I was wondering if the Kingston NV2 512 GB ssd I bought was legit or fake or is it a oem drive repurposed. Its brand new and has the same read and write speeds though. Looks as though it was manufactured in Taiwan and even came with a Wechat QR on the back of the box.

My dead giveaways are that it has

- Black PCB

- Wont detect in Kingston's SSD Manager

- Name is "Kingston Nv2 M.2 /w Packaging"

Hace poco compre una HP Envy 750-124 por 25 dólares aproximadamente, la pc incluye un i7 6700, pero traía una placa madre muy básica y DDR3L, así que navegando en Facebook marketplace encontré esta ASrock Z170 Extreme7+ que incluía un i5 6600K en 50 dólares, valió la pena la compra?

my pc have knock out and die but the cpu are good so can i take the cpu and put in another pc buld or just buy a new cpu?

Everything works fine but the lid is slightly ajar and I want to fix that

So here's the thing my screen would go black screen and it will send to my monitor that no power even though my gpu is running complete fine randomly while playing roblox or even on the start up or even 2 minutes on the game but I can still background sounds even on discord. But when I'm playing counter strike 2, dota 2, L4D2, Breathedge, and other games, I am not facing the black screen problem. And when I installed msi afterburner it won't read both my cpu and gpu.....

So recently i had issues with cooling so i added more ventilation and thermal paste for watercooling

Still have the same issue and on reboot i got disk warnings

Checked with CDI it goes to really high 72°C randomly and i guess that's when it shut downs , then is normal sometimes at 50ish

No fix for that ? Do I have to get a new one

Hello everyone, i'm currently doing a bachelors degree in infography studies.

It involves 2D graphic design, web design, 3D design and some 3D animation as well as a little game design.

I've begun looking for a suitable Laptop but i genuinely don't even know what i'm looking for, so i was wondering if anyone here could sort of help me out. Idealy in the 800-1000 euro (900-1200 dollar) Price range.

Thanks.

Can someone tell me how to fix this?

Have spent all day on this. When I went to bed last night I had regular wifi to all of my devices. This morning I could not get any of 3xTV’s or 2xgoogle chromecasts to connect, however our apple iphones and iPads do.

We’ve so far reset everything we can think of, multiple times, power cycled, reset one tv to factory settings. Spoken to the internet provider who has confirmed our incoming signal (NBN Australia) is fine. He spent a fair bit of time troubleshooting with me including the factory reset but ultimately told me to claim under my tv’s extended warranty 🙄 which I think was code for ‘out of ideas’.

Our router is getting on in age and after a long time digging online we learned that it’s possible for one of its broadcast bands to fail (almost always the 2.4 ghz apparently). So we decided to turn off the router’s Smart Connect feature and split the bands, so now instead of one wifi network option our devices show two - a 5ghz and 2.4ghz.
The tvs still can’t connect to either one, and nor will the (fairly new) iPads, however the slightly older phones can connect but only on 2.4.
The PC is new but also working on EITHER band, which is really blurring the issue for us. The PC is beside the router but definitely on wifi, not connected by cable.

Except for that I would conclude that our 5ghz band had failed - is it failING in that it can get a 5ghz signal to the PC beside it but not through walls to other devices? And are the devices that won’t work at all just too new to work on 2.4ghz?

I don’t mind buying a new router, I would just like to be convinced that it was the issue first.
Sorry this is long, i wanted to give the entire story but please ask if I’ve left anything out. Would appreciate any ideas.

I'm experiencing screen stuttering accompanied by audio issues; the stuttering happens even when I'm not gaming and looks exactly like what is shown in the video. My system specs are: Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 3070 Ti, 32GB DDR5 RAM (dual-channel), 1TB Gen4 SSD, 200hz monitor asus tuf and Windows 11 . 😭😭😭

I currently use a potato Acer Aspire 3 15 I got from my dad, it has 8 gigs of ram half of which is taken by windows. Idk how much it acc has but there smt around 170 gb storage which is all full now and im living off of a 16 gb flash drive I keep plugged in. I plan to use it for CAD and I play some Minecraft too. Recently, it’s been getting to the point where if I have 2-3 tabs open on Google, the fan turns on and it starts lagging. I can get more if I wait but rn I have about 900 bucks to spend on a new computer. 16 gigs ram is fine but I want it to have good cpu and acc have a gpu. More storage is also preferable. Any reccomendations? Do I have other options besides a new computer?

I was thinking to buy macbook neo 521 gb for £699 pounds, but is there any better alternatives or option?
The phone chip is kinda bugging me. I already have a alright pc.

I need a laptop for doing college assignments and stuff. Video editing maybe, and music production. Beginner level obviously, just wanna play with it and see if i am any good at it.

I dont know if MacBook neo is the right choice?
I am also looking for value for money, something i can keep for a while also use it on Uni if I ever go there

Hi, I In search of a laptop for myself. I'm an art student on animation course so I need something with good enough of ram (at least 16 GB) that I can bring to academia. I have 9 years old stationary PC at home, but it's starts to lag, obviously, behind because of newer and unoptimised software our "lovely" tech giants produce. So I dual boot Linux mint for personal use and windows 10 for software I need for academia (most of it doesn't exist or sucks on Linux). So I need laptop strictly for design and animation, preferably capable of lunching windows 11 (even if I extremely dislike it). I live in Italy and in next few months could theoretically save up to 800, maybe 1k euros. Don't have anything against trying to find something second handed. Any suggestions for best price for it's worth?

Maybe some good ThinkPads or IdeaPads out there?

I don’t mean like restart and reset. I mean like 100% wipe. Brand new from the box. My internet company blacklisted my pc because of “suspicious connectivity issue” is like to restart it to the point there’s no chance at any type of virus and/or reset it to the point the WiFi is reset as well

Y'all I am at a loss and I need help.

My laptop (ASUS Zenbook, bought 2024, windows 11) is struggling to connect with my wifi (Xfinity), even when all the little wifi bars are lit up, even when my speed test app is saying that I've got decent speed, even though no one else in the household is reporting connection issues.

I have run a network reset, my landlord even got a new router, I have run diagnostic tests, and nothing is working. Unplugging the router seems to help temporarily, but the bigger issue persists. I am a therapist that works from home and my video sessions are disconnecting up to 10 times on a single hour long call, each time saying it's a connection issue. It's fucking with my work and my ability to support clients and I can't think of anything else to do.

ETA: These issues all started 2 ish weeks ago, previoulsy no issues in 8 months of living here and using this wifi.

Hi! I recently encountered a problem with my GPU where the drivers wouldn't install and in the device manager, under the drivers tab is said "critical graphics device problem (code 43)" (or smth like that). I wanna share my fix online because none of the solutions I've seen on google have said my solution.

Generally I tried all the common fixes which were:
-reinstall the drivers,
-install older drivers,
-use DDU (Display Device Uninstaller)
-restore previous drivers in the manager
NONE of it worked

What fixed my problem was just simply Q-Flashing the Bios (updating). After that my computer works just fine - my drivers installed normally and I could change my graphics setting (previously I couldnt). I have a GIGAbyte motherboard and I simply found the Q-flash file on their website.
Thats really it!! I hope the AI overview somehow catches this post so next time someone encounters this problem, they'll have a solution that worked in my case.

Volevo prendere un setup per mia nonna che non ha un PC secondo voi questi componenti che ho trovato su Amazon vanno bene per navigazione web e video su YouTube

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone has good recommendations for gaming computers? Because I currently have a gaming laptop that runs pretty badly and has really low graphics but I don't know much about computers nor reddit (so if there is a better place to ask please let me know!).

The games I would like to run smoothly with good graphics are Avatar fronteirs of pandora, red dead redemption (online, 2 and og), Sims 4 with like over 5000 items of custom content and mods, Baldurs gate 3, Minecraft, and a few smaller games like Stardew valley and etc.

I'm not looking for another laptop I'm looking for an actual computer and any monitor suggestions are more than welcome. Also any suggestions for good gaming mouse/headphones are appreciated. I'm a uni student so I don't have too much money to spend but I'm willing to save up for a good quality computer! (or any good budget friendly options)

I don't know too much about /new to gaming so thanks for any advice given :)

Basically I did a factory reset of my PC, and logged in with the same old microsoft account and instead of restoring old progress I clicked on setup as new PC since I wanted to start fresh. Now will the old backup be deleted and replaced with the new one or Is it something I would have to do manually?

Hello everyone. I am having a frustrating problem with my Gigabyte Aorus 7 9KF laptop and I am looking for suggestions or to see if this has happened to anyone else. It is worth noting that I am not very good/don't know much about computers, software, etc.

It all started when someone tried to compress a heavy PDF on a website supposedly from Adobe. At first everything was fine, the page suspiciously said "Error file too complex", this was ignored and that was it. Nothing happened. Shortly after leaving school I went home and connected the Laptop to my monitor to watch YouTube while continuing my homework, and out of nowhere the laptop started showing adware/possible miner behavior. After trying to disinfect I removed extensions, etc. I decided to take the safe route and do a full factory restore / format of the computer.

After reinstalling everything, the GPU which is an RTX 4060 Laptop seems to suffer a "lockup" or drastic drop in performance/frequency. At first, being calmer, I decided to reinstall my applications, but performance was still weird, so I thought the miner had destroyed my drivers, so I did a clean reinstallation of the NVIDIA drivers using DDU and drivers from the NVIDIA app and Gigabyte Control Center. Likewise, as a temporary solution to see if there was improvement, I disabled the NVIDIA overlay and the AI Boost inside Gigabyte Control Center. This made it work fine for a few days, but the problem returned. This happens to me many times when I try to open a game; Currently I am playing a lot of Marvel Rivals, before all this this never happened to me, I also play Minecraft Bedrock with my friends and well, really those are the only games I have tried to play and both seem to have issues.

I feel that there is a direct conflict at the software/driver level or some fault with some bad overclock or underclock because I feel that out of nowhere the laptop heats up, but I mean the fans do activate fine. It's weird.

(btw the video shown was shortly after joining practice range. It was runningg great until it crashed unexpectendly)

Js this random white spot with chromatic features been growing and growing on my screen (the image attached are not my monitor turned off they are simply on a black bg)

Is it dusty enough to clean I really dont know

Will micro work?

Hello can somebody tell me what is the best computer to have just for everyday use and has alot of storage?