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Hi, I am thinking of adding a UPS to my media server and another to my router and switch, with the intention of not suffering during short power outages. The main drivers being a desire to protect the hardware from damage due to power outages (pc is already on a surge protector) due to unsafe...

Gamers Nexus has an interesting video here: TLDW Greg loses his paycheck. Intel costs more, AMD is more efficient, but the cost difference of that power is slim thanks to low power costs.

https://wccftech.com/inno3d-unveils-geforce-rtx-4070-4060-ti-gpus-with-hidden-power-connectors/ Rather clever, really.

**EDIT/UPDATE 2: Fixed** Hi there, I'm posting on here for the first time, although I have found this community extremely helpful when searching for specific problems and solutions to computer issues. Please bear with me in case I have missed anything, thank you kindly in advance for your...

Hi all, with all the potential electric disturbances this coming winter I am going to buy a UPS to protect my PC. The PC and monitor uses about 230w alone plus I need to plug my speakers and scanner into the UPS, also the PSU in my PC is 550w but Im not sure that makes a difference anyway. So...

TLDR I refuse to pay the amount it'll cost me a month to run a 5800x/3080/4070 etc spec new rig so I'm thinking of building a budget 1080p'ish 2nd hand rig... What would my worst come worse wattage usage be for say a Ryzen 5 3600g OR 5600x (both 65w tdp)//3060ti system/27-32" monitor? excluding...

Hi guys, When it comes to sound quality, I've realized there're freaking many factors could affect it, some say the DAC is the paramount thing to be taken care of; some say the speakers are the real crucial part, given that you hear all the sounds from them, there's no certain right or wrong...

My specs: Case: Phanteks Eclipse P500-A MOBO: Gigabyte z690 Aorus Ultra CPU: Intel i7-12700k Gfx Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 VISION OC 12GB RAM: Corsair DOMINATOR Platinum DDR5 (5600Mhz) 2x16GB HD: Seagate Firecude 2TB SSD M.2 PSU: Corsair RM850 850W 80+ Gold Hi, firstly I should say this...

Hi, I built a new PC during lockdown and have had on and off issues with it randomly shutting down and re-booting. Initially it would do it on the desktop or at idle however since updating the bios/drivers that issue seems to have gone but it is now occasionally doing it during high load...

Hi all, For over a month now, I've been without my Desktop PC. The PC one day failed to power on - not even reaching POST. Core Hardware: MSI Meg X570 Ace motherboard AMD Ryzen 4 5950X Nvidia RTX 2080 2 x 32 GB RAM (Corsair) CPU cooler (Corsair) As most the components were only a few...

Hi, I used to have an external USB cd drive but it was unreliable and i got sick of unplugging it and plugging it back in so i bought an internal optical drive. all the connections are fine, but no power at all. it shares a cable with the SSD which worked fine so i disconnected the SSD. still...

I have a SATA 2 disk drive which I need to connect to the motherboard, and can't identify which SATA power cable I need. The motherboard connector has 4 pins 1.5cm wide, and has a plastic bend-back catch on the front. It is smaller than the IDE MOLEX style with two corners shaved off. There is...

Hi there! So I'm Currently looking for a new 3090 card and i have been looking at the asus strix 3090 oc but the thing is I'm going to put a EK Waterblock on it and i see people saying i will void my warranty so i found the asus 3090 EKWB but i see it only has 2x8 pin connectors compared to the...

Hi there, bit of advice please. I'm in the process of building a small "spare" PC with some old bits. I have a PSU (a Nexus RX-8500), but I don't appear to have any of the modular 6-pin 12v molex / SATA power cables. I only need two cables (or one that is split possibly?), one for my SATA...

Hi guys!!! I'm new to the forum and the "world of overclocking", I have an ASUS ROG G752VS OC Edition which, in Extreme mode, has the multiplier at 39X, the processor is an i7-6820HK, I tried to push the overclock a little further but it goes into power throttling. Now I don't know if it...

Hello friends, I have an MSI RTX 2060 Super Gaming X, in the MSI Afterburner the Power Limit is no more than 105% which limits me a lot when overclocking Is there any possibility to load another bios or do some MOD to work around this limitation of the Power Limit? I leave here the information...

Hey Guys and Gals I own a https://www.overclockers.co.uk/titan-pulse-windows-8-edition-fs-294-oe.html Nearly 9 years old now and it's served me very, very well. However, the day before yesterday I woke up and found it had turned itself on at some point in the night. Then over the course of the...

Hi all, I am trying to spec and purchase a decent PSU for my build. Whenever I settle on one I find it's not in stock. I have currently stopped at the Gigabyte Aorus GP-AP850GM. My build does only require around 455W according to an online pc building tool I have been using, but this...

Hi All, So I recently finished my build and got some time yesterday to play around with my PC. I noticed right out of the box, my RTX 3090 FE was underperforming compared to the benchmarks/scores people have posted to forums. Here my PC specs: CPU: Ryzen 5900X (Stock) Cooler: NZXT X63...

Okay so im buying a custom PC from Overclockers Uk. (before anyone says build myself, dont fancy it with screaming kids running around xD) The PSU they use in a lot of them and that theyve selected for mine is a Kolink Classic Power 600W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply. Never heard of them before...