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Partial solution found and has been added to the bottom of this post. If anyone has any other information that may help it would still be greatly appreciated. I recently installed an XFX 6950XT into my rig and I'm having some substantial performance problems, even at 1080P. When I initially...

So i recently joined the pc community after building my first one a little over a week ago now. Everything was running just fine until this morning when i went to turn on my pc and it wasn’t booting up, connecting to my monitor, etc. I noticed a solid white light next to CPU on my motherboard. I...

Current Specs: Motherboard - MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus Memory - 2x16gb 3200mhz cl16 T.Force CPU - 3800x and 5800X3D GPU - GTX 1070 Storage - Samsung 970 Evo 500gb I've updated the BIOS to the latest edition with the M.FLASH feature. With all components removed while updating. Motherboard is...

Upgrade question Hi everyone, my current setup is this: -I5 6600k cpu air cooled -Gigabyte gtx 970 g1 gaming -Asus 170 pro gaming motherboard -Corsair 750w power supply -2x8 Gb 3200 or 3600 mhz ram -A random and old 250gb ssd -Western Digital Green 2TB hard disk I’ve built this pc in 2016-2017...

Hi all, I have bought a used Laptop, which is working very lovely. However, it has a small problem. Whenever I press the "right arrow" key, there is a chance that the key above it, being "page down" will also get pressed. No, I do not touch it with my finger. Its just, if I press "hard"...

I have attached photos of my motherboard's PCIe x16 slot i was cleaning and saw this like marking thingy's. I also made sure to carefully take the gpu out rather than taking it straight away. I'm also new to this community/forum and a amateur when it comes to forums in general. View...

It's not a dead pixel either and also my old monitor didnt do this. I had this monitor brand new 2 days ago it usually wont do these red pixels back then. Its also not the gpu im certain. I didnt experience any symptom of artifacting ever. So what would be causing this? Oh and when i up and down...

Im a amateur when it comes to gpus but i had a old card back then and it was a Zotac Mini GTX 1050 Ti the fans would always spin when idle and when gaming and i gradually got used to that. But now after i upgraded my gpu to a INNO3D GTX 1660 SUPER TWIN X2 it works normally and amazing but when...

I've been getting this DirectX crash on Madden and some other games. This is the crash from Madden 23. Any ideas on how to fix this? Already tried reinstalling drivers. Thanks.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/nhtwMb I have just built my first system. The components are as seen in the link above. I cannot get anything to display on my monitor. When I power the system on, here is exactly what happens: The RAM LED on the motherboard goes red for a second or two, then...

I am thinking of switching to AMD cards but i am kinda new to pc building so what is the main difference between the Sapphire Red Dragon and Red Devil cards ?

As all of us know many cards have those annoying sharp spikes on PCIe card (where there is no backplate. Can I grind them down, or wire cutter them off? I want to create a custom backplate, and that will help me as well. They are very sharp on my card (unlike in this picture) It is not a gpu...

Well I've done some minor research I found this site where you can see the specs of this laptop, and its internal. Im somewhat dumb when it comes to this side, so my question is here As you see in that website it says: " HDD/SSD up to 2000GB SSD + up to 1000GB HDD " 1. What does it means...

Z490 AORUS XTREME Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900KF CPU @ 3.70GHz, 3696 Mhz, 10 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s) 1863GB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB corsair vengeance RBG Pro Ddr4 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (MSI) AX850 - 850 Watt 80 plus Been having this problem for a few weeks now and I have...

Hi everyone, this is my first post on Toms Hardware and I have a few questions/concerns. I found that the MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi is the most affordable board I could find with all the features I need. It has a lot of good reviews, but I have heard some bad things too. Users have reported that when...

So, I have a Ryzen 5 1600AF (Zen+) processor and an MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX motherboard. Before the upgrade, I had two Crucial green RAM sticks running at 2400 MHz, and I replaced them with G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200 (2x8GB) with 16 timings. I immediately enabled XMP in the BIOS, and everything...

Well met everyone, my 2 year old AIO suddenly stopped working correctly. My CPU is reaching Idle temperatures of 70° Celcius. While I touch the tubes connected to the pump one is warm and the other one is cold. Already replaced the thermal paste and checked all the connections. I am using the...

Hey all. I've been having issues with numerous games crashing for a while now; a few months back I upgraded from a 980 to a used 1080ti and even more recently upgraded the rest of my system. I can play some games just fine like Witcher 3, heavily modded Skyrim, and a few others but seem to crash...

Hi everyone! I wanna buy 12400 with possible upgrade to 12xxx or 13xxx "K" (no overklock). The pc is for gaming (full hd 60+ fps max settings), Photoshop and after effects (ps and ae is hobby non professional). The gpu will be 4070 ti, 32 gb ddr4. It's usually advised to go for Gigabyte b660...

Hey, so I just ordered a new AIO for my desktop. I suspect my old AIO(NZXT M22 Kraken 120mm) was dead, so I ordered a new one (NZXT X63 280mm).I’m not sure when it started happening, but my CPU (I7-10700K) was running pretty hot usually around mid 80’s to mid 90’s °C, so here’s hoping it helps...

All of a sudden when I start a game my gpu fans go to 100 and then my screens go black. After browsing some forums I saw that it has to do with the temps and people suggested to change the thermal paste and pads. I did that and also cleaned the fans. It has helped, my screens no longer go black...

Since the past weeks my pc is been constantly having memory issues when it didn't had them before. A month ago I could have over 100 tabs in Chrome open, watching videos or a streaming in the background, with Discord open in a call while playing resource heavy games without a single memory...

Hi, I have a Lenovo Thinkcentre m82 SFF with a GeForce 710 2gb low profile. Intel i5 12 gb ram I would like to upgrade to a GTX 1650 4gb low profile. Will my pc support the GPU ? If not, which should I upgrade to ?

So this is a new build, works fine. but when i try and play cyberpunk 2077, usage is really low, about 20% and i only get like 45-60fps drivers are up to date, cpu is not the bottleneck, tried all different types of settings but to no avail anyone know whats up? list of parts here...

My screen keeps disconnecting everytime i play heavy games like dark souls or Genshin.Usually after 5 or 6 minutes of playing the screen suddenly goes black, although i can still see my RGB and hear music from my headphones.Does anyone knows why? My specs: RTX 3070 16gb ram 750W PSU Intel I5...

Okay so I've got everything that I need to start making content except a mic. I've done some looking and I think a USB Condenser mic is probably the best fit for me. It would also be great if it could switch between cardioid, hypercardioid, and supercardioid but it just being cardioid is good...

As the title says, a few days ago I got an USB power surge warning as I was charging a few too many VR accessories through my USB ports. Unplugged all the devices and everything seemed normal. However, when I tried to start the PC the next day, it would refuse to boot. The fans spun up and the...

Hi, I've recently been playing Hogwarts Legacy and it was working fine on Medium Settings at a comfortable 60 FPS with occasional stutters and lags. However, since yesterday, the game has become completely unplayable. Either it gets stuck on the preparing shaders screen and crashes. Or it...

Hello all, I finished my build(specs at bottom), installed windows and the relevant drivers. However I had issues with the AMD graphics drivers, after entering windows it would freeze the pc for 5-10seconds then throw up errors on the amd software. I then used DDU to try and uninstall the...

Hello, I'm new this forum, so sorry if this is the wrong thread to post this in. I have a problem when booting my Dad's computer built circa 2008. I have both the errors CMOS Checksum Bad and USB Device Over Current Status. The CMOS error I can fix, but the USB one I cannot. Here's what caused...

Hy guys! I would like your help, because for some reason the game is not smooth(CSGO,CS1.6, and whatever fps) and I have a G-sync 240hz monitor, and I think something needs to be set in the bios, but I don't know, Windows was installed today. I attached the rest below. Thank you for the help...

Hello, I want to upgrade my old ram corsair vengeance lpx 2666 16Gigs to 32Gigs 3600 CL16 My choises are the following: Gskill ripjaws V ($110) https://www.gskill.com/specification/165/184/1562831784/F4-3600C16D-32GVKC-Specification Kingston Fury ($105)...

so first of all hello everyone i'm new here . i have 2 problems but as the title said first thing first- 1. i want to update my BIOS (just updating my BIOS, not upgrading anything) currently i'm running Aorus B450 Elite non-wifi (revision 1) BIOS Version F51 (date: 12/18/2019 & BIOS ID...

Im looking at buying a used system. The person is asking for $700. Does not include a GFX card as I already have one. Is this a good value for the price? Will be used for gaming as my current system is from 2013. The parts prices alone compared on Newegg seem good, but that doesn't always mean...

Disclaimer: I already have 2 configurations ready, I am not asking for a configuration creation service but rather advice on the existing ones. Just to be clear, I don't like asking someone to do all the work, I have worked on my side (with my humble and modest skills of course). Also, I’m...

Hello, I bought a Kingston Fury Beast 16GBx2 kit of DDR4 3600MHz CL18 and installing it on ASRock H670 PG Riptide & i5 12400F The motherboard specification says that it can support up to 5000MHz of memory speed. At first the memory was running on 'Auto' and I'm getting 2400MHz, I looked at the...

I bought a SAMSUNG 990 PRO (2TB) SSD and I am getting some UNUSUAL BENCHMARKS. Its basically a NEW BUILD. If anyone has any idea why I am getting such unusual results PLEASE LET ME KNOW. Thanks! BENCHMARK RESULTS LINK...

Hey everyone, new guy here. I've been experiencing some major hardware issues and I'm not sure what my best steps should be. They did not happen in my PC until I got a RTX 3080, but I have also had past instabilities that I'll follow up on below. I'll be as thorough as possible: Specs to get...

Thoughts on new RTX 4090 PCIe cables melting?

Basically, I'm looking to improve my cooling situation and buy 4 new fans with higher rpm but I'm having trouble deciding what type of fans I should buy for this NZXT case setup, (NZXT S340) The PC case doesn't really have the best space as I can only fit 4 x 120mm fans (1 back / 2 at the...