I am buying a new desktop computer in a month or two. It will be bought with openSuse preinstalled. It will be used for routemaking, some gaming and general use at home.
How shall I think when choosing storage and memory. Is it better to have several storage units that are smaller or a big one. Should all be SSD? Will prices on RAM continue to rise so its better to buy more at once instead of upgrading later?
Thanks in advance.
So my specs are rtx 3070 i9-9900k 16gigs of ddr4 ram and k have a Aio cooler for the cpu but my problem is my fps in r6 seige won’t go over 100 i have no limiters and my cpu usage won’t go over 20 but my gpu will go from 80s to 90s and i know seige is a cpu heavy game idk why its like this and yes I have XMP on can anyone help me?
So long story short, I was an idiot and upgraded my old ass Dell Inspiron 15R from 4GB to 16GB DDR3 RAM. Now I found out that the CPU and integrated graphics are the bottlenecks. So my laptop is not using even half of all the available RAM. What can I do to fully utilize my RAM?
Planning on getting a new mouse pad, wireless, mouse and headphones but also am wondering what i could do to my setup to make it look cleaner/better Thx!Might put my pc on the floor, kinda like it up there but idk
I've got a shitty Amazon desk, which has lasted for a couple years, but.. it definitely shows its flaws. Im interested in moving my PC onto my desk, and I know my current one DEFINITELY can't support that.
I've got a Hyte Y60, so a pretty heavy case, and ive got two monitors, of which will soon be attached to monitor arms.
Budget isnt super huge, preferably 300 dollars TOPS.
I dont care about adjustable height, preferably 30 inches tall. If it can, that works.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
I currently have a pc with:
Rx 6700xt
Ryzen 7 5700x
A B650 motherboard (no wifi, i use ethernet)
32gb ddr4
650w psu
3tb nvme
The question is, what should i upgrade?
I was thinking of getting something like an rx 9070 xt. But with that should i also upgrade the psu to maybe 850w? And most importantly, should i do this upgrade or do something else like pass to am5 first?
My budget is around 700€, which is enough for an rx 9070 xt or a pass to AM5.
Hi guys,
Since 2009 I have been a gaming laptop person, years of high school, college and then early adult life it was good.
But currently my gaming laptop (MSI nvidia 3060) is 5 years old and pretty dysfunctional.
I bought a new gaming laptop rog zephyrus 5070ti, I tried it a for a month, kept it connected to a monitor at all times. Had to return it because it was getting too loud, too hot and performance wasn’t the best when connected to a 4k monitor.
I just bought my first house, and I never use gaming laptop on the go to be honest, always use it plugged. I already have a macbook pro for daily use and work.
Is there any reason not to switch to a gaming desktop after many years?
Gaming laptops are not usable on the go anyway due to heat and battery.
Also my budget is 2500 approximately, what gaming desktop pre-made built/brand would you recommend?
Sorry for long post.
Heya
My partner is looking to upgrade from a laptop he was basically mis-sold to a desktop PC.
He is currently using it for multimedia editing- largely videos for promotional and social media use, podcasts, that kind of thing.
He currently has an 8GB RAM laptop which really isn't cutting it (no pun intended)
I only really have experience in putting together a fairly modest gaming rig: I picked up a 16gb AMD Ryzen StormForce pre-built machine, and then added an RTX3060 12Gb, which is absolutely plenty for me to stream and game at modest outputs. (I don't need 4k gaming and 120hz frame rates, etc.) But I've noticed it does handle some reasonable video editing.
If he goes for a similar setup ( a 16gb CPU pre-built, with space to add a 12gb GPU and a beefier PSU), is that realistically gonna be enough for him, or is it genuinely worth shelling out another few hundred quid for 32GB of RAM
Similarly, the older 12gb GPUs are a bit harder to come by, is a modern smaller RAM GPU and a bigger CPU the way to go?
Thanks so much in advance for your advice, folks!!
Hey
Now at my new PC setup there is no speakers only my headphone.
What would you recommend for this setup and space?
I don't have anything beside my Topping dx3 pro and my hifiman Sundara.
If you guys can please send me setups for 50, 100, 200 and 300 budget types.
I have roughly 12cm bellow my monitor and max 20-22 cm left and right
For reference i have a pair of wharfelde diamonds in my living room and i like the taste of it so maybe if you guys can say something near to that.
I don't need a high and level here and just curious what would you guys recommend :)
Running a Ryzen 7700 and Intel Arc B580. Summers are getting brutal and temps are climbing. I have a desk fan (see pic)
would pointing it at the closed case do anything useful, or do I need to open the tempered glass panel and direct the airflow straight at the components? Has anyone tried either method? What actually works?
I’m new to Reno, Nevada and after being a lifelong console gamer I’m finally making the leap into pc gaming and getting a whole gaming/streaming set up.
While also being exclusively in the Apple ecosystem, I’m beyond clueless on how to get this done.
I’ve been able to narrow down what I want for the gaming pc itself and even figure I can go to a local computer store to have them build it for me (GeForce RTX 5090, Ryzen 9 9950X3D, etc)
But now my main issue is with getting such a top of the line set up, I have zero clue of what drivers I need, software I need, settings I need to optimize this expensive setup to begin with, you get the picture. The attraction of console/apple to me has always been getting just enough function with biggest priority being ease of use but since I accept that’s just not the case with this jump to pc, I’d like to do it right and would love to know if there’s anyone in the Reno area that could help walk me through it in person/teach me step by step, because that’s how best I learn, compared to YouTube tutorials which- are FANTASTIC- but very overwhelming and somewhat counterintuitive to me because of just the sheer number of different variables and lack of consistency to be able to follow along unless someone is using the exact 1 for 1 specs/software I am.
Any help available on here for that? And if not is there a better subreddit I can ask around in you’d suggest? Will be willing to compensate for your time of course
I opened my old pc after so long and it's showing this. Ignore the screen
I have no idea of it and i don't want to lose my files.
Please help
I got a new 2tb ssd with dram cache i intended to use for games and then reinstall win11 on my old 1tb ssd without dram so the os and games run from seperate drives.
I just read that the operating system would benefit more from the dram cache, but would that be worth it over running games from a seperate ssd?
Hey everyone,
I have a pretty powerful gaming laptop, and instead of buying a whole gaming desktop, I was wondering if there's something that basically turns it into one.
What I'm imagining is some kind of PC case or shell where I can put my laptop inside so it looks like a gaming PC tower. Then I'd connect everything (monitor, keyboard, mouse, headset, etc.) to a USB hub or dock, plug that into my laptop, and use it just like a desktop.
I'm not trying to upgrade the laptop's performance; I just like the desktop aesthetic and having a clean setup.
Does anything like this exist, or has anyone done something similar? I'd also be interested in DIY ideas if there aren't any products made specifically for this.
Thanks!
Hello so my older brother recently moved out and he gave me his pc any ways today me and my friend wanted to look how much the ram sticks were each (8 each). I wanted to reset it but i need 32 gigs I only have 16. So I put them back in it now says I have 15.9 GB also the red light with a cylinder next to it is blinking with no rhythm it’s just random. I could really use some help thanks.
Like the title said, I'm looking to get a prebuilt for my birthday, and I'm not really well-informed on PC specs. Is this good?
Would it run heavily modded games and upcoming releases like GTA 6?
I've also been looking at Starforge systems and some others but this was sent to me by someone who said it was a really good deal for 1800$
EDIT: It has been purchased, coming in on Wednesday, and gotta say I'm pretty excited! Any monitor recommendations? Preferably below 250$ so I could order two, as my max budget for a monitor is $500
I recently upgraded my pcs cpu and gpu
Specs: amd Ryzen 7 5800xt
Asus B550-F
Rtx 3080 founders
32 gb ram
M.2 ssd and 2 hdds
850w power supply
I had a lot of junk on the pc before hand so I decided to just completly wipe everything clean and fresh install windows 11 but now it runs very slow there’s atleast a 10-15 second delay while moving a tab across my monitor or right clicking and in games like Minecraft or pga25 I’ll notice it freezes frequently before resuming. I downloaded all the drivers from windows update and gpu driver from nvidia and Asus, if anyone has any tips it’ll be greatly appreciated
I was wondering if this is good built for my first pc
Ok so my dad died in 2023 and has a pc that hasn’t really been touched other than to print some photos and that’s about it. I however also have a pc but mine isn’t as good. I want to somehow get on his pc to play my games. I only really need a couple of things, my accounts on like steam, epic games, roblox ,etc. I don’t think i will need an internal change but please help if you have a solution. Thank you
