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Hello I own Sony VAIO laptop SVE15136CN and I am thinking of upgrading my ram. There are two slots with 1.5V engraved on them. The chipset is Ivy Bridge HM76. The one that came pre installed by manufacturer is 4GB DDR3L 12800S. The laptop can only be upgraded upto 8GB. My question is which RAM...

She has a Asus z-97a motherboard with a i5-4570k, 8GB of Corsair RAM, GTX 760, and I believe a 550W? Watt Corsair PSU. The Problem: Her computer slows down to the point that she can't play her games comfortably anymore, games like Overwatch that she was able to play perfectly before can't be...

X299 RAIDER an MSI motherboard or X299 UD4 a GIGABYTE motherboard, I've bought a few 7800x for my gaming house and I'm looking to buy the best suiting motherboard with the 2066 LGA. So I've looked at the price range and thought of buying one of these 2, so I need help figuring out which one is...

Hello. I am using an old laptop (Model: LG Xnote R510-L.A230K) using Intel Pentium T3400 (2.17Ghz, FSB 667MHz) as a secondary laptop. However, T3400's performance is terrible, and I would like to upgrade it to Intel Core 2 Duo T9550 (2.6GHz, FSB 1066MHz). I've found that my mainboard supports...

Hey guys, I'm having an odd issue after restoring my SSD with a cloned back up. Here is my setup: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/BqHhP6 First off, I'm waiting on parts to get my new Threadripper build finished. Because it's so new, and I do production work, I figured cloning my current Windows 10...

I am simply wondering that if i get a widescreen streched monitor, should i keep my standard 16:9 24" monitor and use them both as a dual monitor setup or should i simply just use the widescreen alone monitor?? (really appreciate answers)

What are the parts of the URL? How is a URL turned into something that lets a computer know where to go? Could you use this as an example? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyKOgnaf0BU Thank you!!

I've been getting this issue when I try to update my graphics drivers. I have an AMD RX 560. The suggested drivers are 17.7.2. Am I able to roll back to a previous driver? I can't seem to figure out how to do so.

This will be lengthy so I apologize in advance. On my current setup, I am getting lag on stream and locally on some games, especially if I try to stream at 1080P/60. I game at 1440P so there's a lot of juice required to do both at the same time. Current Setup: CPU: i7-4930k (6-Core w/ HT)...

My online friends are all saying different tips about RAM. "You should just get one stick of how much RAM you want 1x8GB" "If you get two sticks like 2x4GB it will run faster" "its best to have 4 small sticks of ram 4x2GB" etc I'm shooting to get DDR4-3000 btw, if that matters

I was wondering, will I need to update my Bios if I use a Pentium G4560/G4600/G4620 and a 100 series motherboard?? Like a B150. And if so, what does that exactly mean and how does that affect me? Thanks in advance

Hi my pc has: Msi h81m e33 I5 4690s 16 gb ddr3 1600mhz ram 120gb ssd 1 tb hdd Gtx 1060 600w psu Following questions: 1.will anything bottleneck? 2.can i play modern AAA games? 3.if i can play modern AAA games then on what fps and on what settings 4.a friend of mine said that my cpu would...

-Gtx 1050 ti - Pentium g4560 - Mouse / keyboard aren't extravagant -8gb ram - motherboard:H81M-E33 If not, please tell me a budget-friendly psu. Im only planning to change it if its necessary.

Looking to buy a general use laptop (light gaming) over the next half year - when do you think the best discounts happen for laptops? Back to school? Black friday? Xmas? Post-xmas?

Can I have some suggestions for the following PC? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/J4m3D8 I'm okay with if the total PC price is under $3500. It will be used for gaming as well as editing and game development. I especially need suggestions for the MOBO and the coolers/fans. Thanks.

Hello guys i recently got a new gpu that requires a 8 pin and a 6 pin cable my psu is 650w made by turbox and has only the 8 pin cable. If i purchase a 6 pin adaptor do i have a chance to fry my gpu?

I've been using my computer for 2 years now, no problems relating to a burning smell. Untill now. I noticed a burning smell, it was quite severe. I tried to track it down, and it led to my CPU My CPU is a I7-4790k, I can feel the burning smell even when it's idle.

Hi Guys, I am looking to get a new HDD for my PC and I am stuck between 3 options. 1. Toshiba P300 2TB - $73.03 2.WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB - $53.81 3. Seagate ST1000DM003 1TB - $51.51 I am leaning more towards the Toshiba as it is a 2Tb and about $20 more for an extra 1TB compared to the...

While playing specific games, (Witcher 3, Black Desert Online, Try-Mode in Heroes of the Storm) after a short time, my monitor will lose connection. The audio of the game will still be playing and I seemingly still have complete control over the PC (Can Ctrl+Alt+Del and log off). However, the...

So, i'm experiencing two types of crashes. ■ Image on the screen and sound (will loop repeatedly) freezes. Whole system freezes i think, because no actions are done in this state. I need to manually shutdown computer and start it again. ■ Computer turns off, and then turns on by itself. That's...

I have the Samsung NVMe SSD 960 EVO and a MSI Gaming 5 Z97 motherboard. The motherboard DID come with a standoff for the M.2 Slot, but it had cracked around the ring and could not screw onto the motherboard. I have not been able to find any of the exact stand offs. Are there any other alternatives?

are 4GB RAM and core i5 7200u enough in a laptop. The hard disk is SSD 256GB. The usages are studies and ,movies. I will probably use the computer in order to learn to programming c in visual studio or somthing like that and mabye I will learn Java also. and I am going to play probably only...

Problem: Graphics card not found during Nvidia setup. GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 Windforce OC 3GB (GV-N1060WF2OC-3GD) Computer Model: HP 8300 SFF MB: http://ark.intel.com/products/64027/Intel-Q77-Express-Chipset Details: The GPU does not fit in the case, so it is connected to the 16x pcie...

Hello PC masters of Tomshardware i have a very weird 192bit 1gb GTX 750 ti that i think is a rebanded card but its hard to find the base card, i'm thinking i got a sample graphics card here are the spec's could any of you guys find out if there is even a card that has similar specs?

I have an acer aspire cloud book 14 Recently, after losing all my storage wierdly I decided I'll just reset it and so I did that but it kept getting stuck at 62% and it was making me upset. Long story short I turned it off and I said no to a question now it shows the acer screen but then it...

Hi Forum!! Long time not posting on here, but I'm glad to be back.. So I just went out and bought a few 4 & 8TB internal SATA drives for my builds. after a few wrong formats I learned to use GPT to get all of my storage space. I'm backing up all my movies from my smaller 1TB drives to the...

Can't pull the clip in any side. Can I somehow break it off or is there another solution Pic: soon

Looking for a laptop or 2 in 1 with decent pen support. I already know about Surface pro. The pricing is a bit high for my liking.

Hi guys i would like to ask if I could adjust the voltage of my cpu ? because my cpu, which is i7-7700 (locked), has a default voltage of 1.35. because of this, it makes my temp i bit high...my voltage configuration in the bios are all set to default which is auto...i want to know if i could set...

This is driving me crazy. Every time I press F1 key, in any application, game etc. I get Google help webpage displayed, F3 key loads a search bar. How do I disable it? I have read that it's a media shortcut and it could be done through a key combination on a keyboard. I have a desktop and a...

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Hello Tom's Hardware. Me and a friend of mine have never built a PC so we spent the last 3 or 4 weeks researching on how to build one and to test if we really learned we decided to build a super cheap PC just to check if it all works in the end. We already chose the parts and we are only coming...

Hey guys I wanted to buy Samsung 960 evo 256gb m.2 ssd for my Asus gl552vx. I wanted know if it is best buy for price or is there any other m.2 ssd available better than this one. Thank you!! Link for ssd -...

I don't know which CPU to pick for my PC build because these 2 CPUs are good and I am kind anew to PC building. I do some video editing and play a lot of games.