packaging

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    Question 3.5" Hard Disks can they withstand mishandling?

    Hello, Amazon horribly packaged 5 x 3.5" hard disk. The disk were only in their anti static wrapping and the 5 units were not taped together. They were packaged in a box without any lateral protection. In transit the packaging tore and fell apart only holding together with the tape. 2 of...
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    [SOLVED] How to open PAK (.pak) files

    Anyone been playing VALORANT recently? The game sounds are packaged as .pak files and I'd like to replace the sounds in them with my own. I've tried a few tools i found online but they throw an error whenever I try to open them. Also changing the extension to .zip and using 7zip doesnt work...
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    [SOLVED] Bought new RAM - Has it been repackaged?

    Hello All, I recently purchased some new hardware components from amazon to upgrade my existing system. One of which being another set of Kingston Hyperx Fury White 8GB (2x4GB) 1866MHz DDR3 RAM , This was to be added to an identical set other than the heat spreader being a different colour...
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    Question - How do I ship used PC components?

    I am selling some of my components to upgrade my PC. How would I ship, for example, the motherboard? I no longer have the box for it, so am selling the board itself, I/O cover, manual and driver disc. If I intend to ship in a cardboard box, what do I wrap the board in to protect it as much as...
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    Fan running way to fast

    Hey guys, I recently built my new PC, when I turn it on it has normal fan speed, but after 5 minutes it starts going at full speed and it is very noisy. On SpeedFan it says my CPU Is 128C ( which is false ) and I think that is why my fans are running so fast because it thinks the CPU is really...