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Now that were a couple of years on after the introduction of LGA 1700, what are your reflections and experiences from Intel's rectangular shaped CPUs in regards to temps and the heatsink mount holding up? Were the concerns over bending and uneven mounting pressure overblown? How have the...

I'm looking at video cards on Newegg at the moment. I see a graphics card that has 3 distinct clockspeeds listed for it under it's product specifications. It has a "core clock", a "game clock" and a "boost clock". Logically i'd assume that the "boost clock" is the same thing as a turbo...

I'm super desperate for a bit more space in my NAS to expand my movie storage a little. I'm relatively poor, so i'd love to pick up some used hard drives from my fellow brothers on the [H]. Lemme know if anyone had some used or new 12TB+ hard drives for sale. :) Thanks!

Are there any case manufacturers that sell brushed titanium PC cases? I think it'd be a beautiful material for a PC case to be made from.

Without realizing it, I let my hair graze the lenses of my Quest 3 VR headset. Some oil from my hair has accumulated on the lenses, and trying to wipe it away with paper towels only seems to smear the hair oil around on the surface of the lenses. Does anyone here have a recommended type of...

Has anyone here tried one of these local uncensored A.I. chat models? I'm seeing a few pop up online, but am curious if it's worth the effort to set one up yet or if it may need a year or two more to advance.

I'm not seeing a setting for LFC on my RX560. Is LFC supported on the old RX500 cards? Or do you need Vega for it or something?

I installed this game launcher called Riot Games Launcher in order to try out League Of Legends. I found myself hating League Of Legends though so I proceeded to uninstall it and it's Riot Launcher. The Window add/remove programs list didn't have an option to uninstall riot, so I dug up several...

How many years back was it when it was still possible to build a PC entirely with components that were made in the U.S.A. ?

What's the difference between Nvidia DSR Legacy Scaling and Nvidia DSR Native scaling? I asked Google and Chat GPT, but nether of them knew what the difference was. Do any of ya'll know?

How does HDR work with PC games these days? Are some PC games designed for HDR and some aren't? Or is HDR in PC games strictly an upscaling sort of thing, kind of like playing an old 480p game on a new screen that gets auto upscaled?

I picked up Starfield a couple of weeks ago and so far haven't figured out the trick to get it running on Windows 7. So in the meantime I installed Windows 10 onto my 1TB HDD in order to be able to boot into it when I want to play Starfield. However I'm having an issue with Windows 10 where in...

I bought one of those Nintendo Switch Online Nintendo 64 USB C game pad controllers, but when I plug it into my PC, the controller doesn't work in anything except for Steam. But the issue with this method, is Steam maps the N64's C-up button to a weird search type button so when I try to Remap...

Do any of the current lines of consumer motherboards have more than one USB host control built into the board's chipset? And if so, how do I tell which ones do?

I got an NVME SSD for my computer, but whenever I have it installed my hard drive light on my case remains solid at all times. If I remove the NVME it fixes the issue. Are NVME drives supposed to keep your hard drive light from blinking, or is my my SSD a lemon?

Who here still has an OCZ SSD in active use? 5 out of the 6 i've purchase have all failed. Still have a 30GB original Vertex in my backup PC.

I noticed that M.2 SSDs can be made in at least three different length sizes. But the overwhelming majority of drives use the medium length drives with underwhelming capacities. When are the SSD companies going to start making the longer drives in 6-12TB capacities?

Arctic Cooling brand parts used to be available all over the place but now I never see their stuff anymore. What happened to them?

I thought it would be nice to have an internal front card reader in my PC for micro SD cards, which are the only kind of memory cards I use. However the only internal card readers I can find are all 7-in one, 21-in one type multi card readers. Do any internal PC card readers exist that are...

So I believe most of us here are familiar with the concept of a PCI-E 16x slot being capable of providing up to 75w of power through the slot. I've heard this over and over again for years. But what about a PCI-E 1x slot? Can a PCI-E 1x slot also deliver 75W of power if I wanted to charge a...

I've noticed in recent years a lot of folks on here have been calling these parts that I've always known as Graphics Cards or video card, simply GPUs. Is that really what their name is though? I've always understood that a GPU is specific component, along with many other components that when...

If a given motherboard is capable of booting an O.S. from one of it's M.2 slots, does that mean it can also boot from a M.2 SSD if it's installed in a regular PCI-E slot via one of those adapter cards?

Back in the 90's to early 2010's, the box art for gaming graphics cards were usually adorned with GCI renders of beautiful fantasy or sci-fi babes. If you were exceptionally lucky you'd get a poster of her too for the bedroom. Why have Nvidia and AMD all but stopped this practice? Why have they...

At my old house, my secondary desktop PC was running in a part of the house without good insolation and climate control. This is an older Athlon II tower. I was looking at it's FSP power supply today, and noticed that it's fairly corroded caked with orange rust on it's inside. The PC is still...

Recently I've been looking at this Viper Mini mouse since it seems to check most of the boxes I look for in a mouse. Has anyone here personally used it before and has an opinion of it they wouldn't mind sharing? What I'm most concerned about are the main two mouse buttons not being too easy to...

I haven't seen Fractal PSUs get restocked for a couple of years. Did Fractal stop selling them?

I'm running some software that's maxing out the Nvidia CUs (Compute Units) on my videocard. Is there any software out there that can show me the utilization percentage of the CUs? I'm not seeing an option for that in afterburner.

For years I've used a program called MPC-HC to synchronize the framerate of the movies and TV shows that I watch with my monitor's framerate in order to eliminate tearing and stuttering. However this program hasn't been updated since 2017 and is starting to get long in the tooth and it's not...

I'm curious how saturated my PCI-E bandwidth is. Is there a program that can show me how much of it is being used at any given time?

Resizable bar has compatibility issues across vendors. AMD cards only do rebar on AMD chipsets and Nvidia/Intel cards only do rebar on Intel chipsets. But who is at fault here for it not being universally compatible across all vendor's products? Is this Intel and Nvidia scratching each other's...

I see people sometimes talk about how modern motherboards have a limited number of PCI-E lanes directly connected to the CPU. When did this practice first start? I feel like 15 years ago this was never discussed. Do Sandy Bridge boards have CPU connected PCI-E lanes?

I'm about ready to finally jump into the world of VR. But I'm very spoiled by the smooth perfect that Freesync provides. Do any of the current VR headsets support Freesync for their display?

On my secondary Linux PC, my AMD RX 550 GPU fan isn't stopping when my PC is idle in Linux Mint. However it does if I boot into Windows 7. Does Anyone know how to fix this issue?

How would you recommend that I use my Windows 10 NTFS partitions from Linux Mint in a dual boot system? I've been googling around and can't find anything that's either not in beta, or only supports EXT2.

Consider the situation where you have very weak integrated graphics built into a CPU, that can do HEVC hardware decoding, but has poor 3D performance. If you bought one of those new AMD RX 6400 graphics cards to increase the 3D performance, would it disable the igpu's HEVC decoding from kicking...

I've noticed that manufacturers putting heatspreaders on System RAM is still a common practice. How come they don't do the same for m.2 SSDs? From my research, m.2 SSDs typically produce more heat than DDR4/DDR5 and are more likely to overheat and throttle than system RAM. Wouldn't it make more...

I was browsing around at new mini itx motherboards and noticed that the prices of these are almost always more expensive than the micro atx versions. You're lucky to find one at the same price point. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I'd think itx boards would be a little cheaper because of...

What are the advantages of using Direct X 12 Ultimate over standard Direct X 12? And is Ultimate a thing your GPU has to specifically support to use? Or does it work with all DX12 GPUs?

I'm looking at getting a RTX 3050 to upgrade my PC, however I just noticed that this card only supports an 8x PCI-E interface. My Sandy Bridge Core i5 CPU limits my motherboard to run at PCI-E 2.0 speeds however, so in my situation I'd be limited to PCI-E 2.0 8x speeds which I believe would cut...

My RX 550 fan is starting to go out, so I was looking at replacing it with a decent aftermarket heatsink that isn't massive. In the past i've used the arctic cooling accelero, but that product appears to have been discontinued 2 years ago. Could someone help me find one that's in stock that...