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My specs: CPU: 12700k MoBo: Asus TUF Gaming Z690-Plus D4 RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR4-3600 CL18 16GB Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1TB PSU: Corsair SF 750 W 80+ Platinum GPU: EVGA RTX 3070Ti XC3 Ultra I am getting terrible frame rates (3 FPS) when I play COD: Cold War with settings on high and with ray tracing disabled. The fans on my GPU don’t even spin and task manager reports very low GPU utilisation. The same happens when I play Civ 6. I play all games at 1440p. When I play Halo Infinite the game crashes after 15-20 mins. This also happened when I played Dead by Daylight after 2 hours. The whole computer locks up, pressing the caps lock button on my keyboard doesn’t make the caps lock indicator light to change. I must hold the power button on my PC to get it to boot again. There is no BSOD or any errors in event viewer, it still crashes when I have my side panel removed so I don’t think temperature is a problem. I am running the latest version of windows, and I'm using the latest drivers. I think I'm running the latest BIOS on my mobo but not too sure how to check. What troubleshooting steps should I try? EDIT: Added steps I have tried

Would a cable like this be suitable? I think I'll use surge protectors for some piece of mind. Thunderstorms are not common, happening once or twice a year.

I'm building an office garden which will need to have an internet connection. I have some questions about how to do this. We are planning to dig a trench from the house to the garden office to provide power and I would like to use that to run an ethernet cable. What cable should I use? The cable will be connected to the side of the house and then buried. Do I need cat 5e direct burial? Cat 5e runs throughout the house so using anything higher spec than cat 5e would be overkill. How do I protect against lightning strikes? Do I need to earth the cable in any way? If so how should I do this? I live in the south-east of England where thunder storms happen a couple of times a year every summer Any other advise about a project like this is appreciated. I would describe myself as a tech enthusiast but have limited networking knowledge.

A week ago I noticed that my CPU was getting really hot under a gaming load, 91C plus so yesterday I cleaned the inside of my PC for the first time in years, it was disgusting. Given the amount of dust I removed I was confident my CPU would not get so hot so I fired up AIDA64 for a stress test. After 10 seconds I hit 99C on my CPU and started thermal throttling, as much as 24%. This is worse than it has ever been and definitly wasn't the case when I built this machine 4 years ago. I am running a Intel Core i5-4460 with the stock CPU cooler. To solve this problem I think I have two options: - Remove the stock cooler, clean cooler and CPU of thermal paste, re apply thermal paste and install stock cooler - Remove stock cool, re apply thermal paste and install a third party cooler, I was thinking the Cooler Master Hyper Evo 212 Any advice on if this would fix the problem or not, or any advice on installing a third party cooler, never done that before! Thanks

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I am using the Hyper X Cloud II and personally think there is no better option for their price point. Had them over 2 years now and had no issues and if/ when they die, I'll probably buy another pair

I need to purchase a USB to SATA adapter. Only planning on getting a cheap one from eBay as I'm only going to be using it a couple of times. In some of the product description pages it says it's only for 2.5" drives. The drives I need it to work on are 3.5". Is this going to a problem? I assume 3.5" drives require more power. Any guidance on this would be great.

I defiantly think that build would do a decent job of playing those games. My only concern would be only have 8GB of RAM. I would consider buying the PC and then saving up for another 8GB of RAM. You would need to ensure the motherboard has a DIMM slot for another stick of RAM and that the RAM you buy is the same as the one that came with the PC.

Awesome thanks

I'm planning on building this PC for a family member as a home/ Office PC. I am a little concerned about the BIOS update that may be required. I was hoping I could get some advice on this and the build in general. PC Partpicker link is here. Already have a case sorted

no more than £35 I'd say

Know you didn't want specifics but it is my understanding that SATA is not supported over GPIO

As part of the first year of my Computer Science degree I am learning Java, HTML and CSS, and SQL all at the same time. I do not have have an issue with this as all four are very different.

As someone who completed my EPQ last year I recommend relating to something economicy and getting it over and done with as quick as possible

Drive works when plugged into a usb type a port, should have mentioned in original post