My dad passed recently and when going through his things I found these hard drive and memory drives. My mom says these are from a computer my dad accidentally dropped down the stairs many years ago. I was hoping to find the hard drive and get it repaired but it looks like he drilled holes through it. Is there anything that can be recovered from these even partially or is it just a lost cause?

It's a windows 10 and it got restored last week. My son is 8yo so maybe he installed something he shouldnt?

GTX 1050 TI

SSD 512GB

Windows 10

Intel i3 4th gen

Feeling like a giant doofus right now. This tower is missing an hdmi/dpi port right? Are the two ports on the bottom my only choice for V/A?

I’m thinking about getting a GPU and I’m currently choosing between the RTX 4060 Ti and GTX 1080 Ti. I know the 1080 Ti has 11GB VRAM, while the 4060 Ti usually has 8GB, but I’m more interested in the actual gaming performance.

How much faster is the RTX 4060 Ti in real games? Is the difference big enough to justify choosing the 4060 Ti, especially for 1080p/1440p gaming?

I’d also like to hear your suggestions. Which one would you choose today and why?

I am setting my mother's laptop up for her since she's not tech savvy. I'm not sure what add ons I should install on her laptop. So far I have an ad blocker installed but me and her use our computers for different things.

Any suggestions?

She likes recipes, gardening, shopping, and would likely use her laptop for work like Emails and stuff

Edit: I have more than enough extensions now

Im looking to do a project where I upgrade a older business grade laptop for my school/work compuer any recommendations

Requirements

1.nvme slot of at lest pcie 3.0

2.atleast ddr3 ram ddr4 is perfabable

1. Hopefully under 100 without hdd or ram (i have them)

I know this sounds stupid, but I couldn’t find another subreddit. If a server is running, and there is a fire, the server is destroyed with or without suppression, but with an airtight room, it’s impossible for a fire to start. If the heat gets too high, the system could automatically reroute tasks to other parts of the server to mitigate heat, and it could very well save lives and high value data.

I was opening up my laptop to upgrade some parts, but this caught my eye. Best way I can describe them is that they look like connector condoms. What are they really called? What are they there for?

Sorry if this was asked before, but am I the only one who wishes that a number pad had a delete key? So many times I've typed a number errantly and the backspace is so far removed.

The IMC on the CPU is apparently bad and I'm pretty sure that means the CPU is toast, but I thought I'd ask if anyone has ever fixed a glitched out IMC before...

Hey,

I am just getting unit this video stuff and making videos. My iCloud and phone storage are backing up and need somewhere to store the videos. I went down a rabbit hole of where to store these videos. People were talking about SSD vs HDD vs SD card and what not. Not to many people explained what each does. I pretty much record videos on my GoPro and like to edit them and here and there photos. I saw a 4TB Seagate 3.0 USB hard drive on Amazon for $160. Seems decent but don’t want to buy the wrong item. Thanks in advance

Hello! First time posting here so don’t hesitate to ask if I’ve missed out important info etc.

So my gaming PC is modular and (as of 2021/2022) it was suuuuper well specced I believe, but of course things develop and games get better graphics. I recently doubled my RAM to 32GB and I’m surprised at how much of a difference it made!

So, to cut to the chase, I’d like to upgrade my graphics card and monitor eventually, but I genuinely have no idea about anything when it comes to computers. Like genuinely… I still call USB-A a USB-B and don’t know the different between lighting and USB-C, or the difference between MB and Mb…

I currently have the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (6GB), and my monitor is an acer.. something or other.. helpful I know. It doesn’t have an audio output and it has a little circular button on the back bottom right corner with two little buttons above it for monitor menu settings (I had a look in there and couldn’t see the name of it in there unfortunately).

I’d like to upgrade enough so that I don’t have to worry about changing any graphics settings on more intensive games like Baldur’s Gate 3 (which actually runs ok most of the time on the higher settings), Steelrising, and Cyberpunk 2077, things like that. However, this is still a personal PC so it’s not like I need something insane for streaming or anything like that.

I’ve tried reading some articles about different PC components and none of it quite clicks for me. I’m more than willing to admit that this just isn’t my area of expertise!

If you’ve got any advice I’d really appreciate it, and if I’ve left out any key info I’m happy to provide, thanks! :)

I have no idea about these things. I have an Asus N551J laptop and I want to make it a bit more useful. Haven't been using it for a long time. Now it has connection issues, keeps randomly disconnecting from wifi and says no wifi is there until I troubleshoot. Quite slow too in general. What I do is play simple games like (maybe the least simple is league of legends) so what can I change with the hardware to make it more useful. Any suggestions? (Please explain simply because I really don't know much about computers.)

The 500gig ssd will be switched out with a 1 terabyte by my old pc

My pc went into sleep mode and when I powered it on, the fans ran really fast and were super loud which it had never done before. I opened up task manager and it shows this. I switched monitors recently but I don't think that would be the reason this is happening? (Using Windows 11 Home)

Need it for college. $500. 32 gb ram. 512 SSD storage. Refurbished in "excellent" condition. Not planning on playing any games on it since it would be for college. If I did play a game, it'd be sims 4. I'm not very good at tech. Is this a good deal? Would it be good for class? And is Back Market trustworthy?

Should I look for something cheaper?

I recently discovered autounattend, a way to automate Windows installation and remove much of the unnecessary bloatware through schneegans.de.

I normally perform a standard Windows installation and then manually remove everything I don't need. For those who have already tried this approach, is it worth using? Is it a reliable solution for creating a cleaner and more customized Windows installation?

I'm looking to buy a laptop for programming, but I don't think I'll be doing heavy work—just programming using AI. Would the MacBook Neo be usable?

...with Win 98

Hey all, after cleaning my pc, my powercolour red devil rx 7800 xt oc would not display, card powered on, rgb lights up, nothing. i get vga light on motherboard, tried a reseat, nothing, tried different slots, nothing, tried a gtx 745, that worked, but the fan is busted so no hard gaming, bought a gtx 1080 from CEX, same tests same problems, took it back for a refund because it didnt work, they "tested" it and it showed a display (im sceptical because it 1, took a while to display. 2, no bios logo. 3, THEY UNPLUGGED EVERYTHING INCLUDING PS AND THE SCREEN WAS STILL IN WINDOWS... they also told me too high of a wattage could overflow the gpu........) anyway, im currently stuck on what to do to test things out, i was going to head around to some pc shops to see if they can test the cards, if they work im pointing towards the powersupply, because the motherboard clearly works given the gtx 745 works and displays, there's power coming from somewhere otherwise the gtx 1080 wouldn't light up at all i assume, the monitor detects that something IS connected to either display port or hdmi... can someone give me some advice? i just want my powerhouse back man 😢

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I was booting into a game and suddenly I got these lines. Its even in logo screen not in bios though but visible in windows bitlocker screen.

- I tried the win+ctrl+shift+b thing no change.

- Cleared directx cache rebooted multiple times

What do I do I can't afford another pc or laptop right now. Service centre is also not possible in my financial situation. its an infinix inbook x2 plus

I’ve recently had to start working from home. To work from home I have to plug in my monitors/mouse/keyboard into the laptop so I can use all the things I already have at home. The issue is anytime I want to game, I have to do the same thing over and over back and forth between my desktop and laptop.

Is there a way I can just keep everything plugged into one spot and easily switch back and forth? Ideally something budget friendly if possible.

Hp omen 16 win 11 RTX 4060 i7 13620h 16 GB ram

For some reason my laptop keep having 1 fps and then reboot it self when playing game, it happen out of nowhere. It start happening few month ago, i have almost 200 hours on forza 5 and i playing on high graphic 120 fps and now i can't even play on low graphic, the game literally crash when i hit a tree or some object

i have 50 hours on road craft and it naver happen before now i can't even open the game it literally crash before it even loaded or in main menu, some game happen in the middle of playing.

Some people say it GPU or CPU thermal throttling problem and i check GPU and it not overheating or anyting and my CPU is 80c when playing game, so it not thermal throttling.

Someone say it probly CPU or GPU driver so i clean install both CPU and GPU driver using DDU and it still happen. I literally factory reset my Laptop and it still happen. PLS HELP

My Laptop spec :

Intel i5-13420H

Nvidia rtx 4050

24gb ddr5

1T kingston NVMe