/r/computers
This subreddit is for general discussion of computers.
This subreddit is for general discussion of computers. Because the topic is so broad, please consider one of these subreddits to get better answers to your questions:
Technology Related:
/r/technology or /r/computek.
Building a Computer:
/r/buildapc or /r/buildapcforme.
Buying a Prebuilt PC
/r/suggestapc
Buying a Laptop
/r/SuggestALaptop, /r/laptops, /r/GamingLaptops/, or /r/LaptopDeals.
Brand Specific Subreddits
/r/AcerAspireLaptops/,
/r/ASUS/,
/r/Dell/,
/r/intel,
/r/Amd
Help with a Virus or Malware
/r/24hoursupport, /r/techsupport.
Mac users
/r/apple or /r/applehelp.
General Computer Tips
/r/TechnologyProTips
Programming Tips
/r/learnprogramming or /r/programming
Sell or Buy Used Hardware
/r/hardwareswap
/r/HardwareSwapUK
/r/hardwareswapeu
Hardware Sales
/r/buildapcsales
/r/BaPCSalesEurope
Linux Subreddits /r/linuxhardware /r/linux_devices
For everything else, Google is your friend! Make sure to check there first!
If your question doesn't quite fit in any of the above, or is not receiving answers elsewhere, feel free to ask it here.
/r/computers
Needs to have:
Windows 10 Professional (64 Bit)
8 GB or greater
SSD - Solid State Drive 256GB
2.4 GHz or greater Intel 15/ I7 Dual Core
Needs windows 10
Hi. I have a budget of about $700 and I work from home from here in Pakistan.
I'm a blogger so primarily, at any moment I have 3 to 4 WordPress websites open with up to 80 to 120 tabs simultaneously and that has slowed down my laptop. Almost dead now.
I'm not a gamer or anything so I don't need super techy setup but still enough to bear the workload.
So please help me build a PC in this range.
Also, is pc ideal for me or should I choose laptop? Portability is not an issue for me and I need the set up or laptop to keep going for at least 3 years.
Hello. So, a few days ago I plugged my HDD into my laptop and all of the sudden Window Defender started show warning of viruses detection. And I couldn't do anything because it kept show warning after warning and so on. Amd all my games couldn't start up, saying that the application was infected or something. I have reinstalled the OS and wipe the HD completely, and now I have another issue. Some of my games won't work correctly. I execute them, the run, they show the loading screen, some even get into the game, but after a while, the game crashes without any error window or something. I deactivated Window Defender and still i have the issue standing. What could it be?
Hi, I have a Berling Navi in my car (don't ask me the excact model right now). It is connected via hotspot with my iPhone.
I can use spotify and listen to music and podcasts, or watch some YouTube while waiting for a friend, even if someone calls me, i can pick it up on the Navi and talk trough there. So everything works fine, but there is a little "problem"
I use google maps alot, to go to customers and pick something up or whatever. So i type in the customers address and it guids me trough it with the voice and drives with me and shows my speed and everything. But on the way home (or when I'm just the neighborhood) I don't need it. Which means I don't need the service anymore, but the google map Navi is like my main window and always open. When I don't put a route in the navi/google maps, it doesn't work anymore. The dot/your car, doesn't update/drive with it on the map. It just stands still. It only updates and shows me where I am when my car stands for like 1 minute or so. Like a traffic light or parking lot or whatever.
My question is, is that normal? I don't think so. Cause it would be cool to see the dot/my car moving around in real time, and not only than when i put a route in it. No idea if this a setting issue from google maps or the Beling Navi itself, I don't know..
Is there a solution to it? Or you now an alternative navigation app (for free) rather than google maps?
Thanks
What do y all think of i5 12400f with 4060 for 1440p 165hz monitor? Does it work good?
I never had this problem before, it all started around 2~3 months ago when war thunder crashed returning GPU HUNG error, I thought that it were just a random crash. Weeks ago it started to crash War Thunder often, so I lowered it's specs and limited FPS to 60 and it's stopped, 1 week ago I started to play Bannerlord again and it crashed in every big battle. I lowered the specs and FPS limited again and the problem stopped. 2 days ago I started to play again BG3 and it crashes every 5~10 minutes, putting on medium and fps limit 60 seems to stop it.
It also crashed my Unreal Engine once when it finished the lightmass and were enconding textures.
I never had any problems with these games before and they all were on Ultra settings, now they all return dxgi_error_device_removed. I've rolled back NVIDIA driver, I've stress tested GPU and CPU for hours, I've done VRAM test here: memtest_vulkan, I've made HCI memtest for hours and yet not crash nor temps above 75°C.
Need pro tips to solve this as I need to return developing my indie game.
Specs:
The specs look good to me and it's in my price range. Just wondering if there are any red flags?
My need Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Plus and search this then i got a Black Friday Deal from a website. They offered me at cheapest price Only $17.99 . they also insure me, I can activate it directly Microsoft Official website. Out of curiosity i told them, How are they selling them so cheaply? In response to that, they are claiming to be MSWARES LIMITED has partnered with Microsoft as a Tier 1 Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider.
This site will be trusted for me?
My ssd on the right went bad, I got the one on the left but they seem to be different. Can I use it still? Also can someone explain the difference lol.
Hi, I'm downloading music right now. I downloaded like 10 songs from YouTube with the y2down website. And now it always say failed, no matter which browser I use. Why is that so. Why does sometimes the download say failed no matter how hard you try and how often you try it again.. This "problem" is there since I can think of. So like 30 years.. But we could fly to the moon 50 years ago, but this shit still exist. It makes me so mad... And it doesn't matter what you download.
Someone has a solution?
Hi, my mother bought a new HP All in One "27-DP1877NZ" PC in the store like 2 years ago, i think? I always tell her to not buy a HP product, but she still always buys from this brand.. Either way, that's off topic...
So since the first day (I installed her everything, programms and stuff) the PC is loud. You hear the fans working, like on a laptop. But it's very loud/noisy. Just when you open the brwoser it goes crazy. And I'm pretty sure it's normal and nothing is broken.
She uses this PC like twice a month just for paying the bills, doing some microsoft word and excel stuff, download music/podcast and so on... So nothing crazy.
Windows 10 will not be supported anymore in 1 year. So we talked about putting Windows 11 on the PC. And make a complet new installation,
There should be no problem to put windows 11 on that PC right? You need a minimum requirement and TPM or something like that to make a Windows 11 installation, right?
And my second question is, is there an option to reduce the fan speed? I think I tried it when she bought it on day 1 with speedfan, but couldn't select anything.
Maybe try it with afterburner? Or Bios setting? Will maybe make a Bios update as well, we will see.
Thanks
Hello,
My 3070 has not been performing as it should, fps in games is around 20fps, benchmarks extremely low, way out of normal range. It's on a Asus Z790-V board, with a i9-12900.
I have tried different drivers, pci slots, psu cables. What I did notice was the Pcie 12V reading on hwmonitor, gpu-z, and hwinfo say it's drawing around 150w from the pcie slot, at all times and only varies <1w, idle at 5% gpu usage or 100% under load it's at 150w.
When under load the card throttles at just over 200W and the clock speed gets locked to 210MHz. Temps are low, 36 degrees, when not under load the clock speed goes to over 1500MHz. Does anyone have any insight on how to fix this?
Hi, I'm from Mexico and in some stores I'm asked for the ryzen 9 7900x but its unavailable, and they dont know why... why I'm asking this... its because im trying to upgrade my 1st love my amd 6300fx + 750ti + 16gb ram + 256 ssd so... Im searching
Ryzen 9 7900x 4070ti super Gigabyte X670 Gaming ax v2 16gb x 2 5200mhz
Why so much power.... dont ask lol.... but I need to open 5 memu's simultaneously and I would like being prepared to gta 6, you could imagine I'm super fan of gta 5
Any recommendations or change o shoulda?
I spilled a water bottle near my laptop (Dell Inspiron 14) and the water ran under the laptop for a bit. When I picked it up, I noticed some moisture through the vents underneath but nothing on the fan. The laptop was off but it was charging (and I pulled it out immediately). Is there a chance of permanent damage?
i am trying to scan my computer and it will scan about 60 files then just stop, don't know what to do, i scan my computer with Malwarebytes and came back clean , but would make McAfee stop after 60 files?
I recently built a gaming PC with the following specs:
Since the first use, I've been experiencing constant BSODs with various stop codes, including:
To troubleshoot, I've run Windows Memory Diagnostic, and it found no issues with the RAM. I've also updated all drivers and Windows, but the problem persists. It typically occurs when I start playing games such Valorant, PUBG etc
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing these BSODs or any potential solutions to try? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Its recommendations were,
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
AMD Radeon RX 7600
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
I would like to get some additional advice before i decide what i should do, thanks in advance.
Ah mas porque você quer desligar o monitor?Vai jogar sem ver?O problema é o seguinte, deixo os jogos farmando a noite e desligo o monitor para economizar energia e diminuir a claridade do quarto, porem notei que sempre que faço isso o jogo/navegador(google) e o proprio computador em si desce drasticamente o fps e desempenho, descobri via acesso remoto por outros computadores ou celular alem de gerar problemas de crash e coisas relacionadas, não somente jogos testei colocar um video para rodar desligar o monitor e acessar remotamente, assim que religo o monitor o fps e desempenho volta.
Já tentei desligar o freesync do monitor e placa de video que foi unica resposta que encontrei com chatgpeto, não encontrei respostas em lugar nenhum como resolver isso.
I recently got a new computer and its not turning on at all. I took a couple screws out and it has a couple cords not plugged in but I don't want to break it by plugging it in somewhere wrong. It's a Thermaltake CPU. Any help would be appreciated
I am having an issue installing my second internal ssd. The issue is it shows up in the bios but its not able to boot from there. It also does not show up in disk management.
Hi Everyone, I am currently looking for a nice 2 in 1 laptop that will runs the common coding software. I am currently looking at the Microsoft Studio 2 since it seems good for CompSci and I can run some games to decompress. Please let me know if you have any suggestions??
So about a month ago I spilled a bottle of water in my pc this is my first one and I don’t really know what’s wrong the lights still come on and the fans work but it just won’t display anything I called a shop near me and they said they could fix it but it’s a long process also expensive what should I do??
I just bought a new ssd card, Samsung 990 Pro 4TB M.2 SSD with Heatsink, I don’t know much about how computers work or how to put stuff into the computer, so I search up how to plug or install it into the computer. When I put in the ssd card and screwed it in I turned on my computer. But when I did this, it put me into this text that says “Reboot and Select proper boot device or insert Boot Media in selected Boot Device and press a key” I tried different solutions I had found on the internet, and none of them worked. I set my ssd and Boot Option #1 and it still didn’t work. please can someone help me resolve this issue.
So I just bought my laptop 4 months ago and I think it's kinda good laptop (Rtx 4060 + Ryzen 7 7735HS) well I don't know why but when I play cs2 my fans randomly goes crazy and my ingame fps drops to 30 from 250 can anyone help me??
I've had a Seagate external HDD for about 10 years, the model is SRD00F2. It never gave me any issues, but now after a few months of not using it, my PC won't recognize it. Note that I've had longer periods of time where I didn't use it before and it still worked afterwards. Anyway, it sounds like it's spinning, it heats up just like always, but it had a little blue light that is now always off. I tried connecting it to multiple PCs and it acts the same way. I had some important files that I hope I can recover. Any tips on what might be the issue? Thanks!
Hey everyone, just looking for some recommendations since you all are very knowledgeable! Wanting to look into getting a gaming computer since my laptop can't keep up. I don't need anything super fancy for higher tier open world/shooter games. Just need something to run involved strategy games like Stellaris, AOE, and MOBA's like Smite. Thank you!
I need to find a power cord for one of our machines but it looks that it has a female plug built into it? I’ve only ever come across the male plugs and can only find cords with female connectors.
Any help appreciated.