I want to build my first pc next year, trying to keep it budget but powerful enough.

My main games are cpu based, and some being single threaded.

Gpu and ram are from ebay.

After saving up for a while I finally pulled the trigger today and built my first Desktop PC!! I'm so happy!

PC:

-Ryzen 7 9700x

-ASUS TUF RX 9700 16GB

-Gigabyte B650

-T FORCE 32GB DDR5 6000MHZ

-Team Group 2TB SSD NVME

-ThermalRight A240 Elite 360mm

-ThermalRight 750w 80 GOLD PSU

-Jungle Leopard MS-01 Case

Final price: $1,700 USD

Monitor:

-MSI G274QPF E2 - 1440P IPS 180Hz

Peripherals:

-Attack shark R5 ultra Mouse

-Steelseries Apex 7 TKL Keyboard

-Logitech G Pro X (LoL edition)

Do i miss something?
I can’t find the download button for fortnite on the epic games launcher?
There’s fr no way to get the game.
I guess it’s the new vibe coded version of the launcher.
Did anybody with the same problem find a solution?

Found it on Facebook Marketplace for $3,000 is it a good deal? Would be replacing my Radeon 4070

Continuation of previous post. Go check that out for more context but basically I turned this off during an update. Its Windows 11 and I'm using a powerspec pc

Like what happened? How is this happening all of a sudden? Nintendo and playstation specially are getting some serious spanking. Sorry I was living under a rock recently.

Rtx 5060ti (new)
B650(used but the store tested)
Ram 32 (very good condition)
Ryzen 7 9700x (new)
Nvme 1t (new)
Psu platinum theremel tech (new )

(Sorry for low quality)

TL;DR: Graphics card is on its last legs maybe and needs an upgrade (plus any other upgrade recommendations would be welcome please!) :) Thanks!

Hello! I've noticed my GPU fans are basically whining to where my PC cannot run games easily without a Boeing 747 jet engine revving up every time I play a game cycling every minute or so. I thought it was my CPU at first, which I replaced the thermal paste (helped my PC but not the issue I've been having) thinking it might help. Now I know from looking on the inside while its on that the GPU fans are going wild every time my computer attempts a lift-off and I did a Furmark test and saw that the temps were going insane.

Essentially, I'm thinking of either deep-cleaning and replacing my GPU thermal paste/pads or just biting the bullet and buying a new GPU altogether. What would y'all recommend me upgrade to and in addition please let me know if there is anything y'all would recommend to upgrade in general! I know its an aging computer but other than the graphics card issues I have no problems with it for the most part. I would prefer to keep the cost low for replacements if its possible given this PC parts economy!

P.S.: Also, for years now my computer for some reason has caused some applications home screens to be bright neon purple and green, etc. colors. Usually I remove the hardware acceleration setting and that fixes it but not always though!

Here's my current desktop specs!

GPU - Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC 3X GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB Video Card

CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor

Power Supply - Cooler Master MWE Gold 650 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

Motherboard - MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard

Memory - G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory

Storage - HP EX900 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive // Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive

Case - Cooler Master MasterBox MB511 RGB ATX Mid Tower Case

So about a year ago i decided to try pc gaming i bought myself a cheap Optiplex and did a budget build. Fast forward to today and now I’m wanting to build a gaming dedicated pc. I know the prices is outrageous right now so i am going to reuse some old parts to buy time and upgrade later.

Old rig:

Optiplex 7070
I7-9700
32gb ddr4 2666mhs ram
1gb 2.5 sata samsung ssd
500gb m.2 kingston ssd
Rtx5060
Apevia450w

Prospected new rig
Ryzen 5 9600x
Asrock b650m
16gb ddr5 ram
Reuse samsung2.5 sata ssd
Reuse m.2 500gb kingston ssd
Reuse rtx5060
Msi 850gl pcie5

I know I’m missing coolers and a case.
I just listed the probable parts in mind.
What do you guys think? Good idea or bad idea?

My watercooler system broke down and made my CPU go to such high temps it crashed my pc.

I got it replaced with just a regular aircooler and now the temps in the pc are back to normal.

Heres my issue, when i tried to start the pc today only the pc powered up, my mouse, keyboard and monitors didnt start. Restarting the pc worked and everything started as usual.

When i got into the pc i noticed that my digital vibrance was reset back to normal and i usually play with 75%, i tried to change it back but my Nvidia control panel was deleted from the pc so i had to download it again. This is weird no?

And today i was playing wardogs and the game was just super blurry for some reason.

Anyone have any idea at all what the issue can be? Im thinking that just changing a cooler system in the PC shouldnt bring this many issues?

Used Honeywell PTM7950 and Upsiren UTP-8 thermal putty. 2080 Ti purchased new in 2019.

Disclaimer that this new benchmark is overclocked with max fan speed, basically tried to get the highest score possible. When undervolted to 935 Mhz I still get around 13,334.

I did find that undervolting limited the power draw in certain games though (like 007 First Light), so I actually found not undervolting was beneficial there. Goes from 190W to closer to 240-250W, and a noticeable improvement in FPS.

So yeah, definitely worth repasting if the performance is diminished, it's actually a lot easier than it looks. I suggest thermal putty if you're too lazy to verify the thermal pad thicknesses. Used about 50g of putty for this big card.

I might have turned off my computer during an update and I cant get this to go away. I can only turn it off. Am I cooked?

I can technically find touchscreen laptops, but there's so many "(name)books" when you search for cheap touchscreens that I'm not sure what uses desktop apps and what uses mobile apps.

I state this below but here's the issue and why I'm requesting this.

I want to use Spotify, for free, without ads, in my car. I am able to do this on my laptop and desktop since I can use Firefox + ublock origin on each device. However, on any phone/tablet that uses mobile versions of apps (including browsers), Spotify recognizes it as a mobile browser and refuses to work at all.

I considered just getting a touchscreen monitor and running Dex from an old phone, but to my understanding Dex still uses mobile versions of apps.

I also used to use xManager until it basically became useless, and have been unable to find something that was as easy to use as that was for Spotify.

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

• Country: USA

• Budget: As cheap as possible. Preferably under $100

• Are you open to refurbs/used options?: YES

• Screen Size: 5-10in preferably

• Form Factor: Touchscreen, no keyboard necessary. NOT a tablet, must run fully fledged desktop apps, not mobile

• Intended Usage: Spotify for car. I run Firefox + ublock origin on my regular laptop and desktop, it blocks all the ads. I try to do the same on my phone but Spotify recognizes it as a mobile browser and refuses to work at all.

• Please list, in order of most important to least important, the priority between Size, Weight, Performance, Battery life: Size is most important. Battery must be able to easily charge/be plugged in in a car.

• Additional Info: Must have BLUETOOTH

I was building my first high-end pc in 2017 and these are the prices I have paid:

Intel Core i7 7700k - $400

32GB DDR4 RAM - $300

GTX 1080 8GB - $800

1TB NVMe - $500

4TB SATA - $1000

2TB Portable SSD - $600

SSD prices very crazy back then and GPUs weren't that cheap either...

People just got used to super cheap 2020-2024 prices and are mad these stupidly cheap prices are gone. It was an anomaly and you will never see those prices ever again. Live with it!

Specs of this machine first:

CPU: AMD 3700X (IF @ 1900MHz)

Mobo: Asrock A320M-HDV R4.0

GPU: AMD RX6800XT 16GB

RAM: 32GB @ 3800 MT/s

PSU: 650W

This is my 2nd PC where all the old stuff goes. This was supposed to become a homelab at some point as I wanted to upgrade my main to AM5 in early 2026. Then Rammageddon happened. Now this machine still exists and is used for gaming only.

Would an upgrade from a 3700X to a 5800X3D do any noticeable good? I mostly play single-player games, indies, emulation, if something's maxed it's my GPU...

Would the 5800X3D improve lag, 1% lows in a significant way or would the upgrade be a waste of money?

Thanks for your thoughts!

They are cheap, BUT a rubber-band or a paperclip is also cheap, I think there should be simpler, more intuitive solutions.

Last time, I refixed the fan with a zip tie, cause I couldn't handle the stress of this, assemble best before installing, solution.

I hate these clips, they are too complicated, so WHY?

Edit: (pick your poison) https://img.drz.lazcdn.com/g/kf/Sf06a4d0f1c364483ace9209b19ac68c4J.jpg_720x720q80.jpg_.webp

I've been playing Oblivion since 2006 and was naturally very excited when the Remastered version got shadow-dropped last year. Imagine my disappointment when even after upgrading from 2070 Super to 9070 XT the game continued to run poorly, with low fps and stuttering on my 5800X CPU and 32GB DDR4 RAM.

From various user reports and the fact that even at a low resolution and graphic settings the game was still laggy (e.g. 20-30 FPS in Cheydinhal) it was clear that the problem is in poor optimization. But it was not clear what to do about this, that is, until I've got Claude subscription a few weeks ago.

On the last day before weekly reset of my $20 plan I've had some tokens to burn and decided for fun to launch the game, alt-tab to Claude and ask Opus 5.5 how come the fps is so low. Imagine my shock as it was able to somehow (no reverse-engineering software installed, just asked me to link my GitHub account to Epic organization for access to UE source codes) analyze what's going on and find a few huge inefficiencies. Apparently, the game was reconstructing the whole lighting of a scene in each frame even when nothing was changing, which was obviously a huge strain on CPU that had to parse all this work on a single thread (!).

What followed was an immediate upgrade to the Max x5 plan (btw that gave me an immediate full reset) and two weeks of intense work where we've:

• Built a benchmark harness so Claude can optimize bottleneck scenarios autonomously while I'm at work, including completely silent and headless mode in case I work from home PC
• Found ~40 improvements that brought in-city FPS from ~30 to stable 60, open-world average FPS improvement by ~30-40%, and made traversal stutter almost unnoticeable
• Provided full-support for latest AMD FSR FrameGen, including setting optimizations to avoid stutters and game sending camera information required for full functionality
• Fixed several bugs in the original game and Remastered code
• Shared the work on GitHub in a clear, reproducible way
• Recorded a few demonstration videos to show improvements, Claude was in charge of routing, camera work, music selection and timings.

Work pattern was as follows:

• Find an in-game place / scenario where I observe poor performance / stuttering. Ask Claude to build a benchmark out of it for independent optimization.
• Early in the day set /goal to orchestrate work on fixing the identified scenario performance. Limiting it to 2 Opus 5.5 sub-agents was usually enough to not run into 5 hour limit. Computer keeps running at home and I can check progress and steer via mobile app.
• In the evening review work, test, provide feedback. Usually the topic was resolved, I kept playing until finding a new scenario where performance was bad.

After roughly 2.5 weeks of Max x5 allowance we were able to reach the result you see on the video.

Amazing, for someone who is not even an IT developer, to be able to do something that a multi-billion corporation didn't manage in ~1.5 years since the release.

And I think even the most AI-skeptical people would find it hard to object when AI is used to make existing well-beloved games perform better and have fewer bugs.

If you are curious to review work or try yourself, would be happy to hear your thoughts: https://github.com/LTSharpe/OblivionRemasteredPerformanceFix

Unofficial PC port of the Xbox 360 version of **Army of Two (2008)**.

The campaign can be played in online co-op without EA servers. Graphics are rendered through the port's own Direct3D 12 renderer, not GPU emulation. The game's PowerPC code is statically recompiled to C++ using the ReXGlue SDK and built as a Windows x64 executable.

The entire game can be completed in solo or co-op without crashes.

WHAT THE PORT ADDS

• Online co-op without relying on EA servers, supporting both Public and Private Co-op
• Split-screen multiplayer on one PC, with separate input devices for each player
• In-game graphics settings under Options → Graphics
• Render resolutions above the original console's 720p
• Optimized performance with stable frame rates
• Keyboard and mouse support, including keyboard key prompts on screen
• Keyboard and gamepad input remapping through the launcher
• Skippable pre-rendered cutscenes using Enter or Space

ONLINE CO-OP

• Works over LAN or a virtual network, such as Radmin VPN, ZeroTier or Tailscale.
• Both players launch the game through the launcher. It searches for a host on the local network and assigns the appropriate role. For online play, enter the host's IP address under Settings → Network in the launcher, or press F8 in-game.
• Public Co-op: Campaign Mode → Public Co-op Game.
• Private Co-op (recommended): the lobby's Invite button opens the Players window (also accessible with F8), showing players found on the network. The other player accepts the invitation with F6. Unlike Public Co-op, Private Co-op preserves checkpoints, allowing you to continue the campaign later.
• Both players must use the same port build, DLC and game language.
• Run `Allow through firewall (run as administrator).bat` once on both PCs.

i have these specs
asus rog 3080
i7 11700kf
rog strix g15ce motherboard
32 gb of ddr4
yet for some reason on rust i peak at 100-120 normally am at 80 and constantly stutter down to 40 or 50
200+ on roblox games but can lag/stutter my pc as well if the game has destruction
seige i get 150-160
star citizen is 20 fps (i cant play it atp)
permafrost is 60-70
do i need to upgrade my pc? or do i need to change setting or bios around or something