Gaming Headsets

So i am confused which headset to buy , i was previously using the steel series siberia v2 Navi edition which i loved and they worked well for around 7 years, now my friend is saying hyper x is better than steel series so i am confused ,also is there any difference betwen Cloud alpha and Cloud...

Hello, I am very confused on what is better for my gaming experience. I have an Msi X470 Gaming Pro Carbon which has a Realtek Alc 1220, which is advertised as a decent and good onboard audio chip. My question is if I should buy a gaming usb headset with its own sound card like the Kraken...

Hi, I was looking to buy a new gaming headset from Razer for pc gaming like Pubg, Fortnite etc and I firstly decided the Kraken (in begging 7.1 V2 and then tournament edition) but today I saw a video where among all the other v2 razer headsets there were the tiamat too. In the video it said that...

ATTENTION ALL AUDIOPHILES! I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE! Okay, now that I have your focus, here is my conglomeration of my proclamation of questions/statements. Also this is gonna be kinda long... I have a Razer Kraken 7.1 v2 Chroma headset, and it has served me well. It's comfortable, it sounds...

Just looking for some comments on my proposed upgrade path, please. I'll try and keep it short! I'm looking at these components: CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X MB: MSI – B450 TOMAHAWK Memory: G.Skill – Flare X Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory DVD: LG – GH24NSD1 Replacement case fans: 2 x Noctua –...

Okay so I just bought a monitor from ASUS. VG258Q is the model. I noticed that there's a very very small dot on the display. It bothers the heck out of me. Should I ask for a replacement or should I just keep it and get used to it.

Just got a newegg newsletter about an RGB CPU.

I’ve got an ASUS Zenbook UX501VW i7 24GB 512SSD GTX960 Win10 out of warranty. The SSD inside is a AHAD 2280. Win 10. I was watching a film today off the external drive and I got an orange screen crash which I have never seen. I rebooted and since my external SSD also has a recover and fix boot...

Hello, I recently bought a used PC, it has Zotac GTX 760 GPU Gigabyte 970A-D3 MB Power Co. ATM 600-FB PSU 16 GB RAM The PC came with win10, and completely in random intervals, the GPU fan stopped working and I got a black screen. After contacting the guy that I bought the PC from, he told me...

Hello everyone! I need professional assistance with a weird problem with my display. There are strange artifacts (colored horizontal lines) flashing on the display all the time, especially on dark color pictures. The problem appeared after I installed a new graphics card (MSI GeForce GTX 1060...

Hello and thanks for your time! I have question about reapplying thermal paste to an older laptop. I have a Toshiba Satellite L55-A laptop that i am using for a Windows XP retro gaming system. It has a Core I5 3337u 2c/4t CPU and an adequate cooler design with 1 copper heatpipe and 1 fan. The...

My laptop's specifications: https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Laptop/AERO-14--GTX-1060#sp I opened the back of my laptop to see the shape of the connection and the SSD so here are some SSD's I am looking at based on that: https://www.frys.com/product/9455051?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG...

Hi. I'm trying to figure out what version the firmware is on my LG BU40N. How can I do this? Thanks!

hello guys, so recently i let my brother get me in to (sim) racing. he was playing f1 for a long team but my feelings were more heading towards the gt3/4 series. so decieded to get asseto corsa for the pc. and as many revieuws have already said. the game is amazing and i fell in love with it...

Hi all, I'm quite stumped by this and would love to hear some insight into what I'm seeing. I have a desktop gaming PC, and recently i had a run in with an exe supposedly hogging CPU performance. However this is far from straightforward from what I'm seeing. Ok, so occasionally i run...

Does anyone have some idea of the largest capacity drive an old Western Digital MyBook WD3200C032-002 enclosure can take? I got one for free with a very dead (motor doesn't spin) 320 gig WD drive. I connected an old 160 gig SATA drive to it and that worked so the USB to SATA and power board are...

So I want to make a smart purchase on my next graphics card. I found a RTX 2070: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GHVK4KN/ref=crt_ewc_title_oth_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER I found a RTX 2080...

About a year ago we switched to DirecTV and when the tech came out to set it up he mentioned something about disabling our Ethernet jack in our living room so the Genie system would work. Now that we are off DirecTV, the Ethernet jack does not work. Does anyone know how to reenable it?

I recently built a new computer and I have a Ethernet cable connected to it and the WiFi keeps disconnecting and reconnecting and it does this every like 20 seconds do I need a new Ethernet cable?

Is this normal? How do I test it if it's ok? I am using the stock cooler.

Hi all, Can anyone tell me the condition of my hard disk from below image, is it safe to use this hard disk for another couple of months ??

Hey guys! I'm looking to repurpose an old Macintosh classic with some new components. I'd like to replace the CRT with a 9 Inch HD IPS, but I'm having a devil of a time finding a good one that's not already in an enclosure. Trying to do this on the (relatively) cheap, so I was hoping to find one...

Hello, I bought an i5 4690k, and I put it on my personal rig but now my pc turns on for 2-3 seconds and go off and on again repeating the same thing, but when I put my old cpu in the pc works fine, can I get help. Pc Gigabyte GA-H81M-D2V 16gb ram 240 ssd 600w psu Gtx 1060

I bought this Wifi Adapter about 2 months ago and has been causing problems ever since although now its reached a tipping point. It started off with really stable ping and Download speed but has now progressed to an unstable and slow mess. I have uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them...

Hey all, I just got a new SSD fairly recently and the results in Samsung magician seem "a bit" unrealistic (sarcasm). My read AND write speeds are in the range of 2,400-2,600 MB/S. That's near 20 GB/s. This is a SATA 6GB/S drive (my board doesn't even have any other internal storage...

So I'm going to get a PC for gaming and i'm on a tight budget so I had to get a prebuilt and just do a few upgrades. So i'm gonna get a dell optiplex 3010 with an i5 3470. But my question is... will this gpu...

so i had an ASUS Laptop X555B that has 2 graphic card AMD r5 M420 512 mb (primary) AMD HD8500M 2048 mb (discrete/switchable) so when im play gta 5 it only detect the 512 mb graphic card which is the R5 One, that mean all of my game use the R5 my first attempt is to change the graphic setting...

Hi all. Got this retro build for some old games I picked up at a charity sale. Changed cpu 3.00ghz clock speed in bios to 3.1 to test. Pc does not post on first attempt then after 2nd time does boot into Windows but clock setting is ignored. Any ideas? No other settings changed. Would have...

Hi. Maybe someone know, why don't we have HBM RAM for system? Is it only good as video card memory?

Hi. I wanna listen some stuff, to learn something. Long time ago I used mp3, but maybe now there is something comfortable(wifi heaphone, earbud, etc.), and what device to use mp3, smartphone, ipod, etc.? Thanks.

Hello there, I currently bought a second monitor for my PC. (BENQ GL2580) My older Monitor is connected to my GTX 1080 TI via HDMI and works just fine. However, the 1080 only has one HDMI port, the other three are Displayports. Since the BENQ I bought only has HDMI as well I bought an...

Computer: Dell Inspiron 3847 Motherboard: Dell 88DT1 Current Ram: M378B5173EB0-CK0 Samsung 4GB DDR3 non ECC PC3-12800 1600Mhz (https://www.compuram.biz/memory_module/m378b5173eb0-ck0/samsung.htm) Upgradeable Ram??: Corsair CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800)...

Hi, I am in desperate need of some advice after racking my brain going through all the reviews I could find for the past 4-5 Hours. I live in the US and I am trying to upgrade my mediocre asus 1080p 60hz monitor for something more suited for gaming. I play a little bit of everything but a lot...

my motherboard is asus m5a97 evo r2.0. cpu is fx 6300. in bios , the cpu voltage is 1.39 , i have not overclocked . Does anyone know the default votage. My pc never starts on first try , after mutliple attemps it works but there is message , overclocking failed. my cpu is also running hotter...

Hello firstly sorry for my bad english. I have a Crucial Bx500 ssd Ahci mode enabled when dowloading a torrents its do very fast but when downloading in steam i get random stops/spikes. View: https://imgur.com/a/aOSDs6p why steam do this? My pc...

Hello people a month ago I upgraded my gt710 with Rx 570 8gb oc and switched rampage 600w psu recently my computer started crashing while gaming everything is ok when im surfing in internet or watching a movie or playing low spec games(crusader kings 2 and some text based games) but when i try...

Well I decided to clean out the old laptop, and spray it out good with air and somehow I managed to mess up the mouse pad, and the fan wasn't working, then started working and got super loud then went off again. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix these things? My laptop is a...

I have a AMD dual core a9-9420 APU with radeon r5 and I am wanting to upgrade my GPU without upgrading my processor or sould I upgrade both? any help or tips?

I have a I5 4690 3,5 MHz 4 cores 4 threades, GTX 1060 Dual 6GB OC edition and 8GB ram 1333 MHz. I noticed in some games that GPU usage is not 100% as it used to be with my old GPU. Is it bottlenecking ?

I recently experienced the death of a pre-built Dell Inspiron 5675 (self-inflicted wound, lol.) I've taken several parts from the Dell and my old gaming rig, and built a 'new' system from the ruins. One of the parts I salvaged from my old rig was a Corsair TX750v2. My understanding that this was...