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!Tech Specs! Sapphire tri x 290 AMD Fx8350 w/ H80GTi Corsair closed loop watercooler Corsair xms3 2x4 gb 1600mhz Gigabyte 990fxa ud3 Rosewill Photon 650/800(I don't remember) watt 80 plus psu I'm looking for a way to boost the performance of my 5+ year old pc using software, changing windows...

Hi guys, for the last couple of months I have been black screens when using my Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC. It is a very peculiar issue, because it only happens when I am outside of a game e.g. with an open browser (with hardware acceleration turned off), or other 2D applications, I believe it has...

Hi guys , few hours ago i deep cleaned my r9 290 , blew away dust changed the paste (i have done it many many times in my years) and now when i turn on the computer and go into windows only black screen shows up , i tried dduing it through safe mode and installing new driversbut the problem...

hello i bought one xfx R9 290 (550$) in 2014 for mineing and gaming but never upgrade my mobo and cpu for it never install on my current hardware due to bottle neck effect Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93GHz RAM 3.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 Mobo Gigabyte G31M-S2L so now i want to upgrade my...

Hello guys, I was interested in building a pc for my girlfriend to do some gaming with. We've been bored with this quarantine, but while following the Covid - 19 "guidelines" we end up with a lot of at home time. So I'm hoping to build the best bang for a buck pc, I've always wanted to do so but...

Hi , i just got this gpu and only middle fan spins , and when i put them on 100% they still dont spin , i know about the feature in this gpu with on board switch that you can on/off between fan mode but it doesnt do anything , i dont have uefi bios so that might be an issue because otherwise i...

Hey, I've got an R9 290 and 2 HDDs, 12 gb ddr3 RAM and and i3 540, I'm just wondering how much wattage to i need on the minimum? thanks

Hello, Recently, I encountered some problems with setting up my two monitors. Both monitors support 1440p functionality. My graphics card (AMD R9 290) has several output options and the Dell monitors have several input methods: AMD R9 290: 2x DVI-D 1x HDMI 1.4 1x DisplayPort Dell UltraSharp...

I have an aerocool cruisestar advance pc case with an fx-8300 with a TX3 evo cooler and an asus r9 290 directcu II oc. So the problem is that I have around 70°c on the CPU with stress test, and my videocard is at 50-55°c in idle, 60-63°c when I watch online videos or streams and running older...

Hello I am asking for help because I'm stuck. So I was trying to upgrade my friends pc with a better graphics card but when installing the ASUS r9 290 and plugging in the display port and turning it on nothing came up on the display but the computer turns on and the fans spin on the card. I...

Hello everyone I noticed that in the start (after ~ 5 minutes) of "heavy" games (e.g. kingdom deliverance, the witcher 3) the sound completely disappears then he can appear again in random situations. It happen now with recently bought R9 290 graphic card, (upgraded from GTX 660). Moreover the...

Hello all After successfully installing the latest drivers about a week and half ago, the driver error "radeon wattman settings have been restored due to an unexpected system failure" started to show. It freeze my PC for a couple seconds and then works as usual. It happens more often while...

Lately i've notice games have began to feel very sluggish (even games that had previously run smooth). This really became an issue when I tried playing Apex legends where the game is just freezing for 1-2 seconds when looking around. Been trying to figure out what's going on. Today I attempted...

I have recently installed Ubuntu 18.10 on my laptop. I tried to install the LTS version first but the wi fi wouldn't work. Now after I updated my Linux it works but very slow(max 400 kb/s speed when on Windows 10 I have 3-4 mb/s).Sometimes the wi fi on Linux stops randomly and i got very bad...

Hello. I am an Italian amateur who from time to time buys a faulty laptop and tries to repair it, just for fun. But I am fed up with the work because it is an expensive hobby and there are no fix rules. You cannot trust what people tell you as different people have different opinions. There are...

Currently I am using the default image viewer of windows 10, however, it doesn't seem like I can zoom lock the image which is an important feature I need. Is there any free alternative that I can use? Thanks

I used to have the problem of critical process died before this issue just putting that out there. So I keep getting a blackscreen once I get past the boot screen literally cant do anything no cursor no automatic repair nothing at all

I have a msi 1060 gtx 6gb single fan I am looking for a build around this atm I have 900 dollars to spend on a build thinking of the i7 7700k any help I would be thankful

Just installed win7. The usb port is not working. I have installed the usb driver (3.0 driver). Even in device manager it shows i have it installed. i have 2 unknown devices there though. What should i do?

can i run gta 5 on dell laptop core i5 7th gen 4 gb ram 2 gb graphic card

Hello I need help.? So I have ordered a new motherboard and I'm not sure if my graphics card will fit. New Motherboard ( Gigabyte H81M-S1 )- 22.6 x 17 Old Motherboard (Gigabyte H81M-S2H) - 22.6 x 17.4 Graphics Card - Gigabyte GTX 970 g1 Windforce 4GB PC Case - Zalman ZM‑T3 Mini tower Help...

Hello, I was wondering if an external sound card with a usb port to plug in headsets that require power exist. The onboard sound has had issues for over a year, sound from the left channel being miniscule for both USB headsets and bluetooth headphones and speakers. The aux port on the...

Hi guys, I want to buy an SSD just for Windows 10 Home and I want to use basically everything else on the 1TB HDD, would a 60GB SSD be enough for Windows 10? Thanks in advance.

I have installed GTA 4 but when i click launchgtaiv.exe , nothing happens. Pls help !!

I see two instances of wmi running all the time, there's also one that says server and another that says reverse something but these do not run long. Below are both the general information and the details on this event. Namespace = //./root/subscription; Eventfilter = SCM Event Log Filter...

It responds 3 seconds after i click

One day I turned off my PC at night. Next morning when my PC booted it made 3 beeps(1 long followed by 2 short) continuously. It is not the motherboard as I just bought a new one a couple of days ago and I tried my old motherboard but made the same beeps. I5 7500 Gtx1060 Asus prime B250m-A 1x...

Hello, this is my first time building a pc! I have tried to put something together, but I really would like some opinions. I want my pc to be gaming oriented and just do regular school stuff as well. I want to go for a black theme with RGBs inside to change colors. So far I have came up with...

I need a new cooler for the amd fx-9590. My h80i is not really working with my cpu. I am on a tight budget and don't to hear get a different cpu or anything else that is not related to what I am asking. I just want to get my desktop back up and running. I know about the corsair h100i but would...

ASUS LGA1151 DDR4 DP HDMI M.2 Z270 ATX Motherboard with onboard AC Wi-Fi and USB 3.1 ROG MAXIMUS IX FORMULA G.SKILL F4-3000C16Q-32GTZR 32 GB (8 GB x 4) Trident Z R GB Series DDR4 3000 MHz PC4-24000 CL16 Dual Channel Memory Kit is this compatible with the motherboard??? I checked pcpartpicker...

I know this might be obvious, but I would like to make sure. I want to know if an ASrock Z97 anniversary will run windows 10. I know it should, but I was reading the manual on the website and it was saying windows 8.1/8/7 and nothing about 10, it might just be an old manual.

Every time i try to play my modded skyrim it will crash at random times it may be after 1 minute or 20 minutes but always with the error log INFO (15:09:21.0974): Windows Exception (c0000005). Origin: "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll" (77a0cecf). Last hooked call: struct HINSTANCE__ *__stdcall...

Hey Tech Gurus, I have a question for you. I am gonna post a picture of my mobo CPU socket pic. Just take a look and tell me if you can judge that the pin is bent or not. CPU socket Image { https://pix.sfly.com/jjE3b7 } Image Also tell me if damage pin increases CPU temp.? full story... I...

Hello everyone, An HP Pavilion dv6000 (more precisely a dv6373ea) is giving me some problems with the video card (Nvidia Geforce Go 7400) that are driving me crazy. Starting from the beginning: Six months ago i was using my pc normally when, suddenly, the blue screen appeared with the...

Hey, I plugged an old tv to my daughters computer (Dell inspiron (self contained comp in a screen) running windows 8) via a hdmi cord but couldn't get the computer to display on the tv (tv and cable are fine, it works great with my computer). I tried everything in the display settings and the...

Is there a list of all the confirmed Vega GPUs? And is it true that there will be a 25 Teraflops GPU?

Hey, i'm moving to Germany in the next month and i've been looking for apartments, checking the internet speed options i could get, and i work from home so internet is a really important thing for me. I've been looking for an apartment that fits everything i need and the internet speed limit on...

For my RAID speed testings I put in 4 new mushkin reactor 1tb SSD's and I'm using the pegasus r4 RAID box. I added the disks into an array and synchronized them as a logical drive with a RAID 5 level setup. After a few hours when the synchronization was complete I did a test of copying 49.97GB...

Laptop turns on but shows nothing but the cursor. . .

I just put together my new build with all new parts: Asus Maximus Viii Extreme motherboard, Xeon E3 1275v5 LGA 1151 processor, G. Skill tridentz DDR4 3733 RAMM, Samsung SSD 850 pro. My power supply, Corsair AX860, is about 6 months old which was powering up my old rig without any problems. As...