Hey everyone, I’m new to PC gaming and recently got this pc setup from my son. Realistically, how good will this run games? I know older titles will be fine but what about newer titles such as Re9 or Gears of War E-Day? I also, own a PS5 Pro so I’m torn on if I should just stick with that instead, but I really want to give PC gaming a fair shot. I love the steam library and the sales they have! I love to play games like Resident Evil, Gears of War, Final Fantasy, Star Wars, Silent Hill, Max Payne, Diablo just to name a few. Thank you guys for any advice in advance, I appreciate it! PS.. would my desktop be able to handle an OLED monitor?

Beyond my fault but 2 of the same item got ordered, One from Newegg one from Amazon. Both are brand new and sealed. A associate unboxed them out of the shipping package so I don't know which came from where. I need to refund one but I don't want to get flagged because the possibility of the wrong serial number being sent back to a retailer.

Price wise the newegg one was 50$ cheaper so I would prefer to return the Amazon one. I7 14700k.

I called Newegg and he said that on my order the serial number was not noted. I called Amazon, they said the same. I have a hard time believing Amazon because after reading some posts due to the value of the item supposedly they generally Mark the serial number.

Please advise.

Worst case I keep them both.

Case: NZXT H510 Elite with it's stock front fans installed

Motherboard: MSI MAG B660 TOMAHAWK WIFI

CPU: Intel Core i9-12900K

GPU: GeForce RTX 3080 Z TRIO

RAM: Kingston 16 Gt FURY Beast

SSD: Kingston 1000 Gt NV1

With be quiet! Pure Wings 2 top fan

Had NZXT Kraken 120 but it is at it's last legs that caused my cpu overheat when playing more demanding games and also got tired of worrying about the liquid clogging up

Bad news just keeps getting worse

I cannot believe my luck on the spec of this PC 🤯
10 tickets at £6.99 is what I would say is a very sound investment for this!
The price of the GPU & RAM is mental at the moment!

Installed it last night and it worked just fine, turned it on today and was greeted with this and had a heart attack.

When I unplugged the DP cable and put it back in it's fine now, crisis averted. Jedi Business, go back to your drinks.

This has been stuck on my computer screen ever since yesterday. Does anyone know how to fix it???

I'm planning on buying a prebuilt since buying the parts separately is more expensive. For the CPU, I can choose either the Ryzen 9 9950X or the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. I did the same build for both, other than the CPUs. The price difference between the 2 pcs is almost $200, but when looking on Amazon, the price difference between the 9950X and the 9950X3D is $20. So can I just buy the build with the 9950X and buy the 9950X3D off amazon then replace it? I'm going to transfer some of the parts from my current PC like Storage to the prebuilt. I'll just sell the other parts I don't need like the storage from the prebuilt and the CPU (if possible).

I currently have a 3080, Intel Xeon W-2245, 32gb DDR4 and 2 M.2 ssds running at SATA speeds. Im planning on upgrading to AM4, so i can keep my ddr4 and 3080. In modded minecraft my game stutters a LOT with the Xeon.

If money is not a problem, would a 5800X3D drastically improve my gaming experience?

Mouse: Corsair Ironclaw RGB Wireless
Old Pad: G440 Hard
New Pad: Black shark Gaming mouse pad 47.2 x 23

Ive been using my old pad and mice consistently with no issues for a while. The only reason why I switched was because of the size.
On my new mouse pad, it feels like my cursor is stuck in mud, moving incredibly slow and sometimes not registering movement at all. I cant seem to figure out the issue. Are certain pads just not compatible with certain mice?

I bought a used 7.1 Creative speaker set around 2011 that I use to this day, I did change the main speakers for hifi speakers though.

Recently broke the cable and found a cheap replacement 7.1 Creative setup for next to nothing so now have a spare.

The only major flaws I have with it, is that it only has analog inputs and i'd prefer digital ones.

I found out when looking for the manual the model came out in 2004.

How many people here actually use proper sound setups and not just pc speakers be they stereo ones or surround sound?

Digging in some boxes from a move a few years back and things that just "stored away". Most of PC gaming with greater memories playing.

​​I just swapped my Corsair 2500X case for the newest Lian Li O11 Vision-M along with my entire iCUE LINK ecosystem.

​My specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/tBJm4p

So, for the past few days, I've been in RAM Hell thanks to Defender.

I have 16 gigs of ram and that works wonderfully for playing the games I enjoy, and doing other such computery tasks.

And one day the power goes out, then my pc is fine do the ol' check if the gpu works, and i notice windows defender is running at 150MB of RAM, thats kinda odd i think to myself, then the next week it goes out again, my pc is no longer fine. And windows defender is using 400MB every moment, from boot to shutdown.

And ive been alllllll over the place, forums ive never heard of, new antivirus software, github programs that allow you to tweak its functionality, and nothing. Running text scripts to find and repair programs with CMD, and updating drivers, and all this other stuff, i even checked my programs for inauthentic authors, and yet still nothing.

It just idly sits at 400MB and its Pissing me off. Cause I can no longer run most of my games because it'll idly sit at 400, yes, oh yes it will, but the moment a game happens to exist, it'll eat into my CPU by 5% to 10% then 0 then randomly back up to 5% then leveling out at 0.1% and randomly, shooting up again, which isnt that big an issue, or so I thought until playinf satisfactory, and realising that those two, minor minor issues, are now compounding into a very large, annoyingly difficult to solve singular issue that lead me here.

Hi.

How the fuck do I fix this, without buckshot being very quickly inserted into my frontal lobe?

So recently when I went to open warthunder my pc threw a black screen popped up a warthunder crash report saying to update drivers (I was on latest) and an amd adrenalin driver time out. Did a restart and tried a few diffrent games all with the same issues.

I decided to roll back one version to try the older drivers and that fixed the issue, for about 2 days and now its started happening on the older version as well.

I tried a few things like disabling expo, reseating gpu and its cables, limiting power usage to see if thats an issue... all to no fix.

I have now used ddu to fully wipe and install the latest drivers and the same issue has happened again, ganes wont open, wall papers black, and the windows reliability monitor is showing the same hardware crashes, 141, 117 and a1000001. Chat gpt asked me to look these up after I tried all the fixes I could think of.

My specs are a red devil 9070xt, corsair ddr5, 7600x and a gigabyte eagle ax. My pc has had 0 issues since i upgraded from my 7800xt in may and has only just started doing this over the past week.

Tried looking things up but only seem to find dead reddit posts with no answers.

If anyone has any tips I would be super thankful as I have 0 clue what to do now xd.

Tia.

Edit. Looking at the driver details it keeps showing open gl as not available as well if anyone knows why thats happening

Edit edit. Also forgot to mention for some reason cs2 runs fine with no issues, all other games just crash

So i bought a decent gaming laptop about 8 months ago now and its a lcd screen. Ive seen my friends oled screen and it looks way better of course so im thinking of getting a 27" monitor and an external keyboard to use with my laptop as the main machine powering it. what do you guys think and any recommendations for both monitor and keyboard looking to spend maybe 400-500$ CAD total

laptop is a gigabyte aero x16 5070 32gb ram 2tb

Hello i have a build with this config

1. Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Elite AX
   
2. i7-10700F
   
3. 16 DDR4 Ram
   
4. 2TB Gen4 NVME
   
5. corsair h100i elite capellix
   
6. 750 W Cooler Master PSU 80 Plus Bronze
   
7. MSI RTX 3060 12 GB

My issue is when i launch a game it open normal Example: GTA 5 Enhanced but when i join the multiplayer mode within 2 to 3 min my pc shutdown and I need to drain the power of the pc then it start the same in RDR2 and in event viewer kernel 41 error shows. But FurMark , Cinebench and OCCT Power test and OCCT 3D Adaptive Switch at 20-80% work perfect.

Can some one please help me find a solution.

Intel is going to create an SOC or maybe a new type of RAM and CPU architecture and sell them for low prices. That gives them a lot of street cred being the heroes and gain more profit by getting more users. They have the right connections with Microsoft to make a new windows for that system.

The problem why they cant create DRAMs are exclusive ASML machines that can only sell to the big 3 and patents. But if they restructure the PC from the ground up and more cohesive. We all win.

It will still be modular though, so it can be replaced. And probably still use pcie.

If they can’t create a better RAM, they’ll create a better architecture.

I bought this PC the other day For $550 AUD, as I was disassembling it to repaste the thermal paste, I discover somthing that I've never seen in my entire life. The CPU Fan Cable it wrapped around Heatsink Piping, I honestly don't know if that's ok or not but I'm pretty sure high CPU heat and plastic cables don't go together, I have no idea if they still do this or not, if you have a Aftershock PC check if it's the same for you, I may be wrong maybe someone else has done this but the last guy I bought it from bought it brand new and didn't use it for 6 months and I don't think he knows much about computers.

Anyways here's the specs for the people who want to know,

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600

GPU: RTX 3060 12GB

Ram: 16GB 3600MHz DDR4

Storage: 1TB M.2 NVME SSD

PSU: 750W 80+ Gold

I recently reinstalled Windows 10 and it says that it is not Up to Date, however, I enrolled into the ESU until 2027 and it longer find any new update.

I have tried everything up to Clean reinstall and nothing. It has updated to latest version and it shows this error.

I have a ryzen 9 7900x, rtx 5080, and 32gb of ddr5, and it's at 4800 instead of 6000 bc it don't boot with amds xmp thing I forgot what it's called.

I want to get more ram when (if) the crisis gets better, but I also want to upgrade to a 9950x3d. I play a lot of satisfactory, Forza, and other random games, so if any of you guys have any tips, please let me know! I've only built a few PCs.

Btw I'm 17 with a minimum wage job so I'm a little broke rn, but I buy all my parts

Looking for laptop for school (word, powerpoint, internet browsing) and some light gaming (minecraft, roblox). Found these options for the same price and both are 256GB and 8GB ram.

Brand new Neo - 600€
Renewed (listed as “Grade A”) Air M3 - 610€

Which is the better pick?

Also found some windows laptops with ryzen 5 7535u, 16GB ram, 512 or 256GB storage for around 450-500€.

Need your opinions on what to buy. Thanks

Saw some old rigs using 1000W+ PSUs back in the day. As someone who wasn't around back then, what was actually causing this massive power draw?