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The title says it all, really. I have a spare 1x slot on my motherboard and I have no idea what to use it for. What are the best (or weirdest) uses for a PCIE 1x slot that isn't an NVME expansion card because I don't need extra storage,

No errors but I did another reinstall of the drivers and hopefully it'll look work this time. If not, well, I guess it's time to get me a new pc :D

I recently did a clean install of the drivers as the issue has been happening for a few weeks. Other than that the last thing I installed was Adobe CC over a year ago. None of the components have been overclocked. The only things I keep installing are the GeForce Experience game ready drivers whenever they come on the app. The computer is around 5 years old at this point as well. Specs are I7 6700 16gb ram 4gb GTX 745 OEM Model

The whole background goes black but the icons are still there. It's like I've just put a black wallpaper on.

I genuinely have no idea what's happening to my PC. I'm assuming it's a graphics card error of some sort but I have never seen this before. For some reason whenever I highlight anything on the screen it goes black but when I restart it gets fixed but the issue happens intermittently. I gotta know if I need to replace my old workhorse because I do a lot of film editing/graphic design work. Thanks in advance!

So I was doing a bit of investigating and it looks like the wire goes into the dvd/cd drive in the front of the case. Is that still the same sort of wire or would it like, blow up my computer if I pulled it out?

Thank you!! I'll give it a try

I think it's connected to the power supply but it could also be the motherboard. I'm not quite sure. And yes it does have a HDMI output. HMDI and DVI.

Hi, I have this old PC that I’m working on and it has a GTX 745 OEM Model graphics card in it. Now I was going to swap it out for a GTX 1050ti because I know that graphics card is compatible with this motherboard, power supply, and case size. The thing that’s throwing me off is that there’s a wire coming from the 745 and as far as I am aware of that graphics card didn’t need to be connected directly to the power supply. i was hoping if someone could help me identify what it is and if it is a power cable, how would I go about putting the 1050ti in this case. I’ve attached a few photos for reference. Thank you!

Hiya, So I’m kind of new to the whole building and customising pc thing and I have a weird question. i have a semi-old desktop that I bought in 2016 (specs include 16gb ddr3 ram, i7 67something and a gtx 745). Now I’m going to be buying a laptop (16gb ddr4 ram, i7 9750 and a rtx 2060) because I’m moving country for five months and can’t bring my pc. My question is, since the laptop specs are better, if there was anyway I could somehow combine these two products to get a much more powerful overall system and if there is a way of doing it, how would I go about it? Thanks for reading and I hope you have a wonderful day. ismail