Hardware advice

I am thinking of upgrading my SSD but I don't know the compatability. What is its max capacity? What is its PCIE generation/version; is it gen 3 or gen 4? Thanks.

I was about to start building a new computer for gaming this past summer, but the overwhelming consensus from the community was to hold off because the next generation of hardware is coming in 2025. The news everywhere now though is that tariffs are going to make computer parts skyrocket...

Hi, I'm new here and I have a problem. The fans are working but the RGB isn't working, none of them, including the liquid cooler fans. My dad's friend set this PC for me and I don't know much about hardware and stuff so I hope you guys can help me with it. The RGB is working for like 0.1 second...

Hi everyone, I’m having trouble with my Gigabyte Aero 15 XA laptop and could really use some assistance. Issue: The laptop keyboard sometimes stops working entirely. Sometimes for hours, days and even weeks at a time. To troubleshoot, I decided to reseat the keyboard cable. However, I'm having...

Hi! I bought a new used pc a week ago. The same day that I bought him, while I was installing Gta V at night it made 4 beeping sounds and it turned off. I did my research and found out it could be a ram problem. So I took the rams off the other day and It worked. A week as passed by, and today...

Specs: Gigabyte B660M D3SH AX GTX 3060 Intel i7-12700k with Lian Li Galahad cooler 16gb Corsair Ram in channel a with 8gb MSI in channel b Thermaltake Toughpower 850W I do have 2 monitors (165hz and 60hz for work) in but the 60hz one is always idle when I am playing games PC was built brand new...

Sub, I'm in the process of building a new PC primarily for streaming and gaming. Additionally, I plan to use some software features like a voice modifier for my streams and some other stuff. While I have my eyes on playing Cyberpunk 2077, it's not an absolute necessity. I've recently developed...

There is plastic film wrapped around a white plastic enclosure for the MB's in/out jacks. This plastic and plastic film rest next to the heat sink shown. Finger points to plastic film. Does this film need to be removed for proper MB function? The user guide for this model does not specify...

Hi. My self built pc has been having issues the past 6 months. Games crash on it with no error and nothing i could see in event viewer either. Games support tells me its not game issue so now im stuck. I can play some games without issues, but in ex. Grounded/Astroneer/Days Gone etc the game...

Here's my PC Specs: Intel i5 7400 @ 3.0Ghz Gigabyte B250M-D3H-CF DDR4 8 GB RAM Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050Ti 4GB DDR5 SSD 240GB Kingston 1 TB HDD 500GB HDD Coolermaster Stryker Full Tower Cabinet With these specs I was able to run almost every game but at a very low setting! But now I see lags in...

So, here are my system's specs: ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero RTX 2080 SUPER I9-9900K 32GB 3200MHZ TridentZ Seasonic Focus GX 850W Gold Intel 660p 1TB (SSD) Seagate Barracuda 4TB (HDD) I have had my computer for 3 years, since Dec of 2019 and recently about 3 weeks ago I have started to have an...

So a couple days ago, my laptop suddenly blue screened when I was going into a game. Immediately after this I noticed that the MX150 in my laptop didnt work. I have tried resetting Windows, and installing a multitude of Nvidia drivers, but nothing has worked so far. After installing any of the...

I a while ago purchased a Preowned SX-500G, yes i know it was in a parts bundle leave me be. Now this psu has over the last months of ownership gradually gotten louder, made worse when one time high voltage lines near my home exploded. It's now a somewhat significant amount of noise, especially...

edit: specs are i5 4460, gtx 960, 8GB ram, asrock H97 anniversary, evga supernova 650 G+, pny cs1311 240GB, win10 Hi all, I've been having a number of stability issues for a while now - random crashes/freezes/restarts, no signal on monitor at times, etc. I was just thinking - I've had these...

Hello, We're providing a restaurant management system to various restaurants where we've deployed a Dell Tower workstation. One of the restaurant face random restarts and crash issues. Sometimes when we manually try to power on the server after its crashed, the led screen displays nothing...

Currently trying to built a new pc, mainly for gaming. I already have the RAM ( Corsair Vengeance LPX 8 GB) and the graphics card ( Saphphire Radeon 7970 3 GB) so I had to build around them. I had some thoughts about the case not fitting the graphics card, but I checked for the dimensions and...

Hello! So i have a problem with my ram memory speeds. I have 2 DDR4 Corsair Vengeance 3000MHz and they are set to 1066 MHz (?) i have X.M.P enabled in BIOS. I have set 3000MHz speed in bios also but still nothing. What can be the issue? Thanks for all the answers, have a nice day!

I have a i7 4790 with a WaterCooler, 16gb RAM, 1080p 75hz Monitor, and I had a 5 year old GTX 950 that after a long time of struggling died. (500W PS but I know I need a better one) I was gonna wait till the end of the year to see the prices of the 3000 series and was probably gonna fetch the...

I use my computer primarily for illustrating and video editing. The work time takes longer than what I want since I intend to use this computer as a hobbyist's machine and need to be able to make high resolution files and videos relatively quick. Specs: Monitor: 25inch 1440p 60HZ Processor...

Trying to determine if a specific piece of hardware has been causing my issues. PC specs: Z97MX- Gaming 5 motherboard with Intel Core i7-4790K (motherboard is about 5-6 years old) 16gb Ram Geforce GTX 1070 Ti (card is relatively new, a little over a year) C: drive is Samsung SSD 850 120GB...

This issue started for me a few weeks ago. I noticed that I began to experience lots of pop-in with objects and shadows in the game world of almost every game I play. Well, every game. I've tried everything I can think of to resolve this problem, from resetting my PC, updating drivers, virus...

My pc is normally running fine, but lately I can see some weird things in it: most games will freeze after 1 hour or so of playing them and they will completely stop working. The only way to close them is to go to the task manager and killing the process there. Sometimes, way less often, my...

Using a 970, i5 4690k. I'd have thought it'd be ok to handle this but it seems not. It's also VERY indecisive. I could play Rocket league for 3/4hours without problem. Resi 2 reboot or CS:Go and it's dead within 30 mins. Steps i've taken: PSU Swap, clean wipe of Display drivers/reinstall, from...

Hi there! recently, i get really mad when playing csgo and i bumped my table so hard it freezes the the pc. mouse, keyboard and monitor are all still lighting up but cant be use. i then hard restart it and it turn on like normally, but when i bump just slightly, it crashes again. I then found a...

Hi, I have an i3 3220 rn, I am planning to buy a gtx 1070. With it bottleneck, and how much? (I'm getting an amd r5 or an i5 sooner)

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Is getting a refurbished power supply worth it? Built a new pc recently and now I'm broke. I recently discovered that my current power supply is tier 5 or untiered, which is very unsafe. It could fry my new pc at any moment. It's Thermaltake TR2 500W Discovered tier list from...