In both the USA and UK.

The prices are embarrassing. They are a complete joke.

I’m deadly serious. I paid £1600 for a 4090. The prices don’t make sense and they are exploitative.

Saw this mounted near the ceiling and genuinely had to look twice. Whoever designed this router setup somehow made Wi-Fi look like a giant spider guarding the house 😭

Practical placement or accidental horror decor?

Hi everyone!

Recently, I bought a Sapphire 9070XT gpu. I sold my rtx 4080 for it and I play lots of multiplayers (sometimes single players too like cyberpunk, rdr2, etc). Anyway, the thing is that when I play multiplayers which I absolutely love to, it stutters. I saw a video from Hardware Unboxed, a well known tech youtube channel where they compared it to the 5070 TI. At the end of the video, he said that the 9070XT does not gives the smoothest experience in games like Fortnite, CS2, Valorant, so... esports games... I dig into further more and many people said that it's a shader compilation issue?

Can I fix it somehow or should I just return it and buy a 5070TI/5080? Not going to lie, after 3-4 days of trying to fix it, it's a huge let down...

For the record, I did not change any other parts in my computer or my monitor, only the GPU. The whole setup is the same. Also, I did use DDU uninstaller and I updated all the AMD drivers of course. I have experience with pc building.

I appreciate the help guys!

I just got a new cpu and a crypto miner keeps popping up is this one of those old cpu's that someone installed some malware into and if so how do I fix it

I've been thinking about moving over since I started having a ton of issues with Windows about a year ago. That and I hate where big tech is going. I've just been worried about the switch. Its apparently somewhat complicated. I'm not sure where to start.

Hi,

I admit I’m seriously weighing up whether to install Windows 11 as usual, with the following settings:

- local account

- debloating via Rufus (no BitLocker, no Fast Startup, no OneDrive, no Teams)

Or whether to switch to Linux—perhaps giving Linux Mint, Fedora, or CachyOS a try.

Has anyone here made this switch for work purposes? Did you end up going back to Windows?

Thanks.

Bought 2 Lexar 32GB DDR5 RGB 6000 cl30 kits for $50 each late last year from Costco before things went downhill. Also had another kit with the same specs that I paid $95 for & $800 for the 96GB 6000 cl28 G.Skill kit. I wish i had gone for 128GB instead.

Are there any good affordable m.2 SSDs out there rn? I‘m from germany so newegg isn’t usable for me.
Its for a budget build, i3-14100f + B570, so it doesn’t need to be super fancy I think. Size would be 1TB minimum, 2TB max.

SAME THING happened to me and Microsoft wont do anything about it. And the guy who stole my acc sold it for 4$ a game I bought for 30$. I will buy mc again when the sift update drops. Now I have to play Minecraft Education ig...

I recently moved and while setting up the monitor at my new place I found smudging on them, I tried cleaning them with distilled water and a microfiber cloth, but I am having no success. Not sure what the issue is. Hope I have t damaged the panel, I just bought this monitor in Jan 2026. Not sure if they show up on the pictures I have uploaded, but any help is appreciated. Thanks

I buyed an acer n50 600 recently the guy selling it said it was fine but i cant even play minecraft becaus its like 1frame per minute and even have trouble downloading stuff

I recently got these two free curved monitors from work(it was either going home with me or going to ewaste) and I've never had curved monitors before nor used a VESA mount. I feel like im going crazy looking at them. I swear the right side has a downward slant but the opposite side is higher. What do you guys think?

I left my desktop on the floor for almost a year with cats, in the living room with lots of traffic.. My my my oh my was that a terrible decision. I mean look how filthy it is, you can barely tell it was even a desktop. I'm considering throwing it out since it's too embarrassing to sell. Heck I don't even know if it boots anymore it's so covered in dust. No filters were used either, what was I thinking?!?!

This is the highest quality deshroud I've ever seen. Not sure what all cards this guy makes deshrouds for but it's a one piece print that lined up perfectly, included a cable route track and with enough finagling I was able to get all 3 fans cables, connectors and a 7pin to 4 pin fan header adapter hidden in the track. At stock fan speeds it's significantly quieter, using silent wings 4 fans. Found it on esty - bingsdiy. Would highly recommend.

edit: looks like he makes deshrouds for ASUS TUF 5080/5090, Prime 5070/ti/5080 and Prime 9070/XT. I can't link his page but search him on esty

Hi everyone,

I have a Sapphire Pulse RX 7900 XT and I'm worried that it may have been damaged.

First, my old MSI MAG A650BN PSU made a loud “pop” sound, so I immediately shut the PC down.

I then installed another PSU (a GameMax unit). When I launched a game, the GPU suddenly made a very loud electrical noise, so I immediately turned the PC off again.

After removing the GPU, I noticed a small amount of residue around one of the 8-pin PCIe power connectors. There doesn't appear to be a large amount of melted plastic or obvious damage elsewhere.

I have stopped using the GPU and PSU and I'm planning to have the GPU inspected by a professional.

My questions:

Does this look like serious damage?

Could it just be residue from a connector overheating?

Is it possible that the GPU itself is still fine?

Is there anything safe I can check visually without powering it on?

I have attached pictures of the connector.

Thanks for any advice!

Recently used ChrisTitus to debloat my system as I was getting fed up with all the bloatware and telemetry from HP and Windows, all of a sudden after debloating Windows began asking for a reinstall

After roughly a week and a half of continued use, I noticed no issues whether with performance or anything else.

Should I go ahead and reinstall Windows as I understand they will likely reinstall much of their bloatware on my system, and what does this mean for future Windows updates?

First, make sure you have RTX 5050 or any GPU matching RTX 5060 Ti and a 1440p monitor. Then upgrade to 4K monitor and play games at high/ultra settings at 4K. No need to thank me.

I live in Ireland and purchased from amazon uk

I tried speak to Patriot to see if they can send updated sticks they said no because they don't have a sticker on them (even though I sent them screenshots of cpu-z)

Amazon in which I purchased them from are offering me a refund for the cost I paid which was €80 on April of 2025.

Seemingly my only option is to send back the sticks to Amazon and be out of pocket by €420 for another brands ram.

For how much Europeans like to shit on the US for having no protection, at least the void if removed sticker isn't legal.

Anyone else come across this before and found a better outcome?

God help me