Cost me a bit over 3k for all these parts.

Apacer Image Steno sv300 with a whopping 128mb storage. Storage, camera, video cam, web cam. And a LCD counter and crystal clear viewfinder that you wont find in many todays flagship digital cameras. Purchased circa 2003-2004 iirc

I've had this Asus TUF A15 FA506ui laptop for about 5 years (built myself a proper gaming pc feb 2025).

This started a couple weeks ago, when I boot it up only the top half of the display works. I manage to sign in and after a couple minutes the bottom half flickers between working and a frozen image of what was previously displayed.

It usually starts to work normally after about 4 to 5 minutes.

Has anyone encountered this before?

• (CPU): AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

• (GPU): NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6

• Display: 15.6-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) IPS-level panel with a 144 Hz refresh rate

• (RAM): 16GB DDR4 3200MHz (expandable up to 32GB/64GB via two SODIMM slots)

• Storage: 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD

finally got the new desk and monitor arm sorted out, so the setup is basically done except for the chair.

i've had this racing style seat for about three years, and my lower back is usually done after an hour or two. bought it entirely because i liked how it looked at the time, which was definitely a mistake lol

now i'm leaning toward a mesh chair with actual lumbar adjustment instead of another static pillow thing.

the nouhaus ergo3d keeps coming up when i've been looking around, so that's one of the ones i'm considering. mostly trying to figure out whether the lumbar support actually holds up for long sitting or if it just looks good in the specs.

just don't want to make the same mistake twice before another long week at the desk

RTX 2060 Super

I5 10400

8GB RAM 2666mhz

My pc is absolutely worst. It has the worst specs. It is really old and I wanna upgrade it and at least make it decent. I don't know much about pc components.

My specs are ;

Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz 2.79 GHz

Installed RAM : 4.00 GB

Storage : 112 GB SSD ADATA SU650

Graphics Card : Intel(R) G41 Express Chipset (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1) (64 MB)

System Type : 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

You can see that my pc is absolutely chopped, So what are the things I should upgrade to make it decent ..

First three are choice A, last one is choice B. I feel like it's obvious because of the ram and hard drive difference, but I know nothing about CPUs. Choice A is $100 more. Thanks in advance.

Do you think this is coil whine? MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 – 850W

looks like a common problem for MSI B550 A Pro. Only realized this after years of using.

It is stupid and a fire hazard that the cables with the same connectors across PSUs of the same brand can cause a short because they are wired differently, let alone between different brands. People see the same connectors and assume they are the same cable. You can't get replacement cables, and if you lose the cables, you must get rid of your working PSU because new cables may cause a short. People regard fully modular PSUs as the best type for cable management, but I think I would prefer if my next PSU was non or semi modular instead to avoid losing cables or causing a computer fire. How do you get around these issues if you lose cables?

Pc specs
OS: Windows 10
Case: Cooler master TD500 white mesh
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700x
Cooling : Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML360P AIO
Memory: G.Skill 32GB DDR4 Trident Z Royal Silver 3200Mhz PC4-25600 CL16 1.35V Dual Channel Kit (2x16GB)
Storage: 512 Intel 660P M.2 NVMe SSD- Samsung 970 Evo 1TB
Video card:Gigabyte RTX 3080 Vision OC
Motherboard: Asus Prime X570-P
PSU: ASUS ROG Strix 850W white
These are my current specs what would be the next best upgrade to help get more frames I usually play ultra settings on 2k getting around 60-90 on shooter games

Bought a pc finally and setting it up with excitement. Get everything set and ready turn it on and no signal from pc to monitor. Tried two my girlfriends dell and my Aorus. Nothing on either. Both work when plugged into my Xbox not really sure where to go from here. Tried some online trouble shooting but nothing helped

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.

Hi! Due to all the ram drama, I am considering doing actually a late upgrade for my current system, which would mean replacing my i5 13400 for a 14600k, which wouldn't be a huge upgrade, but about a 20% cpu performance uplift.

I was following the whole degredation issue back then quite intensively but I lost track over time. As far as I remember, it had something to do with both certain voltage things from some mobo bios but mostly it was also bad silicon. However, Intel claimed this had been "fixed" by new bios updates for given motherboards.

Since the cpu would be new, it wouldn't have suffered previous degerdation but the question I ask myself is:

1. Is the potential degredation issue really solved by current mobo bios versions?

1 (b). Has it ever been really solved or was that just an attempt to silence the scandal by intel and in reality, it never has been fully resolved since the chips itself are the problem?

2. If it has been solved, what was the price for it? Do the given cpus perform a tiny bit worse now compared to before, with the old bios versions?

Would appreicate some input due to that.

Recently picked up the LG UltraGear 27G610A (1440p 200Hz) paired with an NVIDIA GPU, and I ran into a really weird brightness issue when toggling HDR in Windows.

Normally in SDR, I keep my monitor brightness at 20%. When I toggle HDR on via Win + Alt + B, the monitor OSD says brightness is at 100%, but the physical screen stays very dim. It turns out the monitor physically locks the backlight to whatever brightness was set in SDR (20%).

If I open the monitor OSD while in HDR and manually nudge the slider from 100 down to 99, the backlight immediately snaps to full brightness. But as soon as I toggle back to SDR and return to HDR, it reverts to being dim again.

I also confirmed that if I raise SDR brightness to 100% first and then enable HDR, HDR turns on at full brightness right away. So the monitor seems to be failing to push the HDR backlight command during the handshake.

A few things I already checked:

• Smart Energy Saving is disabled (and grayed out in HDR anyway).
• Tested across Gamer 1 and Gamer 2 profiles.
• Factory reset the monitor settings.
• This model has no USB upstream port, so firmware updates through PC software are not an option.

Has anyone else with the 27G610A noticed this? Is this just burned-in firmware behavior on all units, or did I get a defective scaler that warrants a replacement?

I just bought a pc 3 days ago and it was running completely fine , i started downloading my games and apps then i decided that i wanted to use signalRGB since i couldn’t understand openRGB and i wanted to sync up my gpu and ram to the fans and gpu cooler , after downloading the app it gave me a warning about a conflict with it and other apps on my pc and told me that it would cause flickers as long as i have the other apps opened so i tried closing them but couldn’t figure out what was causing the conflict so i deleted the app but the flickers never stopped , i tried refreshing my gpu and redownloading the last driver update and closing G-sync and then i a ddu software to uninstall the gpu drivers completely but nothing worked so i bought a new display port cable but that didnt fix it so i went on the registry editor and added a specific thing that stopped the flickering but once i opened the pc today it was back again , the only way i could stop the flickering was to turn my monitor down to 144hz not 240hz and thats the only way i can stop the flickering and i worried that if i factory rest my pc i would lose my windows license and that that it wont really help .

Ps : i use wallpaper engine but over the 2 computers i owned in my life the app never caused an issue and it was running fine before signalRGB .

My pc specs are:

Cpu: i3-9100f

Gpu: gtx 1660

Ram: ramsta 16gb 2666mhz

Storage: 500gb intel 670p nvme ssd

Motherboard: MSI 365M PRO-vh

Psu: RAVE 500w 80+ white true rated

Cpu cooler: stock intel cooler

(This setup is a few years old already)

I also have a few peripherals plugged in like a Logitech speaker, my keyboard, wifi dongle, ethernet, and a backlight monitor rgb sync

My question are:

• is it worth it to upgrade my cpu to a 2nd hand intel i7-9700 i found on fb marketplace?

• If it is then can my psu handle it?

• And also is the intel stock cooler enough for the i7-9700?

i bought a pc with 7500f 9060xt 16gb ddr5.,b850m
i realised with same price i could have 16gb ddr4 9070gre 5 5600.
I literally got my pc just a week before 9060xt price hike

Spilt a small amount of water into my pc while it was on and it restarted. immediately shut it off but didn't unplug any power cables and left the mains power on. Fours hours later its not turning on, only then removed the gpu and ram and letting my pc airdry with a fan in front of it. Whats the odds it turns on or works, and what should i do?

Game runs 2 to 4 times better than the emulated PS3 version. Has DLSS/Frame gen support and keyboard and mouse. As someone who was dying to play this game again on PC, this is amazing.

Main issue currently are shader compilation stutters (in uncharted 1 and 2) and crashes (in 3). But this is from the same person who ported Bloodborne and they fixed a lot of those in less than a week last time.

Showcase and quick guide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHHDFIXaMLg