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Good evening to all who come across this, So i have been stumped for the last 24 hours. bought myself an RX 480 which i personally saw working and everything was fine (craigslist purchase). brought it home to install into my PC and im not getting anything on my display natively through the...

My monitor randomly goes black for 2-3 seconds (doesn;t switch off) just goes black then comes back I am thinking its the Display Port I am running an Acer Predator XB1 27'' 1ms GSync monitor 2k, I want retain that, but not sure if its the cable. my GPU or something else can somebody help? the...

As a gamer, a good internet with a low ping is really essential and necessary to me. There is a certain game that I play though in which I get a medium to high ping. In this game a few months ago I used to have a low ping of 60ms (The game is located in Sweden) since I'm not too far from Sweden...

I'm using AI Suite 3 to OC my PC and before I did a fresh install of Windows 10, AI Suite 3 OC'd my 4690k from 3.5GHz to 4.5Ghz. Since my fresh install of Windows 10 it will only (using auto settings) go up to 3.9GHz. I tried upping the BCLK from 100MHz to 125MHz which got me to 4.5GHz and my...

Hi all, I have 3 instances of "wmiprvse.exe" running in Task Manager they all link back to win/system32/wbem Is this right ? Thanks for the help.

hi people would a E8500 GT9600 (1gb GT) and 5gb ram (ddr2) do me good on low/med settings CSGO? 720p/600p im on a super tight budget and a couple friends recommended this cpu to me (i already got the GPU) thanks in advance

So, my son has this particular headset, sent as a gift by my brother. It's a wired USB unit, and it's over a year old, possibly two years It was absolutely trouble-free on my son's previous PC, and even on his current one (Dell XPS 8910, purchased less than a year ago) up to last Saturday...

I recently upgraded my pc and it won't start up unless I unplug everything in the back of my pc except the power cord. I can start it up only then. I also unplugged the pwr_switch on the motherboard, and touched the 2 prongs with a metal screwdriver to start it up, but it still only works when...

Hello I have a build but I am new to all this and I don't know if everything will fit in a case: CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 Mobo: ASRock AB350M Socket AM4 AMD B350 DDR4 SATA3&USB3.0 M.2 MicroATX Motherboard Ram: Viper patriot 2888Mhz 2x4GB GPU: Asus 1050ti 4gb HDD & SDD: Kingston 120GB and Seagate...

Which PC Should i choose for this...? The only few games i might get is Minecraft and Ark...? Minecraft i want to be ablr to run with a shader pack... could you reccomende one because idk. 1-CyberPowerPC - Gamer Ultra Desktop - AMD FX-6300 - 8GB Memory - AMD Radeon RX 560 - 1TB Hard Drive -...

I bought gpu and found out that the bios had been change yet I don't have original bios with me as well as the seller lost the original bios.. any idea I can restore back original bios?

Hi, im looking to upgrade my pc with a new cpu and mobo. I need them to work together and be future proof for the next few years. Please give me some cpu and mobo recommendations and why. Im saving money so price shouldnt be a problem. I just need it to run fast for games and graphical rendering...

An entire bowl of cereal with milk just went all over laptop as my (makeshift) desk collapsed on me. It immediately turned off and me being ignorant towards these things kept trying to power it back on after cleaning the outside of it off. Anyway I need to go out and get tools to open it up in...

Hey guys I am looking at an alienware 18 on eBay that’s has a fault but does work here is the listing and info FAULTY Alienware 18 Laptop 16GB Ram i7 4700MQ, 512GB SSD, twin Nvidia GTX 765M's For Spares Or Repair. The fault is that when the laptop is cold and turned on, the screen remains...

Under a couple of weeks ago I made a thread about some random sporadic artifacts (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3634591/artifacts-browsing.html) and the answer I was given seemed to had fix my problems until today. Ordered a new headset today, turned on the pc, installed its drivers...

So I’m averaging around 45-60 fps on ultra in battlefield 1 with my specs which is weird because the benchmarks say you can play it no problem at a constant 60fps+. My CPU temps go to around 79-86c so I could that be the problem?

I'm looking for a new build, trying to completely upgrade from my previous composition. I plan on using it for games such as PUBG, League, etc. Nothing too demanding, but I will also be using dual monitors. My budget is $500-$650, before shipping. Overclocking maybe, but I generally want the PC...

CPU)AMD A8-9600 Quad Core APU (3.1GHz) & Radeon™ R7 Graphics RAM)4GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2133MHz (1 x 4GB Graphics Card2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1050 - DVI, HDMI, DP Disk1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 32MB CACHE MotherboardASUS® PRIME A320M-K: Micro-ATX, AM4, USB...

Greetings! My system has the following specs: CPU - i5 6600k (no overclocking) Motherboard - Asus Z170-A RAM - 16 GB DDR4 HyperX Savage 2400MHz GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW Storage (SSD) - Samsung 850 Evo 250 GB Storage (HDD) - Western Digital Blue 7200rpm 1TB Storage (HDD) - Seagate 7200rpm...

Hello guys thank you for stopping by and trying to help me sorry for my * up english and the thing is my pc isnt running well as it used to when i first got it (its like 3-4 months old) my pc components are gtx 1060 ryzen 3 1300x 8gb ram hyperx fury 2400mhz once I failed to overclock and my fan...

Hi! Can you suggest an upgrade for my old pc? I plan to upgrade my i3 2nd gen and graphics card. I will use it for gaming. Thanks!

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop with a 1tb HDD. I also have a Dell Inspiron laptop with a 120gb SSD. Both of these have windows 10 installed on them. When I put the SSD into the Toshiba laptop, the BIOS recognizes it with the correct name, brand, and size. Although, when I boot into it, it...

Hey guys, i recently bought a gt 1030 for a budget gaming PC (don't say that its horrible as i have played some nice games on it) but will overclocking it void my warranty? It is the GALAX gt 1030 EXOC white but i will only be changing the core and memory clock. I won't be touching voltages.

I know it won't post... but will at least show any signs of life? I'm telling because the Pc isn't doing anything. I mostly want to know if the PSU/mobo/case is working...

A year ago this pc couldn't start due to a Hard-drive issue, now we put in a new hard-drive and wanted to install windows 10 on it, but this PC couldn't "find" the hard-drive. Instead we pulled out the hard-drives of another computer and plugged in the new hard-drive to see if the hard-drive...

New builder here. ASRock ab350 k4 Mobo Ryzen 3 1300x 3.5ghz Teamgroup elite plus 4gb ram 500w psu Gtx760 GPU When I try to power on I get no display and only my CPU fan rotates a half a turn. Then I just have red LEDs on the board itself near the pci-e port slowly flashing. I'm at a loss for...

Hello there :) PICs : https://imgur.com/a/5ksFB i got the Dell Precision T7500 3 years ago and i got some upgrades on it as u see in the Pics.. Now i got a problem in my ram usage , as mentioned in the Pics the Ram is totally lost on Chrome and it's new problem as i was opening the same amount...

About 3 months ago I built my first pc. And I heard that memory frequency makes Ryzen run a lot better so I tried using the XMP/D.O.C.P. (asus version of XMP) profile but it didn't work. My computer just tried booting a few times and then I had to reset what I had changed. And I don't know what...

I have a yamaha RX-A2070 reciever with 7.2.4 surround (1 center, 2front, 2 surround, 2 surround back / 2 sub / 4 ceiling) Now I'm getting a gaming laptop but I want to be able to also hook my laptop up to my reciever and reap the benifts of the full 7.1 surround. So my question is.... if i...

I plan on getting a sshd soon (2tb Firecuda gaming drive) and i have my windows 10 on a SUPER slow old Xbox 360 gen one laptop style drive, Is there any way i can transfer windows over when i get the SSHD or maybe just remove the old drive and reinstall windows and use the same key?

Hello, so I've been getting this "checking disk" messages when booting the Laptop, when I waited for it (instead of click on the 'click any button to continue without checking disk') nothing happens. I leave the laptop but nothing happens. Then I realized that something is wrong when I try to...

I would like to setup a local server for backing up files (photos, documents, etc.) that would also be used for automatic phone backups over wifi (using iTunes). My original plan was putting together an inexpensive PC using a motherboard with integrated processor, connected to a SSD running...

I have a 1080ti and i have a I7-6700k do you think this will bottleneck it and if i were to upgrade to a I7-7700k would it benefit the performance noticeably or should i stick to my current?

I have very less space left on my local disk C but have more than a 100 gigs unallocated. I wanna know how allocate that to my C drive.

Hi I am a amateur when it comes to building pcs but its something that always interested me so I had ago about 2months ago: I have a Asus crosshair vi hero motherboard and a MSI 1080 gpu. I installed windows on this M.2 drive...

Recently I have begun using a new wireless usb adapter on a new computer that it came with. Occasionally when I open websites, it disconnects the connection and the router stops connecting to all of the devices it's connected with. It takes about couple minutes, then the internet would resume...

Hey all! I'm having an issue where my computer is restarting multiple times per day, and I can't figure it out! It started happening after I did multiple things, so I'm unsure which is the culprit. Things I did before the issue started occuring: ■ 1. I received a windows update, and preformed...

I have $568, I don't mind spending more but I would like to limit the price. I already have a GPU, GTX 960 4 gb suggest another one if it's better and doesn't exceed the limit too much. I would like to have an i7 CPU. SSD is a must. My main objective is to be able to run Rust, my rig is old and...

I dont know what is the reason of this problem !! It is happening today only , When i start a game , the game starts and after playing 5-10 minutes the screen goes black permanently and i can hear the sound of the game for like 30 seconds then stops and if i am in discord i can steam talk to my...

I have a 2011 gaming PC Intel Core i7-2600K . Samsung SSD 850 Evo 250 GB. Asus ML238H Full HD monitor (decent but expecting a better monitor in future) Asus P8Z68 V-Pro Mobo (USB ports do not work well.. sometimes they work, sometimes they don't). (USb 3.0 ports are jittery and fail to...