Lightning

Hello everyone, Maybe a week ago I bought a new PC with RX 6600. Only a few days later, lightning struck somewhere in the city and I know for a fact that ports on my switch are dead, my router was as well. I took a look at my PC, didn't see anything wrong and unplugged it right away. Now I'm...

It's a Dell Precision M3800 laptop with a 130w power supply. The battery is showing 90% capacity in HWinfo. There were lightning storms overnight and the charge went from 100% to 0%. Now it won't charge at all. Should I replace the battery and/or the power supply?

I've heard that's an overkill to flip the physical switch on PSU. But I live in storm prone area, so I'm concerned about lightning strikes. Am i wearing out capacitors inside PSU by flipping the switch? (After shutdown) Should I just leave it on or flip the switch? PSU - Seasonic Focus Gold...

Hello guys A few months ago I build my gaming PC Of course I had to throw a few RGB fans and beeing a cheap guy, I didn't want to spend that much. Lucky me, the case (Sharkoon) came with 4 PWM 5v RGB fans and a controller (up to 10 fans). The controller is just for the light, the fan speed is...

So lightning hit my house and now something is fried. Im thinking its motherboard or gpu. So I want to replace the gou to see if the system works. Is it safe to replace the gpu?

I’m planning to buy one of these cpus together with a gtx 1070, but which one will work the best on 1080p 144hz? I don’t mind turning down settings, but would like to use this build for a good 2/3 years

So, i've been playing on my computer for about 2 years now, and suddenly from one day to another it starts lagging in games and going slow, so i restart it, and it tells me error, cpu is too hot or whatnot. So i dust of my fan and radiator, and put on some new thermal paste. problem isnt gone...

Hello, So im upgrading my brothers pc with a new mobo, cpu and ram. Atm he has windows 7 on his pc but hes changing to windows 10. My question is do i have to uninstall/delete anyhting from the HDD (he only has 1)? Or is it just a matter of installing the parts and install windows 10? Or is...

I have a Western Digital 2 TB external HD that connects via a removable USB 3.0 Micro B cable. I unplugged it from my computer without using safely eject and now when I try to open it it says that it is unreadable and corrupted. This has happened to me once before with this drive and I was able...

I created a restore point on my Windows 7 PC. Then I installed adobe flash. When I visit some pages (e.g., mail.com), I receive two messages which alternate. Neither stays on the screen long enough to read the entire thing. Here are the messages: -Warning-Unresponsive Plugin. May be busy or...

Name is David, first time here. A little background, I recently purchased a gaming rig from one of those "build your own pc" sites and was extremely disappointed with the finished product. I won't bore you with the details but I'm RMAin it and I've convinced myself that I can build one bigger...

when i play games, i noticed that the CPU usge goes up to 95+%. This might be the cause to my FPS drops. Temps range from 30-40C for both CPU and GPU, and i have replaced recently the thermal paste for my processor. My specs btw are i3-4160, Nvidia GTX 750 ti, 8 GB RAM. The system idle process...

I can't choose between these two monitors, Which one of them would be better for 3D Designing(zbrush, maya and unreal engine 4.stuff like that) and also gaming. I feel like I prefer ultrawide over g-sync but I'm worried about the X35because it's 2560x1080 on 35 inch monitor and also I haven't...

Hi,I want to play games with my new CPU fx 6300 but I want to buy a GPU like r9 285 or gtx 960 which could let me play games like farcry 4 and assassins creed unity especially assassins creed unity so which of those GPUs would support those games with fx 6300 and 8gb of ram.

Is this a membrane keyboard. I think it is because there aren't any switches and it looks like a plastic layer is sitting beneath the cylindrical tower of plastic beneath where the keycap generally sits.

I am looking for a z97 itx mobo that can overclock well, I also need it to have onboard wifi. here is my system build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/hqJ7Bm I prefer asus, msi, and gigabyte boards. Not a fan of asrock. Thank you in advance! -gPlusPlus

i've been trying to play my steam games and half way through playing i get a bsod. i have msi afterburner and my gpu has major spikes to 99% please help!!!!!!!

Hello, Everyone, I'm upgrading my PC and have decided to get a UPS due to frequent interrupts in electrical service in the area. I'm looking for a UPS that will allow me at least 2-3 minutes to shutdown while gaming, and preferably has external ports to connect extra batteries. My budget is...

Pretty simple question... I am purchasing my first GPU for my newly built computer. I am wondering what one I should get. I am stuck between the r9 270 and the r9 270x. I have a budget of $260. If I get the r9 270, I will most likely get another stick of 8gb RAM. I will then have 16gb of RAM. I...

First off, i would like to say thank you for dedicating some time to help me with my problem. My system: CPU I7 2600k MOBO asrock Z77 extreme 4 RAM G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Power corsair TX750 i will try to make this short and simple Issue began last night when...

I was looking to configure with this processor here in INDIA,but i am confused with smps which i should go for,here vendor are giving smps of 500W and above but i want go for low consumption 300-350W,is it possible? And what is now a day called liquid cooling accessories in cpu.

My hard drive have multiply error after i try to use a program formmater 32 i started to get a crc error on one partition then after trying to fix it my other partition got the crc error too. I try every program to fix but nothing wouldn't work. It still have the 2 portion showing it "Healthy...

I wan't to know what brand my case is but it doesn't saying anything on it. Anyone else know?

i have a i3-540 @ 3.06ghz.. wanna buy a r9 270x.. now will the cpu bottleneck the card? & do i have to upgrade my cpu for gaming on the next 2/3 yrs??