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I've been out of the house for 5 days while my wood floors were refinished, and now that I am back my wifi is much much slower than normal. It will be okay at random moments for maybe 30 seconds to 3 minutes but then slows down to the point where it's almost unusable. When I take speed tests...

Hello, I've bought a new computer 1 month ago~ and it has been great. Specs: Ryzen 5 1600 ASUS ROG GTX 1060 6gb STRIX INTEL SSDSC2BW480A4 480gb MB: Asus B350-A Seasonic psu 620W I've been playing games like Assassin's Creed Syndicate on absolute maximum settings and recording with nvidia...

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CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1500X 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($176.99) Motherboard: ASRock - A320M-DGS Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($51.99) GPU: Asus - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Phoenix Video Card ($129.88) Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.44) Memory: Team -...

I have 2 - 500Gig and 3 - 160 gig spare hard drives sitting in a draw. No space in my computer. Any suggestions for an inexpensive solution to combine to a network storage? I was thinking of a dock to use at least the 2 - 500 gig but they seem to be for drive duplication. Thanks for any thoughts...

Hey guys, just to start, this is my first build and current hardware setup https://pcpartpicker.com/user/phonedude/saved/v3yhMp I'm living in Michigan now and moving down to Tuscon in a month or so, and recently while playing some games my GPU had been running at 72.C max, and then over the...

So every couple weeks (approx) my icons reset without warning and shove themselves into the corner like this https://gyazo.com/683ae1726538a9b544fbe318442eb669 Does anyone know what causes this? Thanks

Just put in a new motherboard, Asus TUF z270 mk2 and a new cpu, i5 7600k with the appropriate memory and 50% of startups the system just black screens when you power it on. The fans spin but with a different sound than what they do under normal operation (much quieter) and the lights on the...

Hello, I just installed a fresh copy of windows 7.My problem is that my onboard sound chip is not working. So, I bought a sound card. This happened when i was on windows xp. XP did not need any drivers for the sound and the sound card was just plug and play. I did not use the driver cd and now...

I've got quite a decent machine, but it's starting to give in. For example GTA V is close to unplayable at this moment. I've checked the task manager and it seems like it's the RAM memory that's working the hardest. I've got 8 gigs of RAM currently, and when playing GTA it shows me that it's...

Hello I want buy gpu i have to choice between gtx 980 for arround 255 $ used with 1 year warranty or new gtx 1060 6 msi gaming x for 320 $. i know that in performance now these cards are same but in near future I think that gtx 1060 will be better because driver support. I will play in...

Lighting hit outside my house and I went to my pc later to see my display off so I restarted it and my gpu light came on but then turned off and no display. I5 6600k 4.5 Gtx 1060 ssc 6gb Z170-a asus Evga 500w

For the past month I've been having a very strange issue. Every 3-5 days I have to reapply my thermal paste. It's quite difficult to describe, so I'll add a link to a picture. I have not overclocked. I've tried three different brands of paste. I've tried spreading the paste in as many different...

Im currently looking at 4 of the gtx 1060 video cards, asus gtx 1060 turbo (blower style ) Msi gtx 1060 gaming x evga gtx 1060 sc evga gtx 1060 ftw I have a node 202 case with 2 intake fans directly pressing on the graphics card, the graphics card also has its own compartment in the case. Which...

Are there any real worthwhile speed boosts with PCIe m.2 vs SATA 6GB/s SSDs? Example, Samsung 840 EVO vs 960 PRO m.2?

Motherboard- m5a78l-m/usb3 Power- G7 power extreme 780W Ram- ADATA - XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (being delivered) Hard drive- Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (being delivered) Video card- EVGA - GeForce GT 710 2GB Video Card I not sure on what CPU it has...

So I broke the PC speaker in my Pentium 4. Do you know if there is a driver for Windows 98 that will reroute the sound from the speaker to my sound card?

Hey guys looking to upgrade my rig. It's a pryon aquila gaming chassis, everything stock with a gtx1070. Was wondering whether I need extra Collingwood in the rig for the CPU upgrade?

This is about something so small that I want to treat it as a laptop. I am trying to make a small (under 15 lb) video editing rig. None is made by Dell or HP for under $1800. HP makes the HP Z2 G3, but fully loaded for my needs with small K620 Quadro is around $1800. They charge for extra...

Hello guys so im playing Battlefield 1 and my i get like 0.1sec freezings while gpu usage goes to 30%(60-65%) normal on ultra 1080p, meanwhile my CPU is 90-100% (Framerate limiter is 120) i dont know if my CPU is bottlencking the gpu.I also have Dual channel 2x8gb RAM. PS:CPU temps are 60*C,GPU...

i found a steering wheel (volant de course xbox 360) on good price,im intrested in buying this but im not sure it will work on my pc with project cars ,does anybody knows?

I have an ASUS GTX 960 blower style card and it is very loud. It's loud in games but also at idle and it bothers me a lot. It will only go down to using 40% fan speed minimum and I can't change it. Is there any easy way to make it quieter? I know there are aftermarket coolers but I don't know...

Hi guys, I've just upgraded my PC with Kingston 4GB DDR3 1600MHz, with that being said I now have a total of 8GB RAM. The tricky thing is that I don't see any difference in the speed or whatsoever. I don't understand much about hardware, so can you tell me what should I do? Modifying BIOS...

Having issues with a Toshiba Satellite C855D-5100 running Win10-32Bit and an ASUS MX299Q. Toshiba only has a VGA port but theASUS monitor has DVI, HDMI and Displayport inputs. I tried a few cables VGA to DVI, VGA to DP, nothing seems to work. Is this laptop not capable of supporting this screen?

So i am deciding between the RX 480 8GB vs GTX 1060 6GB . I will use it for 1080p gaming and don't think i will get a gync or freesync monitor anytime in the near future. I plan to use the graphic card for a min of 4 years so which one do you recommend? I was going for the 1060 but now with...

I've bought a kit of g.skill 4 gb 2x2 DDR3 1333mhz to put in a older system and the ram does work, I've tried it in a different system and the only post beep I'm getting is a long one that doesn't stop, the board is from a eMachines computer and it had 2 1gb ram chips in it. The board does...

Hey! I have a odd Problem and Need advice... Any help would be greatly appreciated! I just upgraded my Cpu from a I5-7500 to a I7 7700K. I used thermal grizzly Kyronaut thermal paste and spread it out evenly. Not too much but also enough. As a Cooler I have a Scythe Katana 4. The I5 (Old...

Hey Guys, I'm planning to do a new PC build as the one i currently have freezes when I'm playing games and doing my day to day things. Below is the build i plan to put together but i am unsure on the CPU to go with based on all the new technology that is coming out (AMD, Intel ect). My current...

So, updating the components of my computer buy a GIGABYTE Z170X-GAMING 3 and 2x8 Corsair Vengeance Led 3200mhz ddr4 ram. And when I turned the computer on, I turned it on, but it did not show a signal on the monitor, and after a few seconds it goes out and then goes on by itself. Testing several...

Hello, I got Gigabyte H110M S2H. I am trying to open bios when I have connected my HDMI cable but with HDMI Bios doesn't post (pc is working perfect with HDMI) I tried after that a VGA cable and BIOS post and everything works but the picture quality isn't that good. So the question is ... if I...

I'm trying to use the GPU Tweak 2 software to overclock my graphics card. When I open the software and select ANY of the options, my windows display and other programs with static windows glitch out. I can run furmark or even heaven without the slightest of artifacting or crashing just fine...

My motherboard is Asus Maximus viii Formula while my memory will be cosair vengeance led 32gb (4x8Gb) 3200mhz DDR4. Did somebody has this specific hardware built already and had any problems? I already bought the motherboard but not the memory yet. I am also aware that this memory is compatible...

DDR4 Trident Z RGB Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Problem DDR4 Trident Z RGB F4-2400C15Q-32GTZR Asus Z170 Pro Gaming/Aura is the motherboard. I just purchased and replaced the ram on my Asus Z170 Pro Gaming motherboard. I can not find a way to change the LED bars on the ram to different...

Hello everyone, I am about to build a new pc, and I want to run dual monitors on it. Just some light gaming (csgo, league of legends on one screen and youtube and facebook etc. on the other) The setup im thinking to build so far is: Intel core i3 6100 Evga 500 Watt PSU Sandisk 120 GB SSD...

Guys what are your thoughts on this build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZX3JBP My budget is up to $750 so please do not add some GTX TITAN or some crap like that. Thanks <3 happy new year.

Hi guys, I recently just purchased parts to build my gaming pc and I built it all however I am not getting any output on screen whatsoever. You may have seen my other post and we kind of came to the solution that it was a problem due to the bios on my motherboard not being compatible with the...

When i am talking with my friends they can hear what i hear.What i need to do to fix that.

I'm getting a MSI 1070 Gaming X graphic card, but im not sure if my motherboard is compatible, so I'm wondering if my motherboard is compatible with that graphic card. I have a: G1.Sniper Z97 Motherboard I like all answer. is it any way i can se if my mother board has a PCI port?

Hello, i'm having problems with fps in games like CS:GO, Fifa17 and Diablo3. This is my mobo: Mother: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 GPU: Ati Sapphire HD 5570 1gb ddr5 RAM: Kingston 2 x 4gb (I think they are 1066mhz) HDD: SDD AData 128gb for SO + hdd 2tb for other stuff. PSU: thermaltake tr2 500w...

Hello I have A HP pavilion dv6 but it is not switching on with battery only but it says battery 100% charged and it works with the adapter only it swithches off as soon as i remove the charger please help mee!!!.