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I want to daisy-chain 2 ARGB CPU cooler fans and 1 ARGB case fan together. But I have an issue with the light connections. I'm not sure if I can daisy chain all three fans into a single 3-pin ARGB header because of lack of information on the fans' lighting power consumption. CPU cooler...

I got a very weird issue after I swapped out my HDD (possibly even before but I attributed it to the dead HDD). I have my system on an SSD and junk on another SSD or the HDD. When my PC is positioned vertically it often it starts to lag and the cursor almost always has the loading animation (15...

So I just put my pc together yesterday and I was having trouble with the RGB on my cpu cooler (Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition). It needed a molex cable to hook to the psu (be quiet! Straight power 11 650w platinum) and the only one I had was a cable that came with the PSU which the...

Found out newly bought house has 3 pronged outlets that are not grounded. Apparently they were not grounded because to get to the wiring the electrician would have needed to dig through part of a wall which contains asbestos. I cannot afford to pay for a costly asbestos removal any time in the...

Hello, i have recently built my brand new gaming pc and my fans that came included with my case are specified as RGB Rainbow fans. However when i wired my fans up and powered on my computer i noticed that they're fixed to an orange/yellow colour when i want them to be completely Rainbow to match...

Hello there, this is my first post on this forum so if I have done anything wrong just tell me. I will be happy to make changes. So I own 2 Seasonic PSUs being the: Seasonic Focus GX-650 Gold and the Seasonic Focus SGX Gold 650. (This one is from the H1 and labled NZXT but it is to my...

TL;DR: title and bold. I want to build a custom case for my PC, as minimal as possible I run mATX motherboard with 57mm cpu cooler height (no GPU). My setup is fairly small, and according to my measurements I consume on idle 30-35W with peak at 75W I thought about getting flexATX PSU which...

Hi Guys, I dont have knowledge on electrical matters. Is it a good idea to stick my LED strips to an electrical tape that is on my cpu case. I got this idea for if ever any of the parts of the LED strip is not insulated it will not be transferred to the metal case because of the electrical...

Hey guys! I build my pc some years ago and i have resently been necleting using it, but then i tried turning it on, and it beeped the nice sound i love and like when it booted. But then a black screen apeared and said No drive were found and booted to bios, where i could navigate in about 5...

So my home Ethernet never works in my house from the wall plugs so can anyone tell what looks wrong in these pictures to help me fix it. Pictures are of the basement closet and the router is upstairs in the living room.

Hey everyone. Seems like everytime I have a question google points me to this forum. I’ve searched everywhere and cannot find my answer. I have an Asus M32CD-AS51 [VivoPC Tower]. Motherboard number is in the picture. My front hub has 2 USBs that don’t work. I’ve done USB hub uninstall and...

Please let me know, if I can purchase the following cables for Logitech Z906 5.1 Speakers offline/online in Mumbai, India Main Cable - 3.5mm jack audio aux cables (3 male to male) Satellites & Center Speakers: Gauge wire / plugs (Most presumably, as I don't know what it's actually called)...

Hello there. Recently I have picked up a Vectrex system, but I have a problem with a broken joystick in the controller. Luckily the rest of the controller is fairly easy to fix up, but the joystick isn't as easily replaceable as it is no longer made or sold separately. Recently I found a...

I want to be able to make 17 volts and 5-10 amps. I have a 12 volt lead-acid battery and a 12 volt to 5 volt transformer that can handle about 30 amps. If I power the transformer with the battery, can I connect the output of the transformer and the same battery in series to get 17 volts? Thanks...

Hey guys, sorry I didn't really know what to name this post, but thanks for clicking!! So basically I am running a bulk amount (5+) of CAT6 wires underneath my house. I am looking for a solution to hang these wires together, instead of using separate cable clamps. I just wanted to get your ideas...

I bought a Dell gaming laptop from Jbhifi for around $1600 on special last year. I bought it down here in Australia where I live and after 8months it started lagging and I had a dell technician over a few times to fix it, but he couldn't. Therefore I have recently been accepted to get a refund...

I have a new 1050 but I have no 6 pin. My power supply is ATX12V and the max power or something is 600. What can I do?

I was wondering if there'd be enough space to install a zotac 1060 oc 6gb and an asus pce-ac56 wifi card together on an Asus h110m-a motherboard. I'm not sure whether there's enough space and I'm using an deepcool rgb earlkase as well. Appreciate the help

I'm planning to overclock my Amd Athlon X4 860k Asus A68hm-k I want to overclock it atleast 4.0 ghz to 4.1 ghz...I'm also planning to get a Cooler master masterliquid 120 so the temperature wont go so high...is it ok to overclock at this ghz?

I have an l Toshiba lap top it is a L655-S5117 Satelite, that came with Win 7 home premium. My son has been using it for his work in construction doing bids. It has been running slow. I have a suspicion like there is another program running in the background, it also seems to be running slow...

So I recently upgraded an old DC7900 with a Q9400 @2.667 MHz. I never replaced the cooling in it, but it looks odd. It's big and black and bulky, the cooler is. Anyway. I was wondering how many more watts it will take to do a slight OC from 2.66 to 3.0 and is it safe to do this small OC on a...

Specs : MSI Rx 480 4gb i7-4790 1900x1080 monitor I played Doom-dues ex mankind on the highest settings and got 60fps stable. Played RE 7 and my fps keeps dropping every 20 sec to 30-20-10 fps Changed my settings from very high to high still have the same problem (Turned off the shadow cache)...

Want to buy a TV to use it for watching movies via android box and mainly to wire it up to my PC that I use for gaming and watching movies. I have about £700 to spend, Samsung in 55inch cheapest I found was £680 and £530 for 50inch version. Colleague of mine recommended LG 49inch to me that...

Ok. I recently upgraded to a GTX 970 and had some trouble with completing the installation. I wouldn't get any video output from the card and after searching for awhile, went through the uninstalling previous nvidia drivers and disabling the Intel one. Now the strange problem is that the card...

my rig is 5 yrs old, i have an asus rampage 3 black edition with 12 1600 ram. i'm planning on upgrading my vc... does gtx 1080 or gtx 1070 will be bottleneck with my old specs? thanks in adv

Hi all, Im having major problems with my pc. While gaming yesterday it turned off with no warning. No big problem, go to reboot and nothing. Power switch does nothing. I disconnected the power cable for about 2 hours and tried again and nothing. When the power switch is pressed i hear a click...

I want to upgrade my Dell 2715H within the periode i can return it Having problems with to big monitor stand from other brands then dell, because of a big mousepad and me wanting a 32/34" monitor (i think i have to down grade my mousepad by a couple of inches ) Lg 27MU67-B i can get (i know...

What's the best 80mm blue led case fan under 5$

i just built a new computer and i was just doing normal things i always do and all of a sudden my comp just restarts on me, not sure what it was but my cpu temps are good, the only thing that i had open was WoW and then i pulled up chrome then it happened not sure what happened. My cpu is intel...

Computer Mobo: Asrock Z170 Pro4S Bios: 2.9 CPU: i5-6600k Ram: 16 GB G Skill Ripsaw 15 Latency GPU: XFX R9-390P-8256 HDD: M.2 Samsung 950 256 GB (Boot) OS: Windows 10 It took me quite a while to get my computer to recognize the samsung drive. Once it was finally installed, I loaded up windows...

I want to install windows 8 using a key from Microsofsoftwareswap. I have currently connected a very old HDD with windows 7 from an old laptop to my build, and want to install windows 8 on an SSD I have also connected to the new PC. now before I buy a key I would like to know if I can select...

For the last couple of weeks I've had issues with playing back videos using HTML5. Randomly while watching a video my computer freezes and I have to restart. I've reinstalled Windows 10 64bit and installed a new SSD to make sure its not my computer acting up. Please help me fix this issue id...

Anyone know how to remove my PSU please refer to the image http://imgur.com/cMEjKBb http://imgur.com/2pjYIiO Thanks.

Hi everyone. I am looking for a new cpu cooler for my processor Phenom II x4 965 BE. I built the computer a while back and the stock cpu fan has always been so noisy. Was hoping for a much quieter replacement under $30. Any help would be much appreciated.

I have been playing GTA 5 today and in the distance in my garage, I see terrible jaggyness in the wheels of the bikes and green car (picture via steam) http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/423691829423603155/2DF013ED6EE9546C369BA622B2D407098D9CCDA6/ I am really annoyed by this as to...

I've been hitting around 72C with my stock cooler while gaming so I am thinking of buying a new CPU cooler. I've looked at the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO but I don't think it will fit. Does anyone know any other good CPU coolers that are under $50 and may be smaller? Thanks!

Guys please help me...i was trying to install win 7 64 bit OS on my system which previously had 32 bit win 7 ultimate installed...Yes , my comp is compatible with 64 bit OS.. But after a short while during installation...the stage after windows is copying files...window....the screen turn off...

Trying to set up live streaming and need help deciding on a good direction for the system setup. Note: in addition to streaming, I plan to record the stream to the computer and post stream do some light video editing/production work to publish video.

Ok, so I will start from the beginning so you have all the info. A month or so back, I started to get disk read errors when I tried to boot my pc, it was hit and miss, sometimes it would boot fine, sometimes it would have the error. This then evolved into random freezes where everything would...

Hello, So I've had my PC for over 2 years now, and I'm thinking of upgrading it in the near future. I wanna make sure that it's worth it or should I just buy a new PC. My specs: CPU: Inter Core i5 3450 3.1Ghz 6MB L3 Cache s1155 MB: Gigabyte GA-H77-D3H RAM: G.Skill Ares 2x4GB DDR3 1600Mhz VGA...