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    Question PC loses all power seemingly randomly to all peripherals (mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc.) during gaming or at idle

    Hi! I've been having some issues with my PC recently and have fixed most of them, however one is still stumping me, which I only just found a few days ago. During idle or at high-usage my PC will lose all power to peripherals( mouse, keyboard, monitor) but stay running. Unplugging and...
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    [SOLVED] Is it risky to use 5 year old power supply unit cooler master gs 700w for new pc, going to buy in few days?

    Hi Tom'sHARDWARE, I am going to upgrade my pc in few days from i5 to AMD 3700x, Asus tuf x570 plus motherboard, and ddr4 3200mhz ram 8gb X 2. my old 1tb HDD, 2tb HDD, 2 sata SSD remains same. i have corsair GS700W psu right now with me from my old pc, planning to buy corsair rm750x...
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    Question Re-using old power supply

    I've had my current PC for about 3 1/2 years now. I recently got all of the parts to build a new one, except for the PSU. Since the price of power supplies is so high right now, I was just wondering if it would be fine to reuse the current power supply. It is a CS550M, and my new system will...
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    [SOLVED] Old Psu still good ?

    i have older psu 600w its about 5.5years old now im upgrading older rig rightnow the rig has gtx 960 i5 4590 16gb ddr3 ram z97 mobo 1tb wd black hdd and 4rgb fans + cpu cooler and it was running gtx 760 a year back just fine before it died my question is, is this psu good enough to run gtx 1070...
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    Resale value on 6700K (When should be my next upgrade?)

    So I have been planning on upgrading my CPU to a newer gen, even though my 6700k is not quite a year old yet. I assume it will be by the time 8th gen comes out. The other thing is that I know how the tic-toc cycle works somewhat and I know that the next 14nm refinement can't be all that great...