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  1. shaky98

    Dell support assist checks fans on boot up

    i got a new gaming case a month back or so and i moved everything into it. ive changed many components but the motherboard/bios is still dell. the fans now run through my new case as i can control them separately. however dell support assist runs every time i turn on my computer and i cant find...
  2. G

    PC runs fine but major frame drops in games

    My PC is relatively new (bought just before christmas) and it was running completely fine in games and everything a couple days ago but since then its been getting massive frame drops even down to 11fps when i usually get a steady 120fps is my psu maybe failing?
  3. J

    Computer randomly freezes

    Hello everyone, I recently saved up some money and bought a computer that I can use for all of my gaming needs. It arrived around 3 weeks ago and I have been loving it. The only problem that I've been having is that it will randomly freeze for about 5 seconds. This usually happens when I am...
  4. D

    Solved PSU failing ?

    Hello there. A few months ago bought PC that was built in 2015 but still worked fine. Now there is a problem that I have been facing since the beginning. First games I installed were AC: Brotherhood (2010) and AC4: Black Flag. The problem was after around ten minutes of gameplay in brotherhood...
  5. D

    PC Laptop for Gaming under $500?

    I own an expensive Macbook Pro required for my college, but I have become increasingly frustrated with the amount of games Mac OS X does not support. Because of this, I want to buy a PC laptop STRICTLY for gaming, so I don't want to drop a large sum of money on it. However, I've been doing...
  6. Robertart

    2 games suddenly lagging (low fps) !?

    My problem is the following: I was away from my PC for about 3 days. Everything was working fine before that. When I returned to my PC and started up either of those 2 games, they were suddenly lagging to an extent that they were unplayable. To take note of, is that these games didn't ever lag...
  7. M

    Every game I launch Crashes?

    I built this gaming PC about a month ago and it runs pretty well for internetting, but every game I launch just crashes within a minute or less. For example I will try to launch Player unknowns battlegrounds from steam or discord and a crash reporter message pops up and reads "A PLAYER UNKNOWNS...
  8. dannyd3942

    Best antivirus+ antimalware software

    So I was researching virus protection software after messing up my PC and realized that for my laptop I would need antivirus software but also antimalware software, I'm leaning towards Bitdefender Antivirus Plus and Malwarebytes Has anyone ever used these and would they recommend them or would...
  9. dannyd3942

    EVGA SC15

    So I decided to buy the EVGA sc15 over various different laptops and was just wondering has anyone previously owned this laptop or have any experience with it?
  10. dannyd3942

    Lenovo vs HP vs MSI

    So I'm making my final decision on which laptop to buy, my 3 choices are: https://www.johnlewis.com/hp-omen-15-ce012na-laptop-intel-core-i7-8gb-1tb-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-15-6-inch-shadow-black/p3262775 https://www.box.co.uk/80VR00APUK-Lenovo-Legion-Y720_2325649.html...
  11. dannyd3942

    Totally confused on which laptop to buy

    So I've got a shortlist of 3 laptops: https://www.box.co.uk/80VR00APUK-Lenovo-Legion-Y720_2325649.html https://www.box.co.uk/FX503VM-DM093T-ASUS-FX503VM-DM093T-Gaming-Laptop_2315630.html...
  12. dannyd3942

    Buying a laptop?

    So I've been looking to buy a laptop as I start university in September and my shortlist comes to: https://www.johnlewis.com/hp-omen-15-ce012na-laptop-intel-core-i7-8gb-1tb-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-15-6-inch-shadow-black/p3262775...
  13. E

    Good pc, tons of lag spikes on fortnite

    I have a good pc that can run practically every game well but fortnite has lag spikes for no reason sometimes. I even put it at minimum settings and its not any better. If anyone know what is wrong i would really appreciate the help.
  14. C

    Solved Computer Crash While Gaming

    Recently i've started getting constant crashes while gaming, they are completely random too, it seems. My screen suddenly gets filled completely with vertical lines of random colors and a very loud - and unpleasant - sounds plays (not in the hardware, but trough the speakers), shortly after...
  15. J

    Best Gaming Laptops under $1000

    Hello everyone! I want to buy a cheap gaming laptop, because I’m a student so the budget can’t be too high, the price is about 1000$ , if you have good ideas can recommend to me, thank you very much.
  16. coolhandluke

    Solved AMD 1600x vs. I5-3570k?

    Ok so I sold a build I made a while ago: I5-3570K 8GB Ram AMD Radeon 7850 2GB 1TB SSD This is the currently Build I am using: AMD Ryzen 5 1600x 16GB Ram Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon 580 8GB 1TB SSD The reason why I bring up that specific old build is because I play a lot of counter-strike and that...
  17. Ward

    LOW fps on PUBG with a new gaming laptop

    Hello, My laptop (student/gaming) came in yesterday and I quickly bought PUBG, because my other laptops were pretty bad for gaming. Is there any way to boost my fps or graphics with specific settings? Or is it normal that I only get a max of 30fps (settings on very low). I know PUBG isn't...
  18. N

    Solved CS:GO kicking me from VAC secured servers

    Hello, thank you to anyone who has the interest in helping me. So my issue is that while playing on a VAC-Secured CS:GO server, after a few hours or so I will get kicked saying that something on my PC is blocking VAC. (I attatched a screenshot of the exact message, called screenshot_1.png)...
  19. B

    Bought my first gaming laptop confused about SSD

    I purchased a msi GL62M 7RE-407 and it just came in today. When I read about it online I was under the impression it came with the 256gb m.2 SATA SSD. I looked on the ssd slot and it's empty. I've been looking online for some and apparently there are external and internal SSDs. I'm not sure...
  20. D

    Need help PC Noob

    Alright I have a Dell XPS 7200 pc mostly stock. 8Gb of ram, stock mobo and cpu. EVGA 1060 6 gb is what i recently put in to replace a GTX9800 which blue screened, and also had a Nvidia 580 quadro which ran like crap graphics wise, but did not crash or anything. Since putting in the 1060 my pc...