Pre-built

Hello, PC expert. I am deciding if I want to purchase this pre-built desktop from Newegg. It is quite badly reviewed by other buyers, and it does smell quite fishy with 50% discount. Most bad reviews I found are from bad air flow, case fans dying, and PSU failure. What are your thoughts on...

Back in 2015, I built my own desktop, a Haswell, making various upgrades over the years, but now I feel the time is approaching for me to look at getting a new system. I have more money than I did back then, but I have less time and more responsibility, so the prospect of building a new system...

Approximate Purchase Date: Within a month Budget Range: $2000-$2500 System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming Are you buying a monitor: Yes Parts to Upgrade: This will be a new build\pre-built Do you need to buy OS: Yes Preferred Website(s) for Parts: N/A Overclocking: Maybe SLI...

Hi everyone, I have around $2,000 to spend on a PC. I am a complete noob. I was going to try and build my own but the thing keeping me away is the lack of support. If I build my own and something goes wrong...who can I call? where is my customer support? I feel like I'd be out of luck...so I've...

Hi, so i am helping a friend of mine build his first PC. He's on a tight budget so this is the build i could come up with: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/YFfnNq However, we've also found this on bestbuy...

EDIT #2: Updated with more information Specs: Motherboard: ASUSTeK SATA 6Gb/s DDR4 CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 6-core processor GPU: AMD Radeon RX 580 RAM: Single 8gb XPG ADATA DDR4 stick Storage: 1 TB Hard Drive PSU: Thermaltake 500W 80+ Cooling: Deep Cool brand fan mounted on the mobo that came...

I know that freesync makes the monitors refresh rate the same as the GPU's and it stops screen tearing but doesn't screen tearing happen when the GPU does more than the monitor can handle. How does it being able to change refresh rate affect screen tearing?

How do you combine 12 months of spreadsheet data into one report for the year in lotus 123 release 9?

so the other night I got my first server motherboard from a dude for a Lenovo system and had no idea what kind of hell I had just walked into with all these dam proprietary connectors!!! I have managed to find ones for the 14pin power connector and front audio connector but I can't find anything...

I recently bought this motherboard because i wanted an upgrade. I went to install my i5 7600k that i just ordered into the z270 gaming k6 motherboard and it gave me a 00 code from the dr. debug on the motherboard. It starts up for about 5 seconds and then shuts off and 2 seconds later it turns...

I downloaded the driver easy software to do software updates, after downloading the updates they wanted to charge for updating them. I decided i'd uninstall the software, however, where do the downloaded updates go? or do they go when you uninstall the software?

So i brought a 256gb m.2 ssd nvme, and spent 100$ but already out of space but luckily i still have my 1tb hdd its full now but i still have it from my previous laptop (m6500), well i had a few 2.5in drives but my new (7710) can only fit one and now been replaced by 2 m.2 slots, with one left...

Hi Just looking for a modest PC build. Main games are going to be quite demanding, so need a powerful machine.

Hello, I have a pretty good computer (at least I think), but I'm getting horrible performance in the new game PUBG. Below are my computer specs, but at important points in the game, I get computer lag spikes. It really makes the game less fun. Any suggestions or insight into what's happening...

I was just browsing around as usual and I came across this: http://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=70248115209 Interesting. Any thoughts? This thing scores as much as my 8 Core 16 Thread Xeon, damn.

Hey guys. I pulled out an old PC I had from about 4-5 yrs ago to fix up for my mom to use for internet purposes only. I reformatted the drive and went out and bought windows 10 on usb. Every time I try to boot up the computer with the windows 10 in the usb, it says invalid partition table...

I have 8 GB of ram and now I am having memory leaks that occur after a couple hours, at the moment from sitting on idle for about 15 minutes, my memory usage went up by 5 ish percent and didnt come back down. How can I fix this, I am using Windows 10 64 bit.

My Alienware laptop was working perfectly, until i got a notification of gtx 970m driver update, while updating i got an installation error, So i completely removed 970m drivers and downloaded its latest driver from nvidia and it installed perfectly.. BUT i lost my brightness control, i am not...

So I was cleaning my keyboard and pressing a ton of keys, I find out afterwards that certain keys are acting odd. CTRL is switching my tab in Opera, B keeps opening Windows Media player, and ~ opens the calculator. I have a logitech k120 for reference, any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have 50 mbps on both download and upload speeds. I have checked on speedtest.net and it gives me those speeds, but whenever I try to download something, It downloads like at 350 KB. This happens to almost all websites except Steam. I can download games at full speed from there. I even tested...

How can I fix a LCD in a rca 7" tablet I dropped my rca 7" tablet and the inside screen is cracked, can it be fixed? Can anyone help me plz

So I just got a new case, the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv and it has a PWM fan hub on the back, the instructions say to plug it into one of my CPU fan ports. I've followed all instructions as said but when I turn my PC on none of the fans start up. What could cause this? Please help! Edit: I have...

I was building my PC and I plugged in all the wires to my motherboard from my PSU and it my psu doesn't turn on but when I tried turning it on with the paper clip test it did it worked perfectly fine so does anyone know what is causing the problem?

Would the AMD FX 8120, GTX 970, CX600 and random AMD 2012 prebuilt motherboard have any issues at all?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6ZtPCJ Title says it all.

I am going to get the NZXT S340 case and need case fans. The SP120 fans have better CFM than the AF120 fans though would that matter as the SP120 fans are designed for use in restricted areas and the AF120 fans are designed for unrestricted areas. Which one is better?

So I made my own comp about 4 yrs ago now, I've had a couple of PSU's die on me before I realised that it actually wanted more power.... anyway: last week there was a bang and an... interesting smell. I immediately shut the computer down and checked inside the case, but couldn't see anything...

Alright well let me just start by saying im using my cell phone to write this. Make: Asus P7P55d deluxe. Stupidity is really the cause for this post. I built this cumputer and it ran fine for 4 years i loved it. But i got impatient with it trying to figure out the reason for a non working...

I've heard good and bad things about this board but all I really care for is the aesthetics as long as the board functions. My system will have an h440, my i7, corsair h100 and I currently have an Msi gtx 660ti power edition. The biggest problem with this board is that some gpus don't seem to...

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/NoobEnomics/saved/8D8zK8 What a good priced, efficient cpu cooler for this build?

Hi all! i recently bought myself this CPU and i want to overclock it! i followed your guides and all but i still cant get it to work and i get some odd reports: 1) when i set my clock to 4.4 GHz and my CoreV on auto, the voltage instantly jumps to 1.400 V, which i find wierd because ive heard...