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I thought I saw a youtuber talking about Montech cases as being some nice budget cases. https://www.newegg.ca/black-montech-x3-atx-micro-atx-mid-tower/p/2AM-00CN-00036

My favorite Olympic 'sport' is Curling. It's fun to see if I can keep pace with the 'athlete's' beer drinking during the competition. :D

It makes sense & Um... NO! If you want to test rig B, completely pull the PSU from rig A & test rig B with it.

You can use a 4 pin PSU cable in an 8 pin CPU power slot, but it depends on the CPU whether you want to keep it that way or replace the PSU to get the 8 pin connector. An intel i3 or ryzen r3 will be fine with the 4 pin from the PSU, but you may have issues with an i7, i9 or r7, r9 CPU. As...

In the Task Manager, Processes Tab click the Disk column again so it will sort highest to smallest.

Fans could be worn out and/or the VRAM could be worn out. It could also have a 'mining' BIOS which you will need to flash back to a gaming BIOS.

Has the show Clarkson' Farm been available in the UK & France? It's a good example of how hard it is to actually earn a living on a farm (in the UK), pointing out many of the absurd obstacles at every level of government. Plus Clarkson is a funny f'n Muppet. lol His farm manager showed at the...

I just used wushowhide.diagcab to hide the update on several Win10 machines. No longer an issue for me. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8280-hide-show-windows-updates-windows-10-a.html

Yea, it is a little janky looking.

According to the screen print on the GPU chip it is a GT 1030. :confused: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-1030.c2954

You need to remove the heatsink & clean off the GPU so you can read the markings. You also need the numbers off of the RAM chips. Take photos and post them here.

Your current power supply has a 10 year warranty. You haven't filled out or listed your system specs so we have no way of knowing if a 750 gold PSU will serve your needs.

If the game is prior to 1996, maybe it is on this ISO of PC Mag give-a-ways. https://archive.org/details/PC_Magazine_CD_Ultimate_Archive_1996

With the 3x8 adapter, only two are plugged into the PSU. These are the cables that come with the PSU and you can use the yellow option direct to the video card or the orange option with your 3x8 adapter.

@Greenslade Did you ever take a closer look at the area I circled? Just curious if there was something there or not.