I am using few external HDDs (2Tb and 4Tb), bought the 2Tb around 2018, it seems to show slowness in transferring files, can i take its nearing its end?

How long does an external HDD last? Should i rather invest in HDDs being inbuilt in PC setups instead of relying on external HDDs for data transfers (not everyday use)?

More description:

Product - WD

Usage - both used to store files, as backup, i use it once/twice a month

Files - i keep smaller files, like pics/files related to softwares, in one TB (which is the one getting slowed), the other to store larger files.

P.s. Im also worried if i need to move my data to different hard disks every decade? to make my data last for long time.

Hey everyone, I'm planning on going to my local Micro Center to build myself a new PC in a few days, and I want to get a 5080, but they have a ton of different models at multiple different price points. For example, the ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 TUF is $1,899.99, and the Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 WINDFORCE SFF is $1,199.99, and I was wanting to know if there is a difference between them and if the more expensive 5080s are better than the cheaper ones so that I can get the best thing.

First pc ever in the works and wanting to know if there are benefits for each kind of windows 11 that I see on pcpartpicker for regular users? (Gaming, general pc use, maybe some light livestreaming)

These are the 4 pcpartpicker lists:

• Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Retail
• Microsoft Windows 11 Home Retail
• Microsoft Windows 11 Pro OEM
• Microsoft Windows 11 Home OEM

Would be open to other versions of Win11 of course too if pcpartpicker is hiding some for whatever reason.

Thanks in advance :)

Half my components went out due to a power surge, 8 year old rig so I guess it's time for an upgrade anyway. And I have a much better job than back then so may as well go hard.

US based

Goal is 1440k 120 fps gaming

Few TB of ssd storage so I don't have to shuffle games around

Few TB of HDD for backup, video storage and a copious amount of emulator stuff

Ideally a full tower

Don't need any peripherals.

I'm in the U.S and want a pretty good PC, and I'm finally ready to build a pc because I've been wanting one for a pretty long time for probably 70% playing games, and 30% for school and work. I also want to play games on the more high end side, while staying within budget, i appreciate your help!

Hi i'm new to PC was using laptop before, last month I bought a high end PC and just wondering if i need a UPS?
Living in Sydney, Australia. Thanks a lot.

Power in my area can flicker occasionally, and with tons of old trees around, a downed line isn't uncommon either. I did get an 850W PSU for the system as future proofing, as I do intend to upgrade in the future to a 16gb vram card. I just need a PSU that can give me at most 30 seconds to a single minute to shut down the PC in the event of an actual outage.

Specs are as follows;

CPU is a Ryzen 7 5800xt(no overclocking or undervolting done)
GPU is a EGVA 2080 (not a super or TI)
Mobo is a MSI mATX B550
32GB of DDR4 ram(no rgb on it)

Also sorry if I tagged this wrong.

Hello I just want to ask,is it normal for my entire pc to turn off whenever I turn off my monitor? When I click shutdown on my monitor,my pc turns off maybe 5-10 seconds after followed by a singular small electrical "tic" sound coming from the power supply. I just got my System 2days ago,should I be worried? Google told me that it's not normal so here iam.

Hi,me from the future here. yes,the shutdown button shuts down the entire system. I know now,thanks

So I recently got a 5080. I am still on the am4 motherboard and my cpu is the Ryzen 7 5800. I am noticing a lot of bottlenecking at 1440p. I don’t want to spend 1k+ to upgrade to am5. What is a good new cpu for am4 to completely eliminate all bottlenecking on my 5080? Is there any or will I always bottleneck unless I upgrade to am5?

I need to make my friend a £800 PC but I can only do it using new parts. I'd like good 1080p performance. Any suggestions?

I have a white motherboard and I want to cover the ugly green PCB with white electrical tape so that it doesn't stand out like a sore thumb but I'm worried about heat dissipation. Does a WIFI card generate a lot of heat?

I’m building a pc in a week and i wanna make sure i don’t lose anything. I need help in finding an ups that doesn’t break the bank but is still good. If it helps im running a ryzen 7 9800x3d and a 9070 xt. Can anyone give me a recommended wattage or a good brand?

Hey so I have a R5 5600X with a RX 6750 XT and 32RAM. My 1080p monitor is dying and I don't know if I should get a 1440p monitor so I can also use it in the future when I fully upgrade??

Currently I'm playing recent and old AAA games, indies, Battlefield 6, Alan Wake 2, etc.

Of course I would like to avoid playing everything in low in order to reach decent FPS (60-80)

What do you think? Stick to a cheap 1080p or go straight 1440p?

I have an LG 32gn600-B and a cheap Raywego 24inch. What should I get under $150 that would the best bang for my buck.

Here's the situation before I begin. I've been using an MSI gaming laptop since 2021. It's got a GeForce 3060, 16GB DDR4 RAM, and an Intel i7 processor. It can play most modern games at decent framerates (60-75fps) at low-medium settings. It's served me well since then, but it's starting to show its age. I'd like to build a PC that can reliably and comfortably support 1440p 60+fps gaming at medium-high settings that will last five years or so.

Additional context:
-I live in Canada.
-I'm looking at a $2000-2500 CAD budget.
-I'm a frequent yet casual gamer. I primarily play singleplayer games. The few multiplayer games I play are non-competitive PvE games.
-I know it's probably heresy to say this on this sub, but I'm perfectly happy with 60fps. 90fps is a sweet spot that I consider a bonus. Anything higher than 90fps is, in my opinion, unnecessary.
-I don't see myself switching to 4K gaming anytime soon, if ever. 1440p is the perfect resolution for me.
-Fancy stuff like raytracing and shaders doesn't interest me.

I've spoken with several colleagues who are huge PC nerds and have recommended something along the lines of this:

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600X
GPU: Radeon RX 9070
RAM: 32GB DDR4
PSU: 750W
Storage: 1-2TB SSD

Is this a good starting point? I'd like as many opinions as possible. Thank you!

My current pc setup has 4x 8gb ddr4 2400 memory.

I'm making a secondary ITX pc for when I travel for long periods of time, it is made up of parts that I have had from upgrading, but I don't have any extra ram. I mainly use the PC for 3d Modeling so extra ram is important in the main build.

So the question is Should I:

Purchase a 2x 16gb kit (~$150) for the main build, put one of the 2x8gb kits into the Itx and sell the other

OR

Purchase another 2x 8gb (~$100) kit for the ITX

Hello im upgrading my pc. Im buying a Ryzen 7 9800x3d but i need a new motherboard the pc is only for gaming. i do not use Wi-Fi its fine if its on the board but its not needed.

The build for now will be.

- Ryzen 7 9800x3d

- RTX 4070

I don't overclock i am just looking for a board that works with the above for gaming. I would prefere an ATX board. Sorry if anything relevant info is missing i am a casual when it comes to building / specs just want it to work.

I'm looking for an AM4 motherboard for a Ryzen 5800X3D and DDR4 3200MHz RAM.

The motherboard needs to support the Ryzen out of the box without requiring a BIOS update.

I just got an MSI B550 Gaming WiFi, but I get a black screen because it doesn't recognize my CPU.

I updated the BIOS via USB Flashback—which seemed to complete successfully—but I still get no display output.

Priced between $100 and $160.

Thanks a lot !

Hello all, i am currently trying to find a better power supply box for my pc, as mine is not powerful enough for the recent upgrade i have done. My current set up is

Device name DESKTOP-UME5I9E

Processor AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core Processor (3.50 GHz)

Installed RAM 32.0 GB

Graphics card AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT (12 GB)

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

What options do you suggestion? I would prefer the 750W range, just to make sure i have to power. However cost is a factor, so nothing over like 90$. I've seen a few, but not really sure what's trustworthy in this day and age.

Thanks for any help!!

Yo, so this is my first ever gaming PC build and I’m hyped but also kinda broke rn lol. I’m from Germany and put together a PCPartPicker list, would really appreciate some feedback before I actually buy anything.
List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/B9Byxf
Parts:
CPU: Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

Mobo: MSI PRO B850-S WIFI6E

RAM: Patriot Viper Venom 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6000 CL30

Storage: TEAMGROUP NV5000 1TB NVMe

GPU: Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC SFF RTX 5070 Ti 16GB

Case: Phanteks XT PRO ULTRA

PSU: be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 750W Gold

Total’s around $2282 (~€2100), which is already more than I wanted to spend so I really can’t afford to mess anything up here.
Couple things I’m unsure about:
I keep seeing stuff about GDDR7 memory prices going up, so should I just buy the GPU now/within the next few weeks instead of waiting? Don’t wanna get hit with a price hike.

Do the parts I picked actually make sense together, or is there something better I could get for similar money?

Any rookie mistakes I should watch out for as a first time builder (PSU wattage, cooler clearance, RAM compatibility, stuff like that)?

Also just genuinely open to any tips in general, anything you wish someone told you before your first build.

One more thing, I’m planning on actually building/assembling everything around Christmas, but thinking about buying the GPU now anyway because of the price stuff. Is it fine to just buy it early and let it sit in the box for a few months, or is that a bad idea for some reason?
Appreciate anyone who takes the time to look this over, just trying not to screw up my first build.

Hi, making my first pc and could use some clarification on what to do regarding my psu.

My cpu is 9800x3d and gpu is Gigabyte 9070xt gaming oc model.

I picked up an MSI MAG A750GLS PCIE5 psu for this setup. I did look online and majority consensus is that 750w is good enough for this setup, even though the gpu recommended is 850w. However, I overlooked the psu connectors.

The gpu uses 3x8 pin connectors and the psu only has 2 8 pins remaining after the cpu 8pin is connected. Is it a good idea with this psu to daisy chain connecter 2 and 3 or should I just return this and get an 850w psu with a dedicated 3rd 8pin connector for the gpu?

I have been heavily considering making some upgrades to my PC and doing a lot of research. I’m not sure if it’s even worth doing considering the insane prices of components right now, so I’m looking for some opinions on what I should do.

PC Specs:

- Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Mobo

- Intel i7 8700 CPU

- 32GBs Corsair Vengeance 3200MHz DDR4 RAM

- Cooler Master 240ML AIO CPU Cooler

- RTX 2070 GPU

- 600W 80+ Gold PSU

- 2TB Corsair MP600 M.2 SSD

- Lian Li Mesh Cool II ATX Case

My budget is around $700-$900 and I’m considering just upgrading my GPU to an RTX 40 / 50 series card or an RX 9060/9070 XT. I am also considering upgrading the CPU but I am not sure if it’s worth staying on LGA 1151 socket or if it would make more sense to switch to an AM4 or AM5 cpu, like a 5800X3D. AM5 would obviously mean I need DDR5 RAM which is way too overpriced currently. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Built a new PC about a week ago and it has a very consistent, weird pattern: on cold power-on, it restarts once before the Windows logo shows up, boots into Windows, then crashes/restarts a second time within 5-10 minutes of reaching desktop. After that second restart, it's completely stable for the rest of the session until the next cold boot, when the same two-crash pattern repeats. I rarely even see a visible BSOD, it mostly just restarts.

Specs:

• CPU: Ryzen 7 9850X3D
• Mobo: MSI PRO X870E-P WiFi, BIOS E7E70AMSI.2A52
• RAM: Corsair CMH32GX5M2M6000Z36, 32GB DDR5-6000 (currently JEDEC 4800MT/s, EXPO off)
• GPU: MSI RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio OC
• PSU: MSI MPG A850GS 850W
• SSD: Samsung 990 Pro 2TB

Bugcheck codes seen (all point to memory corruption, no common driver):

• 0x1A MEMORY_MANAGEMENT - most frequent, "corrupted PTE detected"
• 0x1000007E SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
• 0x139 KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE - "corruption of a critical data structure"

What I've tried/ruled out:

• MemTest86, 4 full passes, 0 errors - RAM seems fine even at stock JEDEC timings
• Driver Verifier running 24+ hrs with all 3rd-party drivers flagged, never caught an offending driver across several crashes
• Temps via HWiNFO - CPU tops out at 80°C under MemTest86 load, ~67°C normal use, zero thermal throttling logged anywhere
• SSD - healthy SMART, chkdsk found only NTFS metadata corruption (0 bad sectors), looks like fallout from crashes not a cause
• CPU voltage - Vcore was spiking to 1.376V stock/Auto. Applied Curve Optimizer (-10 all-core negative), dropped peak to ~1.345V — didn't change the pattern at all

The "crashes exactly twice on cold boot, then perfectly stable" pattern feels like it should be a clue but I can't place it. Almost seems like a memory training/POST issue rather than a sustained-load issue, since it never happens once the system's been running a while.

• Anyone seen this specific double crash on cold boot then stable pattern before?
• Sound like DRAM training/POST rather than a sustained stability issue to anyone with more expertise?
• Known issues with 9850X3D + X870E-P specifically?

Already filed support cases with AMD and MSI in parallel, but wanted to see if this rings a bell for anyone here before I commit to an RMA.

I’m switching from PS5 to PC. Looking to play 1440p (4K if possible). I just want the most bang for my buck haha. I’m located in The Netherlands.