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Hey, I am about to sell my old GPU and I was wondering whether or not I need to pack any other stuff with it, like cables or whatever. Anybody who knows?

Hi all. So, I found a PC lying on the street a few days ago, and it was fully working to my surprise. Neat. It has a Pentium D 2.8Ghz processor, an NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS, two sticks of 512MB of RAM, and another two sticks of 2GB each for a total of 5GB of RAM. These are not the best specs as...

Hi everyone, I have this old PC which is almost 10 years old and it has become really slow, as I have also removed parts like the GPU and one of the RAM cards because they stopped working. I am interested in making a little faster so that it can handle basic daily stuff like browsing, videos...

Hi, a while ago I acquired a very, very old PC. Point of the matter is that I want to add a video card to it, and I managed to get a CM64A as seen here: It has the RIVA TNT2 64 chipset from NVIDIA... all the way back to 1999! I couldn't find much info on it, but it apparently needs a 350w...

Hello! I'm trying to get my mining rig up and running again, a family of mice pee'd all over the previous motherboard and it no longer powered on despite my best efforts to clean it. Not to worry, I bought a new 1155 socket motherboard to replace the old one! But, I've got some problems. For...

Hi! The little brother of my best friend wants a PC for playing some simple games. (He stole my friend's rig until now, but he got tired of having his games and everything messed up all the time so it's time to get the little guy his first own one :D ) I've found some random old hardware at...

Pc turns on but there is no dysplay output comming from the gpu the fan spis and my psu is a termaltake oem psu and it is pretty old.

So, I was using and old PC of mine (Pentium4, 1gb RAM, and so on) and it was working pretty good. I shut it down as I always did in more than 10 years, this machine never had any problems IIRC. However, upon trying to turn it on a few minuts ago, he simply didn't. I removed the PSU and made the...

Hi i want to buy a new psu because i buyed a rx 590 so i need more power i have already one of the same brand and works 100% already 3 years hahaha so i want to know about this new one any reviews? My PC: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: amd rx 570 8gb ram: x2 8gb ddr4 adata xpg spectrix d41 mobo...

So I have 2 old system (1 Acer, 1 Dell) and I'm planning to build 1 PC to house all the data on the drive in one place so less space needed and consume less power. The new pc will be boot out of an ssd and I want to use the 2 hdd out of the 2 system as the media storage without wiping anything...

I have my pc for 4 years right now and im thinking about building a new one. I am not sure if i should do it now or should wait some longer. And if i should wait how long? Can you give me some advice? I have right now: i5 4460 Sapphire nitro r9 380x gigabyte b85m-hd3 MoBo Ballistix 8 gb ram...

Can you help me to find the name of an old PC game please? Hello friends, I hope to help me to remember the name of this game, I'll describe it as I remember it. First it released before 2011 and after 1990 but I don't know in which year. I've played it on Windows XP. The game follow the...

Can i boot my old HDD with Windows 10 on it while i have installed my m.2 nvme sabrent rocket 1tb in my mobo? I forgot to copy some files andI read that you could not... Thank you

Hey all, I understand that similar questions are asked all the time, I've been doing a lot of research on hardware lately after being away from the hardware business for god-knows-how-long! to be frank, I have become kind of excited and at the same time, a little indecisive on how to proceed...

how would i be able to download an ISO file off a cd/dvd for xp/vista? i have the codes and the disks so i can do it non illegally. i would like to have them cause i have a vm that i would like to run old games/software but what program would be able to get bootable ISO file and if so would it...

Hi. I have an 5-6 years old pc and used it with a HDD in that time. I wanna hook up a SSD for the first time but im confused. I was thinking about getting a Samsung 970 Pro or Evo, the fastest ones, but then i read its not compatible with my mobo. I have an MSI Z97 Gaming 3 motherboard and i...

I'm pretty sure it can't since I didn't find an option in BIOS even when I had a USB Thumb Drive plugged . I've been trying to find the answer but the Motherboard is so OLD that I can't find anything. I am trying to upgrade to Windows 10. I've got the installation files on a USB Thumb Drive. I...

Hello everone, after couple months of trying I finally decided that I have to write here, maybe I'll find some advice on this. Basically I want to install Windows 10 on an REALLY old laptop - the Toshiba Satellite L20-182 to give it some more life after win 7 gets discontinued, but I cannot do...

Howdy! Me getting some extra cash i've decided that i'd like to upgrade my ol' game rig and get him some new superpowers or something. Anyways, I'm currently thinking if I should get a new cpu, more ram or just get a better gpu. Probably mobo could be outdated as hell. My build: MOBO ...

I have a desktop from 2013 with a H87-Pro MOBO and a i7-4770, with 6GB of Corsair Dominator RAM (1333MHz), and a GeForce GTX 670 4GB Asus card. I've been at the balancing point of using too much memory for a while now, and pretty sure it's time to upgrade to be able to multitask a few more...

It was working fine until I left it sitting for about 9-10 months, now when I press the power button nothing happens. I’ve already put in a new battery and reset the PRAM and SMC. I got a new laptop about 6 years ago to replace this one. I didn’t get around to trying to sell the old one for...

Hello, currently am I trying to figure out what was one old small game. I think it was around 2000 and the game was pretty simple. It is 2D side view game with only one level. You have to survive zombie attacks on your house. You can find some items in house but you need to search it. There was...

Hi everyone, thanks in advance for taking the time to help me out with this issue! I'm sure ill get a lot of comments saying that my hardware its old and outdated... blah blah blah but please try to understand that its not about the hardware, but a fulfillment of my childhood.. haha THIS IS...

recently, I'v plugged q45t-am motherboard with my old working ram 4gb 800 Mhz. When I turn it on the mobo start beeping, i tried another 2gb 1066 Mhz ram it worked fine , both rams look tha same having same pins, the mobo should be supporting 800, 1066,1333 Mhz fsb (ddr3) .So why it is beeping...

Well here i am after months of dealing with this problem, hoping that it would sort it self out, i have come to the internet to solve my problem in my stead I have a i5 3470 @3.2ghz with a stock cooler, a Gainwald Geforce GTX 970 GPU, MSI H61MA-E35 motherboard, 8GB of DDR3 1600mhz of ram, 650...

Hello all, I happened to find an old motherboard which was used in a computer that used a box monitor. I remember playing hot wheels world race cd game on it when I was a kid. Anyways to the point: Mobo specs: MSI K7N2 https://www.cnet.com/products/msi-k7n2-motherboard-atx-socket-a-nforce2-spp/...

Im going to help my brother with an upgrade for his current PC. He has been using a 1tb HDD and im going to give him my 1tb Samsung Evo SSD from an old build i had sitting around. I did a recovery on the ssd, deleting all my old files and games. I also ran the "sysprep" and completed the "OOBE"...

So I've had a Corsair CX600M as my main power supply for about 5 and a half years now. On pretty much every day all day for that period of time as well. It's been pretty good and it's been used in 4 major PC changes. It's only just started making what I could only describe as 'ticking' and...

I used to have a AMD RX 480 GPU but then I upgraded to a RTX 2080 Founders Edition. This is my current freesync monitor: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIACVB8580398&Description=ED273%20144hz&cm_re=ED273_144hz-_-24-011-165-_-Product According to the news today, Nvidia just...

I'm using a threadripper 1920x on an x399 taichi board, in all these tests the ram was at 3000mhz. In PassMark these sticks score well 98/99 percentile in some scores, good in others (lowest is 64th percentile), and horrid in the mem latency test, 4th percentile in distributed mem mode, 25th...

Hello My PC is getting old again and i need an upgrade, but it's the first time i'm actualy doing it myself, so would like a bit of advice. Approximate Purchase Date: not swetting it, but the sooner, the better Budget Range: up to about $2500 System Usage from Most to Least Important...

(Second time doing this... here's hoping it'll go better than before.) About a year ago, I was ill-fortunate to purchase an ASUS FX503VM laptop. SPECS: Intel Core i7-7700HQ Quad-Core 2.8GHz Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 3GB 128GB M.2 SSD 1TB HDD 16GB DDR4 RAM Windows 10 Home...

I just recently built my first pc and the pc will not connect to the monitor what is the problem

My Ryzen 5 2600x is not coming out of my MSI B450 Tomahawk motherboard. Is there anything I can do to get the processor out of my mobo?

I have a ozone rage 7hx 7.1 gaming headset.This headset comes with a microphone that I can remove if I want.Today I turned the mic off and it is not coming back on even though I tried several times and restarted the pc.When I try to update the drivers to see if it would fix it, the driver...

I have a strange problem. When playing Forza Motorsport 7 on 1080p ultra, I only get 72 fps, which seems low for my current setup. My specs are: i7 4770k overclocked to 4.0 GHz GTX 1070 Ti overclocked to 2076 MHz Core/8910 MHz Memory 16GB 1866 RAM I get around 32% GPU usage at 48 degrees...

My PC does not receive input audio from a microphone. There are three audio inputs in my Acer TC-605 - none of them shows any activity at the audio settings when a mic is plugged in. I have all my audio drivers (Realtek) up to date. Each possible audio settings tab has been checked, with no...

As I said in the title, my motherboard (a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R) will power on for about three seconds and then turn off again repeatedly when the CPU (a Xeon W3520) 8-Pin is plugged in to the board. This problem then goes away when I unplug the CPU power. I am currently using the power supply...

My current z97 motherboard (just a hair over 3 years old) has a bunch of failed usb ports. I went to look for a replacement assuming it will die soon (I don't know if that's a good assumption or not?) and found that no one is making boards that support LGA 1150 processors anymore. I'm also...

Hi there so I guess I will share the problems I have been having recently and see what you guys think is the problem. When I play "Overwatch" for a few minutes it crashes and my window closes. I thought it was the graphics card because its about a 5 year old graphics card and a few months...