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I recently picked up a Asus Tuf Gaming RTX 3080ti for MSRP (1200 finally haha) but sadly it has been underperforming big time. I upgraded to the 3080ti from a 1080ti and benchmarks online show that the 3080ti completely stomps on the 1080ti. Benchmarks show that the 3080ti gets up to more than doubl...

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Install new SSD. Use the free trial of Macrium Reflect to clone the old drive onto the new SSD. Use Windows Disk Management to re-size the partition to use all of the space on the new SSD. Remove the old drive. Re-assign the drive letter of the new drive to match the letter that the old one had. Do...

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I have two NVMe's and a 7 year old 1T WD Black HDD and now that old HDD is making weird "scratching" sounds and "whining" sounds. The drive still works but I know for a fact that it's no longer healthy so I want to get rid of it. I mainly used it for old games, storage, and just ...

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The keyboard works perfectly fine on my living room PC which is a windows 8.1 PC. I tested it on the USB 2.0 ports and the 3.0 ports and it works perfectly. The keyboard only doesn't work on my PC. Unless its plugged in to the USB 3.1 port. I doubt i'll ever solve this issue but my guess is that i'm...

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What happens if you plug it in after Windows loads? Nothing. The LED lights light up but the keyboard wont work. The keyboard only works if its plugged in to the USB3.1 port. Do you guys think I should return it or keep it? It works perfectly fine if its plugged in to the USB3.1 port but it's a pot...

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Hi. Maybe I can help you out a little :) I'm in a similar position. I have a "high end" gaming rig and i'm still rocking Windows 7. First off even if AMD doesn't support Windows 7 anymore that doesn't mean that Windows 7 won't work anymore. I have a i9 9900K @4.8ghz running perfectly on wi...

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Hi, a few days ago I purchased a Corsair K68 Cherry MX Red mechanical keyboard because my now 6 year old membrain K30 keyboard stopped working. The backspace and spacebar where very worn out already and would stay in the "pressed" position. Anyways this new keyboard is acting kinda weird a...

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Wasn't Windows 7 supposed to "die" on Jan 14 2020?

My windows 7 PC is still getting security updates just fine and it's feb 18 2020.

What's going on? Was Microsoft just bluffing?

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Yeah i'm already on the latest bios. So aside from this it's literally just "plus and play"? its not like a GPU upgrade were I have to uninstall drivers then DDU then finally install new drivers and set things up? Windows will automatically detect the new cpu and the extra cores and threa...

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My question is will I need to reinstall windows if I upgrade the CPU? I've never done a cpu upgrade like this before. How do I uninstall the chipset drivers? Yes, you can update the CPU without needing to upgrade Windows or remove the chipset drivers. But your motherboard's BIOS version should be 2...

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Hello, i'm in a unique situation atm. A friend of mine built a new ryzen system for editing and light gaming and he's selling all of the intel parts. He asked if I wanted the 9900K for 340 US dollars. However my situation is "unique" because I already own a 8700K on a asus maximus x hero b...

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I have a StarTech WiFi PCI-E x1 card and a old sandy bridge asus motherboard. However the Asus mobo only has two PCI-E slots and both are x16. My mom's PC recently got messed up so i'm building her a new one from a bunch of parts that I have around my house. I have an old i7 2600 and a asus p8h67-m ...

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The installer should have both home and pro. You'll just have to specify which during the install. Windows 10 installers do the same thing. Also, that key should work if you want to jump to windows 10. Ah ok. I just going to ask this because the only options I have are Windows 8.1 N and Windows 8.1...

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Hello, I would like to reinstall Windows 8.1 Pro on an older PC, however the person who wants me to format it doesn't have the windows 8.1 pro dvd (they have the key though). When I go to microsofts website to download the ISO it doesn't give me the option to download the "pro" version. It...

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I know this is an old topic now and I wanted to give an update for anyone who cares. I ended up getting another RMA from evga. I explained my situation and told them everything about the poor experience I had with the first RMA and how it had the exact same problem as the one that died on me. They d...

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Hello, logging in to answer the questions you guys have. My case is a corsair obsidian 450d, corsair RM 850 Gold psu, mobo is an asus maximum vii hero. My mobo doesn't have "gunk" on it. All it has is an oil stain (making the black pcb shinier) that oil stain comes from the area that surro...

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So here's an update on my current situation. I would like some advice as well. So I ended up getting an RMA from EVGA for my 980ti. I got a replacement GPU from them that was obviously used. The card they sent out was a 980ti SC just like the one I sent them. However, the card they sent out was not ...

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Hi. So about 2 days ago my EVGA GTX 980ti SC completely died on me while playing Skyrim. Windows kept giving me these weird graphics card error something along the lines of "your GPU just recovered from a serious error blah blah blah". While Playing Skyrim the screen would go black and gre...

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Under the skype audio settings I can't choose to output the voice directly to the "call center" mic instead of my speakers? I can't believe there's no "easy" way of doing this. Also, I didn't know that one could run two different audio devices like that (sound card and onboard au...

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I have a decent "call center" style mic for my ps4 that I would like to use on my pc. However when I plug in the 3.5mm male plug into my microphone port on my desktop PC my voice wont work on it. After some googling it seems that PC's don't work that way. I would need a "combo port&qu...

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Alright :) Leaving it alone seems to be the best option for now. Aside from that greasy stuff on the mobo everything else seems perfectly fine. I will keep an eye on it to see if it gets worse and stuff just to be safe. I also have a wall AC unit in my room now so the PC wont suffer much this summer...

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Is it possible to remove the heatsinks off this mobo? I heard that in some mobo's you can't remove them. Also, lets say that you can, can I apply some thermal paste on the VRM's like I would on a cpu? lol

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Thanks for the replies. Nothing was dropped into the case my room is very neat and clean. It's not your typical "gamer room" with food and clutter everywhere. I also don't smoke nor do I have pets in here and it's not in the kitchen XD Well I still don't know exactly what this "greasy...

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Had my PC for over a year (feb2015) and the last hardware update was in June 2015 (980ti). Finally decided to stop being lazy and cleaned out all the dust that it had inside. I took the whole thing apart to really give it a good cleaning. When I was visually inspecting my mobo (asus maximus vii hero...

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I never been a big fan of low tier SSD's. As far as I know the BX series is their lowest tier. I rather pay a lil more for the more decent quality one's like the MX one's that I own or in this case the MX200's that replace the 100's. Im guessing that when you buy the lowest tier ssd's things like th...

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Ah ok so basically as long as I set the actual games to 1080p the games will continue to run the same as when I had DSR turned off?

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So I just started using this technology (I know pretty late to the party lol) and I have a couple of questions. First off will this cause any type of issues such as artifacts or any weird things like that? I haven't played with it much but so far it seems great. Secondly, what about games that I sti...

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I love crucial drives so that's why I feel like I need t post here ^^ I have been rocking 2 crucial ssd's now. The MX100's. I have two of them. A 256 for my OS and a 512 for my steam games. I love these drives. Had em for over a year now and not a single problem. They still read just as fast as when...

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Last question (atleast on my end) so that I can end this topic. Does resuming my work on my pc and interrupting the idle maintenance have any negative effects? I pretty much gaved up on knowing EXACTLY what it does since I have a decent understanding now and it doesn't seem to hog up resources when ...

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The funny thing is that it doesn't even seem to use up resources. I think running google chrome (like now) uses more lol. That's what make it even more weird to me. Usually when the normal maintenance starts at 2am or if I start it manually I can hear my cpu fan spinning up because it's working more...

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Low GPU utilization on RTX 3080ti?

Re: How to replace a dying secondary drive?

How to replace a dying secondary drive?

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Re: Corsair K68 Cherry MX red keyboard

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Corsair K68 Cherry MX red keyboard

Windows 7 still getting updates?

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Upgrading to a 9900K

PCI-E x1 on a PCI-E x16 slot?

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Windows 8.1 Pro download?

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GTX 980ti dead

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Connecting a console mic to PC?

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Something greasy on my mobo?

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Question about DSR

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