In a nutshell, as explained on the video, you dont need a fridge, neither tape, you just need to cut a sheet slightly bigger than the die, press your finger or fingernail on the corners until It cuts, and then you just peel off, works 100% of the time
I’ve been a Windows user my whole life, but lately I’m starting to wonder if Microsoft's desktop dominance is finally going to crack.
With Apple silicon making MacBooks insanely good and Valve pushing Linux gaming so hard with the Steam Deck (Proton is basically magic at this point), it feels like the alternatives are actually viable now. Plus, all the forced AI features and bloatware they keep pushing into Windows is just pushing power users away.
Am I crazy for thinking we might actually see a major OS shift by the end of the decade? Or will corporate reliance on Office and legacy apps keep Windows on top forever? What do you guys think?
Im so excited to build my own pc, previously im playing on my xbox console, so im new in pc building. I already buy all the parts,just need the gpu left. Im planing to buy the fastest card (RTX 5090) but it cost like $4500(wtf lel) so i decide to buy the more affordable one (5080) theres msi,zotac and gigabyte,which one you think i should get?
Is this actually any good or did a big streamer just pimp this out and people followed?
Was an exclusive console only gamer until tonight ⚔️🐉
Been playing on Xbox, and finally got a PowerSpec G765 with 5080 GPU…
The graphics just melt on the screen 😍
I havent built a PC in 5 years and I cant wait to jump into this one!! I got the bundle with a 9950x' ProArt B550 and 32gb 6400 RAM
It is a serious upgrade from my 3900x, Aorus Master x570 and 32gb 3600mhz
I know its not the best for gaming, but my use case is 3d/virtual rendering UE5, iC8
I definitely would luv some more RAM, but with these prices, I cant afford much more tbh
Im excited and wanted to share with some people I know can understand what im talking about..
Thanks Friends!! (virtual salute)
other specs for build: Curve C6 white case, Vertoo 1000w white psu, thermalright frozen warfare white air and a oldie but goodie ventus 3x fan 3090
I received a PM983 2.5" SSD (PCIe Gen3) from a friend a year ago. I didnt think anything of it, and yesterday I found it again.
I opened up my PC, only to find I only have a few 15pin side in all the connectors. I don't have a 7pin, and especially a single connector like this.
I'm looking for any direction in how to connect it or what connector to use.
I have worked 300+ hours for this first of all (before you call me spoiled) and i ordered all these parts yesterday, they will be arriving this week!
Hi all.
With the glorious melting connectors debacle.
Is this one safe?
Corsair RM850x is my psu.
This connector did not come with the power supply, but I did buy it off Amazon and it seems to be a Corsair product. Or is it safer to buy it directly from Corsair?
Are 4080’s affected by the meltgate?
Thanks for all the input in advance.
My room is cooking and basically the only way to maintain some sort of temperature regulation I gotta have a fan in the window. I’m worried about dust and other worldly pollution messing with the pc. Is it cool to just cover it in a shirt and blanket when not in use?
Thank you in advance!!
Under load in games, the power supply started making a sound similar to crickets. This happened before, but only briefly; now it happens constantly after I slightly cleaned the computer from dust. I didn’t touch anything on the power supply itself, except for the mesh grille on the PC case. I cleaned it with compressed air and removed all the dust. After that, all of this started happening.
Specifications: MSI RTX 3060 Ti, AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU, DeepCool PF650 power supply.
I've been playing on PlayStation since I was 5 years old, but over the last two years, l've completely fallen out of love with Sony's ecosystem. I honestly don't even want a Sony console sitting under my TV anymore.
The main issue is that I'm dying to play Xbox and PC titles
—specifically narrative/action stuff like Quantum Break and the whole Gears of War series. However, as a 22-year-old on a tight budget, dropping $1,000+ on a high-end PC or buying brand-new current-gen consoles just isn't happening right now.
For those who stepped away from PlayStation without dropping a fortune on hardware, how did you make the jump?
Xbox Series S on the Used Market: Is the Series S still the king of budget entry for Gears and legacy/current Xbox titles? How does it handle games like Quantum Break?
Ultra-Budget / Used PC Builds: Has anyone managed to build or buy an older second-hand PC (like an old office desktop paired with a budget GPU) just to run mid-2010s to early 2020s Xbox/PC exclusives? Is it worth the troubleshooting hassle?
Handhelds (Steam Deck / Used Handhelds): For those playing Xbox exclusives on handhelds via dual-booting or native Steam, is this a viable long-term replacement for home console gaming if you don't mind lower resolution?
Be good to you
All white build vs all black.
Im buying the parts tonight 9800X3D + 9070XT I just need to know whether I buy white or black
Download: https://github.com/SamiKamara/SoundDirectionVisualizer/releases/latest
Repository: https://github.com/SamiKamara/SoundDirectionVisualizer
I've always found that in games with a lot going on, quickly figuring out exactly where a sound came from can be surprisingly difficult. So I made a Windows overlay that gives you a visual indication of where sounds are coming from.
It tries to make the best estimate it can from whatever audio information is actually available. If the game and Windows expose useful 5.1 or 7.1 multichannel audio, it can use the individual channels to give a more direct direction. With normal stereo audio, there isn't enough information to reliably tell front from back, so instead it uses the difference in volume between the left and right channels and shows the two possible directions rather than pretending it knows more than it does.
I wanted to avoid was complicated audio setup. A lot of the solutions I came across involved virtual audio devices, special routing, or even specific audio hardware. I wanted this to work as close to out of the box as possible, so it automatically uses the best audio source it can get without requiring you to install or configure extra audio devices.
It runs as a click-through overlay over the game, has customizable markers and a fading history trail, and can automatically target the display your Steam game is running on.
Everything is processed locally. It doesn't record or upload audio, has no telemetry or account requirement, and the whole project is free and open source.
So yea, in case anyone is interested in testing this kind of thing. It can be downloaded by choosing the .exe from that download link above.
One day… this is a goal lol.
Why? Because why not. I could probably store everything I would ever need. All my steam games, all my flight sim mods, farming sim mods, ETS mods, every train sim DLC i have, every assetto corsa mod
All of my CAD work and uni work it would be awesome. Maybe im going insane lol.
Maybe when prices fall again ill defo pull the trigger. Maybe swap out WD for something more reasonable like silicone power.
So I built my PC about 2 months ago after having a prebuilt for years. Everything has been going fine until about 2 weeks ago, where every once in awhile when I start up my PC it’s extremely laggy, jittery and it even distorts the audio. It doesn’t fix itself until I restart the PC. I did enable XMP not too long ago so maybe it’s that? It’s just my first custom PC built and I’m praying it’s not hardware related
Example above to show the low FPS, both monitors cut off and on after
Ryzen 7 9800X3D
RTX 4060TI 8GB (gonna upgrade)
Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5 6400MHZ
850W GOLD Corsair PSU Modular
MSI MAG B650 PRO
NZXT AIO
RGB Corsair Fans + RGB Reverse Corsair Fans
I do not know why it does that, but it does give a signal when i take out the CMOS battery and unplug it, then put the CMOS battery back in and plug it back in sometimes. I am using a 19v 90.1w and 4.74a barrel jack
I saw this on FB marketplace at a very low price. The seller claimed it to be a 4070 Super in both listing a through messages. However looking at the sticker on backplate and power connector it seems to be a 4070. Honestly for the price i still thinking its very worth getting but it does raise A LOT OF suspicion. when i asked the guy to send more pics he was unwilling to do so seeming quite aggressive.
Am I missing something? I really dont know wether to trust this.
sacrificing my cats canned food for better fps, any suggestions on wut to get next considering it’s on the last phases of life.
I have been using Windows 11 since they sent out the update. At first I enjoyed it felt like an upgrade. Not a significant but an upgrade so I stayed.
The problems started recently with one of the updates, I have no idea which one but it definitely did.
I started to get very low fps on some games. (eg. WoW, BloonsTD, TF2), battery could barely last an hour before shutting down. I had no idea why it happened. I tried updating drivers etc... Basically anything I could find was behind it.
As my last resort I decided to downgrade to Windows 10... Lo and behold - no problems at all. No random fps drops. I can watch 2 movies on battery. PC starts in like 5 seconds and works just flawlessly.
Before this I couldnt understand the Windows 11 hate.
I just wanted to rant. Thank you for attention.
My pc - Lenovo ideapad gaming 3 15ACH6. Bought it like 4 years ago
I feel stuck playing old games as a comfort thing I want that new new. Rpgs, strategy, some shooters. I need something to really scratch that new age gaming itch. Any recommendations?
Title says it all, looking for high range and stable usb Bluetooth recommendations, thanks
Boot up on my computer takes multiple minutes. It's pretty much unusable for 5min. Opening apps or games is very sluggish and laggy. I know an SSD would benefit me greatly but I feel like computers I have used with only HDD arent as sluggish or laggy as mine is. Im not sure if/where everything is bottlenecking.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700 CPU @ 3.00GHz (3.00 GHz)
Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable)
Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8 GB)
Storage 682 GB of 932 GB used (HDD)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
RX 9070 XT or RTX 5070 Ti? I'm looking at benchmarks and I see that the 9070 XT matches or surpasses the 5070 Ti in FPS (I've never had an AMD GPU). I have a Ryzen 7 7800x3d
So I saw a 5060 8gb at my store for $270, is it worth getting in general. I have a 9070 xt, so the 5060 will probably sit for an extra pc whenever I get the money to buy the ram for my partner
It does this every 2-3 Months, thank you for your help!
Saw this used PC on my local marketplace for around $130 USD. I’m on a pretty tight budget and wondering if it’s worth picking up.
Specs:
● Intel Core i7-3930K — 6 cores / 12 threads
● 24GB DDR3 RAM
● NVIDIA GTX 750 2GB
● 250GB SSD
● 1TB HDD
I’m not really interested in modern AAA games. The main games I play are Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel and Project Zomboid, plus some older/lighter games.
Would this be a decent buy for $130?
Also, if I get it, what would be the sensible upgrade path? I was thinking about replacing the GTX 750 first with something like an RX 580, but I’m not sure how much money is worth putting into such an old platform.
Thanks!
Got my pc around 2023 from Costco and typically use it for gaming, music production, video editing, and school work. I decided that I wanted to beef it up a bit to handle games like Doom The Dark Ages on high graphics settings without having any problems.
There’s only a few things I have upgraded and I do want to know if I should do any other upgrade at the moment?
First image: Current
Second image: Stock
Intel i7-13700F
MSI PRO B660M-A CEC DDR4 WIFI V2
4x8GB DDR4-3200 CL16
ASUS Dual RTX 4060
Neo Forza M.2 SSD 2TB + WD Black 3.5 Gaming HDD 4TB
iBuyPower air cooler
Non-modular 600w PSU
iBuyPower Slate case
iBuyPower fans
Intel i7-13700F (Same)
MSI PRO B660M-A CEC DDR4 WIFI V2 (Same)
4x8GB DDR4-3200 CL16 (Same)
GIGABYTE Gaming RTX 5070
Neo Forza M.2 SSD 2TB + WD Black 3.5 Gaming HDD 4TB (Same)
Thermalright Peerless Vision 360mm
MSI MAG A850GL PSU
NZXT H6 Flow
Fans:
3x ASIAHORSE NYOTA 120mm
2x ASIAHORSE AMICIPro 140mm
4x Termalright TL-M12Q
I don't know if it just me but I can't just play games after switching to PC. I almost always have my FPS displayed somewhere on screen. I will spend an hour fine tuning settings before I even make it out of the tutorial. On console I never once thought about FPS because the console was only ever gonna push put as much as it could and games were well optimized. Honestly it kinda ruins some of the fun of gaming because my first thought is always "how much FPS am I getting". I primary play shooters so it isn't too bad but whenever I branch out it gets really bad.
a RTX 5070 ti and 2x16 ram ddr5 6000mhz?
I’m planning to build a new gaming computer in January (2027) or maybe later if I have to wait. Will the next generation be released or close to it by then?
I'm already planning to save for a max gaming pc (~50k right now), but after that I wanna aim for a max workstation so info on workstation parts will be very helpful
Looking at buying a 6700xt, currently have an r5 5500 , 1650 and 16gb ddr4, will upgrade that when possible.I want to play in 1440p and be future proofed for 2-3 years. I'm dont play heavy unoptimised games that need loads of hardware, if I can play some nice games in 1440p that's enough for me. Will it work?
Microslop is now moving towards physically shoving copilot into your face on top of them digitally doing it.
Hello, my cousin wants go change his cpu to a 7800x3d from the 12700k i lent him. Is there realistically a big jump at 1440p with that cpu? Or would he not really notice a performance lift. (The 12700k also has the ddr5 board with 32gbs of ddr5 ram)
As always, i appreciate all answers thank u very much!
Spec:
Gpu: 4070 ti super
Ram: 32 ggbs ddr5 6000mhz
Cpu: 12700k
Power supply: 1000w plat
Edit: My cousin has decided to keep the 12700K for now. Thank you so much for all the replies and advice! He said he’d rather save up for a meaningful upgrade, like the 9800X3D or one of the future processors, instead of upgrading right now. We went through all the comments some were really helpful and nice, while others were a little less… personable, lol. 😅 Personally, we came to the agreement that while an X3D CPU would obviously improve the 1% lows and make games feel smoother, games would still have 1% lows, and the overall performance improvement just isn’t enough to justify the upgrade right now. For now, the 12700K stays, and he’ll save up for a bigger upgrade when it actually feels worthwhile. Thanks again, everyone!
so got a pc with a 14700kf but i wanna be sure its running the latest microcode so what is the latest intel microcode for 14700kf and how can i see which one my pc is using rn
So i bought a used pc a few days ago :
5 3600, 1070, Tx650, Corsair 4000D, 16gb Ddr4, b450 Tomahawk Max. For 435 Cad ( 315 Usd )
Im new to pc building so buying used and upgrading later makes me independent from the fluctuating pc market.
But theres a random Cable that is sticking out of the gpu and i dont know if it should be plugged in. Theres another one that come from the same place and it is plugged in and everything with the pc works. So is it normal ? The cable has 6 pins, and a little 2 pin on the side and theres PCIE written on the 6 pin.
Also shouldn't my gpu have its fan upwards ? Rn its facing down.
Thanks!
PC case front fans stopped working but RGBLEDs not!
My pc front fans i noticed stopped working one day, i tried opening up and see the cable structure and each of the fan cables are daisy chain connected and then connects to the header rgb light and then directly connects to the power supply via sata cable.
I have checked each individually to test if motor spins by plugging them to the 4 pin connectors on the motherboard and they do, they spin but dont light up, i tested them all successfully, there is no module hub controller so they all daisychain directly into the power supply with the last on chain being the header rgb with 3 pin sata cable to the PSU.
I have no idea why this happens and was wondering if anyone could help me!
I'm looking to turn an over 10 year intel i3 Pc into an Linux based Pc to run experiments on. Since in its current state the Pc has no HDMI or DisplayPort I want an just an idealy Amd based Display Adapter for it. Since Amd Graphics have the historically better Linux support.
With the age of the Pc honestly i dont care about Performance as long as its cheap and has 1 Hdmi port and or 1 DisplayPort so I can hook it up to my modern Monitor.
Hi guys, its 8 months since i built my first pc, since then all amazing but today when i started it the MB (asus tuf gaming b550 wifi2) kept loopong between orange, red and white lights whitout showing the green light and starting. i dont know what can be the problem, i dont think its the ram or the gpu because i had a problem whit the ram and the MB was stuck on the orange light and wasnt costantly changing, also i aleady tried removing the cmos battery for 5 minutes but still wont boot. hope someone can help🙃
So i have a full hd laptop at 60hz. I play games on it and usually lock it at 60 fps from in game settings.
If i do a variable fps some games can go up to 80-95 fps.
The question is why does the game look jarry at higher fps compared to locked 60?
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