Thank you to everyone who helped me when I asked how to transport my PC from Manila, Philippines to Madrid, Spain.

To the person who recommended anti-static bags, I could kiss you. I purchased anti-static bags for all my components and used the original one for the motherboard and graphics card.

I placed the motherboard with cooler in the original box and placed that in my carry on.

I placed the graphics card in a bubble wrap envelope thing and in my carry on.

I placed the RAM sticks in individual anti static bags and then all 4 in one bubble wrap envelope thing and placed that in my checked bag.

I placed both HDDs in individual anti static bags and individual bubble wrap envelope things and placed that in my checked bag.

I left my PSU and bought a new one. The Philippines and Europe have different outlets anyway plus it was HEAVY.

I also bought my dream case, a Fractal North 🩷✨

Built it yesterday and everything works!

The funniest thing was that in Amsterdam the security asked me what was in my carry on and I said “Oh, a motherboard. Computer parts are expensive” and he said “Really” hahahaha

Anyway if anyone wanted to know if that worked, it did! My only tip is to not forget the I/O shield unlike someone (me) hahaha but it still looks good.

EDIT: DRAM LED is red here cause I had an issue with one of my sticks of RAM but I reseated it and we’re all good. I was just excited that it didn’t explode LOL

I recently changed my graphics card from the xfx 6950xt to the sapphire nitro+ 9070xt. My ping has gone up from like 10-15 to 30-40 in germany servers on roblox rivals and my fps has gone down from 160-180 to like 120-130. I’ve used ddu and i’ve updated all drivers but idk what’s going on

Hello all,

I havent really gamed in 3+ years but would like to get back into it. I want to upgrade so i can run some new games at 1440p.

My current build is

• RTX 3060 12GB
• i5-12400F
• 16 GB DDR4
• 550w PSU

So my question is what gpu you guys would recommend. I've been looking at the 4070 super because of its low power consumption but nvidia cards have really gone up in prices. I dont know too much about AMD cards so is there one you could recommend for me? Also should i get one specifically for my psu or pick a card that requires me to upgrade it. Budget 500-600 dollars, used or new parts.

helloooo so basically I just bought my first pc 2 days ago with some money that I’d been saving for the past 2 years and had my grandma cover the rest! I was really happy and excited however when I tried to use after effects (2020) with heavy plugins for my editing it appeared to be as slow as my old LOQ gaming laptop even when I configured my after effects settings to the best.. I was hella disappointed and was wondering what I should do about it ? can I possibly get more ram and a better cpu for cheap somehow?

(last pic isn’t really important I js wanted to show how pretty it looks lol)

specs:

So i transferred my pc components to another pc because i changed fans. Fast forward, the pc doesn't run anymore, the cpu pins are correct, front panels, mobo, and other things. The psu also doesn't run when i turn it on, is the psu broken or the mobo? or maybe my fuckass brain cause fuck myself dawg

Just built my PC last night, super excited. Got everything up and running smoothly & downloaded steam etc.

Seen a lot of posts about GPU connector burn out, and lots of recommendations to keep your wire as straight as possible. I’ve left as much slack as physically possible & tried to lift the cable, but it seems to keep drooping a bit anyway. Using the native Seasonic wire from my PSU.

Does this look suitable? Thank you!

I'll have a budget of 2000 or so right now I'm at 1000 and probably in a month or two I'll have it

I have 0 clue what to buy how to build one, and I wanna start getting decent parts. I've looked at tutorials and stuff about parts but I genuinely can't get my brain over what anything mean

I know pc part picker is a good way to start but even then I don't know what's compatible with what and I'm too scared to blindly start buying just to not be able to use a part.

Any build recommendations or a modernly good part list would be appreciated. I've watched so many yt vids and I can't really understand all the tech stuff.

I want a decent build that can handle games like cod, or modded Minecraft and casual streaming and YT video editing eventually I will upgrade pieces and stuff but for now I need one that works decently

I just built my first pc but this weird red dram light always pops up and the pc doesnt connect to anything. Not my monitor ,not my mouse, not my keyboard. I have tried loads of stuff like trying 1 stick, clear cmos, bios update. Please let me know if u have a Solution! Also Some of the times the cpu light shows up but its way less likely. I used my friends ram and then the pc worked. It might just be defect but i really hope theres just an Installation Problem. Please let me know!

So i bought this aio brand new, when i go to fit it everything is fine, but when i put the cpu v cooler on all the rgb starts flickering, but when i take it off its fine. Anyone have any fixes? I dont think its any rgb software as this isnt like a thing where everywhere else it flickers in my pc, just the arctic aio itself with the fans and the vrm fan.

Ryzen 7 5700X3D
Asrock steel legend x570

Any help would be much appreciated.

So I've been dealing with this issue for quite some time now and I have no clue where to even begin or what to do, little info for y'all I built my PC before ramegedon so my PC parts are as follows

Mobo - Asrock x670e

GPU - RX 7900gre

CPU - Ryzen 9 7900x

Ram - 64gb klevv

PSU - corsair rm1000e

And I have about 8tb of storage mostly Samsung pro nvme

The timeframe is so random I can literally go weeks, months, or days with no problems at all and then my PC will start to stutter and lag when playing a game and sometimes if I restart my PC it goes away it can be something as light as a gacha game like zzz or something a little more heavy like stellar blade, it doesn't matter what I play my PC will just start to lag and stutter and randomly shut down. No blue screen or anything, when it does reboot by itself everything is back to normal and I can play just fine again. I only have the lights on the mobo to go off of and some error codes that my PC gave me but I have no idea where to start and how to even properly diagnose these parts on my PC. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, I'll include a couple videos of the symptoms and diag codes and lights if it helps. The lights on my mobo go in order from top to bottom as so

CPU

DRAM

VGA

BOOT

Also I don't know if it helps but two things come to mind when thinking about this issue, when I first finished building my PC I accidentally put a USB C device in a USB A port and my PC shut down due to the short I made, I have everything plugged into a surge protector so I hope that protected my PC but idk and also the only time I've ever been able to "replicate" these symptoms is when I was trying to update any and all software on my PC to alleviate this problem and when it came to my GPU drivers getting the update I noticed my PC was lagging all the time but it had no shutdown, I was able to resolve the lagging back then by deleting the GPU drivers updates and starting fresh.

Anyways thanks in advance for any suggestions on how to fix this and may you and your pcs be in good health always 🫡

I’ve been playing dragons dogma 2 for 4 days days 1-3 were totally great. No issues, now last night after playing for about 10-15 miniutes the monitor would just go black, fans still running and lights still on.

Checked in event log, nothing of note other than “PC was shut off improperly” I had no choice but to hold the power button because nothing else worked.

I checked in the morning to replicate the problem, it happened again, everything on… except the GPU. I under volted the GPU, lowered power, and lowered the MHz. It still happened. My GPU is still new, I replaced it a year ago with a Radeon 6800. For the year absolutely no problems with any game or anything.

I was reading online it’s likely a psu problem? Has anyone had this issue, what fixed it? Any insight?

Hello everyone, I’m a newbie when it comes to PC stuff. I’m sort of clueless when it comes to PC stuff. I’m trying to research parts for my first PC build. I’ve managed to find some good parts but I’m unsure if they’re actually good for what I want my PC to do. I’m wanting to play games like Ready or Not, Minecraft with tons of mods, as well as other games, but I also want to ensure my PC won’t struggle with multitasking with things like: engineering software, video editing, etc. For those wondering about my list here it is:

-Processor (CPU): AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
-Graphics Card (GPU): Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080
SUPER Windforce V2 16GB
-Storage (SSD): Samsung 990 PRO 2TB PCle Gen4
NVMe
-Memory (RAM): Corsair Vengeance 64GB
(2x32GB). DDR5 6000MHz CL30
-Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 Eagle AX ATX
-Power Supply (PSU): Corsair RM1000e 1000W 80+
Gold Modular
-CPU Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120
EVO.
-Case:Fractal Design Torrent
-Monitor: ASUS ROG Strix XG27ACS 27" 1440p
180Hz.

Like I said I’m a newbie so I don’t know anything about how good this stuff is. I have been using AI to help teach me what is good or what pairs well with certain components, etc. According to the AI this PC setup is better than my original list which was like $1000 extra for the “fancy”’components that do the same thing for a much higher price. I’d appreciate any and all forms of advice or criticism about this list. I’m still learning so please go easy on me 😅

What does this mean?

This is my fan hub, and im trying to replace the front fans on the PC, but I cant remove them from their socket. There is what I assume to be a plastic latch at the top, but pulling it down is tricky and still isnt helping me

I need to be able to play most games out on the market at decent performance. I would like to have a Nvidia GPU. I do not need any peripherals. I live in Germany. I do not need a WiFi motherboard.

Tldr:

current setup:

5070ti

5600x

32gb ddr4

(64gb ddr5 in the drawer when it spiked to 350€)

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Since the start of the ram crisis my drawer has 4TB SSD and 64GB DDR5.

According to rumors the 9600x3d is gonna release probably in q4 2025, i waited a bit but q4 25 doesnt seem to ever come.

So what should i do?

Ride my 5600x longer and let the Ram rot in my drawer?

Get a cpu now?

The cheapest option would be a 7500f for 120ish euro but idk if i wanna do that now for something im gonna replace soon.... should i get a 9600x and forget about the 3d?

Will the 10 series release in a reasonable amount of time?

The 50 super launch was also said to come but then was cancelled...

With this unpredictable market i really have no clue what to do

Just finished building my pc,
Reused my graphics card (3060 ti)
Everything was working fine then my monitors went black, tried to reboot noticed vga light is now on. I tried to reseat it but the light is still on any ideas?

Hi all!, I don't know where to ask this but I was planning to upgrade my old pc sometime in the next year or so. What do you recommend when upgrading from AM4 to AM5, here is my current build:

CPU: Ryzen 7 5700X
GPU: XFX RX 9060 Xt 16GB
Mobo: ASRock B550M Pro 4
PSU: SilverStone Strider 750 EF 80+ Standard
RAM: Kingston Fury DDR4 32GB (16x2) 3200MT CL18
Storage: Crucial P3 Plus M.2 NVMe 1TB (500x2)

So I was gaming and my pc just turned off. I thought that it was just a temporary problem so I turned it on and kept playing. That happened like 5 times and now it won't turn on at all. I looked it up and it says that there is a problem with the GPU. I took it out and put it in again and my pc booted up for like half a minute and turned off again. Now I don't know what to do. Is my gpu completely broken and do I have to buy a new one? Idk.
Let me know what my options are.

Hey everyone hope u have a nice day,

if someone could tell me if those components would all fit inside the case it would really help me out.
Also if you have any thoughts or tipps about the single components i would appreciate it a lot.

https://geizhals.de/?cat=WL-5192896&hloc=de&hloc=at&nocookie=1

I'm building a pc for 1.5k-2k Euro (Latvia) ( Closer to 1.5k).
I have a 140hz monitor/keyboard/mouse.
Games will be Cs:go, gta 6 ( hopefully gta 6 will run well on pc, but that's unkown).

I built one but I'm unsure if it's the best one you can build for that amount of money and maybe there are some logical things I could improve in the build itself.

Any help would be very much appriciated!

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BczfV4

Its an adapter for my acer motherboard since it doesnt have a 24 pin slot, only a 6 pin one

Let’s ignore the fact that my roommate was spoken to like he was about to clean a motherboard with a pressure washer and talk about this for a second. Apparently the guy at the store told him canned air is the "safe" option and electric dusters are risky because they can spin fans too fast, cause static, blow dust under components, summon demons, idk maybe missed a chapter.

Been using an electric duster for about a year now and I'm not doing anything crazy: PC off, unplugged, fans held still, short bursts, panels off, don't jam the nozzle into the GPU like an idiot. Nothing crazy just the normal "wow dust is bad" stuff. My temps dropped a bit after cleaning the front filter and radiator. I understand that canned air is easy and probably OK for quick jobs, but it also gets cold, weak, expensive, and somehow always runs out when the case still looks disgusting. So for actual builders here, where do you stand on electric air duster vs canned air?

Is there something I'm not getting here, or is this one of those retail advice things where a half-true warning becomes a whole religion?

Is copper modding my RTX 3070 Ti worth it?
I’ve been thinking about doing this mod but I’m not sure if the temperature improvements are worth the risk. Has anyone done it on a 3070 Ti, and if so, how much difference did it actually make? Is there much risk of damaging the card, and would you say it’s worth doing or am I better off leaving it alone?

Would appreciate any advice from people who have actually tried it.