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My PC With A Gigabyte Motherboard and New GPU and I5 lga-1155 cpu and 500 watt PSU Will restart when starting any program or sometimes when installing drivers It also occasionally restarts without this GPU and Have been searching into this for a couple months with no success in fixing the issue...

I'm assuming this will have an SSD HD? If so, will it be upgradeable? Also, Battery life info please.

I just did a clean install of windows 10 after new motherboard cpu and ram. After the express settings it go's into a loop of restatting. I already turned it off and on again and I can get into the bios but I have no clue what to do from there. I highly doubt it's the hdd. Please help

Hi everyone. I just finished building my pc this morning and I am having trouble hooking up the case LED and switch pins. I had them thrown in at random earlier and everything was working except the power switch led so I went back and redid everything. Now I can't get anything to work and my PC...

Hi all, Looking for some input. Recently purchased the 1080TI, I noticed when at idle and doing nothing gpu intensive like surfing, or just waking the PC from sleep mode it sits above 50 degrees. Little concerned, is this normal. From reading the forums most seem to be in the 30s at idle...

hello, I'm looking to buy a gaming laptop and I'm kinda lost.... my current setup is just playing on the bed while my cooling pad is sitting on me and it's pretty comfortable, I am also unable to play otherwise(no table or space to get one). my laptop right now is lenovo y50-70 and.... it became...

I have 2 home built computers one started shutting off while Heavy gaming (i.e. gta, overwatch on high settings) I determined the issue was the psu by using a second one of the exact same psu that I had in my second computer and it no longer shut off so I went and got a psu from best buy and...

So my laptop took a hit from a full glass of water. The keyboard and battery are dead, but the laptop otherwise seems functional. Well, sort of. For some reason the CPU is maxed out at 800MHz. It is an Intel i5-2520M in a Dell Precision M6600. I did find a workaround, but it's a pain. I found a...

After I did a hard reboot on my Dell Inspiron i7R laptop it would not boot up normally to the startup screen. The fan is blowing, the disk is spinning, the led lights are on for the battery and AC adapter, but the screen is black and there is a continual series of five clicks with a one-second...

I found a nice looking PC here on Walmart that's pretty cheap (Only $380!) Link...

Hi, I was recently on a 2 week vacation in Ohio and when I came back my Computer was having some troubles. The PC was fine before the vacation but not anymore. Anyways, when I turn on the PC, and go into Windows, about 10 seconds into it the computer shuts off. I turn it on again and while I'm...

I recently built a new PC and accidently installed a 32-bit Windows 10 version instead of a 64-bit (which is supported by my system). But i think i selected fast boot on my BIOS at first startup and therefor i can't access my BIOS because my keyboard doesn't get powered until Windows 10 is...

Hi I am looking to buy a used pc in Australia and I found one for 500 Aud, and it has a fx 6300. I was wondering if it would be good still. By the way it had a gtx 970 4gb 8gb ram 1tb hdd and don't know motherboard. So the question is, is the fx 6300 still good for gaming

There's a lot of older posts mentioning that SLI/crossfire will be needed to run multiple monitors for gaming. Given that GPUs are getting more powerful, how many GPUs will be needed to run respectively 2 or 3 monitors, in 1080p gaming? I will be using a GTX 980.

So this morning I had a problem with my case USBs. It was giving me an error and I had to unplug my USB from my motherboard. Now I have an even bigger problem. When I plug my HDMI cable into my graphics card it won't display any picture. The cable is fine and it works with the motherboard...

I have a gigabyte z170m-d3h motherboard with pcie gen 3 slots. I want to get a Samsung 960 evo ssd or it's sucessor. I am assuming the 970 evo (or whatever the next gen would be called) would be using pcie 4. Would I see any significant benefit from waiting for the next generation even though I...

So I have a Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 GHz with a pretty bad video card(Radeon X300SE), and I've been looking forward to upgrading the GPU to a GTX 1050. And upgrading the PSU to a CoolerMaster MasterWatt Lite 500W so it can keep up with the 1050's load. Once I get a better PC (still a long time from...

Hello guys, are there any advantages if i go for a B250M Mobo & 2x4gb RAM instead of H110M Mobo & 1x8GB for my G4560 Build in terms of FPS etc.?

Hello i have a fairly small case with the room in side being L: 12 W: 7 H: 14 and i need a fan that will work with the i7-7700k and fit in my case i am not sure what else you need to know im new at this but my motherboard is a ASRock Motherboard Motherboards Z270M PRO4 People are asking for...

Hello everyone! I made a budget gaming build and was wondering which RX470 would be best? I've seen some which have dual fans which go off when they're not required to run, which is nice, so I would like an overall best version, or at least a good recommendation regarding...

I would greatly appreciate any advice on repairing my lovely vintage Mission 752 Loudspeakers on ebay. I bought a 2nd hand amp to drive them but after a few days it died. I then bought a new amp which started to switch itself off intermittently when driving them. so bought a multi-meter to...

hello everybody !! i have ASUS R9 290 Direct cu II oc core i5 3570k 8 gigs of corsair asrock z77 extreme 4 850 watt xfx PRO850 seagate firecuda SSHD as mentioned i get a painful fps drop in all games that i play now ( with gpu usage drops to 50s 40s and sometime 0 ) i play at 1080p bf4...

Hi all! So news that will blow you mind!: The AMD fx 9590........ Is garbage! yayyyyyyyy the thing overheats like a toaster and many are telling me the thing is bottlenecking my GTX 970 hard. However with a pretty awesome motherboard im afraid switching to intel sadly isn't really an option...

I have a major dilemma. I need to buy a new gaming laptop (after my Mom broke my like-new Gaming Laptop I purchased in 2010. Don't ask how she broke it. I just want to forget one of the most expensive things I owned got ruined!). So I hate Windows 10 and all the gaming laptops come with it...

Hello. Will regular ps4 look terrible on 4k TV? Any lags, delay ? Or it will work fine? TV is Philips "43pus6101"

So, I've got an Acer switch 10. It runs windows 8, although, I cannot get past a bluescreen. When turning the laptop on, after the Acer logo windows gives the bluescreen error : 0xc0000142 for one second. after that it restarts and it says "a requiered device isn't connected or can't be...

Hi. I'm new to the forum. I have a damaged Rampage III Extreme mother board which I want to repair. The problem is a dent on the back side which broke 4 tracks. I'm feel able to repair the tracks, but I need a detailed picture of the zone, because it's not clear the correct direction of each...

When phones are working on getting stronger, TV displays can never touched and are a nightmare to clean and so easy to scratch. Why don't they put gorilla glass or something on them and have the screen underneath like phones do? Or maybe they already do? IDK Same for laptops (I don't know what...

Start up repair w/o user ID . Can't get into do to stuck screen from installing windows 10

Hey everyone! I recently built a PC and seem to be having a problem with the PSU or video card heat I think. The system will randomly go into sleep mode in Windows 10. This is a new build and at first I was getting random system reboots with my new video card nearly constantly with a few stable...

I currently have internet speeds of 330 down / 20 up. My provider is offering an upgrade to 1000 / 100 for a nominal increase, which I was seriously considering because I'd like to download games faster. However, someone I know told me that Steam limits downloads to 300 mbps, regardless if...

Laptop Dell Latitude E6520 8gb ddr3 ram, I5 2.4ghz, 250gb hdd, 512 nvidia nvs4200m(some say it's 1gb but most say it's 512, anyways a crappy videocard), Metal case, Lifetime warranty (refurbished laptop) 356.51(it has a discount), VS Lenovo 15.6'' IdeaPad 100 BD 4gb ddr3 ram, I3...

So yeah, I'm going to be building my dream setup here next year as I'm moving in together with my girlfriend. I was wondering if my planned pc build would be able to run a 1440p monitor for gaming and 2 1080p for work and streaming. My planned pc specs: I7 6700k @ 4.4Ghz 16 gb 3000Mhz ddr4...

I was having a party and some1 dropped beer in my pc, it was turned on and when the can was dropped, the beer went through the vents on top of the tower, it was spilled over the vga, the computer stopped working at once, i unplugged it and tried to clean it as much as i could. 24 hours after...

ı just entered a live chat with supprot and the kept saying that ı need to send them the cd key. cd doesnt work and ı lost the box itself. is there a way for me to fşnd it on my computer? askng this because for some reason on my main and alt acocunt it says that ı need to upgrade my copy of sc2...

I am currently running on an r9 290, i5 3570k, 8 gb of ram (likely to up to 16 soon). I want to upgrade my cpu because i want to be able to run arma 3, and fallout 4 at a good framerate (as well as have more consistent fps in csgo). Please don't respond with that i shouldnt upgrade because i5...

Dad was looking for some laptops and I he asked me to help with a choice between two. Both are from JB HI FI and are in Australian Dollars (AUD). #1) Acer Aspire ES1-531-P8NJ 15.6" Notebook (Refurbished) $398 #2) Acer Aspire One AO1-431-C49D 14" Notebook $298 Links for both #1)...

Hi tomshardware! I just installed a 4930k and asus rampage iv in my computer. I upgraded from a 3570k and asus z77lk. When I booted my system up, it said that an OS did not exist on my ssd. Windows 10 is on my ssd, but it will not boot. I then installed windows 8 on the same ssd, making sure to...

I have a Dell laptop which was purchased in 2011. It has Pentium Dual Core T4500(2.30GHz,800MHz,1MB) and 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel and graphics is Intel GMA 4500MHD. I upgraded my memory to 8GB. I want to run Zwift, a cycling game, with minimum requirements of Intel Core 2 Duo processor and...

I've done some research on building my first gaming PC and I've come to the conclusion of starting with a GTX 1080 and i5 6600k. I'm still educating myself as of now so I'm asking if you guys could help me out on picking the rest of the components and if the CPU and GPU would be a good combo for...