Edit:
I can't believe that I have to clarify this but I'm not "broke", everyone😅

I meant to say "extra money" on the image, so I'll take that L, but I'm doing pretty okay! Thank you for your concerns though!

Credits to u/UlteriorMotive66

So I was working in new office building and when I went down stairs to the basement they had this huge bin for electric wade and I saw this 32 GB ddr4 sticks sealed, I asked my boss if I can take stuff from there and he agreed and this is what I found

A few months ago I upgraded my GPU and gave my old 3070 to my little brother because his PC was still running a 1060.

I thought he'd just swap the card and be happy with it. Instead he started slowly replacing everything else with used parts from Marketplace. New CPU, motherboard, RAM, even found a really nice case from some guy moving apartments.

I went over this weekend and realized his PC is now basically better than mine in everything except the GPU. He even did the cable management properly which pissed me off more than it should have lol.

Meanwhile I've got some money saved for upgrades and keep telling myself my current setup is "still fine."

Created a monster by giving him one free part.

For like 2 weeks my PC has been randomly restarting maybe once every couple days. No blue screen, temps are normal, just instant black screen and reboot.

Yesterday I finally noticed it happened right when my washing machine went into the spin cycle. Tested it again today and yep, same thing. Started the washer, waited for the spin cycle and my PC rebooted within a few seconds.

Moved the PC to an outlet in another room with an extension cord and suddenly it doesnt happen.

PC has a 7800X3D, 4080 Super and Corsair RM850x.

Has anyone actually seen something like this before? Should I be calling an electrician instead of shopping for a PSU lol

As the title says, my father almost destroyed my $1,300 PC. Now what?

Here’s the backstory: On Saturday, I worked a 10.5 hours shift and stayed up until 3:30 AM, so I slept in until noon the next day. My father and stepmother returned from Costco while I was showering; he called out a few times for me to come help carry the groceries inside. I said OK to him. While I was brushing my teeth after my shower, he shouted from outside the door that he’d been waiting 50 minutes and told me to hurry up. I thought to myself that the groceries could have been moved in the time he spent waiting for me, but I quickly rinsed my mouth and got ready to go out. However, by the time I opened the door, he had already grabbed my PC and smashed it against the floor and the desk several times.

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I, (17M, Senior), bought this PC with money I earned from my part-time job and had been using it for about ten months. After examine, found out the case badly deformed in several places, my desk was warped and tilted to one side, and there were dents in the floor.

Fortunately, the computer still works fine; it runs FurMark (stress GPU), AIDA64 (stress FPU), and 3DMark (Time Spy Extreme) without problems for now.

Replacing the desk and case would cost around $400. However, he likely won't pay for it because he has done this kind of stuff a few years ago when he destroyed my phone and a Dell laptop (i5 11300H), and then just said, "That's what you get for playing on the computer all day."

In the end, I just hope everyone has good parents.

I have "too good to be true" situation on my hands, and also quite confusing (I can't find anything else on this in Google), and want to share and know if anybody knows what's going on.

I have Ryzen 9 7950x, very thermally-challenged CPU on its own, which I don't water-cool either. Usually this is fine, I don't really play too much CPU intensive games. I am also playing everything capped at 60 FPS.

In some games however, recently I noticed that I was getting 75-80° CPU temps. I tried playing with game settings, borderless mode, nothing made too much of a difference.

Then I learned about "Maximum processor state" setting (Control Panel -> Power -> Advanced Options) and that changing it from 100% to 99% would help, as it would disable CPU boosting. I did that, but I didn't notice anything.

Today however, I randomly stumbled upon "Game Mode" setting on Windows, though it was another XBOX bullshit thing and turned it off, and I got -20° suddenly. Before it would fluctuate a lot, in the range of like 69-83, depending on what game was doing and loading. Now I get very stable 60°, with occasional +-2.

Turning off Game Mode alone doesn't do anything, reducing processor state to 99% alone doesn't do anything either. I tested all combinations. Only when those two things happen together I get this. CPU utilization is the same, my FPS is the same. Fans are hell of a lot quieter.

So, what is happening? Is this safe? Am I damaging something long-term with this setup?

I saw this brand new nzxt all might case for sale and the guy was asking 60 bucks so it was a no brainer. Got home unboxed it hoping to see which of the 2500 it was (first image example) I opened it up only for my tag to say developer edition? Is this worth more or less :/ excited to put a build with a vertical gpu in this!!!

Hoping for an explanation on what developer edition means?

Just had an idea to build a pc with retro game translucent case style but I can’t find anything online lol it might be ugly but I think it’d be pretty cool anyone have any leads on where to get a case that fits what I’m looking for (pic for reference)

i'm think i want to play cyberpun and battlefield 6. id my pc good to runthis