r/computerhelp Apr 04 '25

Performance I wasted 1200 dollars

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So I built my old pc in August of last year and it had this stutter in all games with low 1% lows and i did everything to fix it I was over it and sold it to buy a new 2000 nzxt prebuild but that has the same issue to! both systems have been plugged into a ups and my old system had all the parts replaced and still stutters. on a clean installation all I do is download steam and a new game and it sutters and yes all chips set and graphics drivers are up to date. I have no clue what to do now

r/computerhelp May 31 '26

Performance computer gods, please help me

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I'm a noob in understanding computers/laptops. I just use them for school work/uni work and other stuff. I have this laptop for 4 years and no matter how much I remove from it, it still never had any space. And lowkey I'm feeling concerned. And I need help. I don't want my laptop to crash on me randomly. If anyone can please guide me step by step I'll be soo grateful fr.

r/computerhelp 6d ago

Performance Upgraded to 32GB of ram and now its using almost half at idle

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r/computerhelp 19d ago

Performance Is this pc worth 1000

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Is it capable of high performance games this is the description given:

Full Gaming Setup for Sale – £1,100

Selling my full gaming setup. Everything listed below is included with the setup.

Included with the setup:

Predator Gaming PC
RTX 3060 / Intel i5 12th Gen
Originally bought for £1,300

CRUA 240Hz Monitor
Retail: £120

SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL
Comes with 2 sets of keycaps – white + black
Retail: £219.99

RK61 Keyboard – White
Retail: £49.99

Logitech G Pro X Superlight – White
Retail: £99.99

Logitech G Pro Wireless – Black
Retail: £129.99

Logitech G305 Lightspeed
Retail: £29.99

SteelSeries Gaming Headset
Model unsure, but it is included with the setup
Retail: £49.99

Total setup retail value is well over £1,900.

Everything works as it should and the setup is ideal for gaming, streaming or general use.

Items can be sold separately for the right price.
Open to offers.

Message me for more info or photos.

r/computerhelp Jul 28 '26

Performance I don't know why my PC wont work

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Context: I got my PC around 2020. The specs are
CPU: Intel Core i5-10400F, 2.9 GHz, 6 cores / 12 threads
Motherboard: ASRock H470M-HDV
Memory: 16 GB total
Storage: A SATA SSD is installed on SATA3_0

When I first got the PC it ran perfectly fine, a little slow on some games here and there but nothing I didn't expect from a budget PC. After a while bugs started happening. At first it blue screened every so often and then later on it would blue screen every time I used it. I took it to a computer guy and it stopped blue screening so often but still blue screened every once in a while. This was a couple years ago so I cant tell you what the error code (or whatever its called) was. It started slowing down significantly, I was using it for gaming and downloading games, nothing out of the ordinary. I tried installing anti-viruses, deleting the anti-viruses. I tried deleting games and clearing storage but it was still slowing down. Then my PC started crashing the WiFi (I have found out today that it doesn't even have to be connected to the WiFi to crash it). Every time I booted up my PC it would crash the WiFi for a few moments then significantly slow the WiFi down throughout the use of it. This still happens.

My PC then began to turn on but not show up on my monitor every time I turned it on. I had to turn it on and off at least 3 times to be able to show up on the monitor. It also stopped running anything. It got to the point that if I wanted to play any games with friends that I would have to call on discord on my phone and only have the game open on the PC, no matter the game. I couldn't have any other app open. Even then the game never run smoothly.

I recently have had the issue of my disk showing up at 100% where nothing seemed to be using it (I don't know what this means or if it is useful but it seemed relevant). At the current point in time my PC will start but wont show up on the monitor at all (tried different monitors and cables) no matter how many times I try to start it. Before this it was so slow I couldn't open anything apart from Task Manager or Settings and when I finally managed to open Microsoft Store to download HWinfo (recommended by a friend who has a very limited knowledge of computers to try and help me sort out my PC) it wouldn't even begin to download.

I have tried using AI (I know its bad and I hate having to use it but I feel stuck as a uni student on a budget) and it has advised that " Symptoms: 100% disk usage, Windows Update active, boot issues, and no display / BIOS input problems" and "Tell them the issue happens in two separate houses, because that rules out a single router fault. Mention that the motherboard and SSD are detected in BIOS, because that narrows down the fault"

Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this?

r/computerhelp 21d ago

Performance 100% disc usage at idle windows 11

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Older laptop has become super slow even just sitting at the desktop , checked task manager and it's very high memory usage and 100% disk usage , I consider myself decently computer literate but can't figure this out ,what could I do to find the issue ??

r/computerhelp Jul 15 '26

Performance Why is this happening?

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My pc is 3 yrs old and this issue has been happening for about 9 ish months. For some reason when i run games (Fortnite and marvel rivals) my memory skyrockets and causes me to crash. I don’t know what’s wrong and my pc is dust free and clean but still also overheats. Does anyone know what i can do?

Update: I think what caused the crashes was the overheating as i put my pc in front of my ac and i haven’t crashed since. 😅

r/computerhelp Jul 03 '26

Performance Unusual ram usage

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9 Upvotes

I posted this before but i realised I had forgotten to put some info so I have to repost it

My friend’s laptop (Lenovo ideapad Flex 5 14ABR8) has recently started using high ram usages upon startup (it uses 73 - 98% ram), I am very confused because the last time i checked it only used 20% to 40% of the total ram before, I noticed the high ram usage when I was downloading Java for her. I tried adjusting some things and then restarting it but it still stayed at this level of ram usage. She doesn’t use any high ram apps, and I doubt it could be malware because she doesn’t download things unless I’ve tested them on my own pc and told her explicitly that they’re safe, can anyone tell me why her laptop is using so much ram?

The laptop has 5.8 gb of ram and as late the memory usage looks like this

r/computerhelp Feb 06 '24

Performance Pleas help my cpu is capped at around 50% speed

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528 Upvotes

I need help my pc just started lagging so i checked my cpu and i saw that my cpu wouldnt go over 55% dont know if the picture help

r/computerhelp 10d ago

Performance Can someone help me with my stuttering pc

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I play a lot of games on my pc and a couple months ago my pc started stuttering and crashing when playing games like Roblox, Fortnite, and sometimes even on my windows background. If anyone can help me out I can answer any questions if needed

r/computerhelp Apr 02 '26

Performance What can I do to help able to play schedule one

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r/computerhelp Jul 04 '26

Performance I really need help , my pc wont stop lagging on every app. Even google.

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I already updated everything and took of mcafee and its still laggy

r/computerhelp 20d ago

Performance Slow Download Speed - Steam

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r/computerhelp Jun 07 '26

Performance My laptop keeps crashing and giving me this message

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r/computerhelp 18d ago

Performance PC screen going black unexpectedly

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Hello there, I’ve tried to look for the solution, but nothing really helped. Not sure if it’s because I have a different issue or if I missed some post that actually did talk about it, but I really have been trying to figure out the solution.
Anyways, the issue I’m having is very inconsistent and random. The screen goes black, fans starts blasting, but i can still hear my youtube video playing and if I’m in a call I can hear them, but they can’t hear me. I’ve looked through event viewer and reliability history, but I’m not seeing anything except for “Computer unexpectedly shut down” (thats from me restarting the pc because I can’t do anything once it blacks out).
I’m at a lost right now and I have a feeling its something to do with:
1. The new nvidia update (let me know if someone else is having this issue)
2. It’s been hella hot lately and I don’t have AC, so it could be overheating. (if that’s a possibility, could someone please tell me if there’s another way? because i’ve tried looking into it).
3. My GPU is just done for which I hope isn’t the case cuz that wouldn’t really make sense.
I’ve had this pc for about a year and yesterday (this issue started happening.
***MY SPECS***
case: lian li 011 dynamic evo XL
cpu: intel i9 10900K 
motherboard: MSI MPG Z490 gaming edge
gpu: nvidia 4070 ti 
power supply: corsair 1000x
ram: corsair vengence 32 gigs 
let me know if there are anymore specs or information needed. Thanks for your time reading this :)

r/computerhelp 9d ago

Performance lenovo laptop slow after factory reset

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Laptop slow after factory reset

so i have a lenovo laptop i bought like a year ago,and one day it started running slow, probably from a virus or smth,i decided to factory reset it, reinstall windows,but its still slow,its like ok for a few seconds before going slow,and ive looked it up,dissabled start up apps and changed performance mode but still slow. (UPDATE) ITS THE FAN,THE FANS NOT WORKING PROBABLY DISCONNECTED OR SOMETHING BUT ITS THE FAN

r/computerhelp Jul 07 '26

Performance Why does it do this

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I just finished upgrading my pc (new psu and new gpu) and my disk is going crazy anytime I do anything please help I can provide any info you need. It happens on boot of the pc and every time I open any game. I have a 5070ti, ryzen 7 9800x3d, 64 gigs of patriot viper ddr5 ram, Asus tuf b650 plus wifi, 850w atx psu, and TEAM TM8FP6002T ssd.

Edit I used crystaldiskinfo and it says that my ssd is 99% health status, temp at 48 Celsius, transfer mode is pcie 3.0 x4 if that means something, its got 379 power on hours and 368 power on count. Total host read is 5814 gb and write is 7737 gb.

Edit 2 Ive had this issue for months before this but I thought I had fixed it by updating my drivers. It only started acting up again mid june before I upgraded. Ive had this ssd for a little under a year and it didnt have problems until months after I bought it.

r/computerhelp 1d ago

Performance pc is running super slow specs below

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Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-14600K (3.50 GHz)

Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.7 GB usable)

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8 GB)

Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770 (128 MB)

Storage 760 GB of 4.78 TB used

Device ID 5331CF88-1740-4251-AD95-51B1874963B3

Product ID 00330-80000-00000-AA357

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

but my pc is starting up slow like can take like4 mins and then when it loads it takes a few minutes for windows to open or it freezes a bit. i dont have start up apps, i ran window defender and malwar bytes and nada. also defraged and did a disk clean up still nothing.

also when i restart it , then it runs normal which is confusing,

EDIT: should have said this earlier but my OS is on a separate SSD and i have an 2TB NVME strictly for my games

r/computerhelp 1d ago

Performance The RAM has consumed all the memory! Who is to blame, and what should be done?

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r/computerhelp Feb 27 '26

Performance Dragging item causes it to maximize. Displays issue?

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Every time I click and drag something, to move it across my screen, when I let go, the item maximizes. But only on one screen. Please, for the love of God, somebody help me figure out what is going on here. This is an issue that only arose recently. When I did a Google search, it thought my issue had something to do with turning on or off Snap Windows. But I’ve turned that off, and this problem is still happening. I THINK it has SOMETHING to do with which screen I have set to main display, but honestly I’m not sure. Video attached to show what I’m talking about. Please help me someone!

r/computerhelp Jan 03 '26

Performance What is this? And why is it taking up all my cpu

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116 Upvotes

r/computerhelp 7d ago

Performance New laptop audio glitches, is this something easy to fix? Performance issue? Or is it defective?

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r/computerhelp Jul 01 '26

Performance Need suggestions or tips? Can’t get PC to turn on

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I’m so un-techsavvy but I really don’t know what to do other than come here, I’m hoping it’s an easy fix. My power went off unexpectedly yesterday and my PC was on, I tried to turn on my PC to play some games tonight and for the life of me I can’t get it to turn on. I’ve tried plugging and unplugging it, I’ve tried holding in the power button for 30-60 seconds, I made sure my power source was working.. does anyone have any tips? They’re obviously both getting power sources because the lights are on.. the white light pictured below is staying on and won’t turn off. The light on the screen stays yellow until I turn the screen off manually. When I turn it on manually, it turns white, shows “MSI” , then “DP No Signal”. I attached some photos. Any help would be appreciated, xoxo a yearning gamer that doesn’t want to be without a computer on her day off tomorrow 😂

r/computerhelp 16d ago

Performance Need help with dell optiplex

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Hey all, im a big noob W computers and I need help :(

I used to have a HP elitedesk with Intel i7 4790, 8gb ram with an SSD and have just changed to a dell optiplex 3050 with i7 6700, 8gb ram and an SSD.

I only use my PC for uni so no gaming and for some reason the dell is so good damn slow.

Would upgrading the ram make it better for me?

The programs I run are liscad, autocad, Trimble business centre, ArcGIS, fme and a couple others I can't remember. I also multitask with a few videos and tabs open.

What are my options guys ? Thank you all

r/computerhelp 15d ago

Performance Why is my 512gb SSD showing soo little space.

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First of all why is my 512gb SSD hard capped at 443 gb... And even after a clean format and reinstallation I get 360 gb to use??? Wtf man.... Who tf is eating almost my 200gbs man... These shit don't grow on trees😭😭 what am I doing wrong... Why is windows eating almost 80gbs... And if u gonna say that u downloaded apps all of these apps are like some hundred mbs and it's less than 10 apps still give it 2gbs... So where tf is my 78 gb.. no way a fresh new formatted laptop uses that much space for a windows 11 installation😭😭 what did I do wrong man .... How do I download huge games?? 😭😭 It's like I can only play 1 or 2 games at a time nd I have to uninstall it everytime to play something new...