Hey guys, so pretty soon in about a month or two I plan on building my second PC. My current PC is an R5 7600/RX 6800 and I plan on building my new one to be with the 7900XT/XTX but I’m currently not sure what CPU to pair with it. I stream and make videos and even make training videos for my job and i want a CPU that’s going to be perfect for both gaming and multitasking like video editing. Best case I’ve seen is the R5 7600X but idk if that’s going to be good for more than just gaming. Any suggestions?

So, I've had the Gigabyte M32U monitor for around 2 weeks and I wanna buy a huge mousepad(a hystar one), but I realized I don't have enough space on my desk, due to my monitor's bulky original stand(i have a saljan countertop from IKEA). I don't want to return the monitor, I've been wondering if there is a monitor arm that behaves like the m32u's arm edition arm. I like my monitor to a much lower height that I've seen ppl with monitor arms use them, and to be able to achieve this height without coming any closer to my eyes.

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like this, yes i have that one setting thats like "always show icons" disabled

not sure why this one is so high, the rest are 1k ish

Okay boys, made an oopsie.

Ordered a monitor that only has an HDMI port 1080p 144hz.

I got another monitor HDMI 1080p 75hz

GPU has 1 HDMI and 3 Display ports. I know some of y'all got answers, help out please.

Is it gonna be better to run the 144hz on HDMI?
What adapter/cable should I grab if it's better to run it DP - HDMI

If the 75hz should be run DP-HDMI, still, what should I get?

My mobo is so old the single M.2 slot was actually limiting my speeds to about 1GB/s, so I bought another 1TB SSD and reinstalled Winderz on it. Seeing 3.75GB/s now (still sad by today's standards).

Also bought a second PCIe X4 adapter ($13) put both 1TB NVMe drives in PCIe slots, 500GB in the M.2 slot, and the other 3 SSD's and 1 HDD on SATA. ~5.25TB after formatting/over provisioning...across 7 drives 🤣

I want to upgrade my GPU from GTX 1660 Super to RTX 3070 but confused that will I have to change my Power supply? I have AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU with 32Gb Ram and a Aio pump cpu cooler running. With a 1Tb HDD, 1 Tb NVME and a 240gb SSD.

I promised my friend I’d sell him my pc once I got this card, and that I’d do it before February. Lucky me with this bad place in the market.

I can buy a lightly used Legion gaming PC with a 7700 and and RTX 4070 for 1200$ Canadian (so basically, literal peanuts in $USD). I have a QHD monitor and plan on playing games in that resolution (currently game on PS5). But I'm mostly looking at games like counter-strike and some valorant with maybe some CoD here and there.

Will this set up hold up for the immediate future? And if so how long do you think?

I used the Nvidia control panel color settings to adjust the channels, contrast, and vibrancy of my two monitors. This allowed me to match both monitor's colors, and improve color accuracy.

However, doing this changes the “color accuracy mode” on both my monitors from accurate to enhanced. Once they are set to enhance, every time I boot my pc both monitors flash black twice once I reach the log in screen.

The only solution I have found is to use DDU and completely reinstall my Nvidia drivers, resetting both monitors to accurate mode. It seems I am unable to use the Nvidia color settings without causing this screen flickering issue on startup.

Is there any alternative I can use that allows me to adjust the RGB channels, contrast, and digital vibrancy for my monitors. Could this be done with an ICC profile in windows color profiles?

Note: I can adjust the channels on one monitor, but cannot on the other. Neither allows me to change contrast or digital vibrancy. I do not want to buy a colorimeter.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

So just built this PC back in June 2024, since day one the temps used to hit 95-97c whilst gaming to the point I’d have to stop playing then I just set my TjMax to 87c and my clock speed hovers at 4.9-5.2Ghz and it doesn’t cross 87c, at the time it was just a temporary fix but should I keep it this way? Or was the 95c temp normal? Is it sustainable to just keep my tjmax at 87c or should I try a repaste and set TJmax back to 95c which is the default setting.

My case is an NR200p so airflow is a bit restricted. CPU cooler Deepcool AK400 digital display

I wanna revamp my setup. Is there a free software to plan it?

So I am currently using a laptop for gaming but want to up my performance and get a PC, what PC should I get it parts? I know how to put them together and set it up. My budget is 800 Australian dollars, not a hard budget can go higher if needed.

And thanks Wayback machine for archiving this. God I love that site.

Why do people spend $500 more on a nvidia gpu when its only 10 or 20% faster but then only play games with 90s like graphics to use 5% of the gpu at most?
People always say graphics don't matter but yet still buy gpus. I just don't get people.

I used to have a GTX 950, then I upgraded to a Radeon VII but now certain games (specifically Forza Horizon 3 and Marvel Rivals are crashing on the new card. I am wondering if I can plug my 950 in and use it only for those specific games and then keep using my Radeon for everything else?

Hey! I've seen other posts asking the same question, but I want to be really sure before powering this that I plugged the cable into my 4070 Super correctly. I've heard it's really hard to do right and doing it wrong can start a fire. I see a small gap. The arrow I drew points out what I'm talking about. Also, I can't recall if it made a click noise when I plugged in. I've been pushing on it pretty hard but I'm worried about pushing any harder. Did I do this correctly? Is there anything I should know before I continue? Thanks in advance.

Specs: CPU: AMD RYZEN 7 7700x Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 Eagle AX RAM: Corsair Vengence RGB DDR5 32 GB 16gbx2 6000 mhz GPU: ASUS 4070 Super

I just built my first PC and after successful first boot and setting everything up, began to have problems waking or booting up after shutdown. Lights were on and fans were still spinning but saw that the red DRAM light was on the motherboard.

I disconnected and reset the RAM sticks and the light went off and everything went back to normal for a day or two. Then the same thing happened. Wouldn't boot and light was on. Figured there was a bigger problem here. Research has shown that a lot of people had this problem but with a wide variety of potential solutions ranging from:

Do one RAM stick at a time and wait for light to turn off before adding the second. To buy new CPU, RAM, and Motherboard

I'm very new to the PC world and am pretty overwhelmed with the potential problems and don't know where to start. Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. Did find my RAM on Motherboard supported list but only at 6600 mhz, not 6000 like I have.

I thought I found a solution by installing on stick at a time and adjusting some of the latency settings under the RAM section of the Bios menu. Everything seemed to work now, I loaded in the second stick of RAM, the light turned off and booted up normal through a dozen or so other tests. Then I was watching TV on it this evening and all the sudden the screen started flashing rainbow lights pretty aggressively, so I shut down the computer. Now the DRAM light is back on and it won't boot...

Any ideas?? Did I just break it? Super lost so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Working on accumulating parts for my first ever build and from the beginning was set on getting a 4070 Ti Super. I knew the 50 series card launch would be a shit show and so I kept an eye on eBay and was fortunate enough to refresh my search and snag a brand new, factory sealed Zotac at MSRP. Now just need to figure out how to verify it works before my return window closes lol

I play rocksmith 2014 remastered on my pc and sometimes I record myself playing to post it later on Tiktok or Instagram. Currently right now I just have the razer kraken ultimate usb headset but no sound card. When I'm trying to record myself, I have to take my headset off then turn the volume up so my phone can hear the audio. The problem with that is, I can't hear the music to keep me on time which causes me to mess up a lot. I am now looking into buying desktop speakers. How would I get both my headset and the speakers to play at the same time so I can record and hear the music at the same time?