Ryaou

My GPU (Zotac 1060 Mini 6GB, which I bought back in 2016) recently has been making loud noises that kinda sound like it's either touching the fan or something. I did took out my gpu to see if there was anything in it but there doesn't seem to be anything there I could see with the naked eye. I recorded the noise and attached it to the thread. "gpu noise 1" is what it sounds like most of the time currently (since the noise started) and sometimes it makes the sounds like in "gpu noise 2" gpu noise 2.m4a gpu noise 1.m4a edit: I received some advise telling to oil the fan so I did, that worked. so the problem wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

Thanks. Weirdly both of the options are being sold at the same price at the store I go to, so definitely go for the TX50E for the sake of potential future options.

I need a new wifi card and the only ones available (at my budget) at a nearby store is the TP Link Archer T6E v2 (AC1300) and TX50E (AX3000) both available at the same price. So my first thoughts were to get the TX50E because newer model but I got recommended the T6E so I'm now unsure. Also my ISP (and wifi-router) doesn't really provide top speed so I don't think any speed difference matters too much here. I'm not sure if it's relevant here but PC specs (Motherboard: MSI B150 Mortar, CPU: Intel 6500), just in case there's something about wifi card and chipset I don't know about.

Thought so, thanks for the info!

I've been having connection problems with my ONT router/WiFi which is the ISP provided router, a Huawei HG8245T. it's sometimes randomly slow (it isn't just the internet, accessing the router's settings is also slow) and sometimes WiFi just stops working until someone turns it off then on again (This is seems to be happening randomly). This is definitely the router being the problem, right? I've been hesitant because I don't know if I'm ignorant of something I don't know about.

Alrighty then, Many thanks~

Ok good, thanks How about CD key, Do I need that?

I have a laptop that was pre-installed with Windows 8.1 when I bought it and upgraded it to Windows 10 with the "Free Upgrade" when 10 was released. For reasons, I would like to do a clean install of Windows 10 but how do I go about it? since it is an 8.1 OEM that's been upgraded to 10

That sounds viable, I might try that if I can find plastic at the right thickness

I was thinking of doing that but I'm afraid that it'll fry the laptop

I have the battery for a Toshiba laptop and a few years ago the contact was broken (due to someone decided to throw a TV remote at my general direction and hit the battery instead, right at the connectors) The connectors in question I want to know what are the actual risk of using it as is and what state would the cells most like be in since it has not been used since 2012 (side note this battery was missing for those 4 years, I recently found it) edit: I posted this in the wrong sub-forum didn't I? how did I miss the troubleshooting subforum

Currently I have none (just built my PC, waiting for stock and prices), simply using the integrated graphics, Polaris seems like quite a good and that "new system tweaker" is rather interesting

Yup, that's all I can think about of what a HTPC does, get a wireless keyboard/mouse combo and you can even browse the web on your TV! though depending on the resolution, Interface, tv size and distance it could be a little awkward but that's what I did to an old laptop I had laying around~ certainly better than having a plain old DVD player

That would depend on the ISP also How loud is it? how about an HTPC?

I think I got it handled now, thanks for the offer (and for your help)