Multitasking

I have this habit of opening 3 or more games simultaneously so that way if I ever get tired of playing a game, I just move onto the next one open. I've noticed that when there are 3 games open, specifically Yakuza 6, Team Fortress 2 and Resident Evil 4, the FPS drops especially in RE4, so the...

Hello, I want to define a set of apps to have a specific layout: I want Access to occupy a third of the screen from the left, then the next third of the screen to be used by visual studio and the next third to be divided, the top spotify and the bottom by file explorer. I know that this is...

About 2 or 3 months ago I began experiencing an issue with my PC and it has continued to annoy me. When I run any game on my computer, it often runs much slower and sometimes crashes, as well as this, I am unable to have any background applications running, i.e. Spotify, Discord, Chrome, etc...

Hey all! I recently made a few upgrades to my old PC due to some RAM issues, and now despite the amount of money I've put into it, is running worse than it did before. My computer struggles with basic multitasking, often having to close my browser while gaming as it ends up lagging out the game...

Hi everybody, I just upgraded my CPU from an i7-7820X to an i9-10980XE after the i7 overheated following a failed AIO. Now, I have massive issues with stability on my system. I run primarily 3ds Max for my work. On my previous system, I was able to multitask with no problems but now the...

Hi everyone, The way I understand a CPU (also known as processors) is that it is an actual physical component. Now, CPUs can have multiple cores, which are the processing units used to carry out tasks ( I am not sure if an single l task means a single program) and can be from 1 to many. Cores...

When I play games Borderlands 3 for example at the moment, background programs run extremely poorly. I have a low resource needy game off to the side on another screen that gets less than 1 FPS when I'm not selected on it. When I select it, it goes back to normal and the main game doesnt seem to...

Hey guys, Im currently looking to move on from my gaming pc into a new laptop which could easily handle : •Architecture softwares such as Autocad, Revit , Lumion, Photoshop, Rhino. Most of the time will run 2 to 4 of them at the same time, also Google Chrome too so it will be a heavy task. •Can...

Hi everyone, I am planning to build a gaming and daily usage PC. However, I couldnt decide on whether I should buy 3600x or 3700x. As far as I see, there is not much difference between them for gaming but I am not sure about difference between multitasking. In my daily usage, I generally open...

I have an Asus ROG Crosshair VIII formula that displays the temperature of my CPU. I also using HWmonitor and afterburner. My question is which one is most likely giving the most accurate temperature readings of my CPU and another question is for afterburner which CPU reading do I want?

So I am looking to build myself a new gaming Pc and in therms of CPU I want to go with the Intel I5 9600k. After doing some research I found out that most people say that this processor is really good for gaming because of the very good single core performance and should be more than enough for...

i have an acer laptop with intel pentium 4417u and 4gigs of RAM along with toshiba 5400rpm HDD. i don't run any heavy applications on my laptop just browsing and multitasking , considering a low budget what should i firsrt upgrade on my laptop ? -> swapping my HDD with a 250gbSSD or putting in...

I am planning a new build... And for quite sometime I held off getting to a 9900k and wait for Ryzen... And now that its here I decided to go with it. So here's what I am doing with it. I plan on gaming, streaming, and maybe some video editing and basic multitasking things like web browsing...

Will I be able to stream at, at least 720p and remain at 100+ fps on fortnite low settings and other games remaining above 60 fps. What games wouldn't I be able to stream? Specs: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor Asus - PRIME B450M-A/CSM Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard Team -...

Hello, I am looking to build a new workstation for multi-tasking/graphic design with multiple monitors. My system is about 3 years old, (i3, 16gb ram, GTX750) and I have been noticing it more and more recently. Any help is appreciated. note: I have a 750w PSU and all storage and displays...

Community: I am wondering if it is possible to set up one mouse that can be used to play a game on a separate monitor while using another mouse to do other things (coding, surfing, Netflixing, etc.). My specs: I'm trying to use a macro I made in Razer Synapse with my Naga Epic for a game...

Hi all, I've recently built a new computer and have just noticed that my write speeds are terrible on my SSD, here is my SSD. https://www.amazon.co.uk/YUCUN-Internal-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B07F2J4S18/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1551705658&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=yucun+500gb I have looked online...

I have a 1700X ruining at 1.44V OCed to 4.1 and I have been noticing that my temps at idle will do this over and over. The temp slowly goes down to 20c then spikes to 30c and starts the count down again till about 20c and spikes again. Any ideas what is going on? I have done a fresh windows...

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So I've bought a new pc a week ago and after everything was built i tried to start it. It didn't boot. After a few hours of research i found out that it might be the motherboard so I've switched it but it still wouldn't boot. Then I've switched the ram and it worked. The pc boots with 1x8gb...

Is there anyway you would figure out what wire goes to what pin in the original proprietary pinout and just solder them to the correct wires on a new case and everything would work properly? Power switch USB all that. Just curious if anyone has ever done it that way.

Cannot find any reviews https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX73255 Any opinions

Hello dear people. I have an i7 4790K, my cpu temp is at 50 celsius but my cores at 80-87 celsius, is this really bad? I added a picture to this thread. https://imgur.com/a/27Rxt5n

So I'm pretty set on upgrading to a r5 2600 from my i5 4570 oem computer. Which will cost me about $350 for the ram(16gb) CPU and Mobo unless I find a better Black Friday deal. However, I found a used i7 4790k building for $300 with an ASRock z97 Mobo and 32 gb of RAM. Not sure which would be...

Hello there So we just bought a new HP prodesk for work to replace another pc. i took the SSD with the os out of the old rig and put it in the new prodesk, set boot priority to the SSD and tried booting it up. It booted to windows setup, which it of course shouldn't have. I even removed the M.2...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1XnO3VuyOs I saw this video and the difference is literally STAGGERING. The low 0.1% and 1% blow me away the most. Is there any other evidence to back up this claim that 4x4 can yield this much better results than 2x8?

hi i have a old hp laptop with faulty screen in bottom side . it's not a lot but it covers the taskbar. i want to know if there is a way for me to make the windows 7 to use a certain area of a monitor. this way i would be able to ignore the faulty section of the lcd and use the rest of the...

I found a local person with a 1070 founder edition and I got the price down to $290 its "not used" is there any sighs I should look for in person and is this a good deal?

I just got a new GPU and SSD. I am switching from an HDD. I have not done a switch like this before so I was planning to do the SSD first and then the GPU after. Should I just install both the GPU and SSD at the same time? If I did what kind of issues could arise? Thanks!

My gpu as I stated in the title, requires 6 and 8 pins. My psu which is Cooler Master rs-500-pcar-n1 only has 6 pin. So, I am planning to use adapter which is 2 molex to 8 pin connector. Before I use it, is it safe to use this adapter?

I need help here. I recently bought a Sansui home theatre system but only now found out that there is no HDMI port available on the amp. I want to connect my DVD player and DSTV and TV to the amp.. could anyone please assist here. Many Thanks

I am absolutely stuck. I built a new Ruzen Build PC which worked fine for 1 month, then shut down suddenly. When restarted it froze on bootup and never did anything. Then when tried to start again after that and at any other time since then, just get the fans spinning and no error beeps. The...

Have had this problem for a while now, i have tried everything to try and sort it. I have 16gb of ram as 2 sticks, when I put them in individually in any of the four slots they work with no issues. But as soon as I put in the second one I get windows error (Blue screen) with MEMORY_MANAGMENT...

So today my pc (currently on windows 7) when turned on it went into system recovery mode and immediately went into start up repair. When this was done i got a message saying, ' A hard disk problem is preventing windows from starting". and indicates i need it repaired or replaced. When going into...

Hello! I have a Sapphire Nitro+ RX480 8GB. It is throttling! I tried increasing power limit up to 50% and kept the fans on 100% but still the card is throttling! Please Help! My rig: Intel Xeon E3-1245 V3 @ 3.40 GHz 1PM87-MP Motherboard 8 GB RAM 1600 MHz 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM...

My pc runs, i can’t do anything and i can’t press any key to go in bios or something and shuts down after seconds

Hello, I did small tests with sounds and looks as I burned sound on the motherboard. Its black around sound on the motherboard and cannot anymore get sound to work on front or back jack. Can I replace some chip on the motherboard to get it working again? MOTHERBOARD: GIGABYTE P55A-UD3

Hi guys. Now I am using ECS B75H2-M3 + i5 3570 + gtx 1060 and I saw prices for used i7 3770k has become cheaper here so I'm thinking about upgrading to it coz the i5 3570 isn't very good for Monster Hunter World (bottleneck). Do you think the motherboard is good for overclocking i7 3770k ...

I just picked up a fx 8350 and a 78lmt-usb3 r2 motherboard. I was trying to make a flopy to install the sata/raid drivers but failed any tips Btw I do have a flopy drive and flopy disks