What computer should I get for college

One of my biggest concerns right now is what computer I should get for college, or at least what I should be looking for. I plan to go for creative writing as my major, but I would also like to do some gaming in my free time. Does anyone have any recommendations? Should I bring my PC for gaming and have another computer for work? I don’t know if this bit of info affects anything, but the college I plan to go to is two hours away from my home.

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Put a WiFi extender in my garage. Is there a way to cool it down? Thermal Pads?
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Help find drivers Wireless

So i got a Wifi6 802.11ax USB Adapter but I'm using it in linux so the drivers that are inside the USB Adapter won't work (it's an exe, it won't work with wine either) so I'm looking for a manual download option for them that can work for me

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WiFi not working

Hi all. Looking for some help here with my WiFi on my PC. I have windows 11 and when connecting to the WiFi I am able to get a connection but no internet, it just says “No internet, secured”. The issue is I have my phone connected to the same network and it is working just fine, as well as the other 2 members in the house also on the network. I tried restarting the modem and the PC of course. Made sure all drivers were up to date, really don’t know where to go from here. There was an automatic windows update last night so I’m wondering if that has something to do with it. I never have any issues with my internet it is usually very good and I was running games just fine last night 😫 Thanks in advance for the help!

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No idea what to do with old workstation pc.

Hi everyone.

A few years back around 2023 I bought a thinkstation p320 as a computer to mess around with.

I have barely used it outside of 1 instance when my other pc broke.
I put the ram, cpu and storage in it as it came without them.

A few weeks I was messing around in the bios to try and fix the fans being unnecessary loud. I switched the fan option to be to “quiet mode” and that’s where the problem escalated.

Now the pc only outputs a signal if it boots into the operating system. The bios or boot menu show a black screen/nothing but they definitely can be accessed and used just can’t see.

I was thinking of repurposing the computer as a gaming machine. But motherboard replacements seem to be more than I paid for the machine.

It does turn on but beeps due to no ram. It has been sitting around for a while unused. I do have a 650 watt bequiet psu I could use for turning it into a decent machine the only thing is the board is limited to quad core processors and has a proprietary 250 watt psu.

Any advice is welcome, thank you

Edit: corrected proprietary psu wattage 300 to 250

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What to buy? Explain it like I'm 5.

I want a PC. I want to eventually game on it but I just want something good quality that's not wildly expensive. I also know nothing about PCs. So explain it like I'm 5.

Suggestions?

Edit to add: budget would hopefully be around US$1500-2000

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What can I use this crap for? Itms RDIMM.
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Tips for what computer / software to use to dictate a memoir for someone who has difficulty typing?

Any suggestions for speech to text software that links to a word document and is easy to edit the words? Must be user friendly.

Background: I want my mom to write a memoir in her voice but she needs to dictate it because she has difficulty typing. She also is not very good with technology, so she needs something user friendly. She has a Mac, but apparently Dragon Dictation is only compatible with windows? I’m not above getting a windows laptop because I could finally get a gaming laptop…

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My laptop screen went pinkish . What should I do

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Whats like a good general computer to buy



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How do i free my space

I see in Steam that 393.98GB is not free and not controlled by steam, what could this possibly be and how do i free that space

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Can’t get past Windows lock screen

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How do I take out SSD

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What could’ve gone wrong?

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Everything is huge and idk how to fix it

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