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Hi I used to have a 960 gtx nvidia installed and the display was able to run on 144hz on a vga cable. Now I installed a 1080 ti and it only allows hdmi cables. So I am using a hdmi 2.0 cable and now I can't pick 144hz but they gave me these option of 50 hertz and 28 hertz, interlaced which I...

Hello everyone, My older system currently has a 800fsp northwood 2.8 ghz socket 470 pentium 4. It's got an hd 2600 pro, and a bunch of missmatched ram adding up to 2.5 gigs. First question: How much better would getting four sticks of 1gb ddr sticks be for performance? the currently ram is...

I have a four yr old Toshiba C55-B5356 that I want to get a couple of parts to replace. These parts are a battery and a fan. I've seen very cheap replacement batteries at amazon starting at $15 and other ones at laptopbatteryexpress.com for $65. Here's a link...

Hi all, So I purchased a third-party Windows 10 Pro Key and no surprise, the windows 10 pro copy i downloaded turned out to be slightly faulty. This shows up in the form of ctrl-z(undo macro) not working at all. I switched out the boot drive to one containing a 'Legit' copy of Windows 10 and...

so I've been helping my friend build a new pc. He basically ordered all parts. He got the Intel i7 7700 (Not the k), RX 570 I believe (He had the 460, a less powerful version). He also got new RAM, DDR4 and is using his previous SSD with also a mechanical drive. Power supply is 550 Watts...

I hace bought a 1080ti aorus and u have a ryzen 1600x, 16gb ddr4 2400 anda a SSD, while im playing fortnite the grafics card sometimes drop yo 30-40 fps and its feel a bit laggy, why is the cause if that? I have run the heavens benchmark and i had 3400 points

I Bought a new asus fx503vd laptop and since it only came with a 1tb hdd i need to get a ssd. Ive bought a samsung 970 evo 256gb and am almost ready to popp that baby inside the laptop(waiting for windows update, hoping that its the reason my disk usage is at 100%). should i download drivers for...

Building a PC for my friend. His primary use is gaming. His only requests for the build were top of the line performance and good RGB lighting. He's not too skilled in tech and won't be overclocking, which led me to think that the i7-8700 non-k would be a good choice, but after a couple days of...

Dell laptop won't boot

I have a Steinberg UR12 which when I use with my new build randomly gives screeching noises for a few moments. The device used as output doesn't matter (headphones or speakers) and using motherboard output jack or 3.5mm jack on the cabinet gives no such issues, hence the problem is with the...

The upcoming Maximus XI Extreme and Gene motherboards come with support for double capacity DIMM. Leaked Asus Z390 Motherboard Pics Show DC DIMM Support : Read more

Hi, I just build my first ever pc and was first having problems with it flushing lines on the screen and going black every couple minutes. I then reinstalled windows and the and drivers and that fixed that issue. But now my mouse is laggy all the time and if I try to stream any video it is very...

Hi there, Yesterday I was on my pc using a BenQ ZOWIE XL2720 27" monitor when suddenly a horizontal white line appeared about 40% of the way down the screen. The entire area below started shaking and flickering. This problem still exists when the monitor is disconnected from the pc so must be...

Hi, I will upgrade my pc soon and I´m afraid that my PSU now gonna be enough, My setup is after the upgrade is: MOBO: ASRock Fatal1ty X370 Gaming X CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X (95w TDP) CPU Cooler: Thermalright Silver Arrow IB-E Extreme (its 320w TDP) GPU:Asus Strix GTX 1060 6gb (120w TDP) RAM...

I'm new to pc and I was informed that you need to be more specific when overclocking on Ryzen comparing to Intel. So is there anything I need to be careful about? I mostly wanted to overclock my ram from 2133 to 3200 mhz. Cpu：AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Processor Ram： Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB)...

Not really sure if I'm putting this thread in the right place (I'm new here). I'm thinking of building a new Video Editing PC, and I'd like to ask whether or not the area I'm planning to put my PC is a bad location. Here's a picture of my desk: https://i.imgur.com/KMiaQRw.jpg As you can see...

Microsoft released Preview Build 18234 to Skip Ahead members of the Windows Insider Program and announced major updates for Skype and Outlook. Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18234 Brings New Sticky Notes Features and More : Read more

Well today I opened up my PC (which has been working well for at least 3 years) to replace a 120mm fan that was in the process of dying and add a new M.2 SSD which I had bought. After everything was all set and done I go to boot up my computer and nothing happens. After a long process of...

I just got this new gaming mouse Roccat Nyth and this has a laser instead off optical. And i cant turn off mouse acceleration. I have checked mouse settings in win and th software i use for the mouse Swarm. both boxes to enable mouse acceleratin is off. Is there a way to stop this? thanks

my Tom's brother ( IT Software Developer ) have been used MS Office Works website to buy alot licenses from them for long term, he told me them really good quality and they gave 1000$ Norton Shopping Guaranteed included lifetime technical support for every order . but i was reading the old...

Certain websites like netflix just show text without formatting or images. The weird things are I haven't changed settings or anything, it's only specific sites, Microsoft Edge loads the same pages just fine.

my daughters rca cambio tablet is messed up after a factory reset. It stays stuck on the administrative screen a long time loading and then goes to a black screen saying something about location

My hp laptop get blackscreen after turning on and showing the first HP logo with 'press 'esc' to startup menu' then my screen

Hey guys. I have a gtx 1070 and an amd fx 9370. I want to buy one of these but I'm not sure the 2600x is worth it that much. So what do you recommend? I'm gaming at 1080p 60hz. Thanks in advance.

I'm in a bit of a dilemma and I hope to find some answers among the Tom's Hardware community. But first, my specs: Windows 10 GPU: R7-370 CPU: i5-4670 3.40Ghz, LGA1150 RAM: Ripjaws X Series 2x8Gb 1600 (PC3 12800) MOBO: Asus Z-87k Storage: Kingston SSD 120Gb, Segate 1TB So, the problem is, I'm...

I've been looking into some in my price range, and have found that the HE-400i, the HE-400s, the sennheiser HD 650,600, and the monolith 560 and 1060 are my current "go to" suggestions. I'm still not sure whether I should get planar or dynamic, is there really a HUGE difference? if not are the...

I'm planning to build my first pc with these components: i5-8400 b360-f cryorig h7 hyperx fury 2x4gb ddr4 seagate barracuda 1tb asus rx580 dual evga 500bv nzxt s340 elite is everything okay and compatible? any suggestions or improvements?

Just swapped out my mobo, and when I pulled the cooler off the CPU, the thermal paste on both parts was patchy, (some spots were clean on both parts) but in a couple spots, there was about a mm or less "dripping" off the side of the CPU. Does that seem right, or when I take them apart, should...

Hello recently i'm getting wierd blue screens. It's not so often, but it happend once upon the time. Normally I ignore them and using my computer as if nothing had happend. Today i decided to ask u what causes this kind of problems. This is my first time i got this type of blue screen, earlier...

I am interested in video editing, but only for ten minute or so clips. Using Adobe Premiere Elements. Which of these two would be better? By Computer Upgrade King https://cukusa.com/cuk-axiom-amd-mini-desktop-computer.html Configured to # R5 2400 G APU 250GB SSD 16GB 2400 RAM Or...

i cant reset my pc it says i need 5gb to rest i have a little dell pc and it has 29gb when my pc updated it self it ran out of space by it self i tried i uninstalling everything i could but im running out of stuff to uninstall i feel like there are some hidden files that i cant delete because...

I cant down load my phitos from my Sd card. As it is locked The lock has broken off the card. I can see the photos on my camera only. Please can you help? Kind regards Carol .

I've recently made a new build with my old P183 (love that case) but I can't seem to find enough hard drive screws to secure the HDDs with the little rubber bumpers. Ebay and Amazon were of little help. Alas, I'm considering upgrading to a new case and am looking for ideas. 1. Needs to have...

Hello everyone. I'd really appreciate a bit of direction... I'm on a Lenovo X1 Carbon (2013 version) It doesn't have a HDMI connection (probably true for all models). I want to hook up LG 21:9 UltraWide Monitor ... To make the connection, i purchased a LogiLink "Mini DiplayPort 1.2V to HDMI...

So I've looked around a lot on Amazon for RAM that I feel comfortable about getting, and I found these...

I have a Acer laptop that I haven't used for a long time. Please help me to open it. For it to open, am required to enter HER user password and I forgot it.

Anyway someone could help me? I was playing vr and my wheel at the same time then windows glitched out and my headset wouldn't work so I turned off my rig and now it won't output any video so I popped the CMOS battery out and it worked let me get into the bios but when I tried going into windows...

New build with old gpu will boot no prob on integrated graphics, but will not boot with dedicated gpu plugged in. Gigabyte B360 aorus gaming 3 wifi (BIOS F3 - latest) i3-8100 GSkill DDR4 2400 8GB (2x4GB) Nvidia GTX460 PSU 600 watts 500 GB M.2 SSD I have tried multiple PCI slots, GPU...

After looking at MSI Afterburner, I saw that my clocks for all 4 cores of my i5-4460 are constantly jumping up and down. Sorry if this is normal, but I'm not sure if it so I thought I would just come and check if it is. Is this normal? https://imgur.com/gallery/19usafA

Since a long time and alot of searching i have come across this forum and hopefully some help I have my appartment on the attic of my parents home (2 floors up) and access the router in my fathers room (directly below me) and get a full signal connection of 72 Mbps (2.4Ghz connection), yet the...