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I did that too! :D

Oh yeah, I feel ya! I had the same problem trying to repurpose an old office Pc for my nephew. I ended up routing the tangled excess of wires in the front panel. :D

It's not impossible to cable manage a case that wasn't designed for it, you just have to get creative! ;)

My primary monitor only supports HDMI input, and my second monitor is VGA only. I am currently using a Displayport to HDMI adapter to run my primary monitor, and an HDMI to VGA adaptor to run the second screen. The problem is that any time the PC goes into power saving mode, and also sometimes...

No SSD? I feel like modern operating systems are not designed to run on a hard drive, given how slow it makes everything.

I'm a glass half full kind of guy. ;) Would that mean faster loading times? That's an advantage I'd also like to have. :)

That's true, but my gaming pc is likely to lag a year or two behind, because I can't justify the latest tech right now, especially with availability and pricing as it is. My idea is to get something that is pretty good now, and that will allow me to max it out (plus perhaps a little OC'ing) in a...

You don't need a fancy motherboard, or a fast processor either...

IKR? It seems a bit like building a 300hp car with only a 3 speed gearbox! No offense to Pupp. :p

I'm building a pc to play the new Microsoft Flight Simulator. I want to build something that is "future resistant", in that I will be able to upgrade it again into the future without having to replace a lot of components. I know for certain that I want a Ryzen processor, probably R7 3700X...

I'm good thanks! :p

For Lulz?! No, but seriously, I am going to upgrade the rest of the system. I just wanted to test out my new card while I raise the money and decide what to get...

Nope, no beeps. My keyboard and mouse don't even come on. I'm pretty sure it's not even posting. I did some digging and I've found out that the machine uses a H61 chipset, which is pcie 2.0 with a maximum of 6 pcie lanes. I already have a USB3.0 expansion card which would bring it down to 5...

I haven't got any other machine that I can test it in, but I really hope that's not the problem, since it was so hard to get the card in the first place. It's actually an ASrock card, rather than a reference design, so I'm hoping my odds are slightly better. I'll keep the box though, in case I...

No, I recently upgraded to an i5-2400. It also has 8GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. It's basically maxed out according to the official specs, although I've heard people claim success with an i7-2600 and 16GB RAM, I've never tried that, and I doubt it'll make a difference. It's also running a modified...

I am using an 850watt psu, so the psu should not be the issue, and I did make sure that the pcie connectors are plugged in to the graphics card. So I suspect that is just too old to work. How would I find the service tag number? I don't have the original case. Edit: Turns out that I had taken...

I have an RX6700XT that I recently bought, and I'm trying to get it to work with my Dell Vostro 260 board until I can afford to upgrade the rest of the machine. I have also got a Corsair RM850 which I'm using to power it. When I turn it on, the screen is black and my keyboard and mouse never...

Powerline adaptors can be password protected like Wifi, so security isn't really a problem. That said, they don't always work. I had one at my old house and it worked great with no problems, but at my new house, the speeds were crap. If you get one, make sure the place you get it from has a...

Could you try using a Windows restore point? It's not as drastic as a reinstall, but should revert your pc to a time before the virus.

I don't really want to buy another one because those drives are expensive, and because I chose the drive that I did for a specific set of reasons (one of them being M-disk support). Also the dedicated external drives are double the price of my internal one. I might just rig up my own system by...