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Hey guys. I recently got a brand new laptop, with pretty acceptable specs for general college use, but I wanted one that I could also use for some light gaming, like league of legends, cs:go, and so on. It's an ASUS VivoBook, with a Ryzen 5 3500U (Vega 8 Graphics), with 8Gb of RAM and a 256Gb...

I have a pretty typical self-built PC; i7 6700k, GTX 1070, an Asus Z170-PRO motherboard and two 8GB sticks of HyperX DDR4 RAM. Yesterday I encountered some strange display glitches as well as my browser tabs/extensions dying. Originally I thought it may have been caused by the graphics card...

Hello,i have cooler master mwe 500w(http://www.coolermaster.com/powersupply/mwe-series/mwe-500/) got only PCI-e 6+2 Pin and gtx 1660 ti required 8x1 will it work?

Hello I'm looking for advice on upgrading my motherboard, cpu and memory for gaming. I'm not looking to spend more than $800. Currently one channel on my mobo doesn't recognize ram so I'm only able to run 12gb. Case: Cooler master HAFX CPU: Intel I7 930 2.80GHz Mobo: ASUS P6X58D Premium...

VideoCardz's sources confirmed that Nvidia is indeed working on a GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card for release in late March. Read more here. ZHIYE LIU @zhiyeliu Zhiye Liu is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He covers CPU, GPU and Motherboard news.

Hi guys, so recently my games start crashing. The game freezes, I getting a black screen than the game crashes. PC Specs: -Radeon RX 570 Series (Newest driver) -AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (6x something lol) -126GB SSD (Windows booted) -1TB -2x4GB Ram DDR4 I did a Mem Test (0 errors) and a GPU stress test...

I need recommendations on good cube pc case, and under $100 please.

I was wondering if anyone has any tips or instructions for overclocking an R5 2600 on the ASUS Prime X470-Pro motherboard. I've looked through the BIOS tab where the manual says that I can go and overclock it but can't figure out how to go about it. Every video I watch on youtube from channels...

So right now I have the enermax ostrog adv and i was told that it is a horrible case for airflow/cooling. So I am looking to get a case to help improve my airflow.. I can spend around $150. I would like it to be black/red but its really not that important.. Thanks!

Welp I'm on a bad luck streak. I purchased an MSI Z370 SLI Plus with an i5 9600k, 2 8gig sticks or ram and a 750w Gold supernova EVGA PSU. I set everything up properly best I could including putting a heatsink/air cooler on the cpu, and powered it on. It would power om, mobo lights come on, but...

Hello, today i've tried changing the ram of my computer. after that, i've started up the computer, the power button used to make blue light, but it hasn't done anything, and the cpu fan, it keeps stopping and working again n every 5 seconds (feels like the computer keeps restarting). i've looked...

Hello! I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro with an i7-4510U It's quite old and it's been really slow. I've optimized it, reset it, restarted it, ran virus scans but nothing. Would it be possible to replace it with an i7-7700HQ or some other good i7 that will go into the laptop? (if possible I...

So.... Ordered a ssd and mobo cause i had a320 with a r7, ssd arrived first, so i installed windows on it it had issues bringing up a 0xc00000e error alot and stuff but finally got it to work got windows on it and didnt install mobo drivers cause i had the one coming. so now i have the new one...

It can be any price, as long as it works fine with my hardware. Tried after effects, but it was unusable with my current hw. Camtasia is kinda feature lacking. Intel Core I5-2430m @2.40GHz 2c 4t 8gb ddr3 750gb 5400rpm hdd GeForce GT520MX 1gb Windows 10 64 bit

When i click the button to change the profile it lights up for 3 seconds and then goes off so i can not use any of the side buttons and non of the profiles work

Well i'm at a cross roads right now and I can't decide between these two CPU's. Both platforms are supporting for at least one more generation and i think AMD might be supporting two more on the AM4 socket. I have a high opinion of both CPU's and think either would perform well. I like the idea...

Hello, im trying to put together a decent computer for school and gaming but im not sure if these parts will go with each other. So far for parts i have a PSU and a GPU. Here are the parts i wish to buy: Case: Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-05 CC-9011138-WW Black Steel, Plastic, Acrylic ATX Mid...

I have a plan to buy this SSD and use it as a dedicated Windows drive. https://www.wdc.com/products/internal-ssd/wd-green-ssd.html - 120GB variant What's the TBW value of this SSD? It only provides reliability as MTTF - up to 1M hours. But I want to know the exact specs like P/E cycle limit...

I installed this expansion card with 4 dedicated USB 3.0 channels at approximately 5 Gbps per channel for use in an Oculus Rift room-scale setup. After installation however my idle temps have shot up from around ~30 C to approximately ~70 C reaching a max of 100 C on boot. I also have an AIO...

I am looking for a headset for my gaming setup but I am looking for more of a open back or semi open back headphones audiophile headphones, for headphones I mainly look for slightly bassy headphones my old gaming headphones were razer kraken 7.1 v2 which were very bassy but I want something with...

i have this HyperX Fury Black 8GB 2133MHz CL14 DDR4 2x will it work/compatible with Gigabyte H310M-H Mobo- https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07BKJV298/ref=gno_cart_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A25FKCIM7JR4LZ Ram that i have now-...

Hello everyone. I am currently searching for a gaming pc for moderate gaming. I have searched brand names like the dell inspiron and HP gaming desktops, used custom built pcs, and have also toyed with the idea of building my own. I'm weighing the pros and cons but would like some input. I am...

Hi, I'm planning to buy budget gaming monitor with following requirements: *Lower response time(<5ms) *Display port For the budget and my requirements I found Acer KG251QF gaming monitor. It has a display port and 1ms response time. So far so good. But I found out that this specific monitor...

I recently built a brand new PC for myself, and thinking 2x4 3000mhz RAM would be enough. Turns out it isnt enough for me and I purchased 2x8 3000mhz RAM. I'm wondering if I should just have the 2x8 sticks in and take out the 2x4 sticks, or have the 2x8 sticks in and also the 2x4 sticks in for...

Hello! Today I was cleaning my room and noticed something in my power supply. I have this CX750 power supply for like 4 or so months and didn't have any kind of problem with it. I noticed this white plastic ( PICTURE OF THE WHITE PLASTIC https://imgur.com/a/1yThBLd) that seems to have melted. I...

I just moved into a brand new apartment complex and noticed that I have 3 separate coax+ethernet outlets around the apartment. My modem is in the office and the current set-up is coax->modem->router->computer in one room but I want to run a hard line network connection to my xbox due to poor...

Hello, My laptop starts only in safe mode, then all screen is in artifacts. When desktop is loaded, if I press something, pc crashes to a white screen Currently I am not able to turn on the pc at all It just shows a black screen and stays lack that

HI, I'm planning to upgrade my pc but I dont know what to do. My pc: CPU - Intel core i5 3470s Motherboard - gigabyte h61m-s2pv rev 2.2 GPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2GB GDDR5 RAM - 2 x 4GB DDR3 PSU - 550w Options: 1.upgrade the GPU - a.1060 3g - b.1060 6g - c.whatever you think...

hello everyone I recently replaced my pc with a new build. i turned my old pc into a server. up until today i had a radeon 7750 ddr3 video card installed in the old pc. i was using the intel 8700k built in graphics on the new pc but I was informed my old card would be better than the built...

Hey, everyone. Been having an odd series of problems that started with an event last October. A glitch while trying to get an online game going with a friend resulted in a full-system lockup, after which I could reach the POST beep but Windows wouldn't load. Nothing worked short of a full OS...

September last year I built this PC. Specs: Ryzen5 1400 @ 3.7Ghz MSI GTX 1060 6gb 8gb DDR4 2400 500w PSU 1tb HDD 256gb SSD After I first built this I was achieving the fps you should get on a beast like this. However recently my fps has been very low on all my games and I am clueless as to...

After 3 days of troubleshooting, I've finally decided to bite the bullet and make a forum post in a last-ditch effort to find some solution. After I install Nvidia's drivers (more accurately sometime during the install), the screen just goes black. The computer is still running (fan lights on...

So i am planning on buying new AMD A10-6800K Quad-Core and GTX 1050Ti as usual. I am curious that both two might go on a bottlenecking situation and make lags or unnecessary shut-downs. Will this GPU bottleneck my CPU? My Motherboard (Just in case you wanna know it for helping)...

My Pcs specs are: Cpu: Intel Pentium G340 3.10Ghz (3mb cache) Ram: 4gb Graphics: Intel GMA 4400 Hardrive: 1TB Operating system: windows 8.1, i mainly want to play Cs:go on this pc but the maximum fps i receive is 30, i wanted to know if there are any ways to improve or boost the performance of...

hi there!i have my personal laptop which has 8gb ram i5 7th generation and has memory which can be expanded upto 1 tb.But when i run gta 5 on laptop it hangs and starts getting heated.please tell me why and tell me how can i run gta 5 smoothly

Hello everybody! Let me give you some context first I am a student currently in Coventry and I am looking to build my first PC since 2004 (used laptops in the meantime) I am looking to spend about 400£-500£ I will be using the PC for casual gaming (Dota 2, F.O. 4, P.U.B.G., BF 1/4, GTA V etc.)...

This would mostly be for college work. There's way too much junk on just what a good pc contains that I find it all kinda overwhelming. Regardless, I'm not looking for a monster. I want the pc to have a focus on 3D animation, 3D rendering and VFX (visual effects) aspects, with the gaming not...

So I updated the BIOS on my pc and it was successful but it gave me a message. It reads.. An M.2 PCIE device has been detected in the M.2_2 socket. PCIE bandwidth on the M.2_2 socket can be set to X2 or X4. Default X2 configuration shares bandwidth on the SATA_56 ports. To improve performance...

So i setup my external HDD with bluray Rips via my laptop. Made folders for each movie to find them easier and Changed the folder icon to the DVD cover image. When i plug the HDD into my r7000 router via ready share the folder image doesn't populate. Ive tried pulling the media server with my...

I'm looking to upgrade my GPU for gaming a bit. I was going to crossfire this card with a twin, but the prices seem to have gone quite high. I'm curious to know if AMD cards are inflated due to mining again, and if so if it might not be a good time to upgrade. Anyone care to comment? If it is a...