My pc died a few weeks ago. I removed the PSU for testing but it failed to turn on. A week later I took the whole thing to a repair shop and it turned on fine *scratches head*, back at home, the PSU cable sparked when I plugged it in, and the pc didnt turn on again!
After I took out the PSU...
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I am looking for a 1080 but cannot decide on which one I should go for. Currently I am looking at Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 1080 GDDR5 8GB OC WF3 or just the none OC edition. Currently on newegg its £419.99 which is a good price...
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My brother bought a low priced budget laptop (Alcor Snugbook Q1421). It came with Win 10 Home x64. I want to put Win 10 Pro x86 or Win 7 Pro x86.
I've made a USB 2.0 Flash and put a bootable windows via Microsoft Creation Tool. The USB boots normally on other laptops.
When the flash drive is...
So yesterday, I built a PC for my friend (specs are listed below). It all went very smoothly. I booted into the BIOS to check if the motherboard was detecting all of my hardware. I have a Seagate Barracuda 2TB hard drive and a Kingston A400 240GB SSD. They were both recognized by the...
So I know that coil whine has to do with GPU and PSU configurations.
Heres the thing, I had a i5 6600k/msi 1080 with a z170-a mbd and a 650 gold+ psu.
today I upgraded to a z370-a and a i7-8700k with the same gpu and psu.
I booted up wow and I get high fps now, like 200-500 fps and I get coil...
My egpu (Gigabyte GV-N1070IXEB-8GD Gaming BOX) does not work in my house or anyone else's house. However, it works on school power, business power, hotel power but not at anyone's house. I have been to PBTech (which is a tech supply company in New Zealand) and they say there is no problem with...
I recently built a new pc with a lighting node pro, Corsair RGB hub, and two LL140 fans. I have the hub plugged into the first port on the LNP, and the LNP has SATA power and is connected to a USB 2.0 port on the mobo. It will work fine for a day or two, then disconnect. I'm running the...
I just bought a new gaming laptop - the Dell G5. I've been using a pair of Razer Kraken Pro Neon headphones for a couple of years now, and I love them, but with my new laptop, they aren't usable. The headset comes with an extension cord with a mic/headphone split, and my laptop only has one...
I have two Viewsonic TD2421 monitors and a Nvidia Gforce 9500GT graphic card. My primary monitor is on the HDMI port seems to work well and responds properly to "touch". My secondary is on the VGA port displays properly but does not respond properly to "touch". How do I correct this situation?
Im having quite a dilemma choosing between these two. The Acer Swift 3 (i3-7130u) or the ASUS Vivobook 15 X542UN (i5-8550u). Both of them use the MX150 GPU, both are priced similarly as well. Which would be the better choice? Main purpose is basic typing/web browsing/ and a bit of photo-editing...
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Fairly new to overclocking and just started overclocking my i5 6600k. I also recently upgraded to a used gtx 1080ti and hope this is not the cause of my problems. While I do plan to do more extensive testing, I was wondering if a voltage core thats too low can cause games to crash? I...
I have a 300mb/s internet package through my provider. I run a Netgear Nighthawk R7300 without the DST. My wireless devices all show a 5g wifi speed around 250mb/s (as expected) but my hardwired ethernet devices can’t break 97mb/s. This includes my PC on a new 3ft CAT 6 and my PS4 using wall...
Pc won’t post, ez debug shows vga and has 1 long beep 2 short on a msi 970A gaming pro carbon
Specs:
MSI 970A gaming pro carbon mb
Fx-6300 6 cores 3.5ghz
2 4gb Corsair vengeance ram
gtx 760 2gb founders edition
Evga 650watt power supply
I’ve tried running it with only the essentials and no...
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So the last few days i've been oc'ing my cpu and i'm having some trouble finding the right settings, this is my first time oc'ing and i'm getting stable clock's but still not sure about the few settings.
I'm having a stable overclock at 4.8 ghz @ 1.315 Vcore with prime blend test...
My laptop is ASUS ROG GL552VX. I already updated BIOS to the newest version.
So, when I installed Samsung 950 PRO m2 nvme SSD my laptop screen just gone black with only the cursor on loading when I started it. After entering BIOS the SSD is not detected at all.
Not even restarting or startup...
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I am having a strange issue with my display on my laptop I just ended up getting this laptop today and am noticing these grids of microdots on the screen (most visible on white backgrounds). I did some digging and one HP forum suggested booting into the BIOS to see if it was...
I'm quite new to all of this and currently ordering all the components I need to build a high usage VR ready computer for a business I'm trying to decide what case will be best, I've had some mixed opinions and I'm not sure if these will have enough airflow with an 8600K processor and GTX...
Hi, I was planning on building a gaming PC but am not 100% confident I am going to build it correctly. I found this website and they said they could build what I think is a similar PC for a bit extra, do you think I would have the same result? I want to be able to stream using it.
MY BUILD -...
so i've recently bought a nvidia geforce 1060 3gb GPU and with this i did not change my CPU which is an Intel i5 4670 3.40GHz
just some extra info i didn't overclock anything the only thing that i have running is MSI genie
i have already checked if my pc is getting enough power for my hardware...
So Guys here is my question.
Can someone help me to put some PC components together so that they work in harmony.
Budget: 2300 +-5%
Todo:
Pc, Monitor and Keyboard
Please, I want to know is that build enough for gaming, video editing or even more:
i7 8700k
gtx 1070 Ti
16-32gb ram
adata xpg sx8000 512gb nvme ssd
seagate barracuda 2tb
bitfenix whisper 650w
aorus z370 gaming 3
I have some old computers with Windows 95, 98, 2000, and XP, that I've kept to try to maximize for games I couldn't afford to play with great graphics when I first purchased the systems, but they just ended up taking a backseat and now are just taking up space but I'd rather not toss them.
I'd...
I have a Thinkstation 20 (got it for $100 for some studies that have come and gone), and I want to upgrade the processor to something more usable such as an arcade machine running emulators and made another service on the side. I don’t need a storage server. Can anyone point out some worth while...
i recently just did my first build and i am using CAM to monitor everything. but my issue is that my clock speeds rapidly go anywhere from 1500 all the way up to 4200 and tend to mainly stay around 4000 clock speed.
so my question is, is this normal and if not how can i fix it.
System specs...
I was wondering, can you run Battlefront 2 on a laptop with Radeon™ RX Vega M Graphics? The laptop also has an Intel® Core™ i7-8705G processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a 512 GB SSD.
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I am building my first pc, parts are i5 8400, MSI GTX 1050 Ti OCV1, 8 GB Ram, Asus prime H310M-K MB.
so my question was can i use intex power supply smart it-2045s+ 450W and it says Pentium 4 ATX2.03 on it
So can i use this power supply ??
I'm experiencing a memory leak, it happens everytime I use this computer, from the moment I turn it on.
Pictures of Task Manager: Processes, Performance and Resource Monitor in here:
https://imgur.com/a/PbGVNtW
Can anyone please help me fix this? I assume its the reason my computer works...
I recently replaced my PSU because the one I had in it was crap and wanted to replace it. I bought the Corsair TX850m and my computer seems to be crashing ever since I put it in. First, my games will crash, then the whole pc. This is 850 watts, MORE than enough for what I have. I am also using a...
Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 955
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 1600Mhz
Motherboard
ASUS M4A77T/USB3 (AM3)
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
Storage
465GB Western Digital (HDD)
Now, I'm needing to do lots of video editing (1080P) and my computer is so...
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I'm experiancing frequent BSOD randomly, but mostly related to using chrome, and I am puzzled as to what might be causing this.
PC Config:
CPU: Intel core i7 6700k Skylake
MOBO: Asus Maximus VIII Gene
GPU: GTX 1080 8GB
Ram: 16gb ddr4 (11061mb used 14477 available)
Please post a...
Sir I have a mxq box with 3.5 mm Spdif jack. I want to get DTS and Dolby audio output from this box to my home theatre Samsung GT F450rk system.But the problem is my system have optical input, 3.5 mm input, analog R and L input, hdmi ARC input only.
Pls help me which type of cable should I used...
Hi Tom's Hardware people,
I have a keyboard with a strange QWERTY layout. The question mark is in a different place, @ sign too, etc. I need this for someone for work. Is this layout familiar to anyone?
Thanks in advance.
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I recently got a very odd problem with Windows 10 network sharing. When I open my shared folder in "Network" from "this pc" it says "Windows cannot access \\pc-name\folder-name\."
I have turned on network discovery and file sharing for all the network types (private, guest, public) and I have...
theres this game that is during a war or after a war (i think its after) were you had a house whit like 4 people (elder,adults or childs) and its destructed, you could barricate it.
you could also explore different locations, there was one that was a eldery couple in a house that if you tried...