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I need to upgrade my 3700x/B450 combo to 13900K/B760. The PROBLEM is that I've got +300 games installed and +200 programs, 50% of which are essential for my work and have config files/templates/presets which would take months to track, something that I don't have. Reinstalling all the games and...

Hey folks, hope you're all well today. I recently purchased a new Asena Wired Gaming Keyboard from my local supermarket and, as the title says, shortly after plugging it in my computer shuts down without warning. The keyboard does work/light up etc in the short time that the computer is active...

I recently installed a new processor and GPU and now am experiencing stuttering when I have a YouTube video on one monitor and a game on the other. I've noticed this stuttering once or twice when having multiple applications open and a YouTube video. This was not a problem with my old GPU and...

Since installing my Ryzen 5 2600x my pc has had some serious performance issues, especially when gaming. I did the thing with performance monitor and it showed me this Interrupts/sec...

Hello! I have this issue, that when I leave my PC on idle, or even if I put it to sleep, after a while, I always get a BSOD that goes by so fast that I can't even note the error code to try and troubleshoot what exactly went wrong. I tend to game on it heavily, and when I do, I don't really...

I5 9400F GTX 1070 Gigabyte B365M DS3H Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 (4x8gb) 1TB 7200rpm HDD 2TB 7200rpm HDD 250gb SSD (OS) 500gb SSD Crystal 280x Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Basically, I upgraded my mobo, cpu and ram. I did a clean boot of windows 10 and started downloading everything I didn’t...

I have been getting constant 20-30 second freezes (once every 2-5 minutes) since I upgraded my hardware last weekend. During these events, my mouse will work but all programs sit in a limbo state for up to half a minute and are not responsive, then pop back. Event Viewer has two events that...

Hi there, I was just hoping if anyone would be able to tell me if the "ASUS STRIX RAID PRO 7.1 Channel PCI-Express Sound Card" is compatible with my Motherboard. The Manufacturer of my Motherboard is "ASUSTek COMPUTER INC." and its model is "Z97M-PLUS". I'm running Win 7 x64. Thanks for the help!

Hi! I'm going to migrate from Intel hardware to AMD. Im planning on keeping my current windows setup (so not replacing current HDD to a new one) as I don't want to reinstall games, software etc. Can anyone guide me from experience if I can avoid a fresh installation of windows. I have a...

I recently installed a set of Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C16 (CMK16GX4M2B3200C16) into my MSI b150 gaming M3 motherboard. I checked for compatibility on MSI's website and everything checks out. Everything seems to be working fine except a couple times after start up my...

I have an old pc i put away a while ago with an i5 2320 (socket 1155) and a gt 520. I wanted to get it running again and i thought of getting a gt 1030 to make it run a little better. Can it be done or will it cause issues?

Hello guys. I built a new pc with a ryzen 5 2600 and a b450 tomahawk. Previously I had an fx 9370, but I had heard that I would need to perform a clean reinstall of windows. I didn't do it the classic way, I booted from my SSD(where I had windows 10 installed in my previous pc) and I got to...

Hello everyone. Tomorrow I'll replace my fx 9370 with a ryzen 5 2600 and I was wondering if I should do something with that pc before booting from the new pc with a flash drive, formating drives, installing windows etc. The only thing I'll bring over the new pc is my gpu which is the gtx 1070...

Wondering if anyone can provide some advice on a slow BIOS start-up time of 75s. Worked fine until I upgraded from a GTX1080 to a RTX2080Ti. Starts up, hangs on ASUS UEFI Bios screen for about a minute (this was previously 10 seconds). Then it reverts to my SSD Boot Drive and we're up and...

Hello everyone. I will be buying a ryzen 5 2600x, an asus prime x470 pro motherboard and the cmk16gx4m2b3000c15 ram. I was wondering what I have to do once I open my pc. Should I download any drivers or a bios update or something like that? Thanks in advance.

I'm going to say this in order of time. Time span is less than a week. Started last Tuesday. I download parsec software so I can use my computer when I'm at work. Next day I install new motherboard, CPU, and RAM On the same day as the new hardware my computer starts to stop audio playback for...

Just bought a Nvidia RTX 2070 and installed it. I figured that my system could handle it since this build isn't even a year old. I can play games on lower graphic quality settings but as soon as I set the settings to max my computer power cycles. I am at a loss for what could be causing this at...

Gonna keep this short. Up until today my laptop's been running fine. I tried playing PUBG today and the sound was very choppy and the game was very stuttery, fps was average 25 (I get 60+ usually). I've tried a lot of other games and it's the same thing. CPU and GPU aren't being used above 50%...

Hey everyone, I just did my first build and surprisingly it went smooth - with thanks to the many resources out there! I have a cooler master pro 5 case and the two fans on the front of the case do not have cables long enough to make it to my ASUS Z170-A mobo. So, what I did was take the three...

System specs: intel i5 4690k asus gtx 970 gigabyte g1 sniper z87 3tb seagate baracuda 256gb samsung 840 evo Chieftec cft650w power supply Nzxt phantom big tower case I just got a brand new motherboard and i really cant play any game with my speakers through the motherboard audio,there is...

Hey Everyone, I am building a computer for my mom and wanted some feedback on the components of the machine before I bought them, mainly to make sure they are compatible or and that I am not overlooking something. I have done a fair amount of research but I have never built a computer on...