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Yesterday I play game on my PC while raining. Suddenly thunder strike quite close to my house and I believe I hear an explosion, not sure from where. I think a short circuit just happened. I am sure it disrupting my PC, then turn it off. I plug the power cable off the wall. I leave it and back...

Yesterday I play game on my PC while raining. Suddenly thunder strike quite close to my house and I believe I hear an explosion. I think a short circuit just happened. I am sure it disrupting my PC then turn it off. I plug the power cable off the wall. I leave it and back after the rain gone...

I want to fully restore/delete all of the files on my pc basically wipe it clean. I've been trying for a few hours now, but I don't know how to do it. I just want my files to be gone. Motherboard: MSI - MPG Z390 Gaming Plus Cpu: i5 8400 GPU: EVGA 1070ti RAM: Corsai Vengeance LPX 3000Ghz 16gb...

I have a Inspiron 3521 Laptop running Windows 10 V1809 that came with a 2.4 G wifi card. I upgraded the card to an Intel N7260 5G dual band with bluetooth. Upon installing the card and using the Intel driver, I went fro 30 Mbps on 2.4G card to 60 Mbps on the N7260 5G. Great everything worked...

Is there a way to migrate clone Windows 10 to another SSD at ease without reformatting? I have a Samsung 830 256gb and I would like to purchase another SSD if I ever do, am I able to migrate Windows 10 to that SSD? I don't wanna waste time reformatting otherwise I would have to reinstall my...

Hi all, This is my current build. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor ($300.00) CPU Cooler: NZXT - Kraken M22 Liquid CPU Cooler ($90.00) Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut 1g 1 g Thermal Paste ($5.00)...

Hello! Recently my computer have been using alot of ram without even running any programs. Im talking about 30% of the ram on startup and then it just builds up after time causing me to not be able to run program and games etc. People told me it was a memory leak which I researched myself and...

So I have a PC I got for Christmas 2 years back, but now I am wanting to sort of build my own, I have upgraded the CPU, GPU, and PSU in it, and i'll probably take my 16gb ram stick with it. I plan to move all of those to the new build. I am having troubles finding a motherboard that is good with...

Hello community! Today Im passing through problems booting my computer and Im looking for help and some advices! About a month ago I was playing with my computer while I was doing some crypto mining with nicehash. After a few hours and some overheat my computer turned off and I realized I...

I am going to my grandmas place soon and would like to know whether the ram I bought is compatible with the foxconn n15235. I worked out by counting the pins in the ram slot from this image that It us ddr2. The bottom half of the slot is 65 pins. I was surprised when I got the stick of ram that...

I keep looking in my mobo book but I dont see a sata connector faster than an other one. Are they all 6g ? I have 1 ssd 500g - 1ssd 128gb - 1tb hdd. Sata 1 on my psu has the 2x ssd and the sata 2 has the hdd. Is there an order to plug them on the mobo ? Thanks :) (Also i tightwraped the fan...

Hi everyone! I've recently bought an Asus Vivobook pro 15, and I've noticed that the CPU's temperature is always quite high. Idle temp goes from 45 celsius up to 60 degrees. While doing normal stuff, like being on the Internet without watching videos, it can peak at 70 degrees. I've tried to...

So I finally got my radiator mounted last night, when I moved onto to installing the brackets, however I made a mistake and accidentally installed it the wrong way. Now that both brackets are in, how can I pry it out? Keep in mind I’m talking about putting the brackets onto the CPU Pump, and...

Hi there! I have Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB And when I run UserBenchmark, these are the results: 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (23rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled. Bench: 80% Very good I...

I wrote an iso of fedora in it.

So right now I'm planning out my next PC build, and I started wondering, does it matter if I use 4x 4 GB 3200 MHz RAM sticks over 2x 8 GB 3200 MHz RAM sticks? The motherboard it's going to be used on is the Asus maximus X Code with a Intel I5-8600k.

Hi wondering if it'll be alright to have a i5 8600k with a gtx 1080ti for gaming on ultrawide 1440p. And would there be noticeable difference between the two at this resolution?

I tried to stress test my 7700k that is cooled with a nh-d15. The test peaked at 72 C and eventually failed. It is not overclocked.

Just wondering what I need to do exactly to make the switch from my R9 390 to a Asus - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Strix. I know I need to uninstall amd drivers I would just like help and exact steps of what to do so I don't break anything, and maybe the drivers I need to install on nvidia's side!

So,I'm trying to record a game called platypus,but I have a problem....the game looks good and all,but once I take a look at the recording,this is what I see:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OornHFjKN0g It looks very glitchy,and I would like to find out how to fix this!(I am using bandicam to...

Hi can my laptop run batman arkham origins without a graphics card my laptop's specs are 2.20GHz processor intel 2GB RAM no graphics card....will it work???

Thanks, this has been solved.

Hello, I want to buy a monitor for programming, video-games, movies, 3D modelling, photoshop. etc. (all rage of activities, but slightly more programming and video games), and right now I have two choices. Samsung CF390 -...

Hey Tomshardware community. Im currently experiencing some issues with my comp when playing games like pubg and destiny 2 (beta) as well as League but it experiences a different issue. When playing League of Legends my game will occasionally freeze but alt tabbing out and in will solve the...

I wanted to get a 6700k or 7700k but coffee lake is right around the corner offering 6 core 12 thread cpus as consumer i7's what should I do?

Hi, Does the Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO fit an µATX motherboard? I want to build a new pc and I was wondering if an µatx mobo can fit a ATX cooler like the TX3 EVO. Can someone help me :p. I would appreciate it. I really want to start odering parts soon! Kind regards, Mylan.

Hi, I have a i7 4790k and I have GIGABYTE GA-B85M-HD3 MB. I want to overclock my i7 to 4.4. Can I do that on my motherboard? Thanks.

WIN 10 64 XPS 8500 Intel i7-3770 AMD Radeon HD 7800 (RAM)16.0 GB C:111 GB D:177 TB Folks, attempting to install a pre-registered creative writing program I am met with the below error code which has me baffled. I don't know whether this is software based or something related to my new rig...

Finally got the AMD Blackbox FX 8350 on sale for $89.99 delivered from Monoprice.com. I am having a terrible time trying to seat the heatsink fan. I'm is my 60s and have short stubby fingers. Taking the old AMD FX 4100 out was a no brainer, of course. For the life of me I can't get both...

In addition to the company's plans to build an AI supercomputer with 24 Nvidia DGX-1 systems, Fujitsu also plans to produce an AI processor delivering more than ten times the performance per watt than the competition by 2018. Fujitsu's 'DLU' AI Processor Promises 10x The Performance Of 'The...

But when i enter games it uses the intel HD intergrated graphics so i went to the nvidia control panel but it says " NVIDIA Settings are not available. You are not currently using a display attached to an NVIDIA GPU" so i searched the web and tried uninstalling my nvidia drivers and so on but it...

Hi guys. I need to buy a monitor so I was wondering if I should opt for a 4K instead of a 2K. Here my configuration: -ASUS ROG STRIX Z270E Gaming -i7 7700k 4.2ghz -ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080ti 11GB -G.skils Ripjaws 16GB 3000mhz CL15 What do you think? Should i risk with a 4K monitor? Thanks...

I have recently built my first PC, and have found myself with a dual monitor setup. One is a tv screen technically, but ive connected it with HDMI and im looking to use it for TV and streaming games. Problem is, the audio really only wants to come through one source at a time. I have extended...

Recently my graphics card has been malfunctioning. my screen will just go from whatever I was doing to a solid grey white color. Sometimes it happens 15 seconds after I turn my PC on and sometimes 15 min. A lot of time before it shuts off the screen will go black then come back on with a message...

Hi all, I purchased parts and assembled my own gaming PC a month ago. Everything was fine until two days ago, where the PC went to sleep after being inactive and then I tried to wake it up but the screen just stayed black. I turned it off and on at the power button to find that my graphics...

I have an Asus CM1745 with an AMD A8-5500 processor and an Asus F2A85-M motherboard. the graphics are integrated. now, i want to play this new game called player unknown battlegrounds but im sure i cant run it with my current pc. i wanted to see if i can upgrade my processor to an i5-6500, the...

I'm in a deep dilemma right now confused which one of these gaming/hacking laptop is better :- 1.)...

Bascially my cpu is running at 4,2 which means it overheats however the performance is great (ingame at 80-85c). However, if I change it by setting my bios to defualt the core speed goes down to 2,4 which does not overheat my cpu but instead gives me bad performance. I was trying to find out if...

What is the max voltage I should use with my Corsair H105 cooler? I'm thinking 1.35v should be max but I've been pumping 1.5v through the chip trying to get 4.5GHz. It's not stable at all at 4.5GHz or 4.4GHz. Doesn't matter what settings I use either I just can not get it stable. There was a...

Alright so I have been doing lots of tweeks for hours and hours overclocking my R9 380 4GB the Sapphire version, finally I was able to overclock the card by 10% (for both the GPU core and memory), before overclocking the card's temperature was getting maximum to 77-79 degrees celsius , sometimes...