safety

Hello, little question about PSU safety features. Choosing new PSU with bigger capacity I got a bit confused. My choices around pretty popular mid-range+ 850W\1000 variants, few examples: Seasonic FOCUS GX FOCUS GX-850 850W MSI MPG PCIE5 A850G PCIE5 850W MSI MAG PCIE5 A850GL 850W be quiet! Pure...

Hey all! I was just wondering how I can safely clean my powersupply. I noticed it has a lot of caked up dust and dust bunnies on the fan and inside in the guts of it. I was thinking I could switch it off, uncrew the bolts, disassemble it and clean it like any other pc component using a brush to...

I have a AMD R7 360 2GB that is hitting 99°C for a second or two while playing heavy requirements games. Is my pc at risk? I only play for an hour or two like 4 days a week. I tried lowering graphics but it didn't do much. After going to 99°C it lowers to 90, then goes slowly up to 99 again. I...

Currently I use mix of NVME M.2 drives and SATA SSDs [and offline archival SATA HDDs] on Windows 10, all in different sizes. But due to dropping prices of big-enough-for-me drives I decided that I will not carry over to my next Windows [by then 11] machine my safety system consisting of...

https://picbun.com/p/jpEuJhsn the card is an ASUS GTX 280 The pictures show the pin and card in question. I dug out this relic of a card but when I had a look at the back the half of the last pin (or first I don't really know) was sticking out so I immediately put it back in place but I think...

I have been getting annoyed by my computer making noise when i am afk so I decided to look through the event viewer. In the safety tab I have a lot of daily activity by "Microsoft Windows security auditing.", every ~20-30 minutees either 4624 (always type 5, so it's some kind of service or...

i5-9600k Gigabyte Z390 UD Gigabyte 1070 Corsair CX750M Corsair Vengeance 24gb Hi, so I put my build into another case the other day, everything worked normally with no issue. Previous to swapping cases, my build ran fine for 3+ years. I turned it off for the night and when I woke up it...

Hi All, I know about hardware but I have a major blind spot when it comes to data security in networking, so I need some guru advice and hope you can help. With Covid, I've been working from home for almost a year now. Just today, my job said we need to connect an IP phone to our home...

So my dad was replacing some lights around the house and when he clipped a wire the power fuse for the whole house turned off and the power went out (he wasn't aware it would happen so he didn't tell anyone what he was doing). During that time my PC was idle and no programs except for Discord...

I recently received an old desktop computer from a family member which contains parts from around 2006. The plan is to use it as my main PC even though the parts are old, since the rest of the components are still working and perfectly fine for what I would use them for. It contains a Corsair...

Hi, i would like to ask the community if it is safe to have an unused and open fan header on my splitter. My current argb/fan splitter is 1 to 4, however, I only need to use 2 out of those 4 headers on the splitter. is it okay to leave the other two unused?

So my XFX RX 570 started to overheat due to dried out thermal paste (yes I am sure) and I am about to replace it but currently I got this thermal paste: View: https://imgur.com/a/QCDljHz Is that thermal paste worth using 9n my precious GPU? Will it help my GPU run cooler? Is it safe? I...

Hello everyone, One of my friends told me today that the temperature of the GPU's VRM and/or MOSFETs can affect performance and can make the GPU throttle in performance... So I have an XFX RX 570 that comes with a thermal pad that's placed on the MOSFETs, But my question is, Can Thermal Pads...

So I have bought a used FSP 500 60APN (no 80+ certification) a month ago and it's condition looks good (From outside at least) and it's been running my system fine so far in games even after increasing GPU's powerlimit... But then I saw so many people online warning about old and used PSUs (as...

all of a sudden the damn screen turns horizontal...I want to lock in portrait mode and not lose stuff due to rolling around

Hey all, I was about to buy a superclocked gtx 660, however the craigslist post was already sold. So I’ve gathered some new cards, but I need your guys thoughts please on which is the Best Buy. I can afford all of them, so performance is key. Really the only game I play would be H1Z1, FORTNITE...

Hello sir , having wd hardisk blue 1TB in my pc from four years and till now and i maintained it well by defragementing.. Today I just installed the crystal disk version 7 on my pc (having os windows 7 right now ) it shows that On health states "caution" [c5] current pending sector count: 1...

Hi I just bought a Canon 50mm 1.8 STM today from Curry's and I have just realised there is a tiny white smudge 'inside' my lens, it's not dust on the front or rear end. It's looks like it's between the glass elements. What is it and what do I do? Regards

Hello guys! Recently I bought a second router to have wired internet in my other room where is no ethernet port on the wall. I wanted to have 3 wired connections there over wifi using the AP but so far no luck. I was able to get 1 PC working but the other two had no internet connection. Also I...

Has to be ATX DDR4, between 80$ and 140$ if possible. Cheers.

When i installed Windows 10, my Intel Iris 5100 is working properly but my AMD Radeon R5 M225 Does not work properly. When i open Graphics Property it appeared that The device has stopped woking

I have a 250 GB ssd and 1TB HDD. I installed Windows 10 to the ssd and got everything running smoothly. I realized my HDD wasn't formatted, so I formatted it. Once I did I could not store games on the HDD so I decided to restart the PC. Whenever I turned the PC back on it is just a black screen...

So It seems that i have virus on pc that opens new advertising tabs randomly in explorer i have checked chrome maps and app data maps for virus but none i deleted all cookies again none i have adblocker if someone is going to write that i reinstalled chrome Is there any other solution then...

Hello.I have this weird bug that starts to act up after a few minutes of watching videos *Not On Youtube*but on Facebook or other sites that play videos but also the stock video player in Windows.I have a pic of the bug here * http://imgur.com/DvmCmOz * Some might say this is a gpu issue but...

I custom built my PC about 2 years ago, specs including GTX 650 TI, 8 GB RAM, i74770 Processor, MSI Z87 Motherboard, 120 GB SSD (Main storage), and a 3 TB external drive. If you know PC stuff this is not a regualr computer you get from best buy. one day i started getting multiple blue screen...

i just received a new pc as a gift from a friend its a tower and i looked in side and it only has one ram card that's 4 gb is that normal and can i put in 2 more 4 gb cards and h<ow upgradeable is a store bought tower pc? and is it safe / worth while to overclock this pc?

My computer/monitor will go to sleep after a period of inactivity but won't come out of the sleep process.... i think it has something to do with the monitor because the computer is set to never sleep on the CPU.... my system is an all in one Gateway ZX4300 AMD Anthlon IIX4 650e...64 bit...

I'm building my first HTPC/server/media centre. I would greatly appreciate some feedback on the components I want to use! The plan is to expand it with more HDDs over time. And I wanted the Mobo and case to be able to handle some components from my gaming rig, when I update that in 1-2 years (i7...

So I've had my Toshiba for years and never had a problem until my brother installed a program to try to get rid of the admin password. He restarted it and it asked him for the password for the bios. I don't know how to fix this it's a Toshiba Satellite A215-S4807.

I just got a a new laptop ASUS 15.6'' N550JK-CN054D and got an external monitor for it as well ASUS Gaming VG278HE 27 inch. I was planning to make use of the high refresh rate on the monitor but I am only getting 60 Hz in Windows 8.1. Connection made using the Display Port Mini from the laptop...

Hey guys, So I have finally configured my Ubuntu box (Picked up an old Aspire Desktop and stuck Ubuntu on) and I plan to run it as a gaming server. It's currently sitting downstairs. I have a little monitor connected up but would be perfect if I could run an SSH session to do everything from my...

Hey guys, I'm currently working on my first build and I have been hearing some bad hype about the AMD FX-6100 CPU. I'm using this as part of a mid level gaming build (nothing fancy or hardcore; just something to play game like Fallout or Borderlands) and I want to know what you guys think. I...