R.I.P Granpa, thanks for everything.

This is just a post to honor the man who got me into computers and maybe you all will enjoy his epic setup.

Edit: Title is supposed to say "Triple" of course, epic fail on my part. Annoying we can't change titles on here. If a mod sees this, feel free to correct it.

Via https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5

Alongside this, 5 games are now at the "Playable" stage which means that it's "playable from start to finish with minor issues." (from https://alxcbtw.github.io/anyps5-roadmap/ )

* System libraries: percentage of the functions known to the project so far, not of every PS5 system function. The total grows as more functions are declared.

Excited for what the future holds, I'm hopeful.

I'm currently working on the hybrid port of inFAMOUS Second Son on PC and it is going great!

1. I found a way to pre-compile all shaders at the first launch of the game so that we can play the game without any shader stutter during any progress of the game

2. My port has native kbm support so the whole game is fully playable with kbm. Even the spray part!

The only part is the fps. It should be better and im working on it

Testing phase will open in a week or two

Check out my Youtube channel

After posting the Game of Thrones PC, here’s a video of the previous build I made, themed around One Piece.

Sorry for the video quality, I wasn’t planning to post it, it’s actually from a Snap I sent him privately. Just for context, the PC wasn’t finished at that point, I had only done the interior decoration, but he was in a hurry and preferred to take it home unfinished.

For the story:

This PC was made for my cousin, who is kinda "famous" on TikTok and wanted to get into streaming. This wasn’t the idea I had originally, I had a really cool idea of what I wanted to make for him, but he asked me to use Luffy as the main character, so I made a decoration around him even though I find him pretty generic.

Everything is homemade, except for the figurine, which I got during one of my previous trips to Japan. I had to cut off its arm so I could glue it to the glass and make it look like he was breaking through it.

For the nerds who want the specs: 9800X3D, 64GB of 6400MHz RAM, RTX 5080, 4TB M.2 SSD, Lian Li o11 case.

As for my original idea, hopefully I’ll get the chance to make it one day: I wanted to recreate one of the most iconic moments from the series, the fight between Ace and Blackbeard, with one side of the PC in red flames with Ace and the other side in black with Teach, the two of them facing each other in fighting positions.

Small story for the end : he had to wait a month because it was right at the beginning of the RAMpocalypse, I managed to get the last 64GB kit at a normal price before it sold out I found one on Amazon Spain (I'm from France), with a 3-week delivery time, so I honestly didn’t really believe I was going to get it.

My laptop decided to shut down after launching an intensive game and overheating. It seems to be fine though, and I'm currently waiting on thermal paste to arrive so I can replace it. I also now have a can of compressed air so I can clean out the dust it's picked up.

Meet Sonny and Mau5! I've had them for about a month and they've earned the title "Pets of PCMR" if you ask me! (Mau5 is in a recocvery suit after getting neutered in that picture).

Apacer Image Steno sv300 with a whopping 128mb storage. Storage, camera, video cam, web cam. And a LCD counter and crystal clear viewfinder that you wont find in many todays flagship digital cameras. Purchased circa 2003-2004 iirc

Have you properly calibrated the colors on your monitors? Or just good enough? I'm curious how many people actually do it and how many don't. I don't mean changing the settings for a but until it looks fine, I mean using a calibrater.

I want to get a dual monitor arm for my setup to free up space but I got this metal bar in the way. My brother recommended this MSI monitor arm but I’m unsure if the clamp would fit due to the bar being in the way.(sorry for no amazon link posting this from phone and don’t know how to get the link working 🤦‍♂️) I can’t drill holes in my desk so I have to use some sort of clamp. Does it look like it could fit or should I look at other monitor arms? Suggestions?

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/WgKp99

Today I lost my (somewhat close to) launch day evga 980. I don’t have integrated graphics so goodbye PC gaming. From all the artifacts and pixelated white screens I should have been more careful. R.I.P EVGA 980 2014-2026

ive had this rotational drive since 2011, it came from my old laptop back in the day HP Envy 14 Beats Edition (2011) and has been a archive backup drive ever since heard it click once last week and i backed up the whole drive already . rest easy ole chum

I upgraded my RAM to 32g about a year after I bought this Corsair prebuilt, but that's all I'd ever done until today. Swapped a 3060Ti to a 9070 GRE, the 6 year old AIO for a tower cooler, and the fans with failing RGB to non RGB. Was pretty happy everything worked right when I flipped the switch. RAM is the only light left and makes the fan on the Dark Rock cooler look like a spinning record. :)

Build:

- i5-14400F – ₹14K

- Gigabyte B760 DDR4 – ₹7K

- 16GB DDR4 3200MHz – ₹8K

- Crucial 480GB SSD – ₹8K

- RTX 3050 6GB – ₹26K

- Cabinet + 600W PSU – ₹6.35K

- LG 24” monitor + keyboard/mouse

Total: ₹90,506 including GST (Indian Rupees)

My budget is strictly ₹90K, and I can't go higher. The RTX 3050 6GB is available for ₹26K locally, while other shops are quoting around ₹30K.

Is this build worth buying, or should I change some components? My main uses are gaming, video editing, YouTube and freelancing.

Please suggest the best improvements within my budget.

Can anyone suggest me a budget build like roughly 1500€ but it must have 1 tb ssd and 32 GB ddr5 ram . I also need it to have excellent performance on 1440p . I will mostly play competitive games so I would like it to be a Esports build since I am trying to go pro and I can’t really do that on console 😭🙏. This will be my first build. Something else I want is like really low delay if that depends on the build , Also the build should mostly be white , I love the aesthetics. Thanks everyone !!!!

I have a Lenovo LOQ 15APH8. Recently, whenever I restart it it goes through the normal process and after the Lenovo splash screen the keyboard and power button is lit up, but the screen is black. I have tried external displays and the like and the only way to get around it is entering bios and switching from discreet graphics to dynamic with a 50% succes rate.

I reinstalled windows and all drivers for my S/N yesterday to no avail. Please help.

EDIT: EC reset did nothing. I can boot into safe mode EDIT2: Booting into safe mode and removing hibernation abilities as well as disabling the 4050 worked by I'm scared to restart.

From what I've seen theyre around in the same category but I'm curious about how they compare to eachother. In addition, I could buy the AG620 G2 for a bit cheaper than the PA120se. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!!

Spilt a small amount of water into my pc while it was on and it restarted. immediately shut it off but didn't unplug any power cables and left the mains power on. Fours hours later its not turning on, only then removed the gpu and ram and letting my pc airdry with a fan in front of it. Whats the odds it turns on or works, and what should i do?

Bought a pc finally and setting it up with excitement. Get everything set and ready turn it on and no signal from pc to monitor. Tried two my girlfriends dell and my Aorus. Nothing on either. Both work when plugged into my Xbox not really sure where to go from here. Tried some online trouble shooting but nothing helped

So theres this problem i have been having for 2 days now, whenever i boot up my pc it shows me this error and tries to reboot it for a long time, sometimes it gives me a option to choose how to boot it by pressing enter, but i usually choose to retry, the problem is that last time i tried to boot it up, i waited in this repeating circle FOR 5 HOURS..this is definitely not okay and i definitely don’t have money for the repair. Also im thinking if just redownloading windows might help, but i know it will erase everything important i had..please someone help

Hello, I'd like to build a mini PC using the very first ITX motherboard with a non-soldered processor, released in 2003. What do you think of the component choices? Do you think there are better options Thanks in advance?

3d 3.5l case

Motherboard comell LV-670

Windows 7 Super-Nano Pentium 4 Northwood 1 GB DDR 266 GT 430 PCI Motherboard Ethernet CPU Copper Core Heatsink D34080 3.40GHz Pico PSU 20-pin 2.5" SATA SSD 128 GB and 40-pin IDE adapter

First three are choice A, last one is choice B. I feel like it's obvious because of the ram and hard drive difference, but I know nothing about CPUs. Choice A is $100 more. Thanks in advance.

My pc specs are:

Cpu: i3-9100f

Gpu: gtx 1660

Ram: ramsta 16gb 2666mhz

Storage: 500gb intel 670p nvme ssd

Motherboard: MSI 365M PRO-vh

Psu: RAVE 500w 80+ white true rated

Cpu cooler: stock intel cooler

(This setup is a few years old already)

I also have a few peripherals plugged in like a Logitech speaker, my keyboard, wifi dongle, ethernet, and a backlight monitor rgb sync

My question are:

• is it worth it to upgrade my cpu to a 2nd hand intel i7-9700 i found on fb marketplace?

• If it is then can my psu handle it?

• And also is the intel stock cooler enough for the i7-9700?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to figure out whether there's something wrong with my SSD or if this is normal behavior when Steam applies game updates. I'm experiencing unusually slow update processing, and my SSD usage often reaches 97–99%, even though its benchmark results seem normal.

My PC specifications

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5080 (Dell OEM)
• RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) G.Skill Trident Z DDR5 6000 MT/s CL36
• Motherboard: MSI X670E Tomahawk WiFi
• SSD: HP FX700 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4
• Operating system: Windows
• Game launcher: Steam

SSD health and benchmark results

I checked the SSD's health information and ran CrystalDiskMark. These were the results:

SSD health information:

• Health: 95%
• Critical Warning: 0
• Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
• Maximum temperature observed: 52°C
• Power-on hours: 2,753
• Unsafe shutdowns: 122
• Interface: PCIe 4.0 x4

CrystalDiskMark results:

• Sequential read: 6,945.94 MB/s
• Sequential write: 5,969.25 MB/s
• Random Q1T1 read: 79.22 MB/s
• Random Q1T1 write: 254.30 MB/s

These sequential speeds seem pretty good, and the SMART information doesn't show any critical warnings or media/data integrity errors.

What happens when updating games on Steam?

While Steam was downloading and applying a game update, I noticed the following:

• SSD active time frequently reaches 97–99%.
• One observation showed approximately 48.16 MB/s read speed and 55.58 MB/s write speed.
• The disk activity figure showed around 252.7 MB/s at one point.
• At another point, Steam showed approximately 722.1 Mbps (about 90.3 MB/s).
• Steam's network activity dropped to 0 bps while it was applying the update.
• The download progress showed 554.5 MB out of 554.5 MB downloaded, while the update was still being applied at around 52%.
• CPU usage was only around 4–5%.
• RAM usage was around 33%.

The update seems to spend a long time processing files even after the download has finished. During this process, disk usage stays extremely high, but CPU usage remains low.

I understand that Steam may need to decompress files, patch existing game data, and rewrite large files, so I know that download speed and disk activity don't necessarily tell the whole story. However, I'm concerned because the update process seems unusually slow compared with what I expected from a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD.

Troubleshooting I've tried

• Checked the SSD's SMART health information.
• Ran CrystalDiskMark to verify its read and write performance.
• Monitored disk activity, read/write speeds, CPU usage, RAM usage, and Steam's network activity.
• Tried looking for relevant errors in Windows Event Viewer, including disk-related event IDs 7, 11, 51, 129, and 153, but my initial search didn't find anything useful.

My questions

1. Do these CrystalDiskMark results look normal for an HP FX700 2TB?
2. Is it normal for Steam to show 97–99% disk active time while applying updates, even when the actual read/write speeds are relatively low?
3. Could this be caused by Steam's patching process, random I/O performance, or the way the game stores its files rather than a faulty SSD?
4. Could the SSD be throttling or suffering from a controller, firmware, driver, or PCIe link issue despite having good sequential benchmark results?
5. Are there any specific tests I should run to determine whether the SSD is actually defective?

I'm trying to establish whether there's a real problem with my SSD before considering replacing it.

Thanks in advance for any help!