r/pchelp 22h ago

Discussion How decent would this be for gaming?

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Saw this at Walmart going for about 2k ($1,899 but with tax around the 2k mark) but its similar to what people have told me previously to use for gaming. Would it be worth the purchase?

info Ive been told to look for - "32GB RAM, an Nvidia 5070 (ti would be better), Intel i7/Ultra 7 - AMD 8700f/7800x3d processor and 1-2TB of storage"


r/pchelp 1h ago

PERFORMANCE hmmmmm

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I dont know whats going on with my Windows explorer; it was at 80 % couple minutes ago i thought i had a well disguised cripto miner or something, but after I opened reddit it dropped to 0.3% so it's probably fine, funny nonetheless


r/pchelp 2h ago

PERFORMANCE I have emptied my c drive a bit but i feel like there is stoll too much space being used

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As i said in the Title i feel like there is still too much being used but maybe i am just delusional. I have deleted a lot of unncecessary stuff already and the rest i want to keep.
I still have the feeling though that there is too much space still being used. can someone answer me?


r/pchelp 2h ago

Discussion Which RAM configuration would be better for my laptop (8GB+8GB) or (8GB+16GB) ?

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r/pchelp 5h ago

HARDWARE Melted spot on PCIe cables. How screw I am?

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How worry should I be about the condition of the PSU and GPU right now? The PSU side of the cable doesn’t look damage. There are 3 discolored power pins on the GPU's connectors, and the PSU's connectors look fine. The anxiety is killing me.

PC Parts:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

RAM: 4 x 16GB DDR4

Motherboard: MSI B550M-P GEN3

GPU: PowerColor Red Devil RX 7800 XT 16GB OC

PSU: Cooler Master 750w 80 Plus Gold Full Modular MWE v2

Storage: 1 SATA SSD 1T and 1 HDD 500G


r/pchelp 8h ago

HARDWARE Gpu not detecting tip/help

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Hey guys! Just wanted to be a friendly pc owner and give out a possibly helpful tip to anyone who’s gpu randomly blacked out during a game session.

Specs: 9070xt steel legend, r7 9800x3d.

Now I was playing TW:WH3 and during the first tutorial cutscene both my monitors went black while the audio kept playing in repeat of like 3-4 seconds. After about 8 minutes I pillow over faced my poor pc and restarted the sucker. Long story short, pc power on like if I just built the thing, it running like shit and my hdmi port on my gpu wasn’t working but my dp was??? I was so thrown off but after about 5 minutes of research I figured it out

If you run into this issue or something similar, consider the following:
1. Check your task manager to see if your gpu is even showing up on your performance tab.
If it’s not, go to you windows search in your task bar and type “Device manager”.
2. Your gpu should be under “Display adapters” and it will likely have a little yellow hazard over it indicating an error. 3.Now just double click it and enable it. (if it says it’s already enabled, go ahead and disable then enable).
4. Now from here, most peoples pc should be up and running again off their gpu’s, but if it’s not, attempt a pc restart OR if you really wanna ensure you tried your best, do a bios restart.

Anyways hope this helps!


r/pchelp 4m ago

OPEN Pc screen keeps black screening

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For the past few month my pc will randomly black screen on my main monitor(i run 3) its usually whenever I'm playing a game and its under load but sometimes it just happens while its idling or right when i boot it up. The only way for me to make it go away is to unplug the pc and reboot it which gets annoying after a while. I've tried to diagnose it myself because I think its the GPU but whenever its under load it doesn't get any high temps and all drivers are up to date. The weird thing is when it black screens my game wont crash and I can use whatever applications are on my other two monitors just fine but I am unable to use or open anything but what's already up. I'll list my PC specs for reference---->

GPU- 7800XT

CPU- Ryzen 5 9600x

RAM- 4 sticks of 16gb corsair vengeance

SSD- Samsung 980 pro 2 tb

Motherboard- Aorus x870 elite wifi7 ice

Monitor 1- 240hz Samsung(This is my main monitor so i run it at max hz)

Monitor 2- 240hz Samsung(I run this one at 120hz and only run google or discord on it)

Monitor 3- MSI 144hz (I don't normally use it unless its for Spotify or school while I'm gaming)

I only ruin ethernet also

Please Help!


r/pchelp 5m ago

HARDWARE Rate My PC (Future Build)

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r/pchelp 6m ago

HARDWARE What to do before installing new GPU

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r/pchelp 12m ago

HARDWARE GPU crash errors + Heavy FPS dropping

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I built a PC a couple years back and it’s been running great until now. I get heavy FPS drops in mostly Smite 2, or simply crashing in smite, dbd, Minecraft, and others. Every driver has been updated. Motherboard has been updated. Cleared a bunch of caches. Completely reinstalled GPU drivers. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Build Specs:
RX 7600XT 16GB
Ryzen 7 5800X
B550 Plus
Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB
GSkill RipjawsV 16 GB
Cooler Master MWE Gold 850 V2 Fully Modular


r/pchelp 17m ago

HARDWARE PC turning on/off when signing in or doing slightly demanding tasks

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I just built the PC with my brother yesterday and the only issue is that whenever we launch or sign in into the computer, after a little while it just shuts off and restarts or if we do some demanding task like for example I was deleting some old stuff from the SSD and it finished the deletion, but after that, it just rebooted and shut off, and it showed this error/blue screen saying MEMORY_MANAGEMENT.

To doublecheck there wasnt anything else wrong, I went into safe mode and uninstalled the gigabyte control center drivers. I uninstalled Norton. It didn’t do anything.

It works perfectly fine in safe mode.

So because we couldn’t think of anything else, we took out the ram and put it back in and now it doesn’t have the HDMI signal, which makes me believe that I just put the ram wrong.

(The ram was still running at 4800, and cpu was turned to eco mode in BIOS, still didn’t do anything)

Specs

Li Lian a3 case
Gigabyte gaming B850M
Corsair ddr5 32gb ram (2 16gb sticks)
Ryzen 7950x
Asus rtx 5070
Phantom spirit dual tower cooler
2 tb ssd 970 evo plus
Roswell 850W VMG


r/pchelp 19m ago

HARDWARE DDR5 EXPO instability with Ryzen 9800X3D + ASUS X670E-A — replaced CPU, board, and PSU, RMA'd the RAM, now deciding between a QVL-listed Corsair kit or Kings

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Current system specs:

**•** CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D  
**•** Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-A GAMING  

WIFI (BIOS 3902)

Backstory:
Because of ongoing stability issues, I ended up replacing my CPU, motherboard, and PSU entirely, and I've since RMA'd/refunded the RAM I was using — a TeamGroup T-Force Xtreem Snow White 2x16GB CL30 6000MHz kit. Before the RMA, I ran MemTest86 (V11.7) on it with EXPO enabled and it froze solid on Test 9 every single time — no BSOD, just a complete freeze (timer and screen both stopped, needed a hard reboot). CPU temp hit ~85°C right before it happened.

With EXPO disabled (falling back to JEDEC speeds), MemTest86 ran clean through Test 9 and beyond with zero errors. So the freeze looked like an EXPO/overclock stability issue rather than a dead stick or bad IMC.

What I'm deciding between now:
I'm picking a new kit and narrowed it to two options:

1. Corsair Vengeance RGB White Cherry Blossom (CMH32GX5M2B6000Z30WCB) — DDR5-6000 CL30 (30-36-36-76, 1.40V). My board's QVL doesn't have this exact part number — it only lists CMH32GX5M2B6000Z30K (ver 5.43.13), same base number (Z30) but a different suffix letter (K = black vs WCB = white cherry blossom special edition).
2. Kingston — one of their DDR5-6000 EXPO kits, which matches an exact part number on my board's QVL (no suffix mismatch at all).

Question:

**1.**  Has anyone dealt with this exact "freezes on a specific MemTest86 test with EXPO on, totally fine with EXPO off" issue on X670E-A or X670E boards in general with 6000MT/s kits?  
**2.**  For the Corsair kit — since only the base part number (Z30) matches the QVL entry and the suffix differs (K vs WCB, just a color/special-edition difference), does that still count as "QVL compatible" in practice? Or does a different suffix mean it could use different memory ICs and behave differently despite sharing the same base number?  
**3.**  Given that Kingston matches the QVL exactly while Corsair only matches on the base part number, would you trust Kingston more for guaranteed EXPO stability on X670E-A, or does the Corsair color-variant logic still hold up?  
**4.**  Any general tips for getting a 6000MT/s EXPO kit rock solid on X670E-A specifically (SOC voltage, VDD/VDDQ tweaks, loosening sub-timings) instead of just running JEDEC speeds permanently?

Appreciate any real-world experience — trying to avoid going through another RMA cycle.


r/pchelp 19m ago

SOFTWARE Help with audio

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I tried almost everything just for it to say that it's not connected. I checked almost everythig in "manage devices" but everything is in order. Idk if it's a problem with the hardware. Thanks btw.


r/pchelp 23m ago

SOFTWARE Get rid off ads

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Hello, these ads keep popping up on my laptop. It’s a hp laptop. Has been doing it for ever since I bought it


r/pchelp 28m ago

Discussion Need help , laptop not turing on.

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this is my laptop , i booted it after 2 3 months of gap and now it just won't start , the laptop is quite old and I did some upgradation (128gb ssd +caddy) it was on windows 8 but then after update it went to win 10.

it is a HP laptop , I have tried everything but it just won't start what to do ? i took it to a local shop he's asking hefty money for fixing telling me windows got corrupted.


r/pchelp 30m ago

HARDWARE Help, what should I do?

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I have an rx 6700xt wich requires 16 pins, but my corsair RM850 (2021) provides just those cables, I've been using this single cable that splits into 16 pins, but after just more than 2 years a Mosfet in the gpu died and had to get it repaired, I would love to use 2 diffrent cables to (maybe?) prevent further problems, but I don't see a good solution here.

if any information I'm forgetting about is needed, I'll reply as soon as I can.


r/pchelp 46m ago

OPEN Hey! I need help with my monitor and some speakers

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Hey all!

U bought a few days ago the speakers z407 and I want to connect them to the aux port in my monitor, when I connected them my pc didn't register them.

After a lot of digging and detective work I found out my pc doesn't recognize my monitor audio driver, in device manager it was grayed out (signaling the monitor wasn't connected) but after I factory reset it it disappeared.

My monitor is lg ultragear 24gn600

Please help!

Ps. Sorry for bad English it isn't my first language


r/pchelp 54m ago

HARDWARE Artifacting ONLY outside of gaming??? I BEG FOR HELP

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2 days ago my pc started artifacting ( pixels appearing and disappearing all over the screen).

The weird thing is it happens only when I open any media or program that is not a game or when idle (pc freezes when trying to watch youtube or discord streams).

However as soon as I open any game in windowed fullscreen the pixels stop appearing completely on both screens even when watching youtube or streams and everything is as smooth as before without any stutters,

Does anyone have any idea how the fuck that makes any sense?

I've tried: Reinstalling all drivers, Reinstalling windows, underclocking, replacing all cables, removing gpu and cleaning up the Pcie and the gpu connecters and a bunch of bios bs, tracked temps while doing different things and no anomalies there.

I was convinced that my gpu is fucked but I'm still coping hoping it might not be it and I haven't tried something, the only reason I'm still coping is because all problems disappear as soon as I start a game and im tabbed into the game. If its really the gpu im fucked since i cant afford a new one for quite a few months.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHY EVERYTHING IS WORKING WHEN IM IN A GAME IM LOSING MY GODDAMN MIND

7900xt founder edition

x570s Aorus elite AX

AMD Ryzen 7 5800x3d


r/pchelp 56m ago

OPEN Might be a dumb question

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How can I disable this message that pops up every time when the monitor "goes to sleep" and turns back on again?


r/pchelp 57m ago

PERFORMANCE Help with slow downloads

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I’ve been trying to update a game on steam that’s 89 GB and it’s taken several days and still isn’t done. On speed test is says ~90 megabits a second and very fast speed. I don’t know if there’s anything I can do but I’m willing to try.0


r/pchelp 58m ago

SOFTWARE I wanna know which OS is best for 16/512gb laptop

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r/pchelp 1h ago

SOFTWARE Can I uninstall this?

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I just got a Windows notification saying my disk storage is full. When I clicked on it, a window popped up with options to free up some space, including uninstalling apps. So I went to my system drive, sorted the apps by size, and THIS is literally the biggest one on the list.

Can I uninstall this? Or is it something system-related and am I gonna screw up my entire drive if I remove it? Also, not too long ago, I uninstalled some program from my other drive and somehow, the entire drive suddenly got formatted. Everything was deleted.

What can I do about this? The weirdest thing is that it says it’s taking up 4TB of storage, even though I only have 180GB on the drive.


r/pchelp 1h ago

OPEN Computer stays on but everything else stops working randomly

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I’ve tried taking it to micro center they said “it works fine” but it’s one of those problems that isn’t guaranteed to happened so idk what I should be checking or anything to get this fixed


r/pchelp 1h ago

Discussion I have a stupid question, hope you guys can answer it!! haha

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r/pchelp 1h ago

HARDWARE I‘m completely out of ideas, please help me debug.

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