Windows 8

I recently built/upgraded my PC, specs are: Ryzen 2600x Asus Prime X470-pro Team T-Force Nighthawk RGB (on MOBO QVL at 3200mhz) https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/ctZ2FT/team-night-hawk-rgb-16gb-2-x-8gb-ddr4-3200-memory-tf2d416g3200hc16cdc01 With everything on "auto" the RAM clocks itself to...

The issue occurs when playing games, not necessarily under heavy load, but I believe it has always happened when playing games. I could be playing a game for hours multiple days in a row with no issues then suddenly it will shut down and restart, or i could be playing for 5 minutes after...

Hello! I recently purchased a new graphics card, and now I'm buying a 144hz monitor. I'm comparing 4 MSI monitors right now as they are all pretty cheap on Newegg. I'm just wondering what the main differences between them are, and which one is the "best." Thanks! Optix G24C Optix MAG24C Optix...

Im planning to get the zen 2 3400 when it comes out. but 12 threads is more than most games will ever use so for purely gaming should I get the 3400 or 3600?

When I play a game and have Discord up, I use headphones. Every time I play, anybody on my team picks up my voice as well as ALL my game sound. Is there a simple fix for this? I've tried to change/reset Discord voice settings, and nothing. I looked online, nothing. I checked Windows (10) sound...

Hi, I recently purchased a Kingston UV500 120gb SATA 6B/s which advertises speeds of up too 520mb/s read and 500mb/s write and I’m only getting 280mb/s read and 200mb/s read I’m wondering if SATA 3GB/S is half the speed and I’m also wondering if my mother board (ASUS A58M-E) only supports SATA...

My HD is going South on my windows 10 desktop PC. I decided to buy a new one from Amazon. What do I need to do to install it? I have NO desire to go through the hassle of transferring data from my old drive to the new one. I just want to do a fresh install of windows 10 on my new drive. What...

Just built my PC and everything is working beside installing the version 419.35 graphics driver. It says Nvidia installer cannot contunue. This nvida graphics driver is not compatible with this version of windows. I have Windows 10 Pro 64 bit and it's active. I have an EVGA 2080ti FTW3 Ultra...

Hey guys, Recently my laptop's main boot drive crashed which is an Nvme SSD. I didn't knew what exactly went wrong and wanted to see if I can still retrieve data from this ssd. However I have an older Msi mainboard (b85-g43) which doesn't have an nvme port. So I bought a cheap Pci card for an...

Hi, i have an i3 4130, so i will update to i7 4790, my mobo is a H81m-k, so it is really necessary update my bios for install my new cpu. And what are the bios update advantages? Sorry for my bad english

I bought 2x8gb sticks of Corsair ram ( full specs below) and come to find out it snot listed on the compatability for ryzen processor website... the website only shows the C15 version as compatable i have the C16 version. its working but i do have crappy FPS for the system i have could this be...

Hello, topkek! I have a question, and its in the title. (Screw you :D) Anywho, silly intro aside, here is the main stuff. I want to make an 1440p capable build, that can excel in 1080p if its needed, too. (Ryzen 5 2600 + RX Vega 56) So, lets say, if I can get an 1440p 75Hz / 1080p 144hz...

Hello there ! i realised i didnt properly connect some of my tower components and was able to save the OLD tower ! thanks Tomshardware community. Now tho , since i saved some money ... i wonder what would be the best worthwhile upgrade to boost the tower of make it able to sustain a few more...

Hi everybody. Today my pc crashed while i was playing Dota 2. The screen turned white with some stripes and then the pc rebooted, on reboot it showed a black screen with some red stripes and then it showed a screen saying that ther is some trouble booting the pc. The windows doesn't start, it...

My network is almost acting up like when it says "no internet access" except I have access and I'm typing this from my pc right now, however I've been trying to upload a photo to instagram and I can't get it to upload through my pc or phone on the network. When I hover over the connection button...

Hi all and thank you for reading my thread, and any help you may be able to offer. I am currently upgrading my set up and have an issue with monitoring some of the temps, using two pieces of software (HWMonitor and Speedfan) - in particular, the culprit entry is AUXTIN which seems to average...

When I boot my pc everything turns on except the case fans. The rgb on the fans turns on too but they don't spin. The fans are connected to a fan controller build in to the case (I have the sharkoon tg4). The fan controller gets its power from a data cable connected to my 620w psu. According to...

Hi All. I’m a dummy and can’t figure what I need to do. I moved into a new house that is already wired for cat5 threw out the house. The fiber comes into the basement from the outside and the all of the cat 5 runs out to rooms in the house from there. Right now all I have setup is my asus ac68u...

a few days ago, i noticed my PC making a real weird noise during a chkdsk. i thought it was my hdd but it is coming from my psu. it sounds like a dog whistle mixed with a 3D printer. please help!

Hey guys and gals. I'm building, or rather upgrading my system but i'm completely lost as to which motherboard are actually good these days. Also my first ever AMD based build. The 3 things i'm keeping from my current system is my MSI GTX 1070 Gaming, XFX 750W psu and my CM haf 912 case. I...

I haven’t built a pc before and just looking for some reassurance that everything will fit together and work well Hardware I’m getting: Ryzen 5 2600 Gigabyte b450m ds3h Corsair vengeance lpx 16 gb (2x4) ddr4 3000 Kingston 480gb ssd Msi Radeon rx580 8gb Cooler master master box q300l micro...

My laptop Toshiba satellite m40 CPU 730 when I put the laptop on it is starting everthig normal but after some minutes becomes very haught on the back side of the laptop than starts troubles in the windows When I have disassembled the laptop and I have tested components on the motherboard I...

Sup, so I bought a i2 quad core Q8400 used and at first in my other pc 1 core was working. I know how to do the msconfig/Advance/Boot drop box it shows 2 only. I've even check for the mother board compatibility and it's a compatible processor. I've also updated my bios. I checked for any...

This is LG Q6+, used for 1 year only. Recently it's getting very slow, I've already deleted a lot of apps and left the really commonly used apps. The phone gets faster, but it still takes 5-6 seconds to show up the virtual keyboard every time I want to type a message... Any solution? I want to...

i currently have Western Digital 1TB and looking for ssd and if i do buy an ssd would i need to remove 1 of my hard drives?my complete setup is msi z97 gaming 5 i7 4790k gpu 970 and pc is currently slowing down and ssd might help me when i move my browser its duplicating or something

i have an area 51 with x58 mob ms-7543 v 2.0 , i7 960, 6 gig ram, was running 2 nvidia gtx260 in sli. I am 61 and a computer dummy and really need help to figure out what I need todo. my last v card died a few weeks ago and yes I am going nuts with out lol. what I want todo is get the best vCard...

Hello, I decided to upgrade my current CPU with i7-4790. So I bought one and yesterday I tried to replace it. After replacing the CPU, the PC wouldn't boot up, so I figured I needed a BIOS update. I updated to the latest BIOS version (3.A) and tried again, didn't work. Also I tried booting with...

Hi everyone, I got a Gigabyte K7 X370 and I am want to monitor all the fan speeds (through the original software or not, doesn't matter to me) and all the reads I can get are from the CPU fan. My questions are: 1) did I plug the fans the wrong way? 2) Is there something wrong with the software...

I have a lenovo e41-15 laptop with 4gb ram It runs on and a6 7310 apu so I was planning to upgrade the single slot memory from 4 GB to 8gb as I read APU's have significant improvements over ram upgrade to get better fps in few games like nfs 2012 and ASC1 Is the upgrade worth? It seems it has...

Recently my pc kept crashing when playing rainbow six siege i never had this problem here is the dump file KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE (139) A kernel component has corrupted a critical data structure. The corruption could potentially allow a malicious user to gain control of this machine...

I want to upgrade my IBuyPower BB950 and put my OS and programs on it. it would either be the 970 EVO or the corsair MP510 M.2 Drive. will it work?

Linux 5.0 has been released, with its headlining features being the addition of FreeSync support and Spectre vulnerability fixes. Read more here. NATHANIEL MOTT @nathanielmott Nathaniel Mott is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He covers software and hardware component news.

Hi all,i have a jvc kdr436 car radio with usb but when i place a usb drive with mp3 music it shows loading and then it shows cannot play,does anyone have a way to fix it,the manual states it supports mp3 and wma files.

I putted my old hdd with files to check and everything worked but when i turned off my pc and removed the hdd and connected all the cables my pc didnt start i tried to remove the atx cable from motherboard and it didnt helped too i dont know if my poer supply or motherboard is broken. Any help?

Hey. I've been having some problems with my PC. My USBs disconnect randomly, requiring me to close the PC using the power button. I've checked all my power saving settings and device manager settings are also OK. I bought a new motherboard, but it didn't help. I've downloaded all the drivers...

All suggestions are welcome that work with 1080p 120 fluid fps and 4k video editing. I would say budget is 1.5k-2k but would like to keep it on the lower end if possible. Originally I recommended this to my buddy but I wasn't sure if it would suit his needs and be a tad bit overkill. Any advice...

First of all thank you for taking a look at my post! I bought a 2080 and now I am bottle necked pretty bad. If the Budget will not suffice for my preferred CPU I can use my same case and PSU if they will suffice. Approximate Purchase Date: Item's will be bought at about 2 week intervals unless...

i5 4570k, gygabite Z87-HD3, superflower PSU, MSI GTX960, 2 kingston hyper X 8 GB This PC has already 5 years, except the PSU has 2 and the graphics 1. It suddenly stopped working. All the fans turn on but the screen wont. I tried to use the integrated graphics and clearing the bios. I also...

Hello, so I have the following specs Intel i5 6500 4mb cache 3.20ghz up to 3.60 H110m gigabyte ultra durable motherboard 16gb ram 680w psu Amd RX 480 8gb vram Its a barely 3 year old pc, so I decided to finally open it up and clean dust( for my suprise there werent any almost) amd to...

I just bought a dell sp2309wc monitor form goodwill and thought it'd be an upgrade from my 900p 16x10 gateway monitor from 2001, But my new monitor looks very low-res and the color isnt the best, anyone know any good settings to make my monitor look better, Also how can i turn off the beeping...