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Anyone got any recommendations or warnings about specific hdd / ssd / storage brands or models at the moment? Thinking about buying another drive instead of being smart and cleaning up my files. I've been pretty happy with Samsung but I've heard they had a clunker of a drive with high failure rates lately. HDD, SSD and I think I...

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I’m in the market for a new monitor. It’ll be used for gaming and browsing, but also light graphic design/video editing and lots of email- and document-writing, some spreadsheets, etc. My graphics work is not very color sensitive, and I have a “normal” $100 IPS monitor on the side to compare....

I want to build a linux PC for digial audio and home network storage....

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I’ve got $90 to blow. I’m basically rich now. What should I upgrade? Uses are software development, vms, jellyfin, nas, local llms and occasional gaming. I haven’t had issues with the psu but I’m thinking a name brand gold rated psu could be good. Otherwise 32gb more of ram?...

I needed a PC to test a PCIe card recently, so I put something together with some spare parts. The only PSU I had around was a corsair CX750M I took from a prebuild from about 2014-2015, one with the green labels. Searching around the internet I see loads of people saying not to buy them, but what about one I already have? How...

And can they easily be replaced?...

Hey Lemmy, I need some recommendations for a CPU-intensive slightly mobile rig. I run a lot of engineering simulations and I need a computer that I can move between my home and work on a semi-frequent basis. I’m looking for something more powerful than a laptop and I’ll have monitors/peripherals at both locations. Maybe a...

My PC is getting on a little, it’s running on an i7-4790k, 16gb ddr4, and a GTX 970. right now, it’s struggling some in most games even though I don’t play any triple A titles. What would be a sensible upgrade that wouldn’t get totally bottlenecked by the CPU?...

Laptop battery recently died, and I’m planning a new PC build anyway, so I’m wondering: can I just remove the HDD from my laptop and connect it to the motherboard? Would I need any extra parts or hardware? I’m guessing no, but it’s hard to research on my phone. Any guidance is appreciated :) thanks!

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anyone here has those? i’m kinda budget constrained, i need a quiet sfx psu, heard lian li one are kinda loud

I’m looking to replace the HDD on an HP Pavilion dv 6 6130-us. It has an i-3 2330M CPU. I know it’s old as dirt, but I’d like to use it to run old games. It’s also the only thing I own with a CD drive....

Recently I tried to clean my PC with an I5 11400F CPU. I removed the GPU and wanted to remove the CPU cooler too but couldn’t do it. I tried though and I think I might have damaged the motherboard with a screwdriver in a few places during the process (don’t ask how). Can it be the reason for the spikes? Like could I damage...

Anybody familiar with quadro cards?...

I’m not building a PC at the moment, but this drove me nuts last time I got a laptop, and I’ve been wondering if anyone else has ideas along these lines....

I’m building a PC for my wife to do photo editing / retouching / other 2d/non moving stuff. I’m aware that this kind of software does benefit from GPU acceleration, but I’m also under impression that it’s not critical. One additional constraint is that it should fit into teenage engineering’s computer-1 case, because...

My first attempt at a gaming PC build. Aiming for a $1000 budget. Does anyone have recommendations on how to improve or save cost? Thanks!...

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My husband recently upgraded to an AM4 platform. His issue is that there is no display. The gpu fans look like they are trying to start, but cannot. Additionally, there is no POST sound and the power button, while able to turn on the pc, will not turn it off. The lights on the motherboard work, as do the cpu fans and case fans....

Hi, I am looking to build my first PC. It will be for general use (web browsing, programming, office work; no gaming)....

Okay I’m planning to build a sffpc for couch gaming. I’m building around the a1p case. But it was ages since my last build so I wanted to get some input for the build. I don’t really know which games I will be playing but I want to be able to run new and old ones 😁...