r/PcAdvice

old man here and apologies in advance.

Hi y'all, old man here who has ZERO pc knowledge. I am looking for a budget pc (prefer a mini) that will play 7d2d. It's the only game I play and I can't justify £700+ for a steam machine. I do have an old steam deck that I use on my TV with a dock but want something permanent.

I apologise to mods if this is a dumb question or if I'm in the wrong place.

.....oh, don't know if it makes a difference but I don't play online, just myself (and the hordes).

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u/ozziedoggie6 — 7 hours ago
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pc help please

so i have just rebuilt pc my recently and installed everything correctly but i forgot to plug in one of my drives and it fully corrupted my files on my pc to where nothing was working, so i factory reset my pc re did all my drives and i kept getting so many errors and recovery messages and ban i finally figured it out, anyhow my pc was fixed everything was going good, i watched a tech video on youtube what do to when u first get a pc because i haven't done it in so long. one of those things was to overclock my ram, after i overclocked my ram boom immediately to a recovery screen, and what did i do, i tried fixing it 100 times nothing worked i finally got into my bios and reset it all back to normal reinstalled windows again but when it got the end it didnt work, so i went back into bios to see that nothing saved, so i reset it to default again, and now nothing on my pc is working anymore, i start up my pc, i only get my ram led to pop up, nothing else is lightning up, im getting no display anything, no fan lights, they are spinning but lights, literally no display nothing i cant even open my pc, ive tried resetting cmos, make sure everything is plugged in, i feel like ive tried it all and i feel like i ruined my pc after spending money to rebuild it, someone with a lot of tech knowledge please help

u/AffectionatePut6172 — 14 hours ago

Is this a good way of stopping my pc from getting carpet damage?

I’ve being worried my pc will become damaged due to carpet related issue and over heating so I’ve gotten old book and placed them under it, will this work? There pretty flimsy and I’m worried this may result in over heating. Will this work? I’m not sure what other information I could give but if you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask

u/tadpole239 — 1 day ago

To do list for new pc gamer?

I was heavy into console gaming and switched to a PC about a month ago and love it! The gaming experience has been very good for me so far. I’m a Mac user and windows is so foreign for me. This pc will only be used for gaming nothing else. I’ve tried looking up videos on different settings and end up going down rabbit holes. I’ve seen some videos on debloating Windows using scripts but the comments said it screwed up some stuff to the point they had to reinstall Windows.

I see people talking about monitoring their frames dropping temperatures. I’m lost on what I should be looking at for lol. Any tips or advice you could give me that would help? Here are my specs for my prebuilt.

AMD Ryzen 7 8700F
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 8GB
16GB DDR5
1TB PCle 4.0 SSD
2 LG UltraGear IPS QHD 200hz monitors

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u/ThrowAwayK88 — 1 day ago
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I got a noob question about my pc

Hey I’m new to the whole content creation scene and when I started editing anything over 5-10 minutes long my computer has a meltdown sometimes and I have to restart cause it just starts chugging and I was looking to upgrade because online said I may need 32 gb at least but I noticed it also said an intel i7 or equivalent. I have 16 gb of ram with an Intel i5 14400f cpu. I was worried the cpu isn’t strong enough and the more ram wouldn’t matter so before I blew and OUTRAGEOUS amount of money to buy at least 32 gb of ram I wanted to know if my cpu would even work with it or I just need to give up on my hopes and dreams for a long while till I can buy a new pc in the future.
Thank for your help in advance, I’ve been struggling with this for awhile and I’m scare lol

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u/BrentimusPrime69 — 1 day ago

Is this a good 2nd hand pc for 140 euros?

I found this on my local 2nd hand website, i dont know much about PC specs but i think this is decent. i only play like indie games, roblox, minecraft, cs2, val etc. Is this good enough for it?

Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K (3.40GHz-4.10Ghz)
Videokaart: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (3gb)
RAM: 8 GB DDR3

1tb SSD
windows 11 pro (i am going to tiny11)

u/Successful-Cut-2150 — 1 day ago
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Crazy stuttering. 1FPS for 1% and 0.1%LOWs. 7500x3D+9070 not XT. Need assist, please

Hello! Need an advice how to fix stuttering when gaming. It's been a week as a try to do somethiung about it. Just got tired...

Played Expedition 33, Warhammer dark tide, Borderlands 3, Witcher 3. BIOS is updated to latest verson, afterthat erased my SSD and installed clean new Windows 11, drivers for motherboard and graph drivers last.

The 0.1% and 1%low are very bad and doesn't matter what setting I use in AMD adrenaline software or ingame graphic settings. I watched tons of fixes on youtube and reddit - nothing worked for me.

I have 32gb ddr5 Kingston Fury, Samsung G5 OLED 1440p monitor, 7500x3D + 9070 non XT (I had reasonable prices for those components - 7800x3D with 9070XT would cost $400 more and I do not need that perfomance just for gaming). Attached the screenshots. Will appreciate the help on this.

UPDATE WITH FIX: in game settings Scaling type - XeSS, TSR, AMD FSR. Used to be AMD FSR and switched to XeSS. no stuttering. A week of frustration because of this.

u/Level-Criticism-445 — 2 days ago
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Bummed a free PC, very light RAM.

Hey guys, I just got a free PC from my friend. It has only 2 GB of ddr3 RAM. Aunt has an AMD athlon x4 in it. Is there a distro Dad would function well enough for some light web browsing such as checking emails, or watching YouTube videos?

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u/hill975 — 3 days ago
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Can I use this RAM on my PC?

My friend will buy 2 sticks of ram and wants to sell me his actual stick of ram

He has a 8gb DDR4 3000Mhz CL16 for sell

And the one that I have rn on my PC is 8gb DDR4-2133 CL16

Can I use both and have 16gb ram in total? My PC can only have 2133mhz but some people told me that it doesn't matter and if I have a stick of ram with more Mhz the system will automatically lower it to 2133

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u/Global_Indication337 — 2 days ago

storage on my pc

I am extremely new to the world of pc gaming and computers in general. As soon as I got my new laptop it had I saw 900 gbs of storage so I started downloading anything free on steam with no thought. I now want to clear up storage so I can buy games without much concern. I have currently 650 gbs about of installed apps but im super confused as to where I got them. According to the launchers I have maybe 300 gbs of games installed. I tried googling it and clearing unnecessary files but im still failing to understand where my storage went.

This is the list of installed games I have:

CS2, subnautica, rocket league, r6, world of tanks, hell let loose, escape from tarkov, arc raiders, operator, Atlantic fleet, and gta IV

A lot of games but if im not mistaken, not 650 gbs worth. I also don't know how to properly uninstall old games, so I deleted sea of thieves and the master chief collection through the xbox launcher but idk if it does it thoroughly. I really just dont know anything about anything so i'm asking how do I fix my storage.

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u/Generalkatze911 — 3 days ago

Updating BIOS

Hello, I was about to boot up Arc Raiders when it mentioned I needed to update my BIOS. I'm not a tech savvy person and have never done this before and found a video that seemed to show what to do, but I know the BIOS is a dangerous thing to poke around in and I heard a small mistake could brick my PC. The video showed a slightly different motherboard model. Are the instructions the same? I have a PRIME B760M-A AX6 II, and the video showed an ASUS PRIME B760M-A WIFI. Thank you all for the help.

The video:
How to Update BIOS ASUS PRIME B760M-A WIFI

u/TemplarHunter02 — 3 days ago

All in One-PC

Hey!

Does anyone have an All-in-one PC to recommend?

I am only doing light work on it but also want to be able to play Warcraft 3 and CS2 on it.

Thanks!

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u/Dependent_Sink9801 — 2 days ago

How do I train on building a pc?

Currently I have a pc so ain't buying parts js to train on building a pc. So how should I train pc building skills?

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u/Airpods200 — 3 days ago

prebuilt gaming pc arriving in 2 days, what are some few things i should do when i boot it up the first time.

saw some people talking abt clean windows install (idh a usb), bloatware, idk what else like ram bios speed thing and what not, please guide me thru this
7800x3d, 9070xt

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u/Legitimate-Remote109 — 2 days ago
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This the second part of my experiment of blocking off the back vents of my case these are the results

I have a h6 flow case with p12 pro fans and p14 pro fans 5 intake 3 exhaust and three exhaust p12 pro fans all at full speed and I also have a p9 max fan on top of the gpus back plate where it’s open I also hooked my gpu fans to my motherboard to keep them from ramping down during gaming or benchmarking my room temperature is 68f

u/Most-Lingonberry-160 — 3 days ago

Where can I buy a broken pc

I live in Egypt and I love pc building. I won't spend my kidney on pc parts to train pc building cause I aready have one. I want to buy t broken to take it apart at rebuild so if anything breaks won't regret losing a kidney.

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u/Airpods200 — 3 days ago
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Do I upgrade my computer?

Currently my build is as follows:

I5-12600k
32 gb of Trident Z DDR4 Ram
Nvidia 4070 super ti 16gb
Z690 Aorus Elite AX
Deep cool AIO
1000W PSU

I really want to upgrade my CPU but in order to do that I pretty much have to upgrade everything. I found a bundle at microcenter. (https://www.microcenter.com/product/5007350/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d,-gigabyte-b850-gaming-x-wifi6e-am5,-corsair-vengeance-rgb-32gb-ddr5-6000-kit,-computer-build-bundle) and it seems like a pretty good deal. Should I sell my current and just build a new? Buy a prebuilt?

I am just so stuck and idk what to do. Please help I’m very open to suggestions for parts and/or advice in general. thank you :3

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u/Jaded_Cookie_9013 — 3 days ago

guys please help me find a Pc

so i use to have a pc but i gave it to my local shop to fix than i went through some unfortunate things my father died and i fully forget about it now the shop is saying they lost my Pc in storage which is fair i brung it in over a year ago, but now i need help buying a pc, i know nothing about pcs but i wanna play games like siege, rocket league, and fortnite, and watch movies but my budget is 1-1.4k if you guys can please give me some recommendations i would appreciate it so much. also if it helps im located in australia

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u/Better_Tap5342 — 4 days ago

Advice on power problem

Hello, my desktop keeps shutting off into a complete dead state. No standby light on the mobo, no passthrough power to periferals, etc. i took it to best buy (pre built, where I got it) and it worked fine for them and then it worked fine when I got home. I booted up Gotham knights and it worked fine for an hour or so then died again. the last thing I played before it shut off the first time was star trek online but only for like 15m before it shut off.

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Current specs are:

Ryzen 5 3600

Radeon RX 580

40GB ddr4 at 3k

2tb hdd

250gb SSD

Asus b550

EVGA 600 GD

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I have had this since 2021 but replaced the mobo in January of this year.

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u/Magma8274Official — 4 days ago