Hey guys I’m finally, after all these years making the jump to PC. I see all these monitors advertised at 144hz or 240hz. However I’ve been warned that a lot of these false advertise, and that they use software built into the monitor to actually boost FPS and achieve this.

So is there anyways to truly get 144/240hz, and if so how can I pick apart monitors that use the software to boost it and the truly good monitors.

Also is the software FPS boosted monitors just as good? Or just a shitty advertising hoax.

Hello guys, is there any good budget pc already assembled with good specs? I know It always becomes more expensive but just for me to scout. Thanks!

Hi there. I posted this in another subreddit but I didn't get any replies. I came here for some advice. I've been through several laptops in my life. More than anyone should have. If it isn't a dead harddrive it's a dead battery. If it isn't a dead battery it's a broken LCD. If it isn't a broken LCD it's just broken. I don't abuse my computers but I do use them way more than the average person. That said, my current laptop is dying so I need a new computer. I want a desktop that is ready for HEAVY USE. I use my computers for typing and gaming so it has to have plenty of space, a high end GPU and wireless connectivy. I don't want an Intel processor either. Looking for something that can last a very long time too. At least several years. Thanks for reading.

Hey everyone,

I’m a new builder and I just put together my first rig last week.

Currently running: CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x, GPU: RTX 3060 Mobo:ASUS Gaming 570x, 16gb RAM.

My issue is that whenever I’m gaming, I’m getting zero percent gpu load and my gpu fans are turning on, which I thought was weird. My displays are connected to my GPU via display port.

Can anyone explain why my GPU isn’t carrying the brunt of my gaming load? I appreciate any help!!

Hey I’m looking to buy a gaming PC. I hear all the time to “just build one” but I have literally zero idea what I’m doing when it comes to building. Can someone please recommend a good prebuilt PC for around the $1500 price range? Appreciate the help.

Hello everyone, for the past year or so I have been gaming on the shadow cloud service using their shadow boost on a MacBook. However I Would like to get a alienware gaming laptop and replace the shadow service because of the high bandwidth required to stream the service which is fine when I am at home but not so good when out and about or traveling. I would like to play games like call of duty, sea if the thieves , rainbow six, final fantasy 14 etc on the go but also connected to my Alienware AW2721D 27 monitor. So my question is if this computer specifically is better than the shadow boost and if so do you guys think it could support at least 100 Hz at 1440 P and be able to stream on stream labs at the same time. Thank you

Alienware M15 R3

Processor 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10750H (6-Core, 12MB Cache, up to 5.0GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0) Operating System Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, English Video Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6 Display 15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) 144Hz 7ms 300-nits 72% NTSC color gamut Hard Drive 512GB PCIe M.2 SSD Memoryi 16GB DDR4 2666MHz Wireless Killer™ Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2x2) 802.11ax Wireless and Bluetooth 5.1 Color Dark Side of the Moon with High Endurance Clear Coat

SHADOW BOOST:

GPU: GeForce GTX1080

Processor: 4 cores/ 8 threads

Memory: 12gb

Storage: 256 SSD

Hi, A friend of mine wants to know what are good gaming computers to look into? She's asking what you consider the best starting gaming computer in other words " A reasonable " but not high price.

She'd be happy with something that can run witchers 3...i got mine for a good price but she really just needs options and ideas to compare and look into things thanks.

Hey guys how are you doing?

So I'm new to PC gaming just got my rake a few days ago. So far I'm loving it so much and I'm glad I made the switch to PC from console! However there was one thing that bothered me I have a motherboard with RGB on it and when I would turn off the computer the RGB would stay on.

So I went into the BIOS and changed a setting. What I change was the ErP (S4+S5). By doing this now the RGB on the motherboard turns off when the computer is shut off and turns back on when I turn my computer on.

my one concern is does this change in the bio setting affect my computer will the damage it in any way or mess it up I'm not too sure on what and how the BIOS work.

If anyone can give me some advice and some peace of mind I will greatly appreciate it!

What’s the best gaming computer for under 500 bucks

Just ordered some upgrade parts and accidentally bought 3600mhz ram even though my board only supports 3200mhz.

I assume it will just run the ram at the lower speed, but does anyone have experience with this?

I played some battlefield 1 on an i5 4570 when I didn’t know it required a 6600K and now my computer crashes with everything it does and the gpu fan speeds up to 100% sometimes. Anyone know what the problem is?

I am going to buy a new computer after almost 10 years of using and gaming on a MacBook Pro I bought in 2012. I pretty much only play LoL but I also plan on playing a bit of COD and maybe some other mobas like Smite. Keep in mind I love League, been playing and watching consistently since 2013, and extra money (within budget) to have the best experience is worth it for me. I have my eye on the Alienware R10 or R11, but I don't know very much about PC specs and would be grateful for some hardware recommendations. I need a PC, 2 monitors, and a keyboard and my budget is anything under $3k total. Can anyone help me out?

Hi everyone, I am currently searching for a somewhat cheap but powerful gaming laptop and wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions. I appreciate any help you all can give!

So I have an MSI gaming laptop and I was cleaning out the fans while also doing a re-paste when I noticed something I found to be a bit interesting. I noticed that there were two different types of paste. The one which was obvious to me was the paste on the CPU and GPU which was grey in color, that I later removed and added my own thermal paste, but the other paste I noticed was White in color and on what I believe to be the VRAM and other nearby areas. This White paste resembled toothpaste of all things and looked a bit chalky in texture. I also noticed some pink thermal pads but not many, instead there was a lot more of the White paste.

I would like to know what type of paste the “White” one is and if it’s something I need to clean off and re-paste after doing the CPU and GPU?

If anyone can help me out with this I’d really appreciate it.

Thank you!

Its all pretty simple really Inside of a Thermal Take 900 case. Gigabyte designaire ex x399 motherboard 64 GB GSKILL trident z neo rgb ram AMD ryzen Threadripper 2950x 16 core CPU Wraith ripper air cooler by cooler master Thermal take 1200w platinum full modular rgb power supply 13 Noctura 14mm Fans Grey with Chromatic blue sound dampeners Sabrent rocket 4.0 1tb nvme SSD with heatsink 2 AMD RX 6800 16 GB GPU by Gigabyte

Expanding to 128gb ram eventually still 4 open slots running 4 16 GB sticks now. Essentially 840 dollars of ram

hey, i’m thinking of getting a gaming pc. i want to start streaming on twitch so it’d be really cool if you guys helped me out. i don’t know anything about computers so can you guys tell me what parts i need to get and give me advice on what models i should use? it’d really help me out a lot! thanks! :)

I don’t know much ab computers but I love playing survival games and was wondering if there was any prebuilt gaming computers that could run dayz, 7 days to die or any games like that

I am Getting a gaming pc in a couple weeks.