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Me and a friend seem to have an issue with the upgraded RAM on an AMD system, HP Pavilion 17-f232nr. Seems like it gets blue screens anything from Driver IRQL not less or equal, Memory Management, kernel, etc depending on how it boots and when it BSODs. We upgraded it from it's PC3L 8 gigabytes...

Hi Just bought a 2nd pair of hyper x cloud stinger headsets Bought have the same problem I had with my 1st ones where after I plug it into my Xbox one controller more times than not when I move my head or the cable the mike cuts out any ideas? Rab

I built a new PC, and I want to sell my old PC which is about 6 months old, what price would you recommend I sell this for, and also i purchased everything on this list new. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/NsMgHN

I am looking to get into PC gaming but on a low budget of around $400. I found a prebuilt PC http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gaming-PC-Intel-i7-2600-3-8GHz-Sapphire-R9-290-X-16GB-DDR3-240GB-SSD-Z77-/162449662234?rmvSB=true and I just recently found a budget build youtube video...

Hi guys, so i'm having an issue lately with my rig and i cannot wrap my head around this. So for a while i'd had to press my power button twice to boot my pc, it did boot it seemed like, and my monitors did recognize that there was a signal coming to them, but they still said no signal. After...

I'm about to purchase a 1tb only HDD for storage and a few games for my new build. I had my eyes on either a WD Black, Blue or Seagate FireCuda SSHD. I hear the Black is noisy but good for gaming and same with the FireCuda SSHD. I also heard that the Blue is faster than Black. I just need a...

I've just laid out my plans for my black and white PC. I'm mainly gonna use this computer for gaming at 1080p and light video editing (just Adobe Premiere, nothing fancy). So is this good? Try to keep it at ~$1,100. PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XKpVgL Price breakdown by...

Hi guys, so basically i'm graduating high school pretty soon here, and I had a few questions. To start, i'm not interested in going to college or anything, but trade school isn't completely off the table if I have to do that in the future. I am currently studying to get my A+ certification, and...

Hello after upgrading from 32 to 64 bit Windows 7 i have progam files (x86) & program files folder also in the d drive. This was my first time reinstalling the software so i'm not professional with any formatting. What could have gone wrong ?

So I currently have a i7 3770k @ 4.2ghz and i bottleneck in a few games with a 980 ti. I was wondering if I should upgrade my cpu. Choices- i7 7700k ryzen 1700x and 1800x this is just for gaming. This is just an investment that suppose to last me atleast maybe 4 years

Ok, I have purchased a GTX 980 TI and am wondering if these power supplies will work, since I already have them. https://www.amazon.com/Delta-G75vw-t1040v-G75vw-t1042v-G75vw-t1107v-G75vx-bhi7n09/dp/B00JQ4L3PM...

Hi, I recently built a PC to handle all my day to day design work in addition to rendering. Per the suggestion of a friend, I got a Supermicro h8dg6-F motherboard with dual amd opteron CPU's to do heavy lifting on CPU renders. I currently have two Noctua Noctua NH-U12DO Heatsinks in my PC, one...

My friend wants to get an older pc going again. The delema is upgrade parts or start fresh and build a whole new setup. The budget is 600$ and my friend won't go 4K for many many years. Current specs Asus m4n98td Evo Amd phentom 2 1090t black ed Gskill ddr2 2000mhz 8gb Nvidia reference card...

Hi. I noticed that amd is about to come up witn new cpus and should i upgrade to i7 4790k and sell my i5 or upgrade to new ryzen and sell my i5 mobo and ram? Where should i buy i7 4790k ? where should i sell my i5 mobo and ram?

Help! My workhorse, daily use laptop just died. I use this for work and play, and I like it, so I'd love help. While I was using it, it began to get really slow, I mean really slow, and quickly. After a short time, I tried to power it off normally, without success. I then forced it off with...

hi pls help, my specs are cpu a8 7600 quadcore 3.1 mobo a78m-e35 8gb ram 1866 just want to ask if what best gpu in my pc that can play ultra setting in the games? like batman knight, far cry, battle field... pls need advice tnx

I just upgraded my PC today changing my MoBo, CPU and RAM to an Asus Z170-E, Intel 6600k, and Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR4, and for my GPU I'm running an EVGA GTX970. With my old AMD FX-8350 I would have no more than maybe 30% usage running some programs like chrome, discord, etc. I made...

I cannot turn on the WiFi on my HP Compaq 6710b. I go into Settings - Wireless Network Connection, but it won't let me flick the on screen switch and I cannot find an actual switch on the laptop body. Is there another way to switch it on, perhaps using function keys, if so, which ones... ?

So my buddy wants to get into pc gaming and tends to lately stream his games from his xbox, and will use this pc to stream from the xbox via a capture card and when he gets more pc games stream them from the pc itself. Now me and my other buddy have some parts laying around for a build for him...

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hey guys i built my pc just now but when i plugged in the power supply only 2 small lights on my graphics card lite up nothing else did. the computer wont turn on either when i click the on button nothing happens plz help. Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor NZXT Kraken X62 Liquid...

Hello , I'm new to being a forum member. I wanted to ask anyone's opinion of my budget build currently in the $500 section. I spent like 14 total hours putting this together. Honest opinions? Love , Joe

In the last few weeks I've started experiencing bad random freezes in every multiplayer such as cs go, battlefield 1, battlefront etc. The freeze happens for about 1 - 2 seconds and seems to be network related. There's no fps drop when the freeze happens and I'm not experiencing any issues in...