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I've never built a pc before but over the last few months I've been upgrading what I have. Two of which are pretty old. The i3 2 series I put an i7 in but with 2nd gen and somehow upon beating the password it upgraded to win10 by itself and killed what little performance it had. I got that free...

Hello. First things first, I have a pretty old components: AMD FX-6300 Asrock 970 Pro3 R2.0 Old PSU - FSP SP-500-A New (second hand) PSU - Be Quiet Pure Power 10 700W GTX 1050ti 1TB WD HDD 128gb Kingston SATA SSD The problem: I was thinking about a pc upgrade for a long time. Since I needed a...

Dear Fellows, To those of you with experience - this might be a completely trivial exercise - and to be honest, I didn't think I will run into such problem. Unfortunately - I have and I can't solve it by myself. I have bought a ASUS WS X299 SAGE motherboard. I have set it all up, installed...

Hello! I am looking to build my first PC (I am incredibly nervous doing this by the way). I have picked out parts but I want to make absolutely sure they are compatible. The point of getting some of the parts I have picked out is to somewhat "future" proof my computer so I dont have to tinker...

Hi guys, I'm going to be building my first PC for my brother. This will primarily be used for gaming on common titles such as COD: Warzone, Fortnite and Rust etc. I have based the parts on my own research whilst trying to "future proof" on a £700-800 budget. I understand this is a low-mid tier...

Hello all, First time builder converting from xbox. I have never played on PC before however I have put in so much time researching and learning everything. I went from nothing and I feel as now I have a decent understanding of PC building. My budget is $1,500 Canadian but I kind of went...

My last build was in 2012 and that was an i5-3570K and 670 GTX which was a monster in its day but because of life and children I haven't until now been able to get back into gaming, after a bit of research I have decided on these parts but would love some thoughts and advice from the guys who...

Hello everyone. I just put together my first build based on my budget and I want input on literally everything. I dont know much so all input is valued. I was going for a medium to high end build while also maintaining my 1350$ Canadian budget. As an example i would like know if maybe i should...

So this is gonna be my first pc build when ever, I will probably get it when the dreadful quarantine ends but this is the parts picker and I would appreciate if someone confirmed if the products are compatible and if this pc build is good enough for years to come. HAIL THE MASTER PC RACE...

Hello, I have had a gaming laptop for about 5-6 years and it is getting quite old and can't play new games very well. So now I am thinking of building my own gaming pc but would like some advice. Here is what I have put together on pcpartpicker as a potential build...

first off, here are my parts: using a 570 but took it off because i have already bought it. the 2200g is just a placeholder for a 1600af, since pcpartpicker doesn't have it on their site PCPartPicker Part List Type|Item|Price :----|:----|:---- CPU | AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5 GHz Quad-Core...

adding either a 570 or 580 later when I get enough money, but was wondering if this was decent as is, and any recommendations, also wondering if this mobo would work with a 3200g out of box. PCPartPicker Part List Type|Item|Price :----|:----|:---- CPU | AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core...

Having difficulties getting my 3950x build to post. I got it to post and boot for one day and I had windows installed, but when I came back to it that night there was a blinking underscore on the screen and wouldn’t boot at all after that. I swapped out the mother board and still no luck. I’ve...

Hello! I just registered here in order to find some help regarding my project. In a few days I will start to build a custom water cooling loop for the new PC of my brother. He has a budget of 4-5k USD, so I'm kinda free which components I am getting. So far I selected all components besides...

hey i’m new to building a pc i’m just wondering if this build is worth it or give me some ideas to build, my budget is between 500 • 1000 maybe 1200 but it got be complete with monitor and peripherals *Asus prime b350-plus *ryzen 5 2600 *xfx radeon rx 580 gts xxx edition *evga 600w bq 80+...

so i had rust for awhile and not played it for a long time i used to play with no fps drops and good fps with high settings. sometime ago i got a ssd and decided to put rust on it when i play it on normal settings i got so many lag spikes and crash so i lowed the settings really low and it...

Hi, i have msi h81m-e33 motherboard and i have 2 sticks of 4gb, and when i put one stick, it works normaly. But when i put two sticks, i get only black screen.. Sticks are totaly same.. I updated my bios but that's not give any change.. It's that any chance to fix it?

Hello and thanks in advance for your time and help reading this thread, I have an AMD FX 6300 Black Edition Overclock to 4.3ghz, 8 GB of ram DDR3 21xx, the video card is an asus astrix R7 380 4gb overclock, a 4tb HDD and an aftermarket fan for the CPU Cooler Master Hyper 212, everything runs...

Hello everyone how are you ? I've a common problem which is when I always download any file or anything through Direct Download , download speed is super slow, normally when I download something it's 2 MB/S but when through direct download it's like 300 KB/S and less whether I use Google Chrome...

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So I'm building a wall mountable PC with an atx mobo and psu. What im doing is using wood with carbon fiber on it and screwing the parts directly. However, i read somewhere that carbon fiber is a conductor so my question is that will my components be safe? If not, can i use rubber washers...

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I am looking for a router for my gigabit internet from fios and I am trying to replace the router they gave me since I have to pay $10 a month and I can't really do much on it. I just got comptia network+ so I am a bit new at networking, so I want to learn more about and plan to get Ccna. So I...

So lookin to build a new pc for the first time in 5 years, been a little out of the loop, so is there anyway i can improve this while staying at around $2500? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6JPM3b

Hi I am going to build a PC and I didn't decide what to buy for Monitor and GPU. About GPU I want GTX 1080 and Monitor with 144hz, 27in, 2k/4k, 1ms and gaming but not too expensive. Any suggestions?

The case is so cheap and comes with an Antec EarthWatts 380W, should I get this case? Is the airflow good? It comes with one rear fan and I can add another front fan, I think the only drawbacks I can see are the lack of USB 3.0 which my Mobo doesn't have anyways and the not-so-long GPU space but...

I'm looking to buy a new chair for my desktop PC because the one i currently have is +10 yo, almost belongs to the trash, has nothing to lay your neck or head and its generally uncomfortable and genrally clunky. Do you know any good NON GAMER office chair? I ask for non gamer chairs because...

I have a plasma screen with no speakers. I run it with a Linn surround system with my sky and ps3 box running through my Linn Unidisk SC player for sound. I want to connect my OTT TV MXQ pro android box in the same way. I have connected it to the TV via an HDMI but am struggle to connect it...

I everyone! I as been trying to fix the front mic, that for some reason wont work. The audio works perfectly, but if I plug the mic its not recognized. Facts: * The microphone works fine in the back mic connector * I alredy try another working mic and same result(work in the back but not in...

i recently built a new pc(here are the specs https://pcpartpicker.com/list/) and i have been getting a really wierd bug. sometimes in games, like cso, my frames will go from something like 300 tobeing capped to 144. Normally pausing and unpausing or alt tabbing works but i dont have a permanent...

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hi guys. i have a question about how i can find what my mother board is and what type of ddr i have on my pc. im trying to run a very complex game called escape from tarkov but when ever i get near other online players i get so much lag and even sometimes my game freezes. while that is happening...

Goodmorning all, SCOPE of the thread: I am looking to "revitalise" an old laptop. I am kindly asking for help from the community. I have 2 HDs with 2 different OS: 1) Ubuntu 16 2) Windows Seven (I could choose between them from the boot) The specs (from Ubuntu 16) Pavilion dv9000...

Hello everyone. So my PC has been crashing on me for about a day now and this is the problem I get. A BSOD with that error message. Why is this happening? Could it be the overclock? Specs I5 2500k HD 7950 ASUS p8p67

It's for the company I work at. A signing company. They currently use a Mac so going to a PC would be a major pain I am told with some of the files. I need it to be able to run the latest versions of Photoshop and quickly. I was told about 64Gb of RAM would be required. What else should I be...

I recently changed my battery to not charge until it gets to a specific % but would like to change it back to full charge all of the time. I have an Idea-Pad 100-150BD. I keep my laptop plugged in all of the time. I have searched everywhere for the answer and can only find ways to change...

Hi guys, i have an XFX 5450 1GB and so far have o.c'd to engine: 880mhz, memory 605mhz.. Can i push this any further without damaging the GPU ? Im looking to o'c because i get a bit of lag when playing certain maps on Counterstrike GO. Thanks

Today I had to disable 2 of my CPU cores due to some software problem.The software didn't like 4 cores for some reason.So i disable my cores by run>msconfig>boot>advance option>no of processors = 2. But now i want to Enable all of my cores back so i did the same thing but now in the drop down...

He there. I´m really very close to buy the Nvidia GeForce Gtx 1050ti Asus Strix but I don't know if the size will fit on my tower. I know all the specs and everything and it works. I just need to know if the graphics card will fit in my tower. I have a Eagle Warrior Challenger FS-4 and my...

Hi, i bought this laptop used off ebay for a great deal because the screen was badly cracked. So I installed a new screen today and I wanted to try out the touchscreen but nothing worked. So i browsed a bunch of forums and found nothing. I checked in device manager for touchscreens in the HID...