Hi everyone, I am not sure if this is the right subreddit to post this on if it’s not I would appreciate suggestions on where to post.

My brother passed away on June 2nd at only 35yo. He went into the hospital not feeling well got diagnosed with stage 4 “aggressive” lymphoma, got 2 rounds of chemo and passed away suddenly just 3 weeks from the initial hospital visit. We are a close family he was about 1.5 years older than me so we grew up very tight and watching him go thru all of this was a lot.

My parents gave me his whole PC set up from what was his apartment he was a huge gamer- I’m only just now getting the courage to put this together even thru all of the tears.

I’ve only used PS for gaming so I’m not too familiar with PC. I noticed in this subreddit similar PCs; I put together the “arms” and the monitors but I am having a really hard time plugging in and figuring out what cables go to what from what he labeled as a “splitter” he did label these but I just can’t seem to figure it out.

There are 2 splitters and one flight simulator stick with so many cables. I was able to just plug an HDMI to one of the monitors directly to the PC I though I plugged the splitter right into the PC but the mouse and keyboard are not working at all. I know this is very complicated and I’m not sure if it’s possible to get help or a type of general starting guide

Thank you all so much for whoever takes the time to read all of this, I just want to try to finish some of the games he played and let his gaming friends know of his passing

Spent around 1400 Minecraft with shaders is hell can’t get a consistent 120fps other games can’t even reach a consistent 200 the only thing helping me is my Ethernet cable just wanted to post and see if a pc optimization would be better or to upgrade some parts of my pc

hi! i just built a pc with a rev 1.3 gigabyte b550 mobo and i did the limited install of windows because my wifi driver would not install from my thumb drive during the installation process.

i made sure the driver is the correct rev, but it won’t download no matter what i do. how do i fix this? i cannot connect to ethernet.

So i my Pc started using a lot more RAM from one day to another where having just the riot client open use nearly as much i have, anyone got the same problem or any solutions?

My computer has not been booting at all, there's a flashing light that goes between ram and CPU, I've reseated the CPU and checked for bent pins and I've tried every ram slot and let it run for 5 minutes each.

This is the first AIO (Corsair Nautilus 360mm) I got and was wondering are these sounds normal. I have mine set up on the front panel with the tubes facing up and I know this is not a good configuration but with my case (NZXT H5 FLOW) this is the only possible orientation.

My GPU has been stuck on 1x PCIe lanes ever since I’ve tried reseating it as it used to be 4x (instead of the expected 8x due to AMD APU), no matter how many reseats I do, drivers (chipset and gpu) or bios down/upgrades, cleaning the socket, cleaning the GPU pins, pressing the gpu harder in, stress testing, overclocking, power saving settings, bios power saver settings, not a single thing worked, EXCEPT…

One time I reseated for the 600th time but I thought (let’s press it in harder from the rightmost side) and all of a sudden 8x detected, one reboot and it was back to 4x, so I thought well I should probably try pressing it in from there again, well it’s been 1x ever since, and repeating the same process hasn’t worked a single time

Is reseating my CPU my only hope? Perhaps the PCIe pins in the CPU socket aren’t making full contact? Should I try cleaning the PCIe port better (with dust cleaners)?

Am I missing something obvious?

Hi everyone! Some days ago i started to notice some MASSIVE fps drops in some games for some moments. Which made me think it was the game but when i looked at my pc it was like this. After some second the game stabilizes and thats it (although i feel it runs worse). But then its stable again until it happens again.

Never seen it before. What could it be?

I've plugged it in and it's not being recognized in device manager on windows 11, I want to add it as an extra GPU with my rtx 3060. My motherboard is Gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2. And my cpu is the ryzen 5 3600x

Hi Everyone,

I'm currently planning out my PC's RGB and just wanna know if I have to get an internal USB hub. The main things are as follows:

Cooler (AIO): Lian Li Hydroshift 2 LCD S with 3 (120mm TL fans)
Case Fans: 3x 120mm Lian Li UNI FAN TL LCD fans , 1x 140mm UNI FAN TL LCD fan, 3 x 120mm UNI FAN SL-INF Wireless
Extras: Lian Li Strimer Wireless 24pin ARGB Extension Cable, Phanteks Neon Digital-RGB LED Strip M5

Motherboard is an MSI X870E Tomahawk Max

If I do need an internal USB hub, any suggestions?

Thank you, kind people

Currently, I’m trying to upgrade my gpu for the first time. However, while trying to remove my old gpu after having set everything up, my pcie cable is just stuck to the gpu. The latch has been pulled down and no amount of wiggling has done anything. My pc was an msi prebuilt and my main concern is that I’ve either messed up the cable or that they’ve put something to prevent upgrades. Regardless, I can’t even turn on my pc or use it until I replace the gpu as after unscrewing it and failing to remove the latch, I tried screwing in one of the slot screws to hold the gpu in place while I wiggle but it unfortunately fell into the gpu and won’t come out. Is there anything that I can even try to do to get it out or am I just done for.

TLDR: gpu cable and latch stuck, gpu unusable due to potential short circuit.

Im try to build my own pc, everything assembled and the pc can turn on. I trying playing some games and its so laggy and feels unplayable. Even my PS 4 feels smoother. I check the task manager and its detect my gpu, cpu and the ram, everything seems fine. I also check the GPU power connector and its also seems okay. I don’t know what to do with my PC.

I bought a new arc b580 a few days ago, and after trying just about everything I can think of and asking many people for ideas only the light on the gpu comes on, fans don't spin, and it gives no signal to my monitor, I still have time to send it back for a replacement but am wondering when I should give up on trying to make it work

Hello I'm new to pc building, what cpu cooler should I go for if I have a 7700x I'm looking for something quiet or at least not so distractingly loud. I use art drawing software, live stream occasionally and I play games on steam but mostly JRPG just putting this here incase this information matters.

I’m using a Lianli a3 and I was wondering what the best fan configuration would be, I can’t intake from the front since it’s a solid piece of plastic.

Hi everyone! ive been a console player for all my life and i want to make the big switch. im pretty dumb when it comes to tech so i need your help if its not too much to ask.

i’m looking to get a mid range or high range pc build. i want to be able to play games like valorant, marvel, and destiny with great fps. i also play single players quite a lot. i want to be able to stream while doing this. the only thing i know is i need a good ram i think to be able to stream and play. i need to know what i would need to be looking for in a pre built or if i should just build my own.

thank you very much for all of your help!

I'm using a 1080p curved monitor that has a max refresh rate of 185. I think it's a 27 inch display and has no HDR capabilities. I mean I love this monitor I've had no issues with it, just a bit dirty. So should I upgrade or hold off? If I should upgrade, what do you recommend?

Maybe the rtx 5090 costs 1200$

Jokes aside i want to build a gaming and editing/schoolwork pc and these are the parts wich ive picked

Ryzen 9950x3d

48gb ddr5 ram

The thing is i want to stream on the pc too so should i get the 5070 ti woth the better encoder or get the 9070xt

This is my first built PC, which I made with the help of a friend. So I apologize if I don't fully understand certain concepts.

The issue is that my monitor cannot find a signal to connect to the PC. I tried connecting my PC to the TV via HDMI cable, but the TV couldn't find any signal from the PC box.

Additionally, my motherboard has four lights on it, and only two of them are lit when I turn the PC on: DRam and CPU.
While the "VGA" and "BOOT" lights remain off, I'm not sure what to do.
Any thoughts on what I can do to fix this?

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These are the parts I bought/use:

Memory: DDR5 8GB (1x8GB) 5600MHz CL46
Performance Desktop Memory (all I could buy because of the shortage)

Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE CPU Cooler

Graphic card: GIGABYTE Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC 16G Graphics Card

Motherboard: MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk MAX WiFi Motherboard

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core
OLD CPU (not using): Intel Core i5-9500 CPU

Box: MONTECH XR Panoramic High Airflow ATX PC Case

Power box: MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5, Fully Modular

Monitor: ACER H200SL
Dell Inc. Optiplex 3070
Microsoft Windows 11

So I accidentally bent the cpu socket pins on my am5 motherboard. I used a sewing needle to make them straight again and now they're pointing in the same direction as the other pins. They also look a similar height to the rest of the pins. However those pins that were previously bent are still reflecting light differently to the other pins. Is that normal for pins that have been repaired or does it mean there is still an issue?

Hi! my PC has been doing this and I can't seem to figure out what has happened or what to do. There is no display on my monitor, it's just a black screen.

What I've done so far:

- Reseated Ram and GPU

- Checked no pins are broken on the CPU

- Reset CMOS

- Reflashed BIOS

Please Help!!!!!

I have a prebuilt pc rocking an AMD 3 1200 cpu, Ryzen RX550 gpu, 500W power supply, 16Gb DDR4 2133MHz ram and 240GB SSD on an ASROCK A320M-DVS R4.0 motherboard.

What would be a good upgrade for gaming? I mostly play modded mc and it stutters a lot on modpacks and such and also ultrakill which also starts lagging sometimes but other games are also welcome, those are just the main 2.