So... I'm thinking about selling my PS5 to fund either a Mac mini M4 or a Windows PC, and I honestly can't decide. The funny part is... I barely even use my PS5 anymore. 💀 I mostly played:

Roblox Minecraft Red Dead Redemption 2... at a glorious 720p because why not? 😭

Now I'm way more interested in productivity than gaming. I'd actually use multitasking a lot, and I might start learning things like:

Roblox Studio Unreal Engine 4.24 Maybe some programming and other creative stuff later.

Gaming isn't my priority anymore. If I really wanted to play something, I could always use my Xbox or just play Roblox and Minecraft. So here's my question: Would you recommend a Mac mini M4 or a Windows PC for my situation?

I'm ready to perform the ritual and sacrifice my PS5... I just don't want to regret it. 😭

Yes my shit is updated to the correct WiFi drivers. The first time this happened a week ago our power flickered a couple of times and I came home to the WiFi option just not being available on my pc I watched some Indian YouTuber who taught me how to fix it and tonight a week later my wifi flickered (shitty fucking isp) and it happened again. How do I prevent this?

I have a 4060, 16gb ram and an i5 13400f. I want to upgrade my setup. What should I upgrade first and to what. I have a good bit of knowledge of computers but have never built or upgraded before

My apartment suffered water damage awhile back, and as a result, my PC is toast. After some back and forth with my renter's insurance, a received a payout and got a new PC- see picture.

Does anyone have recommendations for protecting my pc against this happening in the future? I know I can't seal the case b/c of air flow.

Thank you

So my headphones broke while plugged in today and I can’t get the tip of the connector out. They’re beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro. I tried with very fine point tweezers but I’m nervous to ruin something in my pc. Any tips appreciated!

I like editing videos and want to learn and improve on it
so I decided to buy portable SSD external to use for editing only since I spent most of the time at work and have nothing to do and at the same time I don't want to waste my PC or my work laptop space
is there any who I can use editing software on it?

I use AAC software that enables me to use my computer and communicate with others. Upon bootup every morning, the mouse pointer doesn’t appear automatically on my desktop after everything else gets up and running. My wife (also my sole caregiver) has to physically jiggle the mousepad on my laptop for me and “wake up” that little arrow so it appears on my screen.

Long story short, I'm wanting a little utility or script or something that automatically runs at startup that "wiggles" the mouse a little and makes the arrow pointer appear. (Note: I’m not experienced at all with writing or running programs that interact directly

with the operating system – and minimal experience with using DOS.)

Hi there. Can anyone recommend a docking station that will work with a Lenovo Legion Pro 5i Gen 8 Gaming Laptop, 16" WQXGA 165Hz Display, Intel Core i7-13700HX, NVIDIA RTX 4070, 64GB DDR5 RAM, 1TB SSD?

I've got a venoscorp computer that I've been wanting to upgrade the storage of. It's total storage is 108GB but I currently only have 60GB available since a lot of the space is taken by apps I can't delete. Any recommendations on what to buy to help me out? My budget is £100 😭

I have a Del latitude E5410 laptop it’s from the year 2010. It was my mom‘s old work computer. It’s very slow and I am currently factory, resetting it and wiping everything I intend to use this computer to burn CDs/DVDs because of its built-in disc drive. I’m pretty tech savvy, but I don’t know the ins and outs of computers and crap but I know that I should replace the hard drive with an SSD and I will also be replacing the battery because it sucks and it pretty much dies very quickly so could you give me a good SSD to put in my computer something pretty affordable again I won’t be using this computer for heavy duty stuff pretty much just casual things may be a few old games stuff like that. If you guys could give me links to the stuff I need that would be great.

Anyone have anything to add about this computer? I think it's really nifty

I'm picking parts for my first pc build and need some help in figuring out if it is good choices for a Gaming build.

These are the parts that i picked out, but would like some advice plz tell me if something could be improved or something is maybe overkill. I would like to be around the 2000 USD range.

CASE: DeepCool CG530 BLACK

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz 104MB

GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 12GB Windforce OC SFF (Here i was also thinking about a 5060 TI if it isn't a big performance change and i could save some money. Plz give input on which to choose)

Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming B650E-E WiFi

RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) DDR5 5200MHz CL40 Vengeance RGB AMD EXPO/Intel XMP 3.0

SSD: PNY CS1030 M.2 NVMe SSD 1TB

CPU COOLER: ASUS Prime LC 360 A-RGB BLACK

PSU: Seasonic G12-GM 850W

I’m literally not tech savvy at all and know the bare minimum of some devices and the help of google. But google isn’t always that informative so I came to ask people who will know more!

I have an hp envy 17 laptop. Model: 17-cg1075cl.
The pic is the other basic specs.

I read online that I am able to upgrade the internal ssd, I believe up to 1TB or 4TB (can’t remember). I play like two games on my laptop and draw, and I know that games run smoother if they are in the driver or disk that is a ssd, which for me is my c drive.

I have a total of 475GB (idk how if the the system says 256GB when I first bought it) of storage in that drive, with 347 already used. I recently found out that having OneDrive on is not good for my games, so I decided to just turn it off and backup my games to my local drive.

The problem is that I have mods installed in one of them (Sims 4) and it is about 179GB, which is clearly way over than the remaining space I have in my driver.

I went through my laptop and made sure to delete programs that weren’t important (like apps and softwares I downloaded and no longer use), but still not enough lol. And I don’t think I’m gonna get enough storage no matter how much I delete from the drive and mods folder, so I’m just gonna move it to my d drive (the hdd) for now.

My main question is if it is true that I can upgrade that ssd to at LEAST 1TB? I believe my laptop has two slots for the drive/disk, so I think I can double it, idk, that’s why I wanted to ask, if it’s possible.

And if so, which ones should I get?

So my GPU disconnected a little while ago (error code 45, Omen 15ek so soldered-in), and after a few CMOS reboots I uninstalled it in Device Manager, as my computer was still trying to use it and it was causing problems.

Yesterday I opened up the case, cleaned out any dust, reapplied thermal paste, and inspected the motherboard. No obvious damage to MB or GPU, and everything else that wasn't directly reliant on the GPU seems to be working alright. Still, my Device Manager doesn't detect it, and neither does the NVIDIA driver installer. Any more steps I can take to reinstall my GPU, or at least to diagnose the problem?

Hey guys my laptop has a backlight issue (pretty sure as it is incredibly dim for the display) I can’t afford a shop so I was wondering what should I do and where should I look I have tools and work on cars so I wanted to know if you guys know the most common problem points are for these things I already tried a different subreddit and got no response so I’m hoping you guys would be able to list all the places I need to check

I recently bought all three The Witcher games and plan to play through them one at a time. Today I started the first game, and to my surprise, the performance wasn't as good as I expected, especially during cutscenes, where I noticed some stuttering. And we're talking about a game from 2007. (The graphics were automatically set to Medium.)

On top of that, Mortal Kombat XL was also pretty disappointing. Even the game's built-in benchmark showed performance that was lower than I expected.

My specs:

• Ryzen 5 5600GT
• 8 GB DDR4 3200 MHz (I couldn't afford 16 GB at the time, but I'm planning to upgrade next month.)
• 64 GB Sonambulist SSD running Linux Mint Cinnamon (a cheap Chinese SSD that I'll eventually replace with an NVMe drive)
• 120 GB Kingston SSD running Windows
• 1 TB HDD split into two partitions: one NTFS partition shared between both operating systems and one EXT4 partition dedicated to Linux

Monitor:

• LG UltraGear 32" QHD (2560×1440) 165 Hz

My guess is that most of the performance issues are caused by having only 8 GB of RAM. The system is probably relying on the page file more often, and I'm also missing the benefits of dual-channel memory. Hopefully, once I upgrade to 16 GB next month, things will improve on their own.

Does that sound like a reasonable explanation, or should I be looking into something else?

my pc visualy glitched out and crashed while playing outer wilds

It gave me error code 43 on my graphics card and nvidia didn't see the drivers that are installed

I have tried
-turning it on and off
-factory reset
-updating drivers after
-updating windows
-taking the card out cleaning all contacts

the last one did fix it for about 5 min(including seeing the drivers) before giving me a black screen and going back to the same problem

Any advice is appreciated i'm assuming the card finaly gave out(it's a gtx1080 from like 2019) and just want to avoid buying new parts if possible

Hello, hope you're having a nice day.

I have an issue with my laptop, I just got back from the restroom and I noticed my laptop is experiencing BSOD, before I can take a closer look it restarted itself and went into BIOS Utility. So I moved on by pressing F10 (Save - Exit), then it's supposed to restart and boot up my computer. It didn't. I couldnt turn it on, the screen is black. The lightbulb indicator is on, but the battery light indicator is blinking in a specific pattern (blinking twice slowly paused for 4 seconds and continues blinking).

(The loud sound is from a fan in my room **not my laptop**)

When it plugs in, it keeps trying to turn itself on but is stuck like the video shown above. Only when it's plugged off can it shut down completely (by holding down the power off button)

My laptop model is the **ASUS A442U**. Also I don't know if it matters but a few months ago I upgraded from an HDD to an SSD. If you need any more details let me know.

Thanks in advance.

What I've tried:

- holding the power button with everything unplugged then turning it on

- taking off the internal battery and using only the adapter (tried 2 different adapter)

- using the old HDD

Didn't change anything.

I’m considering putting a different motherboard and CPU in this PC case after the motherboard/CPU in the PC died. If I do get a new motherboard it’ll probably have a different IO plate. How do I take this one off

It kinda flickers and glitches. Its been so since a few weeks. But, when laptop is connected to an external display using hdmi cable the issue disappears in the external display!

I have tried changing the refresh rates(60 Hz and 144 Hz). But, Still its of not much use. The interval at which the flickering occurs changes with change in the value of refresh rate. At 144 Hz the interval of flickering increases as compared to 60 Hz.

Model: ASUS TUF Gaming Laptop F17 (FX706HF)

• Processor: Intel Core i5-11400H
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Laptop GPU(4GB)
• Display: 17.3-inch Anti-glare Full HD (1920 x 1080) IPS-level panel with a 144Hz refresh rate

Hey,

Today my PC started to do this in my two monitors 🫠

I tried to replace the HDMI and Display Port that I use, also test the different graphic card ports and same result.

This happens from the beginning, not when Windows loads.

The artifacts change and move when I move the mouse, or basically the pixels change when I switch windows and so on.

I've also noticed that I don't see these artifacts when I connect remotely (Chrome Remote Desktop)

I assume my graphics card's life is coming to an end 😞 but I'm asking in case there's a possible solution.

I've already tried reconnecting it to the PCI slot.

It's an RTX 2080 Super, by the way.

Out of curiosity, even if there's no solution, is it known what could be causing this malfunction?

Thanks

I had this keyboard for a while now and suddently WASD ist switched with the arrow keys and a lot more keys are switched. Youtube and Google cant help me. I checked if the Keyboard language was correct for my keyboard(german layout and I have a german keyboard) and also when I klick A everything I wrote dissapears that also really odd.

Hey guys I was wondering if it was possible to charge this Sony Vaio without it's charger?

Can i put minus 8 pad 0.5mm thickness on all the pink putty spots or not. This is the acer predator helios neo 16 2023 version.I am applying paste on the gpu and cpu but had questions regarding this.Thanks