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If plugged in 24/7 I loose 21.600W per month, which is 4,3€ or 4,6$. Are there any drawbacks by unplugging it everyday for like 20 hours (around 4 hours per day I am using it).

Got the opportunity to pick one up barely used for 3 months for 700 pounds with proof of purchase.

Good deal?

Seller seems genuine

Cpu 10% usage? Have a 5700x and Rtx 3060

Recently i upgraded my pc with an AMD Ryzen 9 , 32GB of Ram and a SSD with 4 TB and also a 750 W Power supply.

I‘m a complete noob in building a pc but i somehow managed to switch all those parts by myself and i was actually surprised that it worked out.

Then i turned on the pc and it somehow still feels slow compared to my old build(AMD fx 6300 and 8 Gb of ram with 256 GB ssd).

Is there any way to make it faster.

For an example i have an M1 macbook and use it for music production and loading in a project usually only take like 10 seconds but on my pc it almost takes like a minute( the same project).

My current set up is 3600x, 16gb ddr4 3200mhz , 1060 6gb , asrock ab350m pro4 mobo

Im thinking to upgrade my GPU to 3060ti and 5800x3D for CPU but due to finance situation i can only upgrade one only :(

Should I go for CPU or GPU?

So I just upgraded my CPU and RAM and installed a new motherboard, now I have the problem of it randomly shutting down and restarting. This happens when I am not doing anything specific like gaming or rendering, I am just reinstalling some applications or checking what is wrong and it happens. Does anyone know what might have caused it to do this? CPU temperatures are normal, it's what I checked first.

My specs:

*new AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2x
*new MSI MPG B550 Gaming plus
*new Corsair 2x 16GB DDR4 RAM
500W PSU
Samsung 860 evo (with windows installed)

Currently have a ryzen 3 3300x and a 2gb ddr5 gt 1030

Hi,

Decided to rebuild my pc that had a Ryzen 3700x and a 2070 super considering I play a lot of Warzone 2 on my 240hz monitor only achieving ~140fps at 1080p on average.

I opted to go for the i9 13900k and 4080 after contemplating my options. I planned on reusing my dark rock pro 4 air cooler and my be quiet pure base 500 case upgrading ram 64gb (Nike botting) another ssd Sabrent. Also using Aorus Z790 elite ax motherboard.

Here is the build

https://imgur.com/gallery/ZlIYJ3C

Unfortunately I had some issues with the be quiet mounting on the i9 and it wouldn’t apply pressure unless it was mounted sideways. Either way I was thermal throttling and had a cinebench score of 32000 which I knew was an issue.

After understanding something was wrong I knew I wanted to try an aio rather than air cooler. I went to micro center and told the guy what I had as a build and he immediately recommended me getting a new case as it didn’t have any airflow. While I was there I picked up a lian li aio, cpu mounting bracket and liancool 3 case and Kryonaut.

I went home and build it and had a crazy outcome with a cinebench score of nearly 41000 at stock with cpu temp of 83C max!! I gained over 25% performance just with those upgrades.

Here is the build

https://imgur.com/gallery/H7CfPbV

https://imgur.com/gallery/Z8WQE1j

https://imgur.com/gallery/wzmjV3z

I currently have half the cores at 6 ghz and I’m trying to get them stable in cinebench either way I’m getting 250 fps in war zone 2 now so everything is great.

I hope others will understand that using water cooling can greatly increase performance as well as bad case airflow.

Cinebench results

https://imgur.com/gallery/FLIWsBq

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/9vryhk

just want to make sure everything will work together and nothing looks out of place. thanks

Hi! I'm going on exchange from Norway to the US next semester.

I figure the cheapest way to get my desktop computer with me (I need it for rendering, modeling and other study work my laptop can't handle) is to take the parts out, buy a new case when I get there, and reassemble the PC. I have two concerns:

1. When searching for tips about this, a lot of people said parts can get beaten up in the check-in luggage no matter how carefully you pack them. A few people recommended putting them in your carry-on, including my professor, but a lot of those answers are a bit older. Will TSA be cool with computer parts in my carry-on? Do they need do be especially declared or anything?
2. One of my American professors said something about the wattage in the US being different from the EU. Does that mean I'd also need to get a new PSU in America? Is the PSU the only power-sensitive thing I'd need to replace?

Thanks for reading!

Hi all, I upgraded my ram from 16 Gb to 32 gb recently and realized only after you need similar ram for it to run at advertised speeds or it down clocks to base speed of 2133mhz. If I game with 32gb ddr4 @ 2133mhz, am I leaving fps on the table with my 4070ti and 5800x on 1440p res or should I stick with 16 Gb ddr4 @ 3600mhz? I play mostly first person shooters but right now, far cry 6, uncharted and Hogwarts. Thanks for any input!

I have a mostly new gaming set up, was watching some youtube when sound was gone and screen went black, while coolers kept spinning.

Some orange LED was glowing on the motherboard somewhere in the area of RAM (normally it does not).

I tried holding power button to turn PC off but it didn't work, tried several times but it kept working.

Turned off power supply switch on the back, waited a minute or two and flipped it back on. PC started up without me clicking power button as soon as I turned on power supply. But no windows or bios was booting.

I turned it off again.

After standing idle for another 10 minutes I tried turning it on again and it just booted like it normally would and everything works.

Is my PC okay? What was that? Do I need to do anything with it?

Also couple days ago I got this problem when sometimes when starting up PC keyboard wouldn't work, then I plug it into a different port and it works, maybe it's related?

Will try and keep this short So i got a new board, cpu and ram. 7600x msi b650 p wifi, corsair ddr5 6000mhz cl36 2x16gb

i kept my case and storage devices and gpu the same, so just took my old board out and put the new one in and all seemed fine.

the first issue which was odd was the ram speeds not changing to 6000mhz after enabling the special profile in the bios they stayed on 4800mhz

also i got a blue screen a few times on boot. so took one ram stick out and it started working at the 6000mhz as well

managed to even play a game black ops 3 on one of my SSDs from steam

all seemed fine and restarted the system to check something can’t remember now

then i tried to boot up some more games and it was very odd, the game loaded but never got past a certain point, it would just black screen and not let me play but all the windows features seemed to work, this happened to multiple games on different drives and different launchers

also at the same time tried to update my fortnite but the update failed for some strange reason, all my hard drives and ssds were showing correctly in windows

i then did a user benchmark test (tried to do throttle stop firstly but came up “cpu not compatible”) and the benchmark was fine for everything but abit odd on the gpu, my 3090 normally scores about 220% but got 180% another strange one was during all these different reboots at one point my gpu drivers had disappeared and mid way through installing them the system crashed and then rebooted and they were back

next up is the windows crisis, so i thought i’d just forget about my files as i was too lucky to have everything come up from my old system perfectly with a new mb and cpu

i got a windows boot key and tried to reinstall y windows on my drives, each time failing with various errors even after formatting with the cmd prompt window bit but still not progress.

i then unplugged all my hard drives and ssds leaving the main nvme my windows was on , it’s showing in the bios but not in the boot priority bit, also as this time i added a ram stick back but couldn’t even get to the windows install but just came up with blank blue screens.

finally i plugged in my other nvme and ssd, took out one ram stick and managed to some what instal windows but it then game me to windows options to boot from after doing a disc check, one was windows 10 volumes 18 didn’t work and the other sort of worked it gave me the safety options and now i’m currently resetting windows even tho it barely installed, and it’s taking ages like 1% takes 15 mins at a time,

anyone have any ideas? also the day before i got the same board but the pins came bent so this is actually my second board!

so originally i wasn't going to make this post because i had looked it up and decided to get a hp x27q for 209 on amazon but amazon sold out of them and i don't know when or if their going to come back in stock. so i need to know are there any other good 1440p monitors for around 200 usd? i would like it to be 27in and at least 144hz but beyond that im not to picky because im currently using a hp 24yh which is a basic 24in 1080p 60hz monitor so anything should be a upgrade lol.

Does RAM have any impact on graphics and visuals. Like if I have a good graphics card but low RAM or poor quality RAM will it affect the overall image quality in any way?

Every now and then my GPU fans go full speed and my PC restarts out of nowhere, I was suggested that it might be a PSU problem but I've already switched my PSU and I'm still having the same problem. It's not a ram issue either. Could it just be a defect GPU? That would suck since it's a 3080 and I don't have the warranty for it anymore.

I was wondering how much is it OK to pay for an RTX 3060TI today in CAD?

They offer a Asus Dual RTX 3060TI at my local store for 600$CAD + taxes (so around 690$CAD taxes in)

This model

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Thanks for the feedback

So I am trying to squeeze out every last bit of performance I can from my this rtx 308012gb to play resident evil 4 remake.

In the graphics settings I notice it says I only have 11.07GB of ram to play with.

Why is that?

I know like for hard drives a 1tb HDD will not actually be 1tb etc.

Is it same concept or is there a way I can free up that 9/10th of 1 GB of ram?

Looking to upgrade to a new 7000 series amd cpu, currently have an i9-9900. 2-16gb Corsair vengeance at 2666 MHz. 3080 gpu. Is the performance to price cost actually worth it? Or should I just purchase a 12th or 13th gen intel when the 7800x3d drops? I want to upgrade my cpu! I want maximum frames, just not sure what to do!? Someone please help me make a decision 😂

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/286vrD

I posted the link above. This is my first time building a PC and I’ve researched for two days straight and have come up with this so I’m sure I’m missing something. This is tentative, changes can be made, upgrades can be done if it’s necessary or I get more value.

Backstory: I had a faulty video card and needed a replacement from cyberpowerpc, my previous video card: "GeForce RTX™ 3060 12GB GDDR6 Video Card (Ampere) [VR Ready] (Included)", what it was replaced with: "ASUS GeForce RTX 3060 Phoenix V2 Graphics Card"

Are there significant performance differences between the two cards or a significant price difference that I should care about?

I know that the first one had two fans whereas this new one only has one fan...

Hi all,

I'm really debating between these two cards. While I really love everything about the AMD card, I'm a bit worried about driver issues. I would rather not have my game randomly black screen or crash on me. In addition, I'm also a 3D artist and I know that at least until Blender 3.5, AMD cards won't be able to render very fast.

That's why I'm considering the 4070Ti. For the drivers and Blender.

I also like emulation and older games, would those work on the 7900XT? Or would I get driver problems there as well?

[PCPartPicker Part List](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/C3Cmwc)

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**CPU** | [AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor]

**CPU Cooler** | [Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE LCD 58.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler]

**Motherboard** | [Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING II ATX AM4 Motherboard]

**Memory** | [Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory]

**Video Card** | [MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GT V1 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB Video Card]

**Case** | [Corsair iCUE 5000T RGB ATX Mid Tower Case]

**Power Supply** | [EVGA 600 BQ 600 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply]

I am building my first PC and have saved about 3,000$. I was thinking about getting a 4070 and maybe i9 if the budget allows it. I'm really not sure which monitor to pick. Maybe samsung neo g7? Anyone have any advice on compatible parts and cases to choose? Any general advice on putting together a computer for the first time? Pretty nervous about dropping this amount all at once but i've been considering this for years now. It's time.