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So , I got my build 3 days back . R5 1600 Asus B350F Strix Trident Z F4-300C16D-16TZR [Fresh installed windows , got latest drivers , bios and all. Now , I wanted to OC , as I am using stock cooler , did not really want to push the cpu too high , so decided on modest 3.7Ghz with an offset of...

So I will be an electrical engineering (maybe switch to aerospace) student in the fall, and I was wondering how important the number of cores and amount of dedicated vRAM was for modeling and simulation software. I'd love to get the HP Spectre x360 15t because it comes with Windows ink that I'd...

It has only started recently, I changed my graphics card from a GTX 760 to a GTX 1060 3GB. Previously my pc would actually be really hot and make a lot of noise, but since then ive also added another fan. Now lately, ive been playing games and the pc 1 hour or less late shuts down randomly. I...

Hey! So the thing is I built this 2 years ago: CPU: FX-6350 @3.9GHz 6-Core GPU: R9 380 2GB version Motherboard: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 RAM: HyperX Fury 2x4GB @1866MHz PSU: Be Quiet Pure Power L8 CM 630W Modular (Links are to Amazon.es since I'm from Spain) And I've been watching benchmarks and...

The "Hide modes this monitor" in Windows 10 can't display because the box is grayed out. I am therefore unable to watch videos on facebook via Google Chrome. How do I fix this?

so as the title suggests I am building a PC for gaming, as it is my first I am not going to go overboard, just something to get me going. https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/7dhgjc could anyone give advice on this, please?

Efficiency of motherboard

hello. So i am going to be going to college soon and i am trying to find a good laptop that i can carry around, so it has to be light, and to take notes on. I also want to be able to game on it during my spare time. Any good recommendations for a laptop that fits the bill? thank you so much.

Hey community, I've recently broke my raid1 configuration and removed one of the hdd to use as external so my backup is safer. What I need right now is a utility that calculates the differences between the internal hdd and external hdd and makes the external backup disk same as the internal...

GPS upgrade Hi just upgraded my r9 270x to a rx480. Put new card in pc powers but no display and keeps restarting. Put old card back in alls OK. So reinstall rx 480 same issue. Put original card back in and that's doing the same. Please help Gigabyte z77 board and Silverstone 700w plus. Old...

I just built budget rig and have more funds to get ram. Can anyone help me out on what the best 16gig set for my MB would be? My aftermarket cpu cooler might not provide a lot of clearance is my only worry for large heat sinks on ram? It's the coolermaster hyper but it is the horizontal version...

I'm having problems playing games ever since I got a 1050 Ti. Games stutter a lot. Note that the fps is high and the game suddenly lags for a second every 3-5 seconds. So some years back my Geforce 8400 GS burned out. And just a month earlier I bought a 1050 Ti. I had been out of gaming for a...

My nephew likes this game but just recently this error popping up, it started after we plugged in a new set of head phones with a mic (Sades sa902), - Critical error occurred in X audio2 engine. How do I fix this?

I am building a gaming PC and am confused between GTX 1050ti and GTX 1060 3gb/6gb I have a 1366*768 monitor, with a very less chance of upgrading it in future. i want to be able to play AAA games at at least low settings for next 3 years. Please also recommend CPU as some say that an i3 7100...

I noticed the CPU cooler (AMD Box, stock cooler) is sometimes very loud since replacing the PCs case yesterday. Looked at the BIOS/UEFI and the temperature is always between 38 and 48 degrees Celsius, with the fan speed ranging from 3683RPM to 4800RPM (at which point it sounds like a jet...

Hello! Thank you very much everyone for been part this awesome community. After days of research in the forum I think I have more or less an idea for my first build. Approximate Purchase Date: This month Budget Range: Maximum 1600£ System Usage: Gaming, all kind of games. Are you buying a...

So recently i got a nasty couple of viruses and trojans, and this "disabled" windows defender so i had to download other anti viruses to get rid of the viruses, it worked and now my pc is fine and i uninstalled the third party anti virus programs. But now when ever i got to launch windows...

Hey Guys! So, i decided to try to activate the Intel Turbo Boost on my 4770k, just to see if it made any noticable difference. However, i was shocked when i ran prime small fft. WIthout Turbo, my CPU ran Small FFT at about low 60's to mid 60's after running 10 minuttes, but when i ran with...

Any ideas? I'm using a GX pc multimedia setup but my subwoofer got "yanked" from my amp and the cord broke. Was just looking to replace the sub only since the other two speakers and amp seem to be working fine. Though.. I am having trouble finding a website that does that? I really could care...

I recently bought all the parts for my new pc, and i finished building it like two days ago, however the graphic card that i bought on amazon was broken so I returned it, and i was wondering what would be the most suited gpu for my pc? Okay so for my build; I have: i7 7700k cpu Msi x270...

I would find game benchmarks a lot easier if it was a desktop. Also, this is just a curiosity. All i know is that my 960m is equivalent to the GTX 750Ti. Thanks if you can help me!

I was able to overclock my ryzen 1700 to 3.7 even 3.9 on air less than week ago now I can't even go past 3.1. The Pc doesn't crash I guess, after 2-3 mins in windows the monitor black screens and I have to restart. This all started less than 2 hours ago. I was trying to copy a os on one drive...

I have a Ryzen 1700X, EVGA GTX 1070, and Patriot Viper 16 GB RAM. When ever I try to load SW Battlefront, it sometimes crashes in the menus. When it doesn't crash in the menus and I join a game, the gameplay is fine until the game finishes and crashes again. I don't know what the problem is, but...

So I have a problem. I have a prebuilt computer and currently bought a pony gtx 1050 ti graphics card to upgrade graphics and play battlefield, etc. so I plugged in the graphics card and connected the monitor to the graphics card and everything runs except the monitor doesn't detect it and does...

So I currently have a PC that I built around 4 years ago with budget in mind. In it, there is a AMD A8-6600K APU, 8Gb of DDR3 1866Mhz RAM, F2A55M-HD2 motherboard, and a CX430M power supply. I am planing to buy a dedicated graphics card to add to my system to improve its currently not-so-optimal...

Hi! My current PC specification is as follows: Motherboard - MSI P31 Neo V2 CPU - C2Quad Q9400 GPU - Gigabyte GTX 650 1GB RAM - 3GB DDR2 667 So I'm on ultra-low budget (comes with being a student in a broke country, lol) and in dire need of a PC upgrade, RAM being the current weakest link, I...