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I recently purchased an STW-5043 Fan speed controller from Amazon for use with my PC, which I decided to moun into a 1U rackmount plate which sits quite nicely in my music workstation/desk. I found that if I connected my CPU fan it ran fine and the temperature sensors all work as they should do...

I have an old PC with an Intel Pentium G2020 processor. The integrated graphics are shit, so I'm planning to upgrade to a 1050 ti. Both my motherboard and PSU support it. My question is, will the processor hinder performance a lot? I'm fine with playing games on low-medium settings, but will...

i just bought a gtx 1070 for about two weeks and i had this problem my gtx 1070 only showing 4gb vram and i test it on resident evil 2 so i use msi afterburner to see my vga usage my vga use actually goes to 100% usage, but it limit my vram only about 3892 vram usage it is because of the...

I have 2 pins that are broken on the bottom of my ryzen 3 2200g, anybody know any fixes because all my parts were gifts for christmas and i dont have the money for a replacement

Is the MSI worth the extra 100$?

Just need some clarification on a motherboard upgrade. *I am NOT upgrading the CPU, only the motherboard. I was wondering what that would affect? I have windows 10 Home linked to my Microsoft account, and lots of personal files on a few hard drives. When setting up the new motherboard will the...

Hi all, I just purchased an asus laptop for school and gaming barely 5 months ago, recently I've noticed the disk usage spiking to 100% I have tried reinstalling windows, editing sections of the registry, disabling services, but nothing has fixed my issue. My hard drive just doesn't seem to be...

Thinking of upgrading my gpu since my pc seems to struggle on games like dayZ on higher graphics settings.. My current pc setup is: AMD FX-6300 GTX 750Ti Gigabyte - GA-78LMT-USB3 8GB Ram EVGA 500w PSU What would be a decent upgrade gpu? My budget is £200, i dont play a lot of games but when i...

Hey, guys! My friend who is a gamer and video editor wants to build a high end PC, but he can't decide between i9 9980XE and TR 2990WX. What do you recommend?

This is my first thread so please forgive any mistakes in etiquette I make. I'm considering buying a set of open back headphones to use for both music and gaming along with an external mic (fifine mic on amazon, a blue snowball, or modmic business).My history of gaming headsets has been: Corsair...

New laptop hard drive issue

Hello everyone! can low ram make my cpu usage 100 percent in some games or its just the cpu is bottlenecking gpu?

so I've been helping my friend build a new pc. He basically ordered all parts. He got the Intel i7 7700 (Not the k), RX 570 I believe (He had the 460, a less powerful version). He also got new RAM, DDR4 and is using his previous SSD with also a mechanical drive. Power supply is 550 Watts...

i use new monitor benq xl2546 240hz ..why cant detect 240hz? only 144hz detect.. i use DVI now

So the CPU 4-pin header from my PSU is too short to reach the motherboard. I am waiting for the extensions I bought from Amazon to reach my door (next Tuesday). In the meantime, I tried booting the PC while the 4-pin wasn't connected. Did not boot. The question I need an answer to is "Do I need...

Good day i bought 2 cards, two gtx 1050 ti to be exact and one of them is working fine the other worked for a boot although it took quite a while to boot, then i tried on other pc the same and when i boot it, it just stays in a black screen, tried with the computer i managed to boot it and no...

I've been looking everywhere for a specific fix but cannot seem to find one. I've recently been having this issue where when I remove my old RAM and replace it with new RAM my computer doesn't start up properly. It keeps restarting over and over again. Here are my specs: Motherboard: Intel...

Hey Everyone, so I was trying to optimize my computer to squeeze better performance out of monster Hunter world and thought the EZ tuning wizard would do the trick. I did it yesterday and immediately got a BSOD. After that I reset the bios back to default and it worked fine until now. It's back...

My question is do i really need a 4K monitor to experience a 4K video? Cause i have a 1366x768 pixels Dell monitor but my PC is capable of loading youtube upto 4K. Would watching a video at 4K over FHD make any difference on a monitor like this? Graphic card: Palit GT 1030 2GB GDDR5

When I plug in my charger to my laptop the charger light comes on for a few seconds then back off. What can I do?

I opened my PC today (i didn't use it for 7 days), and this weird smell appeared, like burning stuff. I cleaned everything, changed the thermal paste. When i connected it, i found out that the smell was coming from the PSU. I turned on the pc, and the smell is gone. What should i do?

So I had recently bought a WLAN card off newegg https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA76H62A8866, and it seemed cheap so I said why not. For the first hour everything seems perfect, there's no stutter or anything, but after that hour things are to move rather slow. I ran a speed...

i cant reset my pc it says i need 5gb to rest i have a little dell pc and it has 29gb when my pc updated it self it ran out of space by it self i tried i uninstalling everything i could but im running out of stuff to uninstall i feel like there are some hidden files that i cant delete because...

Hello. As I stated I am hardware illiterate and have no faith in myself to build a PC. The other day I got a promotion from Paypal that if I spent more than 600 bucks on Ebay I could do a 24 month payment with no APR. While am not going to pull the trigger just yet I figured I could look...

Hi, will my corsair vs450 be able to power the i5-8400 with gtx1060 6G for maximum performance? I also have an SSD and a 7.2K HDD.

If I have an Alienware Aurora R7 GTX1080 with an NVIDIA graphic card, could I operate with an Alienware 25 inch free sync monitor?

I attempted to install windows 10 on a brand new hdd that I purchased on Amazon. I am replacing a bad hard drive. My first attempt to install windows failed. During the installation I had an error and had to abort the installation. I think I may have had a bad HDD so I Returned it and got a new...

Google Chrome is one of the most used web browsers out there. It’s fast and free, and although it can take quite a bit of memory, the more average users probably don’t take too much notice of that. Unfortunately, sometimes you can encounter the issue of not being able to update or download the...

Hi, In our office we have a Konika 287 machine connected to the network. Yesterday, after readjusting our network architecture the printer went offline. I can open the printer webpage from the browser, though. Things I have tried: Resetting Network in the Printer settings Removing and readding...

Hi, I'm trying to share my WiFi from PC to my laptop via Ethernet straight-through cable. I'm using my MOAB ethernet port for the first time, so maybe is something off there... I know I can just connect to WiFi, but this is just test for something else. To sum up, when I try share my wireless...

Basically I’d like to get a phone where I can play my desktop games copy game save data to my phone and play on the go no I don’t plan on playing gta v I know that’s way to much for it but say run stardew valley, dolphin and other such things on the phone also I’d really like to be able to...

I bought an old hp proliant with a xeon x3440 and im planning to pair it with a gpu like the 1070. How bad is the bottleneck? Thanks

After looking at MSI Afterburner, I saw that my clocks for all 4 cores of my i5-4460 are constantly jumping up and down. Sorry if this is normal, but I'm not sure if it so I thought I would just come and check if it is. Is this normal? https://imgur.com/gallery/19usafA

Hello, I've got an annoying problem with my Lenovo Yoga 700 laptop. Today plugged in the charger and started working on my laptop (I'm sure I plugged it in correctly) but I kept gettings messages about low battery level. I checked my charger but I can't really remember if the battery was...

It's been a while since I've posted in this forum. I am mainly a casual PC user with a limited amount of knowledge. I built a PC in 2012 and this forum was helpful. I am currently looking to replace some of the older hard drives in the PC (I already purchased two 2tb Seagate drives from...

I am going to buy a gtx 1060 6gb (after it gets a little cheaper),but will my corsair vs 450 be enough for it? My system - i5 - 4670 h81m-s1 rev 1 2 x 4 gb ddr3 ram 2 x 120 mm fans 1 x ADATA SP580 Premier 120GB SSD 1 x 500 GB HDD

On the sonyo sound bar where is the power button

i am trying to make a project, a small one and want to know how to make a button do multiple things is a sequence, for example first click: how are you? second click: good I am doing quite fine. and contentious more examples, if any one has info they would like to share I would like that.

Cross posted from the Win 7 Forum where I couldn't get any traction: I am upgrading an old 60GB SSD to a 240GB SSD, and am basically just trying to do a clean install of Windows 7. I have it set to boot from the CDROM, and it fires up and looks like it is going to work for several minutes, but...

I have a desktop and am trying to use a wireless usb adapter on it to connect to the internet. The issue is when using a usb adapter, it only gets speeds around 2Mbps when it should be around 28. Now when I connect the desktop to the same router with an ethernet cable, I get the speeds I...