I am new to PC building and I'm looking to make my first PC at 14. I used PCPartPicker to gather my list of items and I get this message along with others? The motherboard M.2 slot #1 shares bandwidth with SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports. When the M.2 slot is populated, two SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports are disabled. Here is my…
I am looking to make my first PC, and I used PCPartPicker to gather my list of items I would want. On the bottom I get this note: NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case has a front-panel USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type C port, but the MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard does not have sufficient USB 3.2 Gen 2 or Gen 1 headers. The case USB…
Hey guys I wanted to ask why I should get the Z490 for my new i5 10600k. I already have the H470m motherboard and the case etc. I read that in order to utilize the overclocking I would need a z490 but I also read this mobo is capable of overclocking. I just can't find a definite answer to which I should go with. If I go…
I'm getting ready to order a Ryzen 5 3400G, motherboard and RAM. I'm leaning toward a B450 motherboard because I prefer DVI-D over displayport, and I don't like chipset fans. Can I assume that any B450 motherboard in stock has a recent enough BIOS that it supports the 3400G? Are there any specific B450 motherboards I…
Hello, So I purchased an MSI GE75 Raider 9SG last year thinking It could handle anything I threw at it.. I was wrong. The laptop has a 9750H CPU and an RTX 2080. I do a lot of 3d rendering/design, video editing, ect.. The CPU is my bottleneck. I have searched high and low but can not find a solution to upgrading my CPU.…
I have the tuf gaming x570-plus and am trying to update the BIOS to Version 2407 - When I download and extract the zip using "WinRAR" to my flash drive I keep encountering this error message - "selected file is not a proper bios" I have checked my formatting for the flash drive and the file system is set to FAT32. Please…
So I recently bought the board. Everything seems fine, except when I was connecting my 12v cable from my case(Corsair SPEC DELTA RGB). I looked at the cord and noticed it had for 4 plugins, while the board had 5 pins for that port? I couldn't find any attachment for both the case or motherboard respective boxes. I really…
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