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  1. Martim Melo

    Question GPU clock drops to 300mhz every 5 seconds, after a while of gaming.

    I have been having this problem with BD prochot lately, however my gpu and cpu temps are just fine. If i disable this option my GPU "dies" every 5sec. I have tried everything: bios, drivers, power options, undervolting cpu and gpu. My guess is either faulty battery or cable, does any one knows...
  2. BaronVonJackal

    Question USB will randomly dropout completely ?

    For a while now I have been struggling with strange USB dropouts; ranging from my keyboard no longer functioning to sometimes every USB port dropping out including the USB headers. I am not using any hubs either. This problem happens at a roll of a die, but usually happens at start up and...
  3. K

    [SOLVED] Upgrading GPU - Do I Need Anything Else?

    I've decided to buy a RTX 3080 to upgrade my 1070TI after about 5 years of use. So far, I know I will have to replace my power supply as well since my old one isn't good enough. Should I anticipate anything else having to be upgraded? My current specs are: GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 TI -->...
  4. J

    Question Have Power Supplies/System Boards Changed in the past Six Years?

    I recently purchased a power supply and installed it in my 6-year old PC with an Intel i-7 6700k CPU. It doesn't work. No light, no fans, no sign of anything. I assume the power supply is simply broken, but before I RMA it, I need to ask if something changed in the past 6 years (since I last...
  5. Druantia

    Question Building a new PC and it doesn't turn on with the old graphic card

    Hi, I'm building a new PC after my old one stopped turning on. Long story short it was a broken motherboard, so I set up to build a new one. I've got a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, and PSU. However I kept the disks and graphic card (my idea is to save for a new one in a few months). After...
  6. N

    Question CPU high speed and high temps while idle

    I have just finished building my PC and my CPU keeps running at super high speeds even when it's idle and the CPU load is less than 10% The CPU is Ryzen 5 5600x (3.7GHz and 4.4GHz turbo). As you can see in the NZXT Cam screenshot below, it never goes below it's base clock and the temperature is...
  7. AspectSaber

    Question My computer turns on but the fans only spin for half a second before everything turns off

    So I was doing a power supply change to my PC due to the old one being loud and old, but during the process I must have done something wrong because now the computer does not turn on at all. The fans ramp up for half a second before they stop and the power button led doesnt even turn on. If you...
  8. B

    Question PC won't turn on using power button until PSU is switched off and on again

    Hello forums, Just a couple days ago my computer started having this problem where after being off through the night, it wouldn't turn on the next day until I switch the PSU off and then on again. I recently bought a wireless razer mouse which charges by putting it on a stand which has RGB...
  9. TheReaper522

    Question When I try to turn off my PC, it doesn't turn off.

    Hello, When I hit the power button on Windows 10 or from the case button, the PC stops giving video and the peripherals turn off, but the fans and internal components are turned on. Components: CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x GPU: GTX 1050 Motherboard: Gygabyte B550 Aorus Pro AC Ram: 2x8GB TeamGroup M.2...
  10. Blanco3302

    Question Motherboard turns off almost immediately

    So I just started building my first pc and I finished plugging in everything but when I went to turn in on it turned on but and immediately turn off only shining a white-ish light for less than half a second and nothing else turns on and this is the second motherboard I’ve bought to see if it...
  11. BingoStirwell

    Question Black screen then restart, event 41 kernel power, when playing Escape from Tarkov

    I just built a new PC and I'm at a loss CPU: Ryzen 9 5900x GPU: PNY GeForce RTX 3060 PSUs(persists with both): Corsair CX750F RGB ; EVGA SuperNova GS 650 RAM(persists with both): Corsair Vengeance LPX ddr4 3200 4x8gb ; Teamgroup t-force vulcan z ddr4 3200 2x8gb When I play EFT a few minutes...
  12. A

    Question Will I see much difference in energy cost between a 200 watt and 260 watt GPU?

    This is probably a silly question but I'm looking at a new GPU and torn between a 3060 ti, sapphire 6700 xt and the 6700 xt nitro plus (I can get one grade B at Overclockers) Will I see a noticeable cost increase between running these two cards? Bare in mind, I maybe only game for long...
  13. PsychoPsyops

    [SOLVED] ATX Power Ports?

    My mobo has both an 8-pin and a 4-pin atx power port, and my PSU came with 2 4x4 pin connectors, not marked as CPU, just blank. They are not the pcie connectors tho. Assuming they are the right connectors, is it safe to plug two 4x4 connectors into the 8-pin and 1 of the other 4x4 in the 4-pin...
  14. J

    Question I think my PSU is dead but not 100% sure

    So i came home today from work, and like always, I pressed the power button on my PC… but nothing happened. I spent the past few minutes troubleshooting. There is power to my monitors and speakers, and there is some power to the PC. But not even the built-in case lights (decorative) turn on...
  15. C

    Question AMD Threadripper 3970x - best settings for improved thermals and retained performance / Lowest possible temps with the lowest possible loss in perform

    Hi! I recently finished my dual-3090 Threadripper 3970x custom watercooled system. It will be mainly a workstation for simulations (mostly bioinformatics), video editing and 3D rendering. I have 3 360mm EKWB blocks for cooling. An SE, PE and an XE. My issue is, that I am worried about the...
  16. bouzoubad

    Question Freeze in games due to ethernet

    Hi, I build my own computer maybe 6 months ago and i have an issue : 95% of the time i'm in a game, i have some freezes. I checked what happened with the task manager and here is what i noticed : At each freeze i have a huge peak for the "Copy", "Copy 1,3,4", "Cuda", but not fore "Copy2,5" in...
  17. S

    Question Computer will not turn on ?

    I have been gaming on my computer just fine until earlier today. I see my screen turns off because I'm inactive, so I go to the keyboard and press some keys and wait a minute but nothing turns back on. The computer was still running, so I didn't think anything was wrong. I press my reset...
  18. V

    Question Desktop fan randomly goes full power for 1-2 seconds

    Hello, I hope someone will be able to help me with this. So yesterday I bought a new prebuild desktop and I installed Windows 11 on it, and every once in a while one of the fans just decides to go full power, lasting 1-2 seconds. Me playing something, me browsing the web, me doing nothing just...
  19. P

    Question Is it normal for the second 8-pin connector to have less power than the first?

    I just saw this in GPU-Z and was wondering if it's a normal thing or is the cable faulty? I'm using 2 cables for the two 8-pins in my gpu, not 1 cable split into 2. GPU: Asus ROG STRIX RTX 3070 PSU: 750W 80+ Gold Corsair RM
  20. zain007

    Should I run my laptop on power or battery ?

    Spec: HP Pavilion 14-ec0234AU Ryzen 5 5500U 8/512 I was wondering, while using this should i run it plugged in power or run it on battery ?
  21. garak0410

    [SOLVED] No Fan Spin / No POST

    I searched previous articles on here about NO POST for new Motherboards but I cannot seem to find the problem. I am building a system for my daughter...first time in over 10 years that I built one because I just got burned out of it and now I see why. I have a ASUS TUF GAMING Z590-PLUS LGA...
  22. A

    [SOLVED] PC powers on but no display + holding power button doesn't turn it off + keyboard lights off

    Recently while I was playing XCOM 2 and talking to a few friends over discord, my entire computer suddently froze. After a few seconds of not responding I had to flip the PSU switch to turn the computer off. After that, when I tried to turn the computer back on, the fans and case lights turned...
  23. Mobassir94

    [SOLVED] why power cut caused my ups to turn off my computer during gaming?

    I was playing Assassin's Creed Valhalla on my pc and with my new UPS which was connected in normal mode. Suddenly I faced load shedding/power cut during gameplay and I saw that my pc got turned off. Then when electricity came I again played the same game and with ups in normal mode, then during...
  24. S

    [SOLVED] Which PSU to choose?

    So, soon I am going to change the PSU of my main PC (System Power 9 600W) and put it in the old PC. I want to get much more powerful PSU compared to this, as I need room for upgrading my parts. If someone finds this helpful here are my System Specs: MB: Asrock AB350M Pro4 CPU: Ryzen 5...
  25. TheBawss

    [SOLVED] PC turns off after half a second

    Hey y’all I’m really stumped here. I recently built my very first computer and it had problems with the last Asus board I had so I got a new one and all was working well for 4 days, until today it shut off on me while gaming. When I try to turn it back on it instantly shuts off. The mobo has...
  26. T

    [SOLVED] Can I use a different power cord?

    I'm building a new PC, so I ordered a new PSU: "Adata XPG Core Reactor 850W". I noticed that the power cord that came with the PSU (the one that connects the back of the PSU to the wall) has a plug that looks like a "Type E" or "Type F" plug as shown here...
  27. Mr4Derop

    [SOLVED] Ryzen 7 1700x Having Kernel_Power 41 issues

    So recently (since february 14th), i've been receiving some temperature problems.(I've had kernel_power 41 crashes in total of 32.) My ryzen 7 1700x has been crashing at ~75C, which i think is really not good. All of that crashing was on 3.78ghz on 1.35V. I have raised the voltage to 1.4 and it...
  28. S

    Question GPU blinks when pressing power button but computer doesn’t start at all ?

    Yesterday I reset my pc like 7 times trying to turn on secure boot in bios to play valorant. After playing for a few hours in secure boot, I shut it down and went to bed. Now when I try pressing the power button the gpu blinks and then nothing happens at all. I’m so lost and what I should do bc...
  29. M

    Question PC restarts instead of waking up once a month

    TL;DR: Sometimes my PC restarts 2 times instead of waking up, at first there's no display output, then there is, then it restarts one more time. The time in Windows is wrong and there's nothing in event viewer. My PC also sometimes restarts by itself (Machine Check Exception; Cache Hierarchy...
  30. D

    [SOLVED] Laptop turns off on its own randomly, not sure why. Turns back on normally after, but randomly turns off again after a few hours of use ?

    I have a laptop that I have been using for many years, and yesterday it suddenly just turns off on its own without warning. Today the same thing happened again. I've looked around and the causes suggested by the sites are overheating, malware, and failing battery. Based on Malwarebytes and Avast...
  31. S

    USB port with power-off charging - Will it keep powering on a non-chargeable device?

    There's this blue USB port on my laptop called "USB port with power-off charging" used to charge mobile devices even when the laptop is sleeping or off. I plan to use the port for a microphone because all the other ports on my laptop are used for my keyboard and mouse. I want to keep it...
  32. M

    [SOLVED] 6+2 concern

    slightly concerned about the odd mismatch my 6+2 pci cable has, the left one is fine, but the shoulder/clip thing to keep the 2 locked with the 6 on the right doesn't work, and the 2 pin is ever so slightly (few mm) further out of the 8 pin connector than the 6 are. Just worried that it may...
  33. L

    [SOLVED] Will my current PC be able to handle a graphics card upgrade?

    I currently have a NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super and want to upgrade the card. I'm not sure which GPU to go with, but have it down to 3 options: 1.) MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 2X 2.) EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti XC Gaming 3.) MSI GeForce RTX 3080 VENTUS 3X 10G I currently have: CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R)...
  34. LORYT699

    [SOLVED] Good psu

    Hi, I m not following the psu market and news, I don t know nothing about elettronic and electronic engeneer. Which are good psu? I know seasonic do good psu and I also know there is a gigabyte psu and the lux from aerocool that are explosive. In general which brand are good and which I shuld...
  35. UltimateOssas

    [SOLVED] "No Signal" Monitor > PC fans still running > Need to reset PSU

    I just got a new PC since I thought my laptop was acting up. Before getting a PC, I was running my laptop without a battery. I can run everything fine in my laptop except gaming where after playing for a few minutes (longest was an hour and a half, shortest was about 5 minutes), laptop would...
  36. signum_

    [SOLVED] Function in the BIOS that turns my PC on when it gets power?

    Wasn't 100% if I should ask this in Systems or here, sorry if I chose wrong. Anyways, I'm a freelance video editor, and while I am usually at home to work, there are occasions where I will be gone for a week or so to visit family or whatever, and up until recently, I would force myself to work...
  37. Dreaming Dragons

    Question End Power Cycle on Bootup?

    My PC worked perfectly fine like an hour from this happening. When I turned on the pc after accidentally fiddling with the power button I dont what I did but I appear to have booted it in a power cycle and cant seem to undo it The power cycle starts off with a higher frequency (it turns on...
  38. 1

    Question Polling rate spikes from 70 to 1600hz on 2 different pcs and 4 different mice.

    Recently i`ve got a new aorus z390+9900k and a new mouse (mz1), then i measured the polling rate and saw this. What is interesting is that i had EXACTLY the same issue on my old i7 3770 and multiple mice (viper mini, gpro (wired) and fk2). And i was thinking that i just had a faulty mobo or old...
  39. H

    Question Sudden drop in power

    System: CPU: I5-12600K GPU: Inno3D RTX 3050 RAM: 32GB Kingston DDR5 Motherboard: Gigabyte z690ud ddr5 PSU: Corsair RMx 650 HDD: Seagate 2 TB 7200RPM SSD: Samsung 980 1TB My PC was working was it was my first build, it is not even a few weeks old, everything was working fine, I plugged in all my...