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I'm just curious about everyone's run ins with obvious scammers. I'm talking people who over price, purposely misdiagnose issues for higher repair cost, selling shady parts, etc. For me, my buddy had an Alienware laptop with a 960m a few years back. His touch pad stopped working and was getting some driver error blue screens. He brought it to a local repair shop, and they told him his motherboard had fried and asked him to pay them a 60$ recycling fee. He texted me asking for my opinion, I asked him to give it to me first to look it over. He simply had a trackpad driver issue, and these guys probably were aware and were trying to steal it from him. Literally 15 minutes with me and everything was fixed. This is why you ask your tech friends for help before you bring it to some random shop.

I'm with Shaw, and about every minute (I timed it), I get ping spikes to about 600ms. This also occurs on LAN connected devices. It seems anything through the router does this. Ethernet directly solves this problem; however, wireless isn't supposed to be this bad. We've gone through 3 of the default Shaw modem/routers assuming it would fix, yet nothing helps the situation. I've extensively googled but can't find any resolve.

Hey guys, I have an ASUS 144hz freesync monitor. While playing most games it seems fine, but playing modded Skyrim SE (launched through mod-loader) I still get some excessive tearing. I have the fps locked to 90fps with an ENB, in stressful outdoors situations it sits around 70, so I'm within the refresh range obviously. Freesync is on in Windows/Radeon Settings. Also when I check the monitors OSD it shows the adaptive refresh rate in real time, so it should be functioning. I'm new to freesync, so bear with me if this is an obvious noob question. Thanks

Yeaup, different cables, different router ports, etc

Nothing else is affected though, only my PC. Got 2 switches, 1 Xbox one, 2 PCs, and 2 phones all on the wifi that have no issues

Unfortunately I'd have no PC if I did this And nothing else on the network is affected, just me

Hey guys, been having a strange issue. My connection will go limited, and windows troubleshooting will give me these errors in the photo. Restarting the router seemed to fix it when it happened yesterday. It happened again while waking up my PC today, restarting fixed again, but now it happened for no apparent reason a couple hours later. Here's what I've done. 1. Restarted network adapter 2. Updated BIOS 3. Uninstalled network driver/reinstalled 4. Windows Update 5. Manually input IPV4 settings 6. CMD commands such as flush/renew, and some netsh stuff However, literally nothing fixes it. I've heard it's a possible hardware problem? Out power randomly went out a week ago and shut my PC off, however this has happened multiple times in the past on other motherboards, but this has never been a problem until this newer X470 board I purchased. I've had it since April, so no issues otherwise. Please help, extremely frustrating :/

Hey guys, I'm wanting to make macros on my mouse 4 and 5 side buttons, but the program macrogamer doesn't seem to recognize they're there. Games recognize them, but not the program. I just have a generic Havit mouse with no specific macro software, so I unfortunately have to use third party stuff. Ideas?

Alright thanks guys. Just hate buying used >.>

Hey guys, I'm wanting to upgrade my secondary i5 4460 + GTX 260 system. In Canada, I can snag a Gigabyte 1050 2gb (dual fan) for 186$ on Amazon. But, someone locally is selling an XFX R9 280x for 200$. I was going to haggle as low as possible of course. My concern is mainly power efficiency, I know the 280x is a good 15% better than the 1050, but it also eats monstrous amounts of power from what I understand (more or less than my main systems RX480?). What would you guys do? It a secondary system my buddy games on with me when he stays over, but I'm tired of having to stick to older games with him since the 260 is pretty awful. What would you guys do? Fanoyism aside of course.

No I didn't try moving it, I will though. It's just an open test bench that's a bit annoying to move. And no, just an auto-install thing. I can't find the driver for it anywhere

Hey guys, please help, I'm pulling my hair out over this. I'm trying to connect a second desktop to the internet. Running Windows 10, and using an Amazon Basic 802.11n dongle. First off, dongle works on all other PCs, so not the issue here. 1. I've run lots of ipconfig commands, such as flushdns, release, renew, etc. 2. Removed the driver, replugged in the dongle to reinstall 3. Booted into safe mode with networking, same issue. 4. Manually inputted the DNS, and double checked auto beforehand (was correct) 5. Made sure the proper services were running. Still, no luck, can't connect. It's strange because once it first connects, it'll be online for a second, load half a page, give a few chrome notifications, then completely stop. Any ideas? I'm currently running the sfc /scannow to see if that comes up with anything.

The 8700k can stream fine, but the 2700x streams significantly better. I was stuck on this decision myself, I went 2700x and haven't looked back. This graph represents percentile of frames lost (the closer to 100% the better). The 2700x is always in the lead, and capable of medium preset encoding. The 8700k can't even touch medium, unless you OC to a minimum of 5ghz, which you'll need an extremely powerful cooler because the 8700k is one of the hottest cpus on the market. However, these numbers can be achieved with the 2700x stock Wraith Prism cooler. As for FPS, unless you're playing with something like a 1080ti at an absurdly low resolution/setting, both of these CPUs will be within 5% of the FPS of each other. Each will have it's wins. 2700x all the way, much better value.

I'm not workstation guy, asides from tinkering in Unity and Blender, I have no experience. As for games, a 1060 will still be perfectly fine for at least 3 years. It's an extremely capable card.

1070, ALWAYS 1070. It'll consume less power, and perform significantly better. The 580 is more in line with the 1060. Founders edition or not, it'll still be a good 25% better than a 580. Besides, you can always custom water cool it. It'll get hot, but it won't lose much in clock speed vs after market cards due to GPU boost. Nvidia also has ridiculously better opengl drivers. You could emulate WiiU games no problem, but a 580 will hardly get 20fps due to AMDs horrendous opengl drivers.