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Okay so, for some reason, i feel like my rx 580's performance has degraded by quite a bit, or maybe it's always been like this but, i see people with cpus that are only like 10% better than my current cpu (i7 3770, old but still decent) with an rx 580 and they get sometimes 3x my fps. In...

The problem looks like this: If I turn on the laptop and try to connect the charger, the power button just keeps flashing and the battery is draining. But if I connect the charger first while the laptop is off and power it on, then the battery is charging just fine under windows 10. If I...

Hello, My PC has been crashing lately and while I have the knowledge of building and setting up PC's, I have zero knowledge in diagnosing issues pertaining to Windows 10 like stop codes, etc etc.This crash (restart) appears to be while under load. My Specs: Ryzen 7 2700X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960...

Hello. I am having a crazy issue where I'm getting insane performance drops whether I am on my desktop listening to music, on Chrome or in games. It causes insane freezing or stutters to like 10-30fps for up to 20 seconds. Only noticeable thing I am seeing is my CPU is spiking to 100%...

Hello all, recently I just acquired my first 1440p monitor, the LG 27GL83A-B. Before that I've had a 240hz 1080p monitor and thought with a RTX 3080 I should upgrade. Although it appears whenever I stream, performance plummets in-game with the 1440p. As soon as I hit the go live button it...

Hello, My PC has been crashing lately and while I have the knowledge of building and setting up PC's, I have zero knowledge in diagnosing issues pertaining to Windows 10 like stop codes, etc etc. I was wondering if I could get some help analyzing the most recent dump file. Also, I'm not sure if...

so, my 980Ti will install nvidia driver 365.19, but that's the latest it gets for some odd reason. Anyway, when i try to install nay other drivers, it just won't install, even if nvidia says they're installed. Weirdly enough, when I install the new drivers, gpu-z says that the new version is...

Hi guys, I have a custom built gaming pc and have always used ethernet at home, but I've recently moved into a new place and don't have the freedom to run a cable throughout the entire house and need to switch to wifi. Since day one of my new pc I noticed that the built in wifi on my Asus...

Hi All, I have recently upgraded to Rx 560 from my old Amd Radeon HD7570. But I don't notice any performance differences, nor is my GPU using all of its performance / VRAM. it uses only 1GB Vram / 4GB. I'm running the latest Amd Drivers for the Card but there is no difference. I'm getting...

This has been going on for a couple of days now, and I still haven't found a fix for it. I got a new motherboard, ram, and cpu, and all of a sudden my PC restarts constantly, it wont download stuff, wont uninstall anything. Please help, cuz im losing my patience. My build: i5-8600k z370 ultra...

I had recently discovered this issue when trying to use some headphones and speakers with my PC. My PC has the AMD B450 AORUS Elite V2 Motherboard. I was planning to pair my speakers with an AUX cable to my PC's motherboard audio jacks. My PC seems to recognize the speakers and I can orient them...

Hey! I own 2x8 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200MHz I wanted to upgrade for more RAM and purchased another set of 2x8 GB (exact same product) I wanted to fill up the 4 RAM slots, but my benchmarks tell the RAM is 'performing below potential' (benchmark 4 ram sticks) I have turned on A-XMP in...

Hellot tom'shardware forum, Recently, My new PC has been bluescreening with the issue "KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE". I have had to swap my motherboard multiple times now and I have also been ruling out other issues (like a dead HDD and Bad WIFI cards). I watched a video on YouTube on what a...

This is frustrating and i've done everything that I could to fix but im here and asking for aid! My main monitor is a BenQ [Rl2455hm] 1080 @ 60 Hz and second is LG 55CX 4k @ 120Hz connected to my RTX 3080 HDMI 2.1 while my BenQ is connected to the display port on my 3080 but on the other hand...

Hello, i have a strange problem with my computer. The problem began already a year ago. My Computer always crashed at running csgo (1 Crash every 2 or 3 matches). The programm freezed froze and i had to turn of my computer with the power button. This always happened after a new windows update...

I've swapped the MOBO from A b450 to a X570 thinking maybe it would help but its so random i can't really play game out of fear my progress will be lost or i will dc in multiplayer, someone please tell me what i need to buy/download/fix to stop this issue from occurring. below are the crash...

Hi guys So I’ve built a new system, it’s been a pain in the ass. It previously randomly rebooted with no blue screen or anything it just straight up restarted. I did some research and ultimately exchanged out my PSU with Corsair. The new one came back and I’ve not had that issue since, but here...

so basically its unplayable for me didn't play cod for over a week and after getting back in to the game first game i was stuttering really bad and i had to see what's wrong and i saw that it uses all my ram literally all of it i cant even alt tab because its stuttering i'm using an rtx 3070...

Hello all. I've having this problem for a while now and it has been driving me insane. My pc freezes randomly during gaming, or when I'm just trying to browse the web (although it is very rare.) I've realized that the fan chassis heats up a lot when the rig freezes. I've recently started using...

Hello everyone, Recently I decided to clean my PC after a few years of usage. I have built this PC in 2017 and it has helped me through highschool. These are my specs: MSI 1060 3GB Intel i5 7500 8GB Ram MSI H110m Pro-Vd Plus After cleaning, which I am very familiar of, I re-applied thermal...

Ive been playing destiny 2 lately and been dropping down into the 30's fps during intensive moments. Im averaging roughly 45 fps on low settings and i feel like i should be getting more. Ive ran stress tests on OCCT and msi kombustor and no issues found. cpu temps are staying below 80c and...

Hello. I bought a prebuilt PC a while ago. I have always had issues with microphones that stop working seemingly out of nowhere. They still show up in control panel and sound but they seem to give off a constant light noise. I also have to uninstall and reinstall my realtek audio drivers for my...

Hello, I have a serious problem with an Acer laptop. The notebook had: board: Acer board E1-531G NV56E NBM5711001 Q5WV1 LA-7912P HM77 PGA989 GT710M 1GB see: https://cs.empowerlaptop.com/p/acer-e1-531g-motherboard-w1711/ 4 GB Kingston RAM DDR3 500 GB HDD Intel Pentium B960 CPU Graphics...

Mainly happens playing Valorant. Disconnects will be ~10-15 seconds long and only happen once every hour or so an average. I have also noticed that when this happens, I can still hear people on discord (but they can't hear me). Also while watching my CPU & GPU while playing. When the freeze...

Hello guys! so i'hv been hearing some vibration noise on my pc and its coming from the psu area and some guys told me it can be the hdds causing the vibration against the case so i tried to take the hdd out of the case and the vibration noise was going and coming as long as i touch the hdd...

My computer is a fairly high end gaming laptop but has a lot of trouble running games that it should be running flawlessly. For example, when I try to play Stellaris, the frame rate makes the game unplayable, dropping as low as 5 fps. These are the recommended requirements for Stellaris...

Hey guys. so I have an issue that’s appeared out of nowhere and I’d appreciate some help in being able to trouble shoot where exactly the issue lies. My pc has been working fine for a year then today I went to use it and the display doesn’t work. It doesn’t work from both the GPU hdmi slot nor...

I've had this issue for months that when im playing a game i randomly disconnect for about 10-15s and then its fine again. Sometimes it happens frequently and sometimes it doesnt happen but once and hour. I've had very few occasions were its never happened at least once in a day. My internet is...

Hi everyone, I've recently put together a new build and am having a ton of issues with the pc working properly. Mainly with windows, nothing works properly on windows at all. Apps don't open properly, some apps wont even install. A lot of apps open and in the task manager and I can see that...

Mobo: MSI MAG Tomahawk Z390 CPU: Intel Core i7-9700k GPU: EVGA Hybrid RTX 2080 Super RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory: XPG GAMMIX 2TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD PSU: ASUS ROG Strix 650W 80+ Gold Certified I just recently did a new PC build, with an MSI MAG Tomahawk Z390 Motherboard. Ever...

OK i know its a motherboard memory issue i have an Asrock z170 exreme4 atx motherboard about 2 years ago my pc would constantly crash so i decide to remove 2 sticks of ram and put the ram in channels b1 and b2 as opposed to a1 and b1 this fixed it completely and I hadn't had any problems until...

I currently run an i7-3770 and have had some issues with my hyperthreading. Some games would make my computer blue screen, whereas others don't. When I turn of hyperthreading, I have no more crashes, it runs just fine. I changed motherboards and it still does it. I simply decided to turn it off...

I have a 3600mhz 32gb gskill cl18 kit and it was runing fine on xmp with the older bios but now that i have updated it it won't boot, if i turn off the xmp the pc works fine, the weird thing is that i know that is known issue that some PCs wont boot on XMP, but this is different since i know i...

So my friend just recently got into PC gaming. Not too long ago he bought his first pre-built and soon after that he upgraded and built his own rig. The specs I know from his new rig that he built are an RTX 2070 Super, a Ryzen 7 3700x(I believe), 32 GB of Corsair Vengence RGB Pro series ram...

Ever since I got the 5700 xt, my computer overheats and is forced to reboot. I run games like COD. At first, everything was working fine for a while. The screen now flicker and sometimes goes green before rebooting. Is this because my CPU is overheating or the PSU isn't strong enough? Build...

Hi there, A couple of days ago I realized while I was playing CSGO that my fps was dipping real hard. Which was weird because I turn Vsync on and don't ever have a problem with it. This happend the same day that I downloaded an old game from 2007 using a different DirectX. I've tried downloading...

I have a modem with a built in router but the signal is very weak. My internet works fine but the wifi's range is short. When I'm 20+ feet away from it, the signal drops to 1 bar. Sometimes it drops completely. I want to know if i can buy a router to fix the wifi range? Thanks in advance!

Too start my pc specs are: cpu: Ryzen 2700x Gpu: Rx 5700 xt Mobo: X470 gaming plus Ram: corsair vengence rgb 16gb 3200mhz psu: TX 650m corsair cpu cooler: Be quiet pro with 2 fans wd green 240gb SSD SSHD: seagate 1tb With this PC multiple issues and the first one is I'm having random screen...

Hi everyone, games like Control and RDR2 are crashing on my system. I have ruled out that my memory and graphics card are not bad because I have tried them in other systems and have tried a different power supply. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. p.s will i lose my windows license if i...

So here’s the full story: I had a rx 560 I was testing around with and I eventually put in my gtx 1060 6gb back into my system after no longer than 10 minutes, I installed the drivers in that time and looked at specs and all, but alas we’re here with my 1060 back in my system, after that, a few...