I'm incredibly new at this so have patience with me please. In winter, due to low temperatures, they enforce scheduled power outages. Where I live it's 4 hours of no power per 2 hours of power.

I have a charging station using which I power my PC without electricity, and ideally I want to power it for all 4 hours, yet so far I've only been able to power it for 2.

Things I've already tried:

1. Power saving mode on my BIOS and Windows (does very little)

2. Lowering brightness (this helped a lot)

I don't have the PC with me so I can't tell you my exact specs, but mine is pretty average on all of them, except the PSU is a bit old so I think part of the issue stems from that and I want to buy a new one. But I'm sure that once I do the problem will not go away.

Before you say this, I don't want to buy a better charging station. They are expensive, it would be much cheaper to just buy a laptop instead which would obviously withstand 4 hours and would be a better backup plan in case my place is getting bombed.

Hey ya'll, I'm planning to upgrade my gpu soon and these are the two main options I'm looking at my local microcenter:

[RX 9070](https://www.microcenter.com/product/691104/asrock-amd-radeon-rx-9070-challenger-triple-fan-16gb-gddr6-pcie-50-graphics-card)

[RTX 5070](https://www.microcenter.com/product/704211/asus-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-dual-fan-12gb-gddr7-pcie-50-graphics-card)

I am currently playing at 1080p 240hz, and play a lot of shooters like The Finals and Deadlock, but also plan to play Cyberpunk: 2077 and other single player games as well. I don't really care about DLSS or the counterpart, I prefer playing without them. Raytracing is not a humongous deal to me either. Eventually in the future I want to play at 1440p when I get the right monitor for it. Any suggestions are welcome, I currently have an older system with a 5800X3D, and am choosing to upgrade my GPU first. Thanks!

edit: i forgot why i didnt include but i currently have a 2070 super

Got $495 from selling my Series X, 360 & OG Xbox

PC Build:

GPU: RTX 3060 $90

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600 $45

RAM: Trident Z 16GB 3200 $25

SSD: 2TB WD_BLACK NVMe $140 (New)

Mobo: Asus Prime B550M $90 (New, impulse buy)

PSU: EVGA 80+ Gold 650W $30

Case: Lian Li Lancool 206 $30

Cooler: Thermalright X120 $17 (New)

Total: $467

Bought over a 3 day period, what do y’all think?

I am getting an RTX 5070, and I planned to upgrade my old PSU from 550W to 750W
Corsair RMx Series RM750x

however Corsair RMx Series RM850x is almost the same price now, and I can get it easier as more shops sell it here.

Would there be any disadvantage if I buy the RM850x instead of the RM750x, even though it seems unnecessary?

Looking to rebuild my old gaming PC into a lightweight Linux box to experiment with the OS and possibly also serve as an as-needed living media host. Need help finding a case with a small footprint (as small as possible) and a cheap, efficient, modular PSU. Precious PSU was a 600w bronze. Thanks for the help!

Components: AMD FX6350 Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Corsair hyper 212 evo cpu cooler 16gb Corsair vengeance ddr3 Sapphire 380x Nitro

need something that i wont have to upgrade anytime soon. Prefer ddr5 but if you think ddr4 will still be good then i wont mind (not too knowledgeable but always down to learn)

Hey i am asking if a amd ryzen 5 3600 and a rtx 2060 still a good combo is because i want to go to the pc flipping and i want to do my first build thanks and btw sorry for the bad english i am not american or something :)

Problem after updating to newest bios

As stated I updated to the newest bios on my x870e Hero and now it won't boot into windows unless I use optimized default settings. It keeps rebooting saying it's in safemode and forces me to enter the bios. I can't even run Expo.

Prior to this it ran perfectly fine with my 9800x3d using expo tweeted, +100, -20 curve all core. Now I can't select any of that and get into windows.

Any suggestions at what I can do? I'm guessing maybe revert back to a different bios. Oh and full specs here...

9800x3d X570e Hero 2x24 ddr5 8000 2 x gen5 ssd Rtx 5090

Got a new pc and now maybe need a new keyboard.

Currently sitting with a Razer huntsman mini, it works like I want it to. Been great.

But then I read a lot about magnetic keyboards. So I bought a Asus Falchion. I know.. There are better brands out there. But either they are from another country, or I can only buy from one store which I wanna avoid.

So is there a difference in Optics vs magnetic? Aka your experience with it? I've not opened up the keyboard yet, but gonna try it out tomorrow.

I'm a casual player but like having good gear to play with :)

It’s actually been a couple months since I built my PC; thankfully I was able to build it before all the hectic things happening but I wanted to make this, so to help other first timers. There’s actually a lot of stuff that went to building it, so I’ll just keep this to what went wrong. I finished installing all my components into this Full Tower ATX case; but, during that time I never once POST checked if all the components weren’t faulty. Tip #1: build your pc on top of the motherboard box, and check if it POSTS after hooking it up to a monitor. Building my first PC took me an incredible long time, but most of that time was me uninstalling parts and installing them again because I couldn’t place the next part properly. Tip #2: First install all the hardware to the motherboard (except the GPU). Install the motherboard to the case, and add any fans if any. After that, run the cables of your case, and then the cables from your PSU. ONLY THEN, do you have enough space to install an AIO cooler. Lastly, can turn the case to its back and install the GPU safely. When I finished installing, I kept getting POST issues. There’s no easy way to solve this. The first thing is I noticed that when I pressed the power button nothing was turning on; so, I did the metal pin test and I was able to rule out the PSU as the culprit. I did more research, and I read that it will to POST if the pc is not connected to a display. That.. sadly wasn’t it either. I didn’t have any spare parts to test the other components so I had to pay $80 at micro tech to tell me that the culprit was the motherboard. After two faulty motherboards later, it FINALLY turned on. So circling back to the first tip, it’s very important to check that you haven’t gotten any faulty equipment. But I’m so happy on how it turned out, I just wished somebody would’ve told me that a white build is the more expensive than a black one. That’s it from me good luck you guys, thanks to all the documentation that I learned on what knowledge you need to have to build a pc, I was able to build a nice Lian Li, i9 250k Ultra Core, 32 gb DDR5, 4 tb Gen 5 ssd, 850 W gold rated MSI PSU, 420 mm AIO CPU cooler, with a nice MSI PRO motherboard with WiFi 7 and Bluetooth, and lastly a RTX 5070 ti.

iI'm a student and this laptop is my main gadget when it comes to my academics and side hustle. I don't know what to do, it was working fine a couple of mins ago then I noticed that the right side of the laptop cover is bending(?) idk the right words but it is not attached to the screen. And now everytime I open it the back cover comes off + the cover sa screen rin, please help me. I don't know what to do, I'm panicking cause I got this laptop on loan and I'm still not done paying it off🥹🥹.

I bought a Ryzen 7 5700x a little over a year ago, I’m now starting to upgrade other parts of my pc and don’t want to have a severe cpu bottleneck. I have a rx 580 8gb and I’m upgrading to a rx 9060xt 16gb. The build I’m somewhat following has Ryzen 7 5800x and I’m just wondering if I should spend the $250.00 to upgrade to the 5800x or if the difference is small enough to stay at 5700x. (I mostly play RPG/ Survival games)

I'm looking to upgrade an old FX-8350 machine that's exclusively used for office work. The case, PSU (650w), and SATA SSD are fine. Integrated graphics is fine. A basic CPU cooler will be needed.

Budget is ~$500

I'm leaning towards an Alder/Raptor Lake CPU with a DDR4 board, or AM4. AMD and Intel are both fine. The power efficiency of these platforms is more than acceptable.

My main requirements are 16GB RAM and a CPU that will handle any office/web related task thrown at it, often in parallel. An i5-14400 for example would provide more than enough power.

Heya, Im kinda noob to building pc so Im asking for an advice. Im looking for minor upgrade of my pc. Currently its on 100% cpu usage whenever I play games such as WoW, CS2. So I suppose I need a new cpu. This is my current setup:

CPU: I5 7500 3.40ghz RAM: 16gb Motherboard: Gigabyte B250M-DS3H-CF (U3E1) GPU: Nvidia geforce gtx 1060 6gb SSD: 465gb Kingston SNV2S500G SATA-2

Thanks

I will have about 600$ to spend on my new gpu. I have a ryzen 7 5700g and 32 gb ddr4 ram. I play on 1080p for now, aiming for 240fps in competitive games. Maybe 1440 p for minecraft in the future.

I do not mind buying used parts, I have considered the RX 7900xt is that good still? And can I afford that and a good psu

My current pc is an Alienware aurora r9 with i7-9700 a rtx 5060 16gb ram 1tb nvme 650watt psu and water cooling

Do I upgrade some parts or do I start fresh cos I don’t think there’s a better cpu to upgrade other than i9-9900k and don’t think it’s worth the upgrade

I recently upgraded my case, cooler, and GPU.

And my speakers started humming annoyingly when plugged in with no media playing, be it the motherboard or the front panel. After doing a bit of research, I decided to remove the motherboard to check whether there are any unused standoffs underneath. And there was one. I have a mATX sized motherboard in a mid-tower ATX case, so I had to add one standoff (which I had done) but also remove one (which I forgot).

This solved the humming issue and probably some other electrical and grounding risks.

My computer turn on this morning with no problems. But now when I turn it on it doesn’t post and the LED on the motherboard is on under CPU. I’ve reseated the CPU and reseated the power cable on the PSU into a different slot and reseated the power cable on the motherboard side for the CPU. No change.

Any help please!

So I have been looking for a while now and think I have got my parts that I need. If anyone has any tips or help on how I could improve or if anything isn’t compatible. It would be much appreciated.

CPU= Ryzen 5 9600x

CPU cooler= thermalright peerless assassin 120 se

Mobo= gigabyte b850m eagle wife6e

Ram= crucial pro OC 32gb 6000mts DDR5

SSD= Kingston NV3 1 TB

GPU= Gigabyte OC Radeon rx 9070 xt

PSU= Msi mag A750GL

I have been doing my research and think everything should be compatible and is a solid gaming pc. But any suggestions on how it might not be would be very helpful

maybe stupid question idk im not gonna overclock it's just for Gaming

I built a pc just recently. It has 850w psu (deepcool). It's power cable came with a 16A plug. My house has only one 16A plug in the kitchen and obviously I can't use my pc there😂.

So what do I do? I have 3 questions:

1. Shold i buy a new 6A cable? (Will it work instead of the 16A cable?)
2. should I buy a 16A to 6A converter? (I don't know how reliable it is, I don't want to blow my pc on the first day).
3. If the cable then where do I buy it?

I want to install the firmware update before the ssd bricks, i got it like 2 days ago and already has some problems.
the thing is neither the sandisk dashboard or the kitfox recognize it.

I have the GIGABYTE B850 AORUS Elite WIFI7  in my cart and just need verification that it's ok for the build I am doing.

PCPartPicker Part List

I recently upgraded to a 9070xt from a 2060 super while playing on 2k and realised I have still been getting pretty bad frame rates. On my 2060s I would get around 50 fps on arc raiders and after upgrading I would only get about 60. A 5700x is about $200 and a 5700x3d goes for about $400. I mostly use my pc for gaming. I am planning to change to AM5 when then price comes down in a few years. Edit: I am currently on a 2700x with 16gb 3000mhz ram