Southbridge

I've been thinking about this for a while now (I think I've even made posts about it before, not sure) and I approached the idea through numerous ways like using a USB adapter and mounting it internally through one of the headers or get a motherboard with a floppy controller which is well not...

Hey guys, I got a Dell optiplex 390 recently, going to install a simple graphics card (GT720) and some more RAM. I have noticed that the chipset (not exactly sure what this is) doesn't have a heatsink on it. I touched it after playing an old game (Stronghold 1 HD) and almost burned myself...

I just bought a Ryzen 5 3600 with a X570 Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard. I have a problem with the chipset temperature, its a 56-60° give or take and im not even gaming its at idle, also the fan rpm of the motherboard is at 3400 ... what is happening? should i be worried?

Hi there, I’ve been bundling together a gaming pc which consists of: Intel Core i7-4790K, 2X8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM@1600mhz Asus Rog Strix 1080 ti, Gigabyte-GA-H81M-S2H (this will be eventually upgraded to Asus 7 Hero) Cryorig H7 Plus cpu cooler, 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD, Super writemaster multi DVD...

Hi there! We are a small video editing team so we plan on using an old server PC: HP Server HP ML110 G6 as our local storage. We mainly store, archive and sometimes access the footage for rendering purposes. As I have seen from some articles and videos, the Red one is for NAS and Purple is for...

I'm looking for a way to reduce brightness on lg 23mp68vq. I already set brightness to 0. Tried some programs that add black layer but it doesn't work properly. (sometimes taskbar is not dimmed and doesn't work in games)

Hi i am from indonesia and i need help at buying some psu My specs Ryzen 3 1200 Asrock ab 350m hdv Palit digital alliance gtx 1050 ti 8gb ram 2400 mhz single channel 1 tb hdd 7.2k rpm My budget is about 55$, and i am not overclocking

I7-8700k, gigabyte aorus gaming 7, 2*8 go ram 2666mhz(DIMM), msi gtx 1080 gaming x, nzxt kraken x62, Evga supernova 750w 80+ gold, 1tb hdd seagate, ssd m2 type 2280 250gb samsung 960 evo , case nzxt source 340 for the case I took a pack of 3 fans Corsair ll120 rgb. Is it a good configuration and...

I currently am looking to upgrade my CPU, as I have a AMD Athlon II X4 635. My motherboard is a ASUSTeK Computer INC. M4A88TD-M (AM3), and I am looking on the internet for CPU's that are compatible with this motherboard, but could only find older generations of CPU's. Can someone tell me if my...

Hi guys, Hoping someone can help here. I'm not sure this is the correct section as I've ruled out the software side of things. So... I've had Win10 since the free upgrade from Win7, and any updates have always went smoothly. I started getting the automatic repair loop a month or so ago - My...

Hi, I’m building my first PC with 8 gigs of 2666mhz and an i5 8400, but as for the graphics card, I still need to decide. I’d like to play games like GTA V and Sea Of Thieves and Overwatch and maybe Battlefield 1 and V (when it comes out). They’re supposed to be in the 230-40 Euro aka 250-60...

i picked up an aio corsair h75 earlier this weekend for my i7 6700k and i have an asus z170 ar mobo and my mobo has a w_pump header. so im not sure if im suppose to plug in the pump to water pump header or cha fan header? edit is their any software to control my pump speed with?

Hello, I have a Blackberry Priv using the latest Android OS. In the camera settings menu, I selected "save video to memory card". Everytime I take a video it saves it to both my internal memory and the SD card. I was hoping that if I delete the video from my internal memory, the video on my SD...

This is an on going issue, when I start my computer it will POST but then my monitor says no signal when windows 10 has loaded. Less frequently has it actually worked and windows is displayed on the monitor. Startup repair doesn't work. I cannot access the BIOS either.

after the recent windows 10 features update a mysterious 400 mb drive has appeared which is full and my windows explorer constantly keeps on giving me notification to clean it ... please help to some of to get rid of this drive..

So windows 10 is installed on my SSD but my HDD does not show up on This PC, i tried going to disk management but it is not there, it is showing up on device manager as a disk driver but updating drivers doesn't work. Any suggestions would help, Thanks

Before today i had a 3.8GHz OC on my Ryzen 5 1600 at 1.2375v, which was stable for the last few months. But just today while playing Planetside 2 I noticed some choppiness and looked at task manager to see the performance. My CPU was clocked at 3.8 under Base Speed, but under the "Speed" text it...

So I'm about to take a 3 hour trip to go buy a gtx 1070, will my ryzen 5 1600x be a good pair with it ??? Need to know soon :/

I'm looking to upgrade the PSU of my Optiplex 780 SFF and I would like to know which kind of PSU will fit and work in it.

So I posted another thread where I was having a problem with my NVMe drive not appearing. Finally, after many different trials, I finally got a notification today in Windows Troubleshooter that "Standard NVM Express Controller has a driver problem". However, it can't identify or fix the...

can't find the second one on my country so i decided for the first., is there a great difference, paired with ddr3 8 gb ram dual channel kingston fury ram?

Title says it all! Originally i was looking at the beyerdynamic dt 770 pro 32 ohm but the only downside is that the cable is not detachable. My price range is from 100-170 USD I will be using these headphones with an astro mixamp pro tr so keep the ohm between 32-50 ohms Thank you!

Hi there, I've already read and tried the suggestions from similar threads, I'm posting this in case someone may figure out something I have missed. I've got an asus x555 laptop with i3 processor and 820 nvidia graphic card. I've replaced the hdd with a samsung SSD a few months ago and...

Hello, my computer of about 3 years old has been having touble starting recently and i haven't been able to find the why/how of it. Every morning when i first press the power button the pc seems to start but ends up at a black screen, after about half an hour it proceeds to the login screen of...

I just got a dell optiplex 390 and I am trying to turn it into a decent gaming computer. If I want to upgrade the dual core i3 2120 to a i5 2500 do I need enhanced cooling? Specs: Video: I have a GT 710 video card CPU: Intel Core i3 2120 2 Cores 3.30GHz 3300MHz GPU: Nivdia GeForce GT 710 PSU...

My desktop will not start up properly and I receive the error SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED. I have tried the following: Clean windows installation with GPU removed. Clean windows installation on a different SSD. Clean windows installation with one RAM stick removed/the other stick...

Hey guys, as for last few weeks I have three internal HDD's in my PC. What is the nominal temperature for HDD's to run? At the moment they run between 30 and 40 degrees.

i keep encountering this blue screen error "Thread stuck in device driver" when i play games but most of the time i happens when i play dota. what should i do? i have already uninstalled/reinstalled and updated my audio and display drivers but i still encounter this error. Would getting a...

Hi. I have built my pc up but ive built it without a cd/DVD drive. I thought i could use it without one tbh. The mobo and gpu came with disks for drivers a take it. Do i need to use the disks or can i download them from the inet when i boot the pc up? Thanks.

Hi, I have the Eonon D2101 car DVD player and would like to change the operating system as it the factory default continues to crash meaning I am unable to use the touch screen without unplugging the unit and restarting. Any advice on how I can do this? Thanks

Since my fans are doing wird and turn on and off again I made my first fan curve. I am not sure its good. the fans will start at a usage around 27%. Someone also said something about hysterisis, but idk what that means. There is also a hysterisis option in MSI afterburner. Do I have to change...

I attempted to clone my main C drive using the bootable disc version of EaseUS Todo Backup Free Edition, and I apparently somehow messed up (I got a bluescreen error when I tried to boot up the cloned disc in place of my original C drive). I want to try again, but now the destination disc is not...

I have a dilemma. To make a long story short, I want to dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 10 on 2 different drives. I have 1 120GB SSD (Windows 7 currently installed), 1 500 GB SSD (Windows 10 to be installed), and 1 500GB HDD (Slave drive for games and other applications installed). I want to...

I have these 3 components ready to be put together into my new pc, however im not sure if this power supply would be able to support them. Just looking for some clarification, thanks!

Real simple: the wife needs a laptop, manly for basic tasks. I want to play every time we travel. Bottom line: a light computer, 14 inch max, dedicated gpu. Max budget: $1200. Is this even possible? Thank you

May I ask what options I have with $100 budget headsets? Thank you very much!

I was just gifted a 256gb Samsung pro SSD and I want to duplicate my old 160gb Intel SSD to it via an actual cloning machine I have. Is it safe to clone an SSD this way? Will I have to worry about alignment? It's an Orico external HDD enclosure/cloning device if that matters.

Hi everyone, I'm new to this community and also new to pc building. I've been building my pc this whole day and everything seemed fine before I realized that there was no sound coming from mobo. I can hear sound with headphone plugged in but no luck when unplug it. I was wondering does this mobo...

Hello, as the title suggests, I have some concerns about my hard drive and installing Windows when I build a new gaming rig in the near future. You see, what I intend to do is switch from my AMD FX 6300 and GA-78mlt-USB3 to an i5 4590k and an AsRock H97M Pro4. When said build is complete I wish...

Hello everyone, I finally am posting something here - So here is the situation: I have Alienware x51 R2 (mini ITX ... damn cooling issue) EVGA Geforce GTX 970 Some crappy ass Motherboard (well not crappy... but was there when I bought the Alienware X51 R2) Shitty RAM - Standard x 2... External...