maintanance

Forum discussion tagged with maintanance.
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    Question Thermal Pad Thickness of Gigabyte RX 570 - 8 GB, i bought 1mm and the temperature sky-rocketed. Need help

    I have the 8-GB version of the following card: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/gigabyte-rx-570-gaming.b4442 GIGABYTE RX 570 GAMING So i bought some Artic 50x50 - 1mm Thicc thermal pads to replace it, and i covered the main parts - IMAGEs: View: https://imgur.com/a/PQiisEs I very...
  2. Avik Basu

    [SOLVED] Is an electric air blower safe to use?

    Is something like this safe to use to clean your computer? I know vacuum cleaners and blowers are bad because of static but I had seen PC Gamer recommend a battery operated air blower and this was the closest thing I could find to it in my country. So, since a magazine for PC gaming was...
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    [SOLVED] Cleaning an AIO Cooler

    Can I clean an aio cpu cooler without having to remove it? Can I just use compressed air to clean the fan and radiator? Does cleaning it regularly (once a year or more often) allow me to not have to do more intense cleaning which might include having to remove it?
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    Question Is there a software that allows you to monitor & maintain many PCs at the same time?

    My family & friends ask me to fix their computers all the time, which is cool - I'm glad to help. I noticed that most of the problems are related to failure to install key updates or hardware constraints (eg. not enough RAM). I was wondering if there is a software that seamlessly monitors a...
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    MSI Geforce GTX 1050ti and the MSI 990FXA-GD65 MoBo

    the new GTX 1050ti will not even let my pc start with any display's. I am upgrading from the GTX460. I get nothing when I install the GTX 1050ti. I then swap back out to old 460 and works fine. Does it sound like problem with power supply mine is a 1000W or the MOBO or a bad graphics card...
  6. davisjm0311

    New member seeking advice for my build

    This will be my first time building a computer and I would love input on what I don't realize that I'm doing wrong. Case - Gigabyte Sumo Omega Mobo - ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer Proc - AMD 8350 GPU - 2x R9 290x RAM - 16gb corsair vengeance 2133 PSU - Thermaltake toughpower grand 1200w OS -...