Thermalright

Trying to decide between the slightly older Thermalright Frost Spirit 140 V3 and the slightly newer Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO to cool my Ryzen 9 7950X. Both are approximately the same price. Both are dual tower coolers. The Frost Spirit uses one 140mm and one 120mm fan. The fans have...

Just today I noticed a sort of droning whine sound emanating from my PC off and on at fairly regular intervals, and now I can't un-notice it. At first I thought it was GPU coil whine, but now I don't think it is. I went into the BIOS and started messing with the fan curves to see if one of the...

Im getting one of these but i got two questions; 1) i saw crtizism atleast on non se version that mounting screws required alot of pressure before they got contact with the mount itself, which could lead to screwdriver penetrating the mobo if slipped, anybody got experience on this or the fact...

So I have been out-of-the-loop for a while when it comes to CPU's and have recently been wanting to upgrade to Intel's 13th gen. However, I have noticed talks within the PC community that Alder Lake suffered from some sort of IHS bending issue which caused CPU coolers to not make proper contact...

I'm currently deciding if I should buy a new cooler for my 3900x rig i'm about to assemble. Stock cooler seems pretty fine with just 1% performance gap even compared with more expensive cooling solutions. https://www.techspot.com/review/1875-ryzen-3900x-wraith-prism-rgb-vs-liquid-cooler/ On...

If i a play a game at 65fps(ultra) in 1080p, then at what fps i will play th same at 900p(ultra). What is the average fps difference between 1080p and 900p gaming at ultra settings?

I have three routers in my network, I have already 30 user work on this routers but only one laptop OS is win10, its connect easily with mobile hotspot.cant connect any router i have doe all the process drive update,delete,ipconfig/renew etc still can't connect. please let me know what I do..?

So I'm actually planning to build a cheap custom rig right now, but I'm not sure is it going to bottleneck or not. I've tried using thebottlenecker(dot)com calculator, it shows that I have 25% chance of getting bottleneck, which I'm not sure is the information is accurate or not. I really am...

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Hi. I seem to have an issue with my GPU. I currently have a GeForce GTX 960 4gb OC card, about 3 years old. I started running MSI afterburner some months ago during gameplay just for interests sake and I could see my GPU using about 2000 to 3000 memory during gameplay. At the time of the game...

hello so a couple of days ago windows just starded to lag a lot and freeze..did literally everything clearing and no virus in the system as i know of!i thought it was an ssd or hard drive problem so i checked the usage with these examples!any help? https://imgur.com/a/GxoUD5Q

How to get Zotac GTX 650 1gb Fan Work Higher than 25%? Can I OC it? Can someone help me. I tried with MSI Afterburner, it is locked at 25%(even after turning off "Auto".). Power limit and temp limit are also locked.

Hey guys Im trying to find a stable OC for my AMD A8 5600k. I was using AMD Overdrive but after a few crashes decided to do it directly from the mobo. Im using stock cooler and my idle thermal margin is about 55 degrees celcius. I just stress tested at 4.1mhz (x41 multiplier in bios) with...

Hi, this is my PC configuration: > Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2 > PSU: 500W > Processor: AMD FX-4100 > RAM: 4GB (1600 MHz) > PCIe Slots: At least 1 PCIe 2.0 Slot > BIOS Mode: Legacy BIOS (NOT UEFI) > Operating System: Windows 10 I'm planning to buy a GTX 710 or 1030 or 1050 based on the...

I just installed a Windows10 Pro 64bit on my harddrive without product key (via media creation tool). As checking my pre-installed apps, I noticed that my Windows Defender is not fully functioning. Is it because I haven't entered my product key? It only shows on the Windows Defender's screen is...

I bought a MSI GeForce GT 710 2GB gddr3 for my new build that i will build next week. Just to realise that the gpu looks like a soundcard and is 4x worser than my hd7850... Straight away even before I will start building my pc Im thinking about a GeForce GT 1030 thats a bit more expensive than...

Hello, My pc is still getting power after I shut it down on Windows 10, I can hear possibly the psu still running and my microphone light and motherboard lights stay lit. They eventually go off after a few minutes of unplugging the main power cable from the pc. Would prefer not to have to do...

so ive just built a new pc for christmas and im wondering if i can pop my old harddrive in so it saves me from installing windows and stuff, will this work??

Like the title what is the difference between the two? Ive been looking for an answer online but haven't found it.

A few weeks ago my controller randomly disconnected while playing. I use DS4 and never had a problem. I connected it in a laptop and I don't know how but I made it work so I forgot about it. Now the same thing happened but it doesn't work anymore. I opened the laptop, connected it via Bluetooth...

So my GF just got into gaming and she wants to build her own pc. I would like to save some bucks by not buying an SSD/HDD for her build. Would an additional diskless pc save me some bucks?

every time I on my pc, windows 10 is not detecting my video card driver, it just displays in the device manager "gtx 660", "gtx 770", microsoft basic display adapter, and 3d video controller, and sometimes when i on my pc it just freeze in the startup screen not my picture but looks likes this...

a friend of mine wants to upgrade his gpu, he has the gigabyte m52s-s3p (socket m2) mobo, 4 GB of DDR2 800mhz RAM and the amd athlon 64 x2 5000+ which is dual core @2.6 Ghz, he wants to but the GT730 4GB GDDR5, question is, will it get bottlenecked?

Does using a HyperX 8GB DDR4 2400Mhz and a HyperX 8GB DDR4 2133Mhz work with a motherboard that only supports 2133Mhz?

when i play older games like AC Black flag my game is stuttering and fps isn't good and i have geforce gtx 1070, i-5 7600K 3.8GHZ, 16GB RAM and i play on 1920x1080 res. Is it just the games or my computer? i've updated my drivers.

how much money could this machine make per month if i mined about 10 hours per day i7 6700k 4.00ghz 16gb ddr4 3000mhz ram gtx 1080ti oc

I'm purchasing a new gaming laptop from cyberpowerpc. I was trying to see if there would be a problem with only purchasing an M2 SSD (500gb Samsung 960 EVO) without buying an HDD. I obviously don't know too much about hardware and how it all runs together so I need some help. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I'm gonna make this quick and simple. 1. Games - GTA V, Battlefield 1, and Cities: Skylines at 1440p 60Hz (high settings is fine) 2. Prefer Nvidia Shadowplay 3. Prefer CUDA Cores for image processing 4. I have 3 months before school starts next year to get my hands on a graphics card So...

I have a MSI MS-2672 V5.0 And i was wondering are there any higher end graphics card and CPU that i could put in it as it is a nice computer

The XMP profile option on my asus z270-a motherboard doesnt appear to do anything. I have tried just using the EZ XMP switch on the board, just using the XMP profile in the BIOS and both together, but neither will actually boost the memory speeds. Both the post boot screen and cpu-z...

Hello guys, Relly hope u guys can help me out on this one as it is a rly big problem for me atm. Ive got an iMac 27" 2013 win 10 pro 64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M Adapter Type GeForce GTX...

What would be the best graphics card i could get with this setup? Intel(R) Core(TM)i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30Ghz 8 GB RM ASRock B75M R2.0 Motherboard gigabyte ge-p610a-c2 Powersupply Unit (610 Watt) Thanks!

Hello friends! I have some extra HDD's laying around and am a bit short on hard drive space and cash. I currently have a 1TB WD Velociraptor HDD and 60GB SSD running in RAID 0 (Intel Smart Response) with a 5TB external backup. This is all attached to my Asus Z87 Pro motherboard. My question is...

I have a DVR on my LAN, but all my effort for view it from my laptop never yield a good result. My computer is running on window 7. When I open my IE and type in my DVR ip address (192.168.1.8:8000) it ask me to download newactive.exe which always refuse to be downloaded. Kindly help me out, folks.

A build for 500-600$. My decision is :- CPU - AMD FX 8350 MoBo- Gigabyte 970 DS3P GPU - GeForce GTX 950 OC (Suggestions please) CAbinet - Ill buy one, no worries. RAM - 8x2 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 SMPS - EVGA 500W Power Supply PLEASE suggest me on the GPU, CPU, and MoBo, priced at the same...

I turned on my pc today and the monitor didn't register a signal, assuming it was the monitors problem I used another one, same problem. I changed my cable multiple times, didn't help. Then I changed my cable from my MSI GTX 970 gaming graphics card, to my B85-G43 motherboard, and a bios...

Hello. Is this power supply (FSP Blue Storm II) good enough to run i5-3570K with GTX 960. I have it and it has been sitting around for some time now, and I was wondering if it's any good to run this system...

My cpu is over heating only when I play videogames. It's like in the high 70s in c. My uncle who works with computers says the best thing to do is get case fans. (I dont have any only my cpu fan if your wondering.) So Im wondering is what fans should I get for my situation; where to place...

After reading this site's review of this cooler, it seems like a great deal. However I do not want the blue LEDs. Do they turn on automatically when the fan does, and if so is there an easy way to disable/remove them? Ideally I'd like red LED, but no LED at all is quite fine. Thank you in...

I just built my first computer, but I am confused how to update graphics drivers. I was sent to this page: https://www.asus.com/support/Download/1/45/6/1/ic9YbXVua78KEzSH/41/ but I don't know which one to choose.