i5-4690k

Hello all. I've run into a very weird issue recently which has caused me to spend all my time troubleshooting and worrying about my PC for hours on end. My PC has been acting a bit weird the past few months - mostly just running games (like CoD) poorly when the PC should be above recommended...

So, my gaming PC is not cutting it anymore and it's pretty old. The problem is I really can't afford a whole new one, but I don't think I can change out many parts as it has switched too much throughout the years. But let me know. Perhaps a new GPU would help a lot. I am trying to play brand new...

Hi Super geniuses and Gods of PC hardware I need some GPU upgrade advise. I have the below setup from 2015. All is ok, but the GPU needs an upgrade. Please advise best vs cost effective GPU upgrade. Nvidia or AMD Also, what bottlenecks I may face. Anything I should consider upgrading? Will...

Hello Tom's Hardware Forums! It's been a while since I've been really stumped, and I'm hoping someone can reasonably confirm my suspicions, or provide me with some glimmer of hope on this one. This is a bit of a winded story that encompasses pretty much all of last year, if you're just...

I have had my build for a couple of years now and instead of spending money on a new build Im wanting to overclock my current CPU as i never have, i just have no idea what to do, and whats safe temps for what im running i5-4690k GTX 1060 6GB GPU 16GB G.Skill DDR3 AsRock Z97 Extreme 4 NZXT...

??? the performance is stable tho but this isn't normal is it? keeps changing between 3.9ghz to 3.5ghz constantly i5-4690

Boy oh boy what a day. I'm posting this not to ask for help, but to provide a solution. I purchased a PC used with an ASUS H871-PLUS motherboard in it. After chacking the fastest I5 CPU that could be installed, i sought out a new CPU. I settled on the I5-4690K. I flashed the BIOS with every...

As title stated. If chrome is only thing open, it's using 70%-90% of my CPU, if chrome + malware see screenshot, games still run decent maybe slightly less performance than they used to have but nothing major, sometimes computer feels sluggish. Is CPU failing? Virus-scan not showing anything...

Hello, i have an i5-4690K and it was working fine, but today i changed my cooler and now on the task manager it says that i only have 2 cores. can someone help me ?

System Specs: GTX970 i5-4690K cpu 16 GB DDR3 RAM H97-PLUS Motherboard TX650 psu So lately my games been kinda stuttering, mainly newer games such as Resident Evil 2, Darksiders 3, Monster Hunter World for example. This is at any setting regardless of high or low. I had this build made in 2015...

Is there a way to listen to Pandora radio outside of the US. I know it says they are working on the ability. Are there safe proxies?

hello i update my old pc i having problem set crossfire, it since that the second card light up(rgd) but it wont recognize by the amd radeon, or gpuz. In the old pc fx6300 msi 970 motherboard, both card work just fine, it just now i cant see to make the other card be recognize by the system...

I have a Asus ROG Strix B350-f motherboard that I just installed but when I press the power button it dosnt turn on. The only thing that is on is the RGB lights and a orange light but nothing else is on none of my fans are spinning. Any help would be appreciated

does H110m-biostar motherboard have dual channel ram suport it has 2 ram stick slots are they both single channel or there two channels?

I saw many threads on it but problem is little bit weird when my pc restarts it like it cuts the power supply suddely everything goes off and pc trys to boot again some times not even the motherbaord screen shows up which is the first screen while booting up. It just goes on off on off...

So I'm gonna get a Ryzen 5 2600 and I'm thinking of buying a cooler for overclocking. Currently I'm looking for a cooler and there is a 10% off on a website for a: -Arctic Freezer 33 AT 53,00€ (47,70€ with discount) -Arctic Freezer 33 eSport 46,40€ (41,76€ with discount) And I'm wondering...

My pc won't turn on everytime I shutdown or put my pc to sleep overnight. I have to keep spam pressing the power key, sometimes I reseat the ram and cmos battery to see if anything is wrong but nothing seems to work. I'm not 100% sure but this started happening after i reset bios to default. Yes...

I'm planning to build my first pc and I don't know how to install drivers if I need drivers for my internet to work, so can I do it without a USB wifi adapter?

Detailed issue: Ever since a few weeks ago, when turning my computer on from being "Shut Down", my computer hangs past the windows logo. The main monitor says "no input detected". Both of my DP cable'd monitors go blank. After a few minutes it loads into windows, and usually my internet...

Hi ..I bought a Gpu gt 730 a while ago..at that time i didn't knew anything about gpus.so i bought it anyway from a local store ..the thing that i find weird is my gpu's manufacturer ... i googled the brand and found nothing but this site...

my pc spec are motherboard DH61WW PSU great wall gw-500pw processor is G630 after 20 sec fan stop spinning in the graphic card and monitor indicate check video card. so I'm planning to replace PSU with new Thermaltake TR2 Challenger 600W. but not sure the power is case here. does bios...

I got GTX 1080ti AORUS xtreme edition and I found a small drop of solder on the metal. I do not know if it's a problem or not.

Which brand of Portable Hard drive that can be used as internal hard drive for movies, games, and streaming along with transferring and deleting action too. I have one internal hard drive for my desktop, and i planning to buy a portable hard drive for storage and for transferring and back up...

Hi, My 4790k is going up to 88 degrees on load with a custom watercooling loop but when it was previously air cooled by a 212 evo it barely reached 70 even during summer. This is at stock clocks with turbo boost enabled. CPU idling around 30-40 with ambient room temp being around 20-26 degrees...

Like the title says, will a i5 3550 bottleneck a GTX 1050 Ti? My friend is thinking of upgrading his acer desktop that came with a i5 3550, 8gb DDR3, and a nvida quadro 2000 D with a GTX 1050 Ti. For example, can it run gta 5 at high/very high at 60fps or more on 1080p? And are they compatible.

Specs: PSU: NZXT 750w 80+ Gold CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 Old GPU: AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GB Edition New GPU: MSI R7 260x OC 2GB Edition RAM: 16GB DDR3 (4 Sticks of 4GB) HDD: 500GB (Not sure of brand) I just received a refurbished and tested MSI R7 260x OC 2GB Edition, and the monitor isn't...

Need help hooking up soundbar

My earphones were working fine yesterday but now they've stopped playing sound out of the right earpiece. it's happening on both my laptop and my phone and across multiple apps so I think the problem is with my earphones. I've tried re-balancing them and making sure that 'mono audio' isn't...

Hy guys i recently build a pc with i7 7000k 3.6 oc , motherboard asus z270 p , 16gb ram , 1060 6gb oc video card and i just wonder if my cx550w psu will be enough to run .

Basically my laptop of 5+ years kicked the bucket when it met with an unfortunate accident involving some water spillage. Luckily, the hard drive appears fine and unaffected, but there's a lot of data on it I would like to be able to salvage. The lappy HDD is a Hitachi 5K750-750 SATA 3.0. My...

I already have Nvidia gt 630 gpu.... should i upgrade to gt730 or stick to my older one and will amd be good or i should buy i3 coz i m having really limited budget of 15000 rs I m buying gpu, cpu, ram and cabinet(optional) Thanks in advance

Hey guys I was wondering if someone could help me with this, so I had just installed my components into my new case ( MasterCase 5 from Cooler Master ) and I had also installed NZXT AER + fans instead of the stock fans. But my motherboard ( Gigabyte H11A-M ) only has one SYS_FAN header, so I...

is it good I will buy it now

Which will provide me with better temps with a fx 8350 and I won't be overclocking 1st: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130790&cm_re=msi_970-_-13-130-790-_-Product 2nd: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130951&cm_re=msi_970-_-13-130-951-_-Product

So I had an MSI GT72 2QE laptop, but something went wrong with it. Over the past few months, the DC pin on the charger would get burning hot and the laptop would flicker between charging and not charging randomly, but at other times it would be completely fine. I now realize this is something I...

Hello! I have a laptop asus k550vx that have igpu intel and dgpu nvidia. As u know, only intel work cause is directly connected to the monitor. Can i connect my monitor, by modding the cable, directly to the nvidia, and let my pc use only the nvidia'??! Thannks

So I just built a new PC rig, and here are the specs. - i7 6700k 4.0 GHz 4 core processor - Temp = 36, 37, 46, 45, 45 degrees celcius - 16GB DDR4 3200mhz ram - Nvidia Geforce 1060 3GB - Gigabyte ZA170x gaming 5 motherboard - 128GB SSD for OS & drivers - 1TB HDD for all other software and files...

my mobo is dx58m01... which has a PCix16 slot 2.0.

16GB RAM DDR4 3200 MHz, vs 32GB DDR3 1600 MHz, for playing civilization four & civilization six game?

I just bought new gtx 1060 as an upgrade to my pc because my old gtx 750ti was starting to get some problems with running games. After some testing with the new card i realised that it performs almost as bad as my old 750ti. This felt really wierd so I started to look how the card performs with...