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So I'm going to build my first PC and I planned out all the parts on PCBuilder. Once i raise the money over the next couple months, I'll be actually building it. Everything was fine, except 90% of the motherboards I wanted were either $300 or not offered anywhere new and were all used or...

I have a Sony smart TV and a vizio soundbar with bluetooth capabilities but the person i got it from lost the optical cord. Do it need to buy one or can i somehow connect it without it?

So I was playing a game and all of a sudden my pc just shut off and wouldn’t boot back up. I’ve had this pc for over 4 months now. I’ve done some testing to see what might be the problem but I just wanted to be a bit more sure that it’s my cpu thats the problem. I tested my psu if it is working...

my RIG: GeForce 970 i5-4670 CPU @3.40GHz RAM 16GB Screen: 1920x1080, 60Hz it been like 4-5 years i havent change my pc tbh its the time to change it,i mostly play games like overwtch/world of warcraft/dota2 i been noticing that my pc takes time in loading screen and it delay whenever any game...

Hi there everyone!!! Okay, first off I am pretty new regarding networking and setup.. Anyways, I have a desktop tower PC, which I would like to use as my home network for music, movies, documents to be accessible through any internet.. so I have been looking through everything, on line like...

Hi so about 2 weeks ago my pc randomly started freezing at times and skipping for a solid 3-5 seconds. It can be very annoying while playing games as it has cause me to die a ton of times. I decided to monitor my CPU temps while playing or being idle and waiting for the skips. Just as guessed...

Stardew Valley has two different types of farming. The first one is very straightforward as it involves planting seeds and growing crops. Seeds plus water equals crops. Simple enough. The second type of farming involves animals and is a little more complicated. Farming animals has a couple of...

I've had this PC built for me I think about 2 years ago and it ran pretty much everything I played well. Now that I've expanded my list of games, I find that it struggles with running games like; fallout 4, Battlefield 1, and For Honor. When I mean struggle I mean that it can't run these games...

I have a case with only one pcie port and a WiFi adapter is blocking the other slot what can I do!

So yesterday I was in my pc and all f a sudden it turned off I went downstairs and it turned out my Mum had opened the dishwasher and had heard a loud electrical pop sound so my Dad (an electrician) went to the circuit breaker board and saw that it infact had broken that circuit in the house so...

Hello everybody, i have three partitions c, d and e. My question is can i install win 8.1 64 bit from bios without losing files on local disc d and e?

Any suggestions for good power supplies under $70? Please list a few.

Hi guys, Soo i am getting my first gaming pc and i really want to build one (i have the proper knowledge) but my mom keeps saying “rater buy a pre-build that has some garatee on it instead of building” because she is scared that if one component error could lead to the hole thing to breaking...

Hello, I have Dell Optiplex 390 with i3 2100 3.3 GHz and r7 240 2gb. Problem is when I use computer, its ok, but when I play games, watch yt clips for 10-15 minutes, temperature of gpu comes on around 50 then computer shows me white screen with colors and then black color until I shut down my...

If I run applications such as games that are heavier on the graphics card my computer blacks out and plays the device disconnect sound, I get these alerts in reability monitor I can confirm that neither my graphics card or processor are overheating and I have tried reinstalling both windows...

I have an ethernet jack on my wall that's been there since I moved in. I am still a kid and live with my parents so I don't have the master bedroom, which is where the router is, so I can't plug my computer directly into the router. I tried the ethernet jack and my computer just says...

I’m building a new computer right now. However, when I load my mobo’s BIOS, (MSI X470 Gaming Plus), it doesn’t recognize the M.2 even though I already inserted it into the motherboard. Also, Windows 10 installation media couldn’t recognize it as well. I have no other form of storage besides the...

I recently bought this combo along with a set of Patriot 8gb (4x2) 3000mhz ram. It came with a bios up to date enough to have video out of the box. Upon initial boot up, there is no audio. The volume icon in the bottom right corner has a red X. I click on it and it runs the troubleshooting...

Hello, I just upgraded my computer to this : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2d6VFt The i3-8350k is overclocked to 4.8hz and the GTX 970 is also overclocked. What I was wonder is, would a GTX 1070 ti SC black edition like this one: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cZMkxY be a huge upgrade? my...

So I found an i5 2500k combo with 16gb of ram and an Asus p8p67 motherboard for 190 do you guys think this is a good price before I buy it I figured I’d get another opinion other than mine thx.

I just built this PC and when I booted for the first time, everything seemed to be in order. All the fans were spinning and when I went to BIOS settings to check my temps, they all looked pretty normal. When I rebooted, it took about 3 minutes before I got a message saying "CPU Fan Error" and it...

I recently tried to upgrade my graphics card from an EVGA gtx 750 ti SC to a Gigabyte GTX 1050. When I changed out the card it’s said it didnt have enough power and I realized it needed a PCIe cable plugged in. I didn’t have one so I decided to put my old 750 back in and order one. It froze as...

How do you feel about this build? Anything else need to change / improve? CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 1600 GPU - MSI GTX 1050 TI GAMING X 4G MotherBoard - MSI B350M Pro-VD Plus RAM - G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4 2400MHz C15 F4-2400C15D-8GVR HDD - WD BLUE HARD DRIVE 1TB 7200rpm SSD -...

My phone is stuck on incognito mode, how can I undo ii?

Hi. I got a psu cooler master silent pro 500w ( i think 80 plus bronze?? ) and i wonder if it can hold a GTX 980ti ( no OC on CPU and GPU ) at full load. I used E3 1231v3 8gb of ram G1 sniper B6

So, I just started to turn on my laptop to see what's going on, then when I opened Google Chrome, the tab bar appeared to be grey instead of white, which is extremly unusual to me. I tried to fix this, but it looks like none of these solutions I found were able to fix this problem. Here's proof...

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So basically I sold my motherboard with the water cooler back still attached and now my water cooler can't connect to my new board obviously. I used a Corsair 1150 single fan water cooler. Does anyone know where I can buy a replacement back? I really don't want to have to buy a whole new water...

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Recently after the Bouncepad update on Fortnite, my game became unplayable, so much lag, delays and much more. At the first, i don't know why is this happening until i saw when the lag happens my upload packets loss up to 700% for a sec. I can't seems to fix this, i've sent report to Epicgames...

Does my build look like it would be successful? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2Hq6D2 Took me a while to put everything together I want the best but also want to have a slight budget.

I have an s340 case with a kraken x52. How would i set up the fans for maximum coolness and airflow. I currently have the top fan on intake and the back fan and output. the two in the front covered by the radiator is i think out outake its blowing hot air out the front. I realized i set this up...

ive done a bunch of things but none of them worked i ran who crashed and it gave me this analysis On Tue 5/29/2018 5:18:44 PM your computer crashed or a problem was reported crash dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\052918-37015-01.dmp This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll...

Hi, this is my first time installing s couple cooler and I went for the hyper 212 Evo. I got through most of the installing up until you install the X bracket, when I screw one in the opposite lifts up really high and it is impossible to screw other sides in. I read some other threads on the...