PC Pc Gaming/building thread

[dwwaino]

PC has carked it now. It has not been great for months. I haven't been able to game, the thing runs slow, and videos are buffery and stuttering with the sound dropping in and out. It stopped recognising my speakers about 4-5 months ago and now it has stopped recognising my headphones so I have no audio at all. It is telling me no audio device output is installed despite my headphones still showing in device manager. No fixes I can find have fixed the issue.

I was leaning towards the issue being the CPU cooler since it gets quite a bit of a rattle and at times a loud constant whine which forces me to shut down to stop. That hasn't happened nearly as much since I turned the fans down in the BIOS so the longer the issue has gone on the more I have leaned towards the issue being with the motherboard due to audio problems but I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to PC issues so who knows.

I am hoping the issue isn't going to cost a lot to fix since money is tight at the moment.

After checking anything software/OS related my first guess would be motherboard as well. Other hardware has more specific symptoms (drives will freeze, RAM and CPU will often blue screen or fail to post) when they fail but the motherboard controls everything so it can have a wide range of things happening.

 

[HugeJohnson]

RDR launching at $70 on Steam? Gross.

Sickening cash grab.

 

[blackshadow]

PC has carked it now. It has not been great for months. I haven't been able to game, the thing runs slow, and videos are buffery and stuttering with the sound dropping in and out. It stopped recognising my speakers about 4-5 months ago and now it has stopped recognising my headphones so I have no audio at all. It is telling me no audio device output is installed despite my headphones still showing in device manager. No fixes I can find have fixed the issue.

I was leaning towards the issue being the CPU cooler since it gets quite a bit of a rattle and at times a loud constant whine which forces me to shut down to stop. That hasn't happened nearly as much since I turned the fans down in the BIOS so the longer the issue has gone on the more I have leaned towards the issue being with the motherboard due to audio problems but I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to PC issues so who knows.

I am hoping the issue isn't going to cost a lot to fix since money is tight at the moment.

Sounds suspiciously like a motherboard.

What CPU and chipset?