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Hello, I've been a long time Tom's Hardware lurker and feel that I used to have an account, although I couldn't figure it out when logging in just now, so I present as a newbie even though I am quite experienced! Anyhow, on to my problem! I am attempting to build a PC for a friend and he has a...

I have a 5700XT that been having a memory leak I noticed in the last few days. I have no idea what to do, I've tried everything to find what's causing the leak. I've reduced my res to 800x600, I've reinstalled Radeon, I've picked through every process on task manager I could deleted programs...

I had a problem for a long time that I don't know what caused it in the first place. The games are constantly changing, for example: once the gameplay was faster, once slower, or in Rocket League the camera level was higher or lower. And it changed randomly after reboots and shutdowns without me...

My friend plugged his laptop at library and the problem in title occured. No lcd backlight comes, keyboard RGB turns on and only about 10 seconds later fan spins at full speed and turns of automatically. It has removable battery, I removed and tried powering on like that but same. Idk why it...

So, my pc keeps shutting down randomly. PSU IS corsair rm850x shift. It started this issue after about 10 days of use. Now, the first time it happened, i gave it a break for about 16 hours, then turned of my pc. It started working, but this time i kept an eye on PSU voltages on hwinfo64. What...

EDIT: My m.2 for some reason was blocking booting, and now that I removed it. The system booted up Thanks to ppl that replied apreciate it ---------------------------------------------------- I have had this mobo for about a week and it worked fine, but now that i moved it to a new case. It...

Hello guys! I just happened to get some older Ryzen parts. I did test all of them in my pc, one by one and they worked flawlessly. Now the problem is, I get no display w them if I put all of the together. Specs: -Asus Prime A320M-k (I know its a bad mobo, I sadly have the same one) -R5 2600...

Hey, as part of my irregular pc cleaning I unplugged my PC from the wall and cleaned it of dust and such. Important notice is that i did not remove the ram sticks at any point of my cleaning. After plugging my pc back up, windows says that half of my ram (8.1GB/16GB) is "hardware reserved". I...

I bought a new cooler and I was so focused on focusing the instructions I didn't realize there was a sticker I need to remove before I attach it to the (AM4) CPU. (It wasn't on insturction) I noticed the sticker by chance on a youtube video and wanted to remove it. Removing the fan also pulled...

turned my pc off for the night, but decided i was gonna hop on again last minute. turned it on and booted up rl and i noticed i was struggling to keep 190 fps in the menu (usually get 500+) and in game it goes up to 240 but its stuttering and everything feels insanely slow? no idea whats...

Hey, My friend has some serious problems with her PC that I build. She is experiencing crashes and BSOD's while idle and when booting up sometimes. all drivers are up to date, fresh windows 10 install.. only BIOS isnt up to date. I tried and researched some things myself but its still occuring...

A week or so ago, randomly one day my ethernet cable suddenly stopped working on my PC, but I have tried the same cable on other devices and it works fine, it's only on my PC it doesn't work. I have no idea what to do so please help.

Hey all, After trying to update my Windows version, getting the stutters, and then reverting Windows versions again, my GPU continually drops to 0% usage on idle (no open applications), will freeze for a quarter of a second, and then resume again. I've tried all the power options via NVIDIA...

hello, so I recently bought a used 4090 Gaming X Trio and tested it with Furmark. Can you tell me if these temperatures look okay, or should I consider returning it? Video Link

Hello, I recently acquired a suprim 3080 from my friend. It works completely fine on his amd build. When I set it up, my monitor was not turning on even though I had turned on my computer with the new GPU in. I tried a different hdmi and still nothing. So I tried reseating the GPU and still...

Hello, I want to do a fresh install on my "gaming" laptop. wich is the Acer Nitro AN515-58 but i ran into a problem.. and that is while i booted from the Win USB. I cant find my SSD to format it, and delete all files for a fresh install. the SSD is NVMe Micron_3400_MTFDKBA512TFH formatted in...

Hello, I have a Gigabyte X870 Elite motherboard and the Hydroshift LCD 360s AIO. I have the AIO plugged into the CPU_Fan header and the USB header, also the power to the psu. Have tried the other USB. The display on the AIO only works if I put the PC into sleep mode then wake it up. If I just...

So I was just in discord with friends in a game of league and suddenly my screen turned black and I thought I just tabbed out. For a bit I could still hear my friends talking but after a few seconds I couldn't hear them anymore and my keyboard lights would go off but the fans were still lit up...

I have a old hp workstation, it has an 18pin slot for the psu, The psu is a new evga 600 watt which has a 20+4 cable power connector, I connect the cable to the 18 pin slot on the motherboard with two pins sticking out on the side When i turn on the pc from the button the back the fan...

hi, i just upgraded my cpu from i3-12100f to i5-12400f and when i turn on my computer i got no image and on the motherboard red then switch to yellow, my computer restarted and the cycle continue msi h610m-g i5 12400f 16 gb g.skill ram Asus tuf 1660 super

I want to upgrade to a new 4070 but i dont know if my Xilence 650w PSU is good enough and the connector. Right now I have a GTX 1660, a 4070 would be a nice upgrade. This is the picture of connector: https://ibb.co/25J5SGH

My PC just turned off after a blue screen. I didn't have time to read the error code. I tried to turn it on again and while the Windows loading circle was spinning it stayed stuck for a long time, so I decided to restart again, but this time nothing, no video, nothing. There is no image and no...

Hardware: Motherboard: X670 AORUS Elite AX CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X GPU: AMD Radeon 6800 RAM: 32GB DDR5 2400Mhz I get crazy stuttering when playing new games even when I play in 1080p with gaphics on medium. This was noticed most recently on Black Ops 6, it was unplayable. I recently...

So i was going to saudi arabia for 11 days and i wasnt gonna be able to play use my pc so i turned it off switched off power and then pulled the plug out once all lights had gone out and it had been sitting for some time. Now 11 days later ive come home and it wont turn on… Things ive tried...

Hi there So i have a leadex 3 750w gold right. Fan mode 1 doesnt spin the fan. not even at 5 mins of occt stress test... Fan mode 2 gives PC silent reboots and the fan spins like under 500rpm. for light loads such as LEAGUE OF LENGENDS LAUNCHER +- BROWSER open So for 105c capacity capacitors...

Hello to my favourite forum. I’m trying to build my first pc ever (I’m a computer engineering undergrad) and i keep researching things a lot because… second thoughts. My brain hurts. I want to start playing games since i never had the setup to do so and i want to have a pc strong enough to...

The title says it all, unfortunately. I recently swapped my Windows over to a larger SSD. The cloning process disabled BitLocker on the new drive and I just went to re-enable it. The process seemed to go well, and I got my identifier and recovery key. I restarted my PC when it requested it and...

When I play gpu heavy games, everything runs smoothly around 90 fps but sometimes I get massive fps drops (90 average to 15 average), when that happens, the bottom left corner of the screen says I have very high gpu latency (100+) and this lasts for about 10 long seconds. I have tried about...

Hello, I got a RTX 3070 a couple months ago and I have been having problems running games that I was just running with my GTX 1070. In task manager it is always running at 95 to 100% and frames will drop from around 100 to 30 fps for a few moments. Also ive tried to use shadowplay and it made...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-GL704GM-DH74.360786.0.html is my exact current setup, I have massive fps stutters 80-100 -> 10-15 fps and gpu usage skyrockets, could it be because of a bios update that doesnt go well with the components ? I have repasted my computer, cleaned out the fans...

Hi, My PC is crashing randomly. I was playing some non intensive games like Valorant and Overwatch on low settings and my PC randomly went to a white screen and was not responsive. I restarted and it worked more or less perfectly (aside from a 2 second freeze) for 2 more hours and then it...

Hi, I'm having a very strange issue with my PC, if someone could help that would be fantastic! My PC Specs are: Motherboard: Asus Prime x370-a CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 GPU: Radeon RX Vega 64 8g PSU: Corsair RM850x HDD and SSD (The Build is about 5 years old) Recently I updated my Drivers for my...

For the specs that i have i would expect atleast 144 fps stable in some games but there has been alot of stuttering or stability at like 80-110 fps idk why (cs2, fc25, val, rocket league...) here are my specs: cpu: i5-13400 gpu: rtx 3070 mobo:H610M H DDR4 ram: 16gb if u need any other...

About a year ago, I built a new computer and have had BSOD issues since the first couple of weeks that I have had it. I have tried a lot of my own troubleshooting to no avail. I even brought it into a PC repair shop as well. Using BlueScreen viewer, I can see that the problem driver is listed...

Mobo: Asus Maximus IX Code going back and forth from 01 to 03. Black screens, I’ve tried reseating ram(replugging everything) (fixed my error 55, now this). I can a1 load bios. Everything should work, I switched cases and made sure to be careful. Thank you in advance and apologies for...

so im looking to get a new pc. currently have a i7-9700k, 16GB, 2080TI , win10. i used to be a big PC gamer, but for medical reasons, i can no longer game. (few point and click games i can, but that's not important) the stuff i do now is mostly CPU heavy. i was looking at getting the Beelink...

First off here's my specs: 1080P 75 hz Freesync Dell monitor ASUS PRIME B-450 M/A MSI MAG 750W POWER SUPPLY RYZEN 5600X AMD RX 6750XT 16gb Crucial Ballistix 3200Mhz CL16 ( running in dual channel in the correct slots ) 1Tb SSD ( i forgot the brand its kindof old) i believe my SSD may be...

On powering on my PC, The CPU and GPU fans spins for 10-15 seconds and then the system restarts . There is no signal on the monitor. There is a 2 seconds delay between pushing the power button and the pc starting. My Keyboard and Mouse aren't getting any power also. I have tried resetting the...

Hello, yesterday when I turned my pc on it turned on fine, but my monitor could not detect the pc connected to it and my keyboard and mouse were not working then, I got it to fix by unplugging everything then starting my pc. today I turned my pc on and had the same problem, but its display...