r/computers

Hi I'm moving into my college dorm this upcoming Monday, and it's a roughly 2 and a half hour drive to the campus. I know I need to remove my graphics card but what else do I need to do to make sure nothing gets damaged? I'm considering removing my ram with it being a ddr5 build and I do not have the money to replace the ram if it gets damaged.

Thank you!

My PC has a very strange intermittent power issue and I'm completely stuck.

Specs:

i5-12400F

Gigabyte B760M H motherboard

RTX 3050 6GB

16GB DDR5

500W ANT esports PSU

The problem is that when I press the PC power button and absolutely nothing happens. No fans, no motherboard lights, nothing.

The weird part is that I've taken the PC/motherboard to a Gigabyte service center three separate times, and the motherboard works perfectly every time they test it.

I've also taken the entire assembled PC to three different third-party technicians, and it worked normally for them as well.

But when I bring it home, the problem comes back.

I've tested multiple power sockets and even tested it in a different house/floor, so I'm not convinced it's simply one bad socket.

The shocking stuff is that this is happening when I just got into an internship(WFH) so its frustrating for me. But still gotta work on my home laptop which is so shit, can't even run minecraft on 60fps

Hello!

About 4 years ago, i built a computer and the back fan on the case has died. Its a Montech x3 I believe.

I have a new fan but not sure where it can plug in to. If it can plug into my motherboard ( its a ASUS B550-PLUS TUF Gaming WiFi II AMD AM4 ATX. Sorry about formatting, just copy and pasted from my past orders Microcenter!)

I am starting my first year in software engineering major and need a good laptop to handle my university years easily , i thought about getting a macbook air m5 but some people say i will struggle with that due to limitations compared to windows and performance drops when heating up , lmk if its a good choice or not and any other options for this major ?

Guys l really need advice, l want to but a laptop but l don’t have a lot of knowledge about laptops, l am sure there are a lot of great options out there but l really need something that has the great battery and great for coding and programming and multitasking, which one should l but l am thinking about Macbook pro M4, what do you think?

Hello all,

I am a teacher looking for a mobile device I can use to make resources that I plan to sell on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Because school boards own whatever a teacher makes using any board resources - from tech to apps to internet - I cannot use my work laptop, even if I make the resources at home.

I already have a gaming desktop and a Samsung Galaxy S6 lite tablet from Teacher's college. The desktop is more than powerful enough but I get distracted while working on the resources and I'm tied to the room since it's a desk top. The tablet has 4GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 720G processor.

My tablet is not powerful enough to do what I need to do. I do a lot of research on Google and Canva (canva app sucks). I also love listening to music while I work. It's constantly lagging and the apps crash a lot. It worked completely fine otherwise - I.e. doing the same tasks perfectly as what it did during Teacher's College.

I need something with a USB port, and I would like to have a touch screen on the new mobile device as I find that helpful. I would rather not have a full laptop though, as they are $1300 to over $2000 in my area.

I'm looking at the 2 in 1 or Chromebook thingy.

Suggestions?

Picture of my ICUE meters

Pardon my hazardous english, I am not a native english speaker.
Hello, I got a computer 3-4 years ago and today I noticed that my computer was doing some crazy fan sound like going 3000rpm and when I checked the temperature, they were all at 100°C (212F).
What is surprising is that it happens when I'm launching stuff like games even thought they are light consuming in term of resources.
That issue has appeared recently as it was quite silent previously and it is not the room temperature as I am using AC.
Do anyone has any idea of what could be causing this ?
Thanks in advance.

PS : I clean the dust every 3-4 months, it should be enough right ?

Hi. Need help choosing my next laptop.. The last two laptops I've had were MacBook Air. The one I currently have, I've had since 2016 and it is time for an upgrade since having issues with battery life, overheating, etc.

I have heard the Asus computer is good but want to hear from others. I do not go to school, I use the computer for shopping, browsing, researching things from my job, and also for a small cleaning business. I do use excel and word, but I also use google applications (sheets, drive photos). I do not game whatsoever. For what I will be using it for, should I stick to MacBook Air (or try the Pro) or get an Asus?

Thanks!

Recently, whenever I have a steam game automatically update - or download and install, as soon as it gets to the installing part, my entire PC turns into a brick and is unresponsive for multiple minutes at a time. I can still move the mouse, and click things. But things will either not open, they wont load, or it will be essentially impossible to do anything.

I have a pretty high end system. I think god is punishing me for buying a cheap NVME. Its a Crucial P3 2TB. But surely this is not the issue? Surely this drive is not designed to literally freeze your entire system under load.

I do have windows installed on this drive, yes i understand i shouldnt put my steam games on my C drive.

Can someone help me through process of elimination determine if my SSD is faulty, or if its just genuinely a crap drive.

Steam installing a game - 800mb install - Took over 30 mins with 25 of the minutes frozen / unusable. It is also worth noting that it goes in chunks. It will be going at 80MB/s+ for a bit, then it will drop down to essentially 0, as you can see in the graph. Typically the system becomes unusable when the speed is near 0.

Crystal Disk and Crucial Storage Executive stats

Task manager usage while steam is installing a game.

I would like to share my Linux Syscall Monitor project with you. It's a Linux process monitoring tool written in C that uses "ptrace" to observe system calls and generate behavioral reports.

Repo .

I welcome any feedback or criticism—whether it's about the code .