Power Supplies

I have a ryzen 5 1600 and rx580 8gb, when playing fortnite on 60 fps on epic setting or high settings with epic distance I get a temp on my gpu of 71 degrees Celsius is this okay or is this to hot? I have two fans and the stock cpu cooler for the ryzen. Should I add fans and a different...

While I won't be changing my PSU anytime soon we should have a list of those that come with ribbon style cables and not the tightly bundled together pain in the rear to cable manage ones like I ended up with in my last build......so please list if you know some. It will be good info for all.

Why is the RX 580 Gaming ROG Strix on newegg for $189? Isn't this a $350+ card? Should I buy this because I'm looking for a card for around $200 and this seems too good to be true. This is my build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2mmNCb

Hey there https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/15833484 https://ibb.co/zFvhFhK Am getting hitches here and there in games but not consistant and when it happens there is a cpu spike. its really distracting Also noticed that i cant open many programs or tabs in chrome without getting a lag...

Long story short paying for speeds of 100 down, getting between 2-5down Spectrum is stating my coaxial cables are old/weak they can't do anything I need to replace all the coax in my walls. Home was built in 1996. So while ~23 years old.. I find this hard to believe. I'm having a tech come out...

Hey Guys, sorry If I posted in the wrong category, I'm a college student and this is my first time building a gaming PC, I need to remain on a tight budget so the parts I have list are the best I can afford as a lot of the parts are quite pricey in SA. I have checked PCPartsPicker to make sure...

Q9550 4Gb ddr3 1333mhz (1066) GA-G41-MT-ES2L 2TB HDD GT 710 Win 10 pro

Hello all, I've been wanting to upgrade my PC for some time now and it's finally possible to do so. I am having a hard time choosing which CPU to purchase and have stated the different ideas I came up with under Parts to Upgrade. Your advice is much appreciated! Approximate Purchase Date: In...

Hello I checked many threads on forum could not found a specific solution for problem Spec: Fx 8300 MSI gaming 720 MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X Seasonic 1000W Gold I have low gpu usage low cpu usage low fps in games I am currently playing WoW and my fps rates 30-50fps in world 5-20fps in raids. I...

Hi All, I have been attending school for Computer Engineering and decided to try to do my first build. Being on a budget for a student, I figured I would look for parts at relatively decent price or for parts that are / were on sale. So far, I have the following: AMD Ryzen 7 1800x - $250 CDN...

Dell i7/7, 16G DDR4/2400 Windows 10 (updated) Pro. Task manager Performance shoving usage fairly level at 4G.

Hi everybody So my brother asked me to build him a computer for his new office, and he have just started learning programming and he does play some light games, he gave me a budget of around 450 dollars give or take, so it won't be that high spec i've got him this pc mobo: ASRock B450M Steel...

So my friend bought a Kingwin RGB light strip and plugged it into his motherboard RGB header, he has an Asus Z390 Prime motherboard and he plugged it in with everything off and unplugged. When he turned on the computer he said the light strip worked for about 10 seconds then shut off and then...

Hello everyone I have enabled S4 and S5 on my Z390 Asus board so the light wouldn't annoy me when I was sleeping. Every time I turn on my PC it boots then turns off and turns on again and boots fully into Windows. Why does it do that? It does the same if I turn off the PSU

My pc was running well when I first built but then my cpu fan was going wack then I reset my pc and I used to be able to get 140fps on fortnite but now I can bearly get 60 My specs Gtx 1070 Ryzen 2600 2x 4gb ram

Need some help, Recently upgraded my motherboard , CPU and memory - having some issues now with certain games not installing which previously wasn't a problem, I highly doubt its the CPU (I5 8400) , Ive run a memory check which came back ok (16Gb 2x8GB corsair vengeance LPX 2666mhz) Which...

Intel i5-3600 @3.5Ghz and gigabyte 1060 6gb. When i am playing games like rainbow 6 siege or pubg. My cpu will shoot up to 95%-100% and temperature rising to 70 degree celcius. GPU will also be at around 100%(when gaming) is there any reason for it to be that high? How can i fix it? Thanks in...

Hey Gals and Gents, I'm new to building PC's and would like to not break the bank... I am wanting to stream to twitch/fb/yt, interact with my followers, and utilize a webcam all at the same time. I used my general knowledge of computers (which is more like intermediate than novice) to create a...

View: https://youtu.be/8AQF5l1zBpw The above is an example - the computer will completely lock up but only while gaming and make this just God awful screeching noise (see the vid for example) and the only way t get out of it is to force shut down (hold power until pc turns off) sometimes it...

Hi! I’m thinking on changing my CPU Cooler to a Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition. It comes with its own thermal paste but I don’t know if I should use the one with the cooler or a 3rd party thermal paste like the MX-4. Thank you!

I’m having a lot of trouble diagnosing an issue with my PC. Every 30-90 minutes I’ll get a system freeze for about 20-60 seconds where I just get a blue spinning circle. Everything else freezes. At first, I thought it was a software issue so I reformatted the system. I then began a long list of...

I need help understanding what i'm doing. I just wanted to port forward Black Ops 3 PS4 but I couldn't figure out what to do when online tutorials would mention port fowarding the PS4 itself and also giving the PS4 a Static IP which has been confusing me if any of this is related or even needed...

I currently have an ASUS Vivbook X456UQ and in terms of performance its not bad. However over the past 2 or so years, I have noticed that thermals are becoming an issue as my workload switched from just gaming and programming to content creation using Premiere and After Effects. I'd be seeing...

I Want to buy this motherboard on ebay because it is a good motherboard and has good price. but the seller has note that :“It restarts when it enters the desktop” i think it is causes by the psu or the software or the cpu fan. does “It restarts when it enters the desktop” causes by the...

I want to add a 4 port USB 3.0 card but all I can find use the PCIe slot. Mine is covered up by my double wide Nvidia card. Any alternatives?

Hi, I’m having an issue where my pc will not boot past bios, it is a brand new build and I can’t for the life of me figure out what to do. I have tried multiple drives to boot from and in BIOS it registers all of them but will not allow boot. As in it sees them but even in boot override it won’t...

I have a behringer UM2 (https://www.amazon.ca/Behringer-UM2-Audio-Interface/dp/B00EK1OTZC) for mic input and recently found the headphone output to be very good. I also have a senheisser gsx 1000 and was using that for over a year before trying the other amp. my question is should i use the GSX...

I'm looking for a gaming/streaming motherboard with duel CPU sockets for the intel I5 LGA1155, not looking for Dell or any main stream computer companies. Asus ect would be great can't seem to find one.

Hello, i bought a i7 4790k two weaks ago , this temprature ok for it? or should i worry about? i'm using with gelid tranquillo cpu cooler 1.16v @4.4ghz. Should i consider delid case? Thank u for helping.

so i had rust for awhile and not played it for a long time i used to play with no fps drops and good fps with high settings. sometime ago i got a ssd and decided to put rust on it when i play it on normal settings i got so many lag spikes and crash so i lowed the settings really low and it...

So i have a pc with the following components Gigabyte ga-z77x-d3h Msi geforce gtx 980 ti 16gb memory Before now noyhing happened at all. This morging i woke up to turn on my pc and it kept frozen at the boot screen of the bios. I tried removing my card and run on internal graphics, which...

This window pops up saying "to help protect your security your web browser has restricted this file from showing active content" when I try to uninstall Corel draw x6 and when I click on the banner and click allow access, still nothing happens.

Hey, So my system has been a bit overdue for a hardware upgrade, and after researching different gpus on the market, I set myself on replacing my current GTX 650 ti with the GTX 1660 ti (quite the performance boost, ik). However, with my processor being an intel core i5-2500k, I was beginning...

Hi. I bought GIGABYTE X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING motherboard and on the specification tab there is a line stating: "1 x HDMI port, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096x2160@60 Hz* ". This mean I can't play on 144Hz refresh rate on 4k resolution but will I be able to run Full HD resolution on 144 Hz?

Hello friends Ryzen 2200g is support pcie 3.0 x8 version What is means? Can I get half performance with x16 gpu

So I just finished building a new pc and it will just randomly restart, usually during gaming. All of the parts (except the HDD) are under a year old and I have tried multiple solutions. I have reinstalled windows and reformatted both hard drives, unplugged and plugged back in the psu leads...

i've used the cx850m for about a year and a half until it broke, after that i researched them and realized what a shit idea it is to use them with high end components. under the circumstances i cant swap it out for a few months. how much longer will it last with a 1080 card?

Hi All, My current motherboard is malfunctioning so I thought it was time to do a big upgrade on my current PC (GAMING) (I would like to buy something really good that will last for long time), but I am not an expert...so some advices would be great. I would like to buy the following parts...

I want to copy my old data from CDs and DVDs to my PC. I haven't used optical drive for a long time (my old laptop broke since 2015 [the optical drive was dead years before], my father's laptop optical drive is dead, my PC doesn't have one), so I bought an external optical drive (this one)...

I have a ViewSonic VX2457 and even after lowering the volume to 1 on the monitor it is still obnoxiously loud. The only other audio setting I can find on the monitor is input which isn't helpful for trying to lower the volume. Is this something that can be fixed or is that just how the monitor is?