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    Question Web pages slow to open in Chrome until Edge is opened

    After building a new computer last weekend I've had a strange experience with opening web pages that has persisted for the entire week. I use Chrome as my primary browser. After I turn on the computer web pages, for several minutes, are slow to load in Chrome. I get the "Establishing secure...
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    Question Samsung S8+ lost in snow for week, how to dry

    Hey, I lost my dead Galaxy in the snow and had to wait for it to melt over a week. I have just found it and have to dry it off because there are some cracks in the front and back. What should I put the phone with to dry and and for how long should I keep it there.
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    Question WHATS THE BEST CPU + MOTHERBOARD + RAM AND CASE FOR £700

    WHATS THE BEST CPU + MOTHERBOARD + RAM AND CASE FOR £700
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    Question my pc have freezing problems while gaming

    Alright im new here so i apologize if i dont post under the right topic :) alright so starting off i recently jus built my PC, My PC Stats --------------------------- AMD Ryzen 3 2200G GTX 1060 3GB EVGA 600W 80+ Cert Gigabyte B450M DS3H ----------------------------------- my hardrive i pulled...
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    Question Coil whine on Asus Z370-P II motherboard

    Hello Everyone, Can you help me with my coil whine problem? I have a Z370-P II motherboard from Asus and when i move the mouse i have a little little coil whine that sounds from the CPU/RAM area. When i stress the processor with p95 or other stress software the buzzing is disappear. This sound...
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    Question i cant update my radeon drivers

    so i have a ryzen 3 2200g using vega 8 graphics and for some reason i had the newest 19.1.1 but then one day i logged on and it downgraded me to 18.10.1 i tried re installing 19.1.1 but then it gave me an error massage saying something like it cant update due to my configuration or something...
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    [SOLVED] Building a new PC.

    Hello.. I am a noob. I need to know if my Parts will all work together for my PC. I do not want liquid coolers for obvious reasons. This is my Build ALTHOUGH I am going to have the ZOTAC RTX2060 AMP which PCPartPicker does not show. AND ALSO! 5 total ARCTIC F12 - 120 mm Standard Case Fan's...
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    [SOLVED] NEW PC - System freezes & audio stuttering

    Hey all, I purchased a system build within the last month, however am having issues which relate to system freezes and audio stuttering; specifically within two games (World of Warcraft & Apex Legends) alongside Windows itself. I did purchase and have since returned within the last 3 months a...
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    Question RX580 running at PCI 2.0 x1 help

    I just bought the Sapphire RX580 4GB NITRO+ So i have problem with the Frecuency Memory, because of some unknown problem it is struggling , the frecuency is jumping from 300Mhz to 1750Mhz to 1000Mhz súper fast. So i saw in GPU-Z it says when i’m gaming that the GPU is running at PCI Express...
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    [SOLVED] My pc keeps turning off when I start a game

    Hi, I switched out my motherboard, cpu, ram, and got another harddrive (SSD). I installed the new parts and reinstalled windows on the new harddrive. When I tried to boot my pc It turned on and off 3 times until I came to a recovery bluescreen. I sent it to the company I bought the parts from...
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    [SOLVED] Building a System with up to 3 2080ti. What Platform gonna work?

    Hey guys, I'm helping a friend of mine who needs a workstation system that mostly does rendering in Blender. Therefore he wants to start with 2 2080 ti's but also wants to be able to put another one into the system in the future. After doing some more research about what platform has a good...
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    Question Home network, power line and switch(es) advice

    Hi everyone. I'm about to receive a Sky Q router. As you may know this router only has a pathetic 2 ethernet ports available to use so will need a switch to plug in the devices close by the router. However, I have multiple devices in two other rooms (living room and office). I would prefer...
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    Laptop not turning on

    I have a sony vaio svf152c1ww laptop I think it has a faulty motherboard The problem is that when i try to power on it doesnt and if i remove battery and the cord and press the power button for a minute and put back the battery it will turn on and after some time it automatically turns off and...
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    [SOLVED] Locating the Fan Headers

    I am currently building a pc for the first time, and I'm using the Asus Z390 Plus Gaming Board. I bought two AF120 red led fans and I can't find the fan headers for them. Can anyone tell me wehre they are?
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    [SOLVED] Should you enable all cores in msconfig?

    Hey i have seen a lot of people saying you should enable all the cores in msconfig ( in my case i have 12) and i was wondering if that is safe. They say it will improve performance in games is that true? Or should i leave it as it is? And also what is the default time in the timeout box in...
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    Why is my gpu not recongnized when I open my pc?

    Hello everyone. I bought my 1070 two and a half years ago and everything was running fine but last summer I purchased a logitech g502 and after about 2 hours of using it my pc crashed and when I opened it my gpu did not have drivers and it wasn't recognized by the system. Also nvidia geforce...
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    Display drivers crashing on 1060 gb

    Specs cpu Intel i7 8700 mb b360-A pro gpu msi single fan gtx 1060 6gb ram 12 gb psu 500 watts old cpu I recently upgraded my Cpu since it bottle necked my Gpu which I got the i7- 8700 and now my display drivers crash making most games unplayable this occurs after the game runs random amount...
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    Screen goes black while playing games

    Hello, I have been playing games on my pc for a while now, but lately when I am playing the screen goes black suddenly and I hear allot of distorted sounds in my headphones. This goes on for a couple of seconds and then the game resumes (I can hear the game in the headphones) but the display...
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    How do I format an USB to FAT32 32K cluster MBR?

    I am being told to this: USB partition must be the first partition of the drive, it must be FAT32, it must be 32k/cluster, it must be MBR partition table and primary partition
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    [SOLVED] Should i upgrade my cpu or upgrade motherboard etc.

    I5 4460 Asus Gtx 1070 8gb 16gb Ram DDR3 Z97 PC Mate 600w PSU So my computer is mostly used for gaming and as you can probably tell by looking at my setup my cpu is throttling me in most of the games i play. I play on a 1080p 144hz monitor so i would like to be hitting 144hz. My cpu maxes out at...
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    [SOLVED] New PC, need help

    how much shoud I pay for this pc? can it support 4 monitors? or is it all really crap and old kit? BitFenix Prodigy M MATX Cube Case + 120mm Corsair fan AMD A10-7870K 4-core 3.9 GHz (Max Boost Clock 4.1GHz) ARCTIC Alpine 64 Pro CPU fan Asus A88XM-PLUS Motherboard HyperX Savage 16 GB (2x8...
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    Laptop doesnt turn on after PSoD (Pink Screen of Dead)

    I was playing in my Laptop MSI GT72 2QE Dominator Pro and suddenly the screen goes pink showing just a pink screen and no errors. Then the laptop turns off and when i try to turn on the laptop doesnt go on.
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    [SOLVED] Can I have a non modular psu in my atx case?

    I have a standard atx case (link here: https://www.pccasegear.com/products/39169/fractal-design-focus-g-atx-case-with-window-black) And a non modular psu (link here: https://www.pccasegear.com/products/39709/thermaltake-smart-rgb-700w-power-supply) Would both of these work together easily?
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    PC suddenly start to go to sleep after VERY VERY short time.

    As the title says, my pc will suddenly go to sleep after like 2 minutes of me not using it. maybe even 1 minute ... thing is...it only started happening today...and no it's not my settings cuz i have it set to go to sleep after 20 minutes and its also not any of the power plan settings. i...
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    Is this SSD compatible with my motherboard?

    I'm just wondering wether the Crucial MX 500 M2 Sata SSD ks compatible with my Z370 A-Pro cause I've seen a video of someone putting in an M2 ssd with different plugs into the same motherboard that I have (970 EVO M2) and I don't really know too much about SSDs. Any help is appreciated
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    Obs on i3

    I want ask you that can i run streamlabs obs on intel core i3
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    Ticwatch e + smartband?

    Hello! I'm a Ticwatch E user for almost a year now (bought it secondhand for €70). I have mixed feelings about the smartwatch. It certainly makes life easier sometimes but the vibration are just way too soft to actually notice someone calling me while I am doing something like walking or...
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    [SOLVED] how to make the 1060 work on my pc ?

    A month ago I broke my ps4 pro and had nothing to do in the house, I have this pc laying around which I only used for Netflix and internet, it’s the Optiplex 9020 Core i5 - 4590 3.3ghz I wanted to play games so bad so I ordered a gtx 1050ti cause it was budget and I just wanted to see how it...
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    Loosing textures after upgrading to a different card.

    Yesterday I bought an Asus Strix GTX 970 4GB OC to swap it out for my two SLI'ed GTX 670 2GB, I had the two cards for about 2 years and never had any texture loosing problems. Yesterday all I did was uninstall drivers with DDU, took out the two GTX 670's and replaced it with GTX 970, installed...
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    [SOLVED] GPU Fan Speed control

    Hi All, I have an Asus ROG Zenith Extreme with a Ryzen 1950X and an EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 GPU. Both the CPU and GPU are in a single water cooled loop, but I am planning to split them into separate loops. My question is, how do I control the fan speeds on the GPU water cooled loop based on the...
  31. Marshall Honorof

    Star Trek: Discovery Season 2: Everything You Need to Know

    In case you need a refresher on what happened last time, here's what you should know about Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery. Star Trek: Discovery Season 2: Everything You Need to Know : Read more
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    [SOLVED] HP Laptop screen flickers and freezes

    So I've noticed recently that while using my laptop, it's started to freeze. While initially I thought it was due to the OS being slow or a memory problem, I quickly noticed it was a hardware problem. At first it was a rare occurrence, now it's almost permanent. What I've noticed is that only...
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    [SOLVED] None of my drives are booting to windows

    Hi, I built my own computer and recently I noticed that when I booted my pc into windows it would take forever to load up apps such as Discord, ICUE, steam and other things like that. So I went into the bios and change the boot of windows to a different drive, now I cant even get back into my...
  34. socksandpatches

    CPU Error Display on MOBO

    So I got a new PSU unit, fixed the memory sticks and everything. Everything lights up fine except the CPU Cooler. The display on my MOBO also says ‘CPU ERROR’. Don’t know why, did I put in my CPU incorrectly? I know for a fact my CPU (i9-9900k) and my Mobo (Msi meg Z390 godlike) are compatible...
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    [SOLVED] My laptop has 2 antenna ports on my wifi card

    My laptop has 2 antenna ports on my wifi card, and only one is taken up, can i plug another one into it? The one taken up is labeled
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    [SOLVED] speed stuck at 100 mb

    i have a fiber optic 1gb connection with full cat 6 ive swapped out with cat 5e changed all the cords no difference it says its a 1g ethernet and the router is at 1g but the computer wont accept more than 100mg every other device is at 1g
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    [SOLVED] Fps drops on r9 285

    I bought r9 285 power color 2gb gddr5 and i tested it on userbenchmark and i had 44% which is 2% faster than average benchmark And my problem is when i play fortnite on medium or high or actualy any settings i have wierd fps drops. When i drop out of bus then i have huge fps drop and i lasts for...
  38. MeisterENOX

    New SSD but I want to connect my old HDD

    So I just installed a new SSD in my system and did a fresh install of windows on it, I wanted to be safe before doing so and I simply disconnected my previous HDD with the files and OS still on it. Would it be safe for me to connect the HDD to my system anymore or will there be an error becasue...
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    [SOLVED] Connecting a M.2 SATA3 SSD to Slim Sata connector via adapter cable?

    Okay, so as part of my eGPU modifications I need to vacate the M.2 PCIE slot on my laptop's motherboard. Currently this slot is occupied by an m.2 SSD which is my boot drive but this SSD only runs via SATA bus despite being M.2 form factor and fitting in an m.2 PCIE slot. What I plan to do is...
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    [SOLVED] Can i Upgrade to gtx1060 or gtx 960 in motherboard lenovo mahobay (socket 0)

    Can i Upgrade to gtx1060 or gtx 960 in motherboard lenovo mahobay (socket 0)