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I have an old dell optiplex 7020 with a 4th gen intel i3 ( i think its an i3 4660??? but im not sure. I don't have a GPU. every time i load up fortnite when i get to the logging in screen the game just closes and the epic games launcher just opens. i've tried the verifying files thing and reinstalling the game fully. i think it might be to do with fortnite requiring directx 11 but i have no idea! please help if you can!

TLDR; I have a new computer that needs all the software (Quickbooks 2008 and other old accounting software) from the old computer onto the new computer. No interest in upgrading to new versions. Can't find the downloads. What do I do? Mother-in-law got a new computer for Christmas. Yay! Now I need to set it up. Yay! All joking aside... She happily uses some older accounting software, like quickbooks 2008, on windows 10 and has zero desire to move to any current versions. She is ok with moving to WIN11 (currently on the new PC) but doesn't need to. I need to get this software and a couple others, as well as any relevant saved data from these programs, onto the new PC. Do not have the original CD that was used when the software was purchased. According to any forum posts I find, and from what I can find, the oldest download available is 2010. What do I do? Current thoughts: - I have a SATA to USB cable. Can I just pull the drive from the old computer, plug into the new computer, and get the program files that way? - Any other way this cable could be of use? - Using a cloning software to clone the drive? They incur an additional cost but if its the only way it is what it is. Still not sure what the best way to go about this is. Want to improve quality of life, not over complicate it

Hi Guys, I just want to share my recently assembled sleeper PC. My PC case broke and i don't have enough money to buy a new one atm. I saw and i bought a really cheap old case and decided to give it a go. Got inspired by Linus' videos on creating sleeper PC. Please share Your thoughts, criticize if You must so I can improve it. Sorry for misaligned cuttings, i really don't have proper tools but so far I'm happy of the outcome of what I did. what's inside: PSU: CM V750 MOBO: MSI Z370m gaming pro AC CPU: i5 8600k @ 4.5ghz GPU: MSI gaming X gtx 1080 RAM: 2x 8GB NVME: 500gb Samsung PM981 SSD: (OS) 240GB WD Green HDD: 1TB Toshiba 7200 CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 Front intake: Noctua ippc 3000 Rear Exhaust: Noctua ippc 2000 PC Case: idk, some old PC case bought for 3 USD, 5 USD including keyboard and mouse. Surprisingly, the KB and Mouse is quite good even for gaming! Thanks! Cheers!

I have not got much money but I'm really into computers and gaming, and I finally got my setup working, (which is an HP Compaq 6005 from 2011?) And I have been using an amd Radeon HD r5 230 (1gd ddr3) from 2013 I think, for about 3 years, and through HDMI, it only shows on greyscale, (see photos). Can it be fixed? (Also I am using an athlon 2 from 2009, 7gb ddr3 ram) It's also all I can afford. So I can't buy a new pc.

Hello, I recently had a portable hard drive fail which resulted in losing access to all my data. I had used the drive to store images, videos, games and other stuff I felt important to store which is now unfortunately all gone. Before this, I never knew it was a rule of thumb to have backups for a backup as I believed that it would never die in such a way and I know now that thinking so was a costly mistake. This made me start looking into various home server and backup solutions especially ones that I build myself from used and refurbished desktops as I would like to keep costs to a minimum and for the learning experience before I move on to more expensive solutions. I want to build a storage that I would mainly use simply for backing up or storing files and data that exists separately from my PC which I do not need to access remotely. Right now, I have 2TB of data that exists only on a portable hard drive and I want something reliable where I can move all that data into. I would like to future proof the system with at least 8TB of pure storage (meaning I would have 8TB of data to backup or store in the near future) and I never want it to fail (meaning I don't want to lose all my data because of a mechanical or software failure). I therefore, request advice or guidance on understanding how I can do so using an old or used desktop (or parts) that I would source from local used stores and online retailers. I want help with understanding the hardware and software (if applicable) requirements for building such a device. How many drives should I get? How big should each drive be? I read about something called a NAS, is this something I should consider if I only (I think) need extended storage? Is it possible to connect to the machine from my pc and not buy a separate monitor? If so, how do I access it (I was unable to find proper information on using a pc to connect to another pc)? Is it just by using a LAN cable? I am a complete beginner to storage and backup in general and I am open to elaborating anything you may feel I may have not explained or considered. Thank you for reading and I appreciate any advice you may have for me.

I recently got a very old PC off ebay for 20 bucks. Previous owner says the last time he used it everything worked (that was one year ago). My problem is: The PC turns on, one short beep and then nothing; no graphics output. Here is the Hardware list: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NS (rev. 2.0), specs here CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ RAM: 2 Sticks Infineon 512MB PC400 GPU: GeForce FX5200 128 M Storage: Maxtor Diamond Max Plu 9 200GB SATA HDD (Probably Windows 7 but not sure) Here is a list of what I tried: tried various VGA/DVI cables but no success. Monitor works with HDMI, so I don't think that the monitor is the problem here. I have no other VGA source to test it with. cleared CMOS removed Disk Drive and Floppy Drive reseated GPU, RAM, CPU, Storage disconnected storage tried to boot from usb stick got another GPU (ATI Radeon 9200SE 128M) tried CTL+F1 to get into BIOS but no luck PLEASE HELP! I am out of ideas at this point. My original plan with this system was to put batocera on it (admit, because of the video) but it turned to troubleshooting maze instead.

Budget (including currency): preferably under 200 dollars Country: Indonesia Games, programs, or workloads that it will be used for: Editing videos and gaming on medium settings Other details current PC: i3 4130 venomrx h81 motherboard 2x4 ddr3 ram no GPU 1 tb hdd and a 230-watt power supply I have 4 choices: choice 1 I could chug in a Rx 550 or a gt 1030 ( or recommend me an upgrade to another gpu well fitted in my power supply limitations) choice 2 i could upgrade my CPU to an i5 4460 or an i7 4790 but not be able to put a GPU choice 3 i can swap my power supply to a 550-watt power supply, upgrade my ram to 8x2 ram, upgrade my CPU to an i5 4460, and chug in an rx 6600 xt in return for a lot of my money choice 4 i decide that this is all too confusing and save up for another year to get myself an i3 12100f, 16GB ram, with rx 6600 xt edit: Keep in mind this is my first ever post and this isn't my first language, so I apologize if there is any discrepancies

Hello! I have converted my old gaming pc into a ubuntu server to run docker containers and vms. Im currently running into performance issues as Jellyfin transcoding pegs my CPU at 100% load causing everything to freeze. Are there any simple upgrades or changes that would improve performance or should I look to get a new cpu/mobo/dedicated NUC? Example containers hosted: Jellyfin DNS/reverse proxy adguard portainer heimdall Specs: mobo: msi Z170A Gaming M3 CPU: i5-6600K Memory: 16GiB DDR4 2400 MT/s GPU: 2080 super (may remove as doesnt seem to be used) Storage: Currently old HDD drives as everything is saved/loaded from an ethernet attached Synology Nas

I have this old dell Optiplex 7080 SFF that I don't use anymore but want to with a dell intel 8th gen motherboard and I'm looking to upgrade the case on this because it came with a 200w dell psu and the case won't fit other PSUs. I'm wondering if anyone knows if the hardware in this can be put into a better case or how I could check if it would fit into one before buying it?

Hi, my friend is giving me a PC with some 2gen AMD Ryzen 5 CPU, Dell AMD Radeon HD 7770 (2gb vram),8gb RAM and a big tower case and I was thinking about putting it in my work room and use it to replace my crappy WD NAS box. With all of this, I was thinking about using it as a NAS and maybe for running a Windows 10 (modded Lite iso) or Arch Linux VM on that system. I also have a Dell OEM AMD Radeon Pro WX5100 8gb laying around that I could use it for the VM and I have 4x 4tb NAS HDD's (unused) that I could use here. As far as I seen, I could throw out the DVD drive and get 5 free SATA slots for the NAS HDD's and my SanDisk 120gb SSD. What are my options here in terms of the OS, where I don't need to pay for licenses? Would it be worth it replacing the 2x4gb HP RAM modules for something from more reputable brands like Corsair, Crucial or G.Skill? Before anyone asks, my work room is connected to solar panels on top of my shed and this is why I don't care about power consumption

I think I need to retire my 7800 ATI from 10 years ago, its starting to freeze at times when I play and last time it caused my SSD to freeze and damage the windows startup (at least that's my guess). I usually buy from Amazon and other online stores so also any offers on those sites would work. Budget (including currency): 300-400 dollars Country: Mexico Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: daily driver, remote work (RemotePC and etc), indie games a maybe some AAAs from 2015 haha. Other details (

hello I’ve been meaning to upgrade this old pc I’ve had for a while. the pc is called HP 6300. I’m planning to get a 300-400w psu, 1050ti, 16gb of ram. but i have a 3rd gen cpu. so I’m trying to get a 5th or higher gen but i need to replace my motherboard. I have the Hewlett-Packard 399A motherboard as of now. any recommendations or advice? (I don’t know much about pcs so feel free to inform me) my budget is 700.

Case: Cooler Master SNIPER CM STORM Motherboard: ASUS ROG RAMPAGE EXTREME IV CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K Memory: Kingston HyperX FURY 2x8GB 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM - Blue (Dual Channel) Cooler: Thermaltake Frio (air) GPU: Gigabyte GeForce® GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0) this was an upgrade to an older ASUS HD 7870 DirectCU II 2GB HDD: Dual Seagate ST1000DM010 2EP102-300 FW:CC43 TK 1.0TB 3.5" Sata SSD: TeamGroup TX253X1 240G Optical Drive: R/W Compact Disc (For some reason my brain thought I needed this back then) PSU: Thermaltake Thoughpower-1500M 1500W ATX 12V v2.3 & EPS 12V v2.92 SLI Certified CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC

I have an old pc that I will like to install an os like Retropie to play retro games but this pc is really bad in terms of specs so I dont know if it will be possible. What you guys think? Could it run some retro games and what os should install it something on the linux side i suppose will be best. but if it will run pretty bad i will just leave the project and buy a ps1 mini but this option is free so thats what i will prefer it (i could buy 4gb ram and ssd in the future but i will like it as is now first)

I found an old PC which was designed to run on Windows 98 SE. It had XP on it and after poking around a bit I wanted to put 98 SE on it. I went to https://winworldpc.com/ and picked the OEM Full ISO then burned it to a CD. I booted from that CD and started the installer which wiped the drive and formatted the partition. It then told me to put the Windows 98 boot disk into drive A and restart the computer but there are a few issues with this. This PC has no floppy drive bay or even a drive A, and I have 0 way to even make a floppy if I even had access to one. Looking around online people keep saying you don't need the floppy to install 98 and can do it all from the CD but I can't figure out how, I need help.

So I bought an nvidia geforce 630 gt and when I install it in the case (I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre M83) after that I turn it on and Lenovo comes on the screen (as usual) and then it just freezes and I don't know what to do. The keyboard does not work. I tried to change the Ram and it still doesn't work. Do you have any advice.

I have xeon w3565, Asus Cerberus gtx 1050 ti, And 8gb pc3 10600e. And i want to buy more ram cuz games like RUST need like 12gb of ram. So where can i buy them for good price.

I recently started to repair my old PC as a fun project. After few weeks of troubleshooting, I'm finally able to start the PC. Now I'm confused about OS. The PC is not very high end one. It has following Configuration: 1. 2 GB ddr2 Ram 800Mhz 2. 350GB HDD 3. AMD sempron 2.5Ghz Processor. Please suggest me few OS for the PC. The PC is only for general purpose like blasting music on the sound system or doing some admin work.

Greetings everybody, *This is my first post, feel free to reprehend or point me to the right direction/place/customs. Sorry in advance if I somehow hurt the community* *I found a somewhat similar thread here (good-graphics-card-for-my-system-pci-e-20[...]), but, I'm still unsure...* We have and old computer that is going to be used for gaming by one family member, and as such we are in need of replacing the graphic card, not only because of it's specs but because it is about to fail (flickering). Can you please suggest the best replacement card ? To my understating, the PCI interface is backwards compatible, so almost any GPU would work, but I would like to buy something relatively cheap and at the same time capable of giving the best performance given the specs and probable bottlenecks below. (The overall ideia is to make do with the current hardware, replacing only the GPU, though feel free to add any of your thoughts on the matter) Specs and Games: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E84000 Socket 775LGA Motherboard: ASUSTek P5KPL-C/1600 - Rev 1.xx; PCI-Express 1.0; Link: https://www.asus.com/supportonly/P5KPL-C1600/; Graphic Interface: Release Date: 2008; NVIDIA Geforce 8800GT - CodeName G92 Revision A2; PCI-Express 2.0; DirectX: 10; OpenGL: 3.3; OpenCL: 1.1; Clock: 600Mhz Power Supply: ATX Power X 500w Px500; SKU: PX500B1403286; Fan 120mm; Conectors: - 01 Atx 20+4 Pin - 01 ATX12V - 02 Sata - 02 Ide - 01 Pci Express Memory: Kingston DDR2 Dual Channel 4GB (2x2GB) Games that will be played: - Farming Simulator 19 (Requires DX11) - Steam recommends Nvidia Geforce GTX 650, AMD Radeon HD 7770 graphics card or better (min. 2 GB VRAM) - Farming Simulator 22 (Requires DX11) - Steam recommends GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R7 265 or better (min 2GB VRAM) - Car mechanic - Steam recommends NVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB - EuroTruck Simulator 2 (Requires DX11) - Steam recommends GeForce GTS 450-class One of my main problems in understanding this whole enterprise, is finding the correct ratio of memory bus width vs memory vs processing units vs memory clock speed vs GPU clock speed .. and so forth .. Considering the games, and probably the MODs and maps to come, a GPU with higher memory seems to be the best choice, but then again I have no idea on how to foresee the bottlenecks ... much less calculate the necessary amount of power for the PSU or the ventilation. I'm far less versed in AMD GPUs than in Nvdia, still I came up with some options, but I would love to hear your opinion on the matter, since I'm completely out of my league here. Radeon R7 240 (2gb 128bits Gddr5) Memory: 2GB DDR5 Bus: 128 Clock: 780MHZ PCI: 3.0 Reference Link:(After reading the community guidelines, I'm still unsure if external links are allowed, in any case I wasn't able to find a non commercial link to this model DEX-PV-04A) AFOX GeForce-GT-710 (GF119 ) Memory: 2GB DDR3 Bus: 64Bit Clock: 810MHz PCI: 2.0 Reference Link: http://gpuboss.com/graphics-card/GeForce-GT-710 AFOX GeForce GT730 LP Memory: 4GB DDR3 Bus: 128Bit Clock: 700 MHz PCI: 2.0 Reference Link: http://www.afox-corp.com/en/products_details.asp?proid=289 AFOX GeForce Gt 1030 Memory: 2GB DDR5 Bus: 64Bit Clock: 1277 MHz PCI: 3.0 Reference Link: https://www.dateks.lv/en/cenas/videokartes/568155-afox-geforce-gt-1030-2gb-ddr5-low-profile Ps. I searched these GPUs considering localized prices on my country and overall availability. Please don't feel obligated to relate to exact price range, since there's no easy parameter to make a price conversion among our probable markets, I will look up each and every suggestion you make and afterwards try to find the best option within budget and market. In advance, thank you very much for you help and attention.. Cordially, Mileto.

Hi, I'm back again with another PC problem- what a shocker. Backstory: I recently brought out a 10-11 year old computer I had around (that yes I still cleaned and took care of even though it wasn't used as much) that admittedly is pretty slow so that it could become the school work computer for a family member. (HP Compaq Presario with 3 gb ram, AMD Athlon II I think and a NVIDA GeForce graphics card that did run 7 and I upgraded it to 10 as it was probably the most unsafe thing on the planet, it was stuck on SP1 and I knew there was malware from the previous owner and I couldn't get it connected to the internet to get malwarebytes, and just so you know, no I couldn't figure out how to reinstall windows because it didn't like the flash drive or anything for that matter. Side note: I could have chosen a Linux distro and I might due to the age of the system maybe..kinda worried about the driver issues there too?) Issue So recently, I've been dealing with it randomly showing a white screen and a black screen with a loading cursor and not doing anything else causing me to have to reboot the system... Over... And over... And over. I'm pretty sure it's NVIDA drivers (because it's always NVIDA that's the issue espically with graphics ) but I'm willing to put it out there to see if anyone could possibly point out a reason if it's not the graphics drivers. Another thing I think it COULD be was the screensaver previously set in Windows 7 that could be breaking the system tho im really unsure...)

Good morning/evening everyone, I had this old server that I was running Plex server, for network file sharing, hosting some websites and stuff like this but now that I got a quite powerful laptop I do not need my old PC and I was thinking of making 2 servers in a Rack. I want now with this upgrade to have Docker containers too, so I was thinking to make the old server with Linux running the websites and all the containers that I want, as for the other server to make it with Windows server to handle the file sharing stuff. So I would like to give me your opinions, suggestions and ideas, how should I do it, is it a good idea? Software suggestion/opinions Hardware server backplates/PSU/UPS suggestion Networking cables/switches/routers Suggestion about the Rack and server cases (with hot swap preferably) Budget: Medium Specs: Huawei HG8546M Modem from ISP with the Fiber connected Connected on modem -> Router TL-WR1043N v5.0 / Wired Connections: Server PC / Old PC / Brother PC Connected on router -> Cisco Switch SF100D-05 v2 / Wired Connections: Raspberry Pi (PiHole AdBlocker) / New Laptop / 1 Empty slot Connected on switch -> Router Xiaomi Mi Router 4A / Wired Connection: 2nd Brother PC WiFi Connections: Cannon Printer / 5 Mobiles / 1 Xiaomi TV Box / 1 Tablet / 1 Yeelight Internet connection: 250 down / 250 up mpb/s Server CPU: Intel Core i5-3450 @ 3.10GHz Server RAM: 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28) Server Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. H61N-D2V Server GPU: None 55GB KINGSTON SV300S37A60G ATA Device (SATA-2 (SSD)) 31 °C 1863GB Western Digital WDC WD20EZRX-00D8PB0 ATA Device (SATA ) 32 °C 1863GB Seagate ST2000DM008-2FR102 ATA Device (SATA (SSD)) 34 °C 3691GB Microsoft Storage Space Device (TMax (SSD)) (Note: Server hard drives are in a pool with an SSD so I can have small fast cache, as I have read from the internet after search) Old PC CPU: AMD FX-8320E Old PC RAM: 16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 668MHz (9-9-9-24) Old PC Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF Old PC GPU: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (Gigabyte) 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EALX-009BA0 (SATA ) 38 °C 931GB Western Digital WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 (SATA ) 42 °C 232GB Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB (Unknown (SSD)) 221GB Microsoft Storage Space Device (SATA (SSD)) (Note: these are 2 120 GB SSD's that I had for games they are not of any use anymore)

i got some hand me downs from my uncle's office and the PCs are as follows: 1) Lenovo ThinkCentre M58p 2) Dell Optiplex 755 The CPUs are as listed below Lenovo: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E8400 Dell: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6750 I'll edit in more specs as i go through the systems and as requested. I have decided that the Lenovo will be my main as i find it easier to work in with the swiveling side-panels and it just looks cleaner as well. The Dell... maybe a Plex server? I do have quite the amount of anime i'd like to stream over my home wifi or maybe a home server/remote pc/HTPC ? or it could just be the family pc i suppose.. I have done some rudimentary cleaning for both PCs and i plan on getting more supplies to clean and repaste the heatsinks. i wanted to ask a few questions regarding upgrades. First is obviously going to be an ssd. Maybe a 240GB Crucial MX500 for the Lenovo and a 120GB Silicon Power A55 for the Dell as a start. The second is the CPU & GPU. The socket for the Lenovo is the LGA775 and the Dell is the PLGA775. I want to know what is the top/best/max CPU i can drop into the same socket without having to do any modding. My searching has pulled up the Q9650 which i've found on ebay for 40USD. Someone in a forum mentioned being able to mod the socket for a Xeon but im not ready for modding so i'll pass but id like to know my options all the same. The GPU is interesting, i need some advice with this one as im not too familiar with GPUs prior to Nvidia's 1000 series and AMD's 5000 series. I will need some advice with this part. My budget for the GPU would be i'd say ~100USD. I'd like to do some gaming at least. if possible id like to know what is the top/max/best GPU i can get before bottlenecking. Naturally i will need to check pricing and availability in my region. other things im going to try include: RAM (i'll probably do 16GBs of the max speed the CPU supports), Networking? (better ethernet, wifi maybe?), One thing im really looking forward to is doing my very first OS install. I'll try Windows 10 first and see how it performs with games, browsing and so on. Then my first ever foray into Linux, i'd probably go for Pop! OS. These are the main upgrades that come to my mind, i plan on doing some other stuff like replacing the disk drive with a USB hub and so on. I'd like to hear your thought as well on any other upgrades i should do.

Hello. I have an old pc that I want to upgrade the motherboard to one that has USB 3.0. So far the options that I have found on pcpartpicker is making me a bit confuse. What would be the best motherboard for an Intel Pentium e5700 @ 3.00 GHz? I have change the case but I realized that the motherboard does not have 3.0 usb. I added a BEYIMEI 5-Port PCI Express Expansion Card with 19 pin connector. However if the motherboard have it included, it would be great. That way I can Clear space for a dedicated gpu, since I added a WiFi and Bluetooth card. On that note, Would a GTX 760 would work for this?

Hello everyone, I hope this is the right place to post, new to the forum here. I have an old gaming pc which has been collecting dust for a while now. (specs below). I want to either use it or get rid of it, but selling doesn't really seem like a viable option as the parts would not be worth anything anymore. Any other ideas of cool things to do with the pc? Would anyone be interested in these legacy parts? Case: Antec 1200 Motherboard: Biostar T-power I45 Processor: Intel core2duo E8500 RAM: 2x2GB DDR2 - PC2 8500 Reaper Videocard: NVidia geforce 9800 GTX (512mb) N1996 (MSI) It also has an audiocard, not sure what it is, will find out later.

I stumbled onto a couple of old FirePro V4900 that was about to be discarded, but decided to take it for myself. My dad has a rebuilt Dell Optiplex 790 (Core i5-2500, 8GB RAM, SSD+HDD, Ubuntu) where I transplanted it onto an old Cooler Master (circa 2013; probably N300). I put one of the GPUs there (cuz why not?). He primarily just watches videos on it (YouTube, Netflix, Crave, etc.). I figure the GPU might be able to help the CPU out in the long run (by reducing the stress), giving that PC a little more life. I'm now wondering if my assumption is correct?