Power Consumption

So I found this AIO CPU cooler - Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L RGB and it got me thinking. Can I "chain/connect" the rgb cable (4-pin) to my rgb led strips (4-pin) if they are both supported in the softwave (Gigabyte's RGB fusion)?

Hi . I have a PC that I built and have been enjoying for specific games past few years however I was limited to my choice of games. I would ld like to do an upgrade on a budget . My current build : ASRock B85M Pro4 LGA 1150 Intel B85 HDMI SATA 6GB/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard. Ram: 2...

I get average frametimes with some major spikes in almost every triple A modern-ish game (GTA V, Assassin's Creed from Unity on, The Witcher 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider etc.). It's not a constant stuttering, it's just, as I said, that while the frametime isn't even that bad, I get these spikes...

Could my amd 8370 cpu be bottlenecking my gtx gigabyte 1080

Hi, I play a lot of FPS games - nowadays it's mostly Apex Legends or Overwatch. Usually I stay at 140-ish FPS but sometimes i drop to 120 or even 100, and this is usually in large fights with lots of effects and explosions going around. It is also not unusual for my frames to drop to 110...

Hello and sorry if this is a silly question that has been asked about before. But I would like to be sure with my specific PSU just for piece of mind. I intend to move from the UK to Taiwan and I'm going to take my PC apart and rebuild it there. So that's moving from a 240V country to 110V. I...

Dear To whom it may concern: My laptop went bad. Wouldn't turn on. So I took the hard drive out of it. I bought a new Acer desktop and connected the laptop hard drive to the desktop through an enclosure as an external hard drive and then reformatted. I copied some video and audio files from...

So when I woke up today I turned on my computer and it ran like normal for a few seconds then one of my fans in the front of the case made a weird noise and slowed down almost to a halt so I turned my computer off and decided to unplug the fan wire and replug it into a different connecter and...

I've seen a post from a marketplace on facebook selling an I3-2120 and a gt610 GPU and it shows that its League of legends FPS is about 200+ My Unit is an I3-2200 and a GPU of Gt710 but my fps on the same game is only at 70-80. Is that motherboard an issue here? Since there is a "Windows 7...

Hi, I recently bought a gaming pc and everything was just fine but sometimes i have no image "no hdmi signal" , one time it worked to reconnect the cable but usually I have to restart the pc , i changed the cable but same story , It never happened while browsing or watching a movie, usually it...

I had my PC custom built for me a little over three years ago for school and light PC gaming/streaming. I want to be able to play and stream titles such as Fortnite and (newly released) Apex Legends. Lately I would play these titles for about an hour or two and the game would either crash or...

Can any Lcd fit with my Asus laptop? 15.6 inch.

Hello everyone, I have a motherboard and I have a CPU. I overclocked the CPU. It is being hotter than usual. I decided to buy more fans. The case fan is not a problem to me. The CPU fan, I have a Deepcool gammaxx 400. It has a 120mm fan on it. I want to buy one more 120mm fan to attach to the...

My toshiba has a black screen until the windows starts loading. So I cant see the booting nor enter the BIOS because I cant see what Im doing. When I connect it to an external display, in this case my TV through a HDMI cable, it shows everything on the TV. So is this a display problem, any...

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Hello, Ive been getting black screen problems for awhile now. It NEVER goes black screen while I am plugged into my CPU HDMI port as long as the GPU is taken out. Ive tried reinstalling windows 10, switching out ram, switching out my gpu, flashing bios. using a DDU to swipe my drivers, and...

Hi, I have recently gotten some ram called Dark Pro and it is a 2x 8GB for a total of 16GB memory on my PC. I have played around with overclock a bit and gotten 13-13-13-29-1T @ 3000MHz and was wondering if that is a good performance/overclock? In addition, I have tested it with games and...

So I've been trying to get my ps4 controller to work with my pc, (DS4 couldn't run exclusive mode) I downloaded and ran a tool that should help with exclusive mode from the creator of inputmapper but after that my pc would recognize my controller but DS4 wouldn't. So the tool had downloaded a...

my clevo p770dm laptop power on keyboard backlight , batter indicator, power indicator, fan etc are working but no display? What is the issue? I checked external display, that also not available.

So first of all I would like to apologize for any spelling errors / grammar in this question as english is not my first language. I have bought this computer 3-4 years ago, with a single stick of hyperx fury 8 GB ddr3, nowadays with more and more demanding games starting to come out (and chrome...

Will a GT 1030 work with my computer?? My specs

The pdf below shows that this pc can also be shipped with discrete graphics cards like GTX750ti. The one I have has Intel HD graphics card but I want to put in an Nvidia Gtx1050ti. The specs of the PC are, i3-7100 8GB ddr4 2400mhz 240W psu Can I install this graphics card in my pc...

I just installed the Samsung 1TB 860 Evo SSD. After installing Windows 7 Ultimate onto it I immediately run into problems. My computer will freeze when clicking on links in Chrome while it says "waiting for cache" in the bottom. If any downloads are going when this happens they will be paused...

What are the effect of a computer system that doesn't boot?

Just built my PC last night. It worked well all night and this morning. CPU temps @ 45-55, GPU @ 55-65 in various games (mh, RL, fornite) Here's my build. https://pcpartpicker.com/user/tagmct/saved/s7VRJx Earlier today, it started with BSOD, can't recall all the error codes one of them was...

Last day I brought new graphics card AMD R7 240 and I installed it on my HP pc dx2480 and at first there was no problem I installed the drivers on the box and started to play games after 10-15min the computer monitor turned off the CPU was still running. I restarted the system again started to...

for some reason, my mouse doesn't seem to work properly, it double clicks sometimes when I try to single click, the scroll wheel is jumpy, my mouse isn't wireless, it's almost brand new (not even one month old) it's a plug and play, so it doesn't have any drivers that need to be installed, and...

Hi All, I am trying to upgrade my ram in my Gigabyte ga-h55m-d2h V1.4 from 2x2GB to 2x4GB. I bought 2 x Kingston KVR16LN11/4 4GB PC3L-12800 1600MHz thinking being DDR3 that it would just work. I realised that by default it was not 1333MHz but I thought I could run in at a lower speed or in...

I am a video editor using Prmiere Pro CC. I have a gigabyte x79-ud5 mother board and have been using a hhd for OS and programs, a raid 0 for media, and a raid 0 for scratch, preview, etc. I am now finding this setup to be abit slow for 4k video so I am upgrading to sata ssd drives. My...

These 2 boards are about the same price over here in Thailand. What are you guys thoughts on this? PC is for productivity, no gaming. https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H310M-HDV/ https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/PRIME-H310M-E/ CPU/Processor: Intel i5-8400 Memory: DDR4 16 GIGS Kingston Hyper...

Corsair CX Series CX550 I want to get the cpu to 4.0 ghz, not sure about the rx 580, let me know about the rx580 if possible.

So i recently built my pc, its running : GTX 1050Ti Ryzen 3 1200 Corsair VS450 and in the corsair carbide spec 01 case In my budget of about 6,000 indian rupees im looking to get an AIO cooler mainly because of how bulky air coolers look my shortlist is as follows : Corsair H45 Corsair H60...

Hey guys any one kind enough to help?. i have an old but still reliable Sapphire R9 380 Nitro card 4 gig. We were able to push it to 1100/1500 with +20% limit and stock voltage of 1212mv with AfterBurner. so we want to push it more but we can't . The MSI AB is not able to adjust voltage. (its...

My CPU usage while idle is around 70% to 99%. Right now as I'm typing this with only Google Chrome and task manager running the CPU usage is from 58% to 64%. What's wrong and what can I do to lower it?

I recently built a PC and I'm running: Intel 9600K Cooler Master Master Liquid ML240L Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra Gigabyte 1060 3gb Windforce OC WD Blue 250gb SSD Seagate FireCuda 2TB Cooler Master H500 I have my radiator installed at the top of the case with the stock 200mm front intake...

so in cpu-z i am rapidly going multiplyer x4 to x16. Every couple of seconds it will change very rapidly causing nothing to work. just added thermal paste to the cpu. any help?

Hi, over the weekend during Black Friday I went to my local Micro-center because they had really good deals going for a motherboard/cpu combo for the 8700k as well as the 2700x. I ultimately ended up picking up the 8700k because its overall price for the combo was $20 more than the 2700x, but I...

Reaching 82C with 20c Room temperature when playing games after 1 hour. So what will happen in summer ? I live in Greece i may play in 30Celsius room temperature in summer. It will keep shutting down? My specs are Deepcool Dukase V2 MSI B450 Tomahawk G.Skill RipjawsV 3200mhz 2x8gb Corsair...

Hello everyone, so much time i'm thinking about selling my ram+cpu+motherboard block for a very low price and buy a new one but actually i don't see real upgrades except the 9600k which even has no hyperthreading, and hyperthreading or more cores are useful when audio rendering and multicore...

I've got an A8-7600 APU, RX 460 GPU and 8gbs of ram. 1tb hdd. I'm wondering if my games are running slow because of my CPU instead of the GPU. When i turn the resolution down in games, the fps doesn't get better at all. In fact it stays the same. I've heard that lowering resolution means the gpu...