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I believe the police has pictures of my PC's cable management and I don't know the penalty but it's definitely criminal. No just curious

Small spoilers for Breaking Bad if you still haven't seen it. So we all know that scene where Walter and Jessie drive a van next to the evidence room with a big magnet in the back and they wipe the compromising laptop with that. Of course, that would work on an old laptop with an HDD. HDDs are magnetic and people have demonstrated that you don't even need a very strong magnet to kill one. But what about SSDs, and the rest of the components in a modern laptop? I know that if you can generate an arbitrarily strong, magnetar-like magnetic field you're going to kill it, but how strong of a field and what kind of equipment would you need to do that?

I'm kind of surprised that no one told me to go Intel for the CPU. Thoughts?

As stated above any case that fits my components with decent enough airflow that they don't cook is good enough, I don't care about the looks in the slightest. Is the 7900X3D really better for gaming? It's about 140 euros more which is like 25% extra The 4080 is about 20% to 25% more expansive than the 4070Ti, but from what I can gather it's about 20% to 25% faster as well. Since I have the budget I think it's worth the upgrade, especially since it has more VRAM and I do like to run some games in 4k (RTS, sim games...) I'm definitely not taking that SSD after consideration (also I already have 2*1TB SATA SSDs that I'm keeping and a 4TB HDD) I think Gigabyte is reliable enough not to blow up in my face, it's cheap, certified gold and modular, so do I really need to be picky and take a Corsair one?

Thank you for that bracket recommendation I'm taking notes here. So overall would you recommend going x670e or b650?

Yeah, I have a first gen NVMe SSD with about 1000MB/s write and read speeds and I don't really notice a difference with my SATA SSDs so I guess PCIe 5.0 is overkill for the drive. Now I wonder If even PCIe 4.0 drives are worth it or if I should go for a cheaper 3.0 one? For the case, yeah basically, it's not going to be my showoff sportscar that I'm going to use to seduce girls, I don't really care about the appearance. My current PC is in a Fractal Design case, I've had no problem with it so I thought I'd just stick to that brand. It's going to sit under my desk, not even I am going to look at it very often, so if it fits my components it's good enough. Now for the 4080, I'm not 100% sure yet. The 7900XTX is indeed cheaper here in Europe and basically trades blows with the 4080. The main reason why I'm sticking with NVIDIA is basically because I want DLSS, and maybe also RTX. I know most people don't use RTX because it'll tank your framerates like nothing else but I I do play many games where framerate isn't that important and I'd happily trade some frames for some extra eye candy. As for DLSS it looks very good, and I'm basically thinking that if my venerable 1080 did support it I would basically barely need an upgrade right now. I know AMD has a comparable technology but it seems to be supported by less games and also a bit less good looking overall. That might change in the future but NVIDIA seems to me like a safer bet. But I'm a total noob so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Budget (including currency): 2500-3000€ Country: Europe Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: All kinds of games including very demanding ones like BattleBit Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Hey guys! So my PC just turned 8 years old (although technically I upgraded some parts after that) and is starting to show its age. That being said, it served me extremely well during that time. I bought a relatively high end PC although not technically top of the line because I wanted to be able to use it for about 5 years, and then the whole GPU market crisis came in and forcibly extended its lifespan even more. It has a i7-5820k paired with a GTX 1080 that I bought a bit later. It's still been able to play recent demanding games like Cyberpunk although only at 1080p on low to medium settings. Overall I've been very happy with my purchase, so I kind of want to do the same. So the goals are : To build a PC that'll last me at least 5 years, it should probably be a bit overkill for right now to be a least a bit futureproof. Going from 1080p med/low to 1440p high/ultra in most games getting more frames in demanding shooters like EFT, Play Starfield and Phantom Liberty with good framerates in 1440p high I don't really intend to stream, I do intend to do a bit of 3D modelling and coding but nothing very demanding, no 10 hours compiling or stuff like that, I mostly want power for gaming. Here's what I've spec'd for now: Ryzen 7800X3D 519€ Asus Prime x670-P 299€ (PCIe 5.0 seems important for futureproofing) DDR5 Crucial Pro 5600MHz 2*16GB 129€ RTX 4080, haven't decided which one yet, about 1300€ Noctua NH-D15 129€ Corsair MP-700 1TO NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD 192€ 850W Gigabyte PSU 120€ Case 120€ Total 2800€ I'd like your opinion, what's good and what's not, where would you save money and where would you put more? Thanks!

Okay things are weird. SFC /verifyonly returned some corrupted files so I ran sfc /scannow with the computer plugged in via Ethernet and rebooted after it said it had successfully repaired the corrupt files. Now things are working but what do you know, BitDefender just popped up and just coincidentally detected a "threat" about 30 seconds after I rebooted. So idk, might have been an actual threat and running a SFC might have allowed the antivirus to work properly and detect it, or it might have been BitDefender who corrupted some files in the first place and freaked out when I repaired them, in any case it's a bit weird. I'll still do a full system scan and a couple other things to make sure it's not actually malware but I think it's most likely at this point that BitDefender messed up. In any case, thanks a lot for the help @will0hlep

Method 1 doesn't work, unsurprisingly because two full reboots should also have restarted the explorer. As for method 2, I ran SFC in verifyonly and am waiting for the results

So a guy there says it's BitDefender messing up windows and I should turn it off to change the setting And BitDefender says "it's not me you have a virus" https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/1940/ I think I trust the Microsoft guy but it's a bit weird from BitDefender's part. I may wait till the scan is complete before trying anything. To be clear I know the windows network menu frequently bugs out but what I found a bit sus was that it said my wi-fi was off and I couldn't turn it back on when I clicked the little WiFi icon but when I checked my network adapters the WiFi adapter looked like it was on. Also usually when the bottom bar menu bugs out usually a reboot fixes it and it didn't this time. Still I'm fully prepared to believe this is just a windows bug

I don't know if this is meant to be a 100% hardware troubleshooting subforum if it is the case I apologize but I seem to have a malware problem on my PC and I wasn't sure where to ask for advice... I was trying to access my AppData folder earlier and I noticed it wasn't showing. I checked in the View panel of windows explorer and Hidden items was unticked. I did not do that. When I try to enable it the explorer refreshes itself and it auto unticks the radio button immediately. After rebooting my computer another shady behavior popped up, my wifi says it isn't connected but I'm not 100% sur that it isn't. It won't display the networks or let me do anything to the WiFi adapter. So I turned off the router's wifi momentarily just in case. This to me looks like a virus and a quick Google search seems to indicate that I might be right, but I'm not 100% sure it's not just windows bugging out. What should I do? I have launched a Bitdefender scan but I guess it'll take ages on my old clogged up system and I don't know if it can be trusted... Is there something I can do to speed it up, like some folders that I should do a manual scan on? Additionally Bitdefender seems to find some password protected files but isn't asking me for any password, is that normal? Is it just skipping anything password protected? What do I do if it doesn't find anything? I'm willing to format everything and reinstall windows but how can I make sure that the virus is actually neutralized, will a normal windows formatting be enough or do I need to use some program to write zeroes on every drive? What about my home network do I need to scan or replace everything with a drive? And how can I save my work that is on my computer, I have one folder with work projects that I absolutely cannot loose but I'm afraid that if I plug in my external SSD the malware might copy itself to it... This is an unprecedented situation for me in 25 years of using computers I've never had to deal with something similar so I apologize for that flurry of questions and thank you for your patience and for any advice you might give.

Oh wait. It is. I just switched it a few days ago. So I guess my games are running slow just because Tarkov has terrible FPS and Sea of Thieves keeps getting patched into the ground by the most incompetent devs of all time

Thanks for the info, GPU-Z reads around 50W power draw (24% of TDP) but 0%GPU load... That does not seem off to me but I'm no expert.

Hi guys, Lately I've noticed that some of my games seemed to be running slower than usual. I've dismissed it as probably being caused by game patches, my hardware aging or something along those lines. However I'm starting to wonder if I don't have some kind of malware using some of my GPU power. I've got an 1080 MSI gaming X which is supposed to use semi-passive cooling. At idle the gpu clock went way down and the fans used to turn off. But it seems like it's never at idle anymore. According to the MSI afterburner software it's running at 1683MHz (100% of base clock) and 58 to 62C just displaying my desktop background with absolutely nothing opened. According to windows task manager GPU usage is below 5%, which is possible, but I'm having some kind of doubts. The room I'm in is pretty cold, the GPU isn't covered in dust I just checked it and it's pretty clean, so the GPU should be 100% passively cooled when I'm not gaming and the fan used to be sitting at 0 RPM basically all the time. To be clear, I'm not saying 60 degrees is particularly hot for that GPU, it goes way higher when I'm gaming, I just think it's slightly higher than what I remember it being at idle (and I'm pretty sure the GPU clock used to go down too when I'm not gaming). Is there a way to check GPU usage that is more accurate than windows task manager? If you think it's possible that it is some kind of malware how do I check for that? I do have an antivirus installed, but it's avast, I know it's not great but I got it way back when I didn't know better and it's a massive pain to uninstall properly and replace with something better so I basically just let it sit there and do its thing. I know I'm probably just being paranoid, I'd just like to know if there is a definitive way to confirm that my GPU isn't mining dogecoin for some random north korean guy while I'm playing tarkov

100W at idle is enormous. We don't have that much power to spare for days at a time... The intel n4100's TDP is 6W by comparison (I know that doesn't mean the PC will idle at 6W but I can't imagine it will be anywhere close to 100W) And the system I was talking about is only 150Euros, taxes included. Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I can tell there are not many used PCs at that price point that would be as compact and power efficient and much faster. I was just asking about the eMMC memory, basically I just wanted to know how bad it is compared to an HDD. The rest of the specs is fine for our use case.