGA. my VN247 has 2x HDMI, 1x...

I was playing gta v cracked for almost a year now. Had no problems with the fps and stayed at a stable 70/80 fps on very high. I decided to buy the official steam version of the game as I wanted to play the game with my friends and didn't like playing a pirated game. I installed the game, hoping...

new build, with Mastercase MC500M , asus rog maximus hero x wifi ac board, i5-8600K and trident z rgb memory. Looking for a good cpu air cooler that won't cause ram clearance issues with this set up.Would like to try overclocking.

I have a radon r7 360 and a fx6300 and I was looking around for an upgrade. I was looking at the Rx 580 but had one worry in mind if I got it. Would having the old fx6300 bottleneck the gpu and not perform the way I want it to and the way it should. Also if you have any other gpu in mind that i...

Does anybody know where you can get original AMD redemption brackets online?

I have an Asus X501NA that won't turn on. Its charger's cord was cut due to my mistake. So I made an attempt on repairing it since it only has 2 wires with different colors. After reconnecting the wires my laptop was charging with no problem, but after placing the laptop on the desk the 2 wires...

hello my hard drive has a reallocated sectors and i thinked about buying an external hard 2 tera and copy all the data on it and leave that hard to windows only but i am playing games too much i spend hours on the lap dose that affect the external hard i will set up the games on it and play...

Hello, this is my current setup. I mostly use it for casual gaming (WoW, Overwatch, FFXIV) and music recording. Case: Corsair Carbide 100r PSU: Corsair 550W VX CPU: Xeon x5472 @3.3ghz (QX9650 equivalent I think) Motherboard: Gigabyte EP-45 DS3R Socket 775 RAM: 6gb DDR2 GPU: Radeon 7850 SSD...

Recently i found out that playing at fullscreen would give me better performance at games so decided to try it out. The only game that i struggle with performance is Fortnite. So i wanted to use a 4:3 resolution stretched to get more performance along with fullscreen. If i set my monitor to 60...

Never really took an interest in ram/memory so my knowledge is rather little here so maybe its a basic question. My friend upgraded to DDR4 and is basically giving away his old ram which is: "Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz C9 2x8GB" Would it work well/Increase performance if I was to have 4 ram...