pc advice

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  1. Ethand

    Question RTX 3050 vs RTX 4060

    I’m looking to buy a pc for about $1000 which has a ryzen 5 8600g and 16gb RAM. I wanted to know whether I should get an RTX 3050 which is included in the build or add $150 to get the RTX 4060? I’m buying the pc to use for video editing/motion graphics as well as some gaming.
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    Question Need Build Advice: Gaming/AI/Editing PC

    Hey everyone, I'm in the process of putting together a PC build primarily aimed at gaming, AI tasks such as image/video generation and local LLMs, and some light video editing for my hobby projects. After spending some time researching components and considering my needs, I've compiled a build...
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    [SOLVED] Worth replacing/upgrading Preowned PSU?

    I a while ago purchased a Preowned SX-500G, yes i know it was in a parts bundle leave me be. Now this psu has over the last months of ownership gradually gotten louder, made worse when one time high voltage lines near my home exploded. It's now a somewhat significant amount of noise, especially...
  4. IAmKM

    [SOLVED] Should I buy an m.2 nvme over sata III ssd for mostly gaming use?

    I recently upgraded my PC to Ryzen 3600 / 3200Mhz / Bazooka Max Wifi and was wondering if I should fill the board's m.2 slot or not. I mostly play games, and as a researcher/writer I use MS Word a lot and open more than 30 tabs on a browser at a time, and that's it. I found a Kingston A2000...
  5. iamjudebot

    [SOLVED] Can you build a PC with all new components except for the hard drive

    We currently have this HP ProDesk pre-built as a server and it needs upgrading. Could i take the hard drive from it and put into a new system? i'm willing to buy a new windows key for it i just need the configuration and files to be exactly the same because i dont want to mess up the networking...
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    [SOLVED] I need help with my new custom built PC

    I just finished building my custom PC so I turned it on and it was working completely fine (from what i could tell). It said that i could hit esc, del, or some of the f keys. I hit F1 and it showed me the specs and how it was running and some other stuff. I'm pretty sure that I need a bios...
  7. AtotehZ

    [SOLVED] New system for Gaming+Streaming, max $5000

    Hey, I made a topic yesterday for a guy I'm putting a computer together for. He changed his mind about the budget, so I'm posting mostly the same topic, but with a very different budget. His own words about the requirements are now "RTX 2080ti, Ryzen 9 3950x, and whatever goes with that"...
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    Question Most Games just crash.

    Okay I am getting this problem for like 5-6 days now . I have some common games that I play that runs good on my Mid end PC like ARMA 3, Battlefield V and CSGO But for the last few days Every game seems to run really badly like ARMA 3 is getting weird FPS Drops from 40 to 3-4 I know ARMA 3 is...
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    [SOLVED] Opinion on build

    So the build I decided to go with is : Case: Aerocool Aero-300 FAW MB: Asrock B450M Pro-4 CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 GPU: GTX 1660 Ti Ventus XS 6GB OC (MSI) RAM: G.Skill Aegis 16GB 3000MHz (2x8) Memory: 1TB HDD & 120GB SSD PSU: Corsair CX 550 The price of this build is 720 and my budget is 750. Any...
  10. jjthesteve

    [SOLVED] Parts/Component assistance - Gaming pc build advice (Gaming and Editing)

    I'm currently building a pc for semi-hard gaming (Mediocre-High settings, games within last 5-8 years.) and photo editing. My current list: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200g Gigabyte - GA-AB350M-DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard Ballistix Sport LT 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 Gigabyte - Radeon RX 580 4 GB...
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    Asus B350-F won't power on any more! D:

    Hello all of the Tom's Hardware Forum's my worst fear after finally getting my 1st build! ok so in short detail after getting a nice also Asus monitor the VX238 from a near Microcenter here in NY did the building with use of a video with kyle to make sure all goes well then to glory fans where...