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After upgrading my PC and putting everything into it's new case it seems to be working, except the RAM. I had all 4 RAM sticks in my MOBO when I booted up for the first time and just got a black screen. I tried taking 2 sticks out and it seemed to boot up normally. Here is my new parts list...

Hello! I'm a big console guy trying to rebuild an old PC from my high school days with XP gaming in mind. This PC was originally built back in the early to mid 2000's when I was barely in High School. My stepdad bought all the pieces for this PC and gifted them to me for Christmas back then and...

Hi! I obtained recently a new dedicated graphics card to see it can fix my problem (GTX 1650 GDDR5), pc restarts everytime I launch a game that pushes the graphics (League,CSGO,Minecraft -> restarts, Terraria -> doesnt restart), made a list of what could be possibly be wrong (disabled...

Hello After playing few hours in Assetto Corsa i decided to make some car in Blender on youtube i saw tons of videos but every video had more than 1 hours some Quick tips how to learn it or some videos that have less than 1 hour ?

I want to update my bios since it need to be updated, the current bios version i have right now is Insyde F.03 From 4/19/2012

I upgraded my pc last year so it could handle Oculus Rift. Then they stopped selling them. Now I'm having one gifted to me, and I need to order additional USB 3.0 ports. I'm not sure how I go about knowing what is compatible with my pc? Any help appreciated. I don't have any problem installing...

How do you add an HDD on a prebuilt system that uses an SDD? (Assuming that there are no drive brackets or drive cages.) What do I need? Where do I find drive cages, drive brackets, and SATA cables? Also, if you are wondering, I am referring to a Seagate BarraCuda 2 TB HDD. I can't find good...

I don't know if this has been done before, but since google search returns are nihil, I am just compiling on the things that I know from experience and my research that I have casually done for the past few years. Feel free to disagree with me, I am always looking for inputs and am always ready...

so this dsl is not working and i wanted to know how to set p the wires this particular way didn't work(the one in the image) a link to the image: View: https://imgur.com/a/euvHWb6

Hey guys I’m trying to upgrade this pre built gaming pc I got it’s a skytech archangel with a 1050ti in it i have a MSI a320m pro -vd plus mother board it seems to be running really slow when I’m playing games there is lots of lag and I’m wondering what I can to to this pc to make it run faster...

I saw a lot of post about HPET and I wonder if I can disable it to improve my gaming experiences further more, but I get stuck at how to disable it, there's a method that use CMD and another using Device Manager, but the simplest method I found is in the BIOS, I don't know if disable in the BIOS...

Hello I have a MINING RIG with 8 GPU & ASROCK H110 Motherboard, 4gb Ram, and hardrive is kind of Ram 248gb stuck on the motherboard (no Sata connection)... I need to flash a Linux OS with baleena etcher into the SSD, I only have a closed Notebook, I tought from a USB key, but I dont know how to...

Hey, I have posted images to imgur for reference View: https://imgur.com/a/WrdJYYd I have a few question's that the community might be able to help me with. First being my loop. I'm a greenhorn when it comes to this fancy water/liquid cooling stuff lol. With that said I was wondering...

These fans have two cables attached. One is the 4-pin cable for power, and this was connected with a splitter. Both fans operate normally. Another connector is a 4 pin connector with a blocked 3rd pin. These are what Fractal calls "chained connectors."...

I have quite a old motherboard but heard that you can format your drives in raid 0 through windows 10 but when i go to do it i can only see one of my SSD's when i have 2 and and HDD am i missing something or should i just do it through my bios?

Hi all, Currently looking for a Micro-ATX case. I'm looking to spend as little as possible to meet the below criteria: - Be smaller than a regular ATX case. - Have a top grill (so I can place 2 fans), side grill (so I can place 1 fan), and front grill (so that I can place 1 fan), and a back...

So I have two monitors, one at 1920x1080 and the other at 1280x1024. I am trying to use NVIDIA custom resolutions to set the latter to a resolution of 1920x1080. However, whenever I do this, I get huge bars on the top and bottom. With the huge bars the settings are - Display Mode...

I have a ozone rage 7hx 7.1 gaming headset.This headset comes with a microphone that I can remove if I want.Today I turned the mic off and it is not coming back on even though I tried several times and restarted the pc.When I try to update the drivers to see if it would fix it, the driver...

One day I was randomly getting big lag spikes in games I was playing like gta or fortnite and I looked up what was wrong and people were saying I had a virus. Which was not true I checked for one and I could not find anything I have never seen before. I was looking everywhere for an answer and I...

I bought a headset only to find out that it uses two jacks is there any way for me to connect these headphones to my ps4.

Which set-up would be better? i7-6700k with MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6gb Or i7-6800k with EVGA GTX 1060 SSC 6gb Thanks!

Hi I try to dowload a movie or a video but when I try to dowload it I use upload speed and not the dowload speed why

Hi, im getting an Samsung 860 evo ssd and I dont know if im going with a 500gb one or 1tb one. Since the prices for the 1tb one is so high compared to the 500gb one I wonder if I can only transfer my OS and specific games from my hdd to the ssd. My hdd currently has 2tb with over 500gb used so...

Hey all, I have been living abroad for a while and have had a cheap office computer, however it has a lot of important files on it, so I brought it's drive back with me when I came home. My plan was to move it into my gaming PC, and either be able to switch back and forth by choosing which...

I was slowly building up the components of a build with pc part picker prior to Christmas, but twith the current 1080ti market going to hell, I'm thinking of just buying a prebuilt. I wanted to pick up an MSI INFINITE X from amazon, but it has been out of stock for a while with no signs of...

I got this pc (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0746NKKVL/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1516637194&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=gaming+pc+1050&dpPl=1&dpID=51%2BfmaWJkyL&ref=plSrch) about a month ago and I’ve been getting random freezes. The mouse is unmovable and the keyboard doesn’t work...

I have been told that when updating to Windows Fall Creator Update it installs a driver that ruins all other drives and crashes steam games. I am convinced of this because when switching to the integrated driver (Intel) the games no longer crash but they work MUCH slower. Heres the problem, From...

There is a similar thread on this topic from Dec 2017 but it won't help me because my network panel is different. I have a home built in 2002 with ethernet jacks in most rooms, but only the one in my office is activated. The residential gateway hub box says "Technology by Greyfox", model no...

My keyboard has no power in any of the usb ports...The mouse has power in all the ports i have tried...I have tried other keyboards with the same result (made sure all keyboards worked with other computers before trying and the did so its not the keyboard itself) Also the mouse has power in all...

Hey guys! Just bought all the parts so i could finally build my ow PC! Problem is, now i put everything together, but it wont post. The light in the motherboard and the watercooling are on, and the PWR led inside og the motherboard is also own. But nothing happens when i Press the start...

I build a gaming pc a few years back with these specs: AMD FX 6300 6 core 3.5 GHz EVGA GeForce GTX 660 8 Gb RAM (2x4) 1 Tb HHD I decided to build a new system, as I had a $580 Best buy credit laying around. (I hate bestbuy, and they have a shitty selection, but that's hard to pass up) This is...

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/VzQZYr thats my build and i was wondering if this particular card would work in it/is a good card to get I cannot find it on pc part picker and I'm having a lot of trouble finding a decent gtx 1060 6gb in stock for a decent price but i found this evga 1060 6gb on...

I have asus laptop x455l that just serviced at shop , now the wifi is not working its only one bar when connected and sometime it got exclamination marks. My phone connect the same network but it just fine have full bar and no problems. I have done reinstall device , troubleshoot , reset bios...

I was getting the gtx 1060 but they said it's not availble now and it wont be for at least a month ! should I get the rx 470 8 gb or the nvidia is worth waiting for ???

Hi im looking for a new CPU, it needs to be the correct series as im running a MSI A78M-E35 Military Class Motherboard and it has to be atleast 6 or more cores, i currently have a AMD A10-6800K 4.10 Ghz quad core and its not good enough, thanks

Is purchasing a water cooling kit worth the prices they're usually at? Anyways I've never worked with water cooling before so I need to know a bit more about it. I've heard bad things about it but also heard good things. Will your CPU last longer with water cooling?

Hi Guys, Current build's specs: Mainboard: Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 Chipset: AMD 880G Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3200MHz Physical Memory: Corsair Vengenance 8192MB DDR3-SDRAM1600 MHz Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4250 Hard Disk: Western Digital WD20EARS (2 TB) Cabinet: CoolerMaster CM 690...

Hello, I have ASRock Z87 Extreme6/ac with i7 4770k and I would like to benefit from PCIe SSDs as a boot drive: - Will it work with my mother board? - How is it best to connect it? I have multiple pci-x slots and would rather use on of the smaller ones toward the end of the mobo if it doesn't...

So I just bought this new GPU, GTX 1060 MSI armor on Christmas. I do no overclock information what's so ever and just play rainbow six siege mad league of legends so no games that would push the GPU to it's limits. Yesterday I was playing siege and my screen turned green/pink and crashed now...

I am planning to buy a GTX 1060 3gb. My pc specs are as: i5-3570 (non-k) 8GB RAM 500W PSU 1440x900p LCD I want to play all modern titles on high to ulta settings. I wanted to go for RX 480 4GB, but then changed my mind because of larger frame time inconsistencies with the 480 vs the 1060. I...