Hi everyone! Still fairly new to building PC. I built my first one in 2020. AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Matisse 3.5GHz 16-Core AM4 NZXT Kraken M22 120mm RGB Water Cooling Kit Corsair XTM50 High Performance Thermal Compound Paste I mainly use it for animation work. More recently, the CPU temperature has been jumping to 90C while I'm…
Seriously, I am trying to purchase the parts for my new computer and the System Builder has given me the following warning: The Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 ATX AM4 Motherboard supports the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor with BIOS version F10. If the motherboard is using an older BIOS version, upgrading the…
Hello All! I am having a problem with a recent build and am beginning to wonder if I simply have a bad processor. I recently bought a MSI B550 Tomahawk motherboard and an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 G processor to go with it. (Both at Microcenter of course) I set up the build and connected power. While all the fans went on and spun,…
I recently upgraded my PC to a 3080TI, an MSI Mag Z590 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard and an Intel i7- 11700KF. Everything went smoothly with the build except I am hitting high temps during both idle and load. I upgraded from a 2060 super with a 9700KF with a Noctua nh-d15. I carried this cooler over to the new build and…
I'm trying to figure out which part of my girlfriend's computer is broken. My girlfriend was playing games on her PC when randomly there was "an exploshion or spark from the computer, then everything shut down". When I went to troubleshoot I found the computer fans, RGB, and GPU fans would turn on when I unplugged the CPU…
So starting about 6 months ago my mouse started randomly disconnecting for a second or two and reconnecting and it was annoying, but I thought nothing of it until it started getting worse and worse until all my USB devices would randomly disconnect and the game I was playing would crash. So I tried a friend's mouse to see…
it only mounts the drive 20% of the time. i have tried reseating the drive, updating the drive's firmware, updating the mobo's chipset firmware, and clearing the CMOS I am using it as the boot drive. Suggestions?
Hi. I'm someone just working on her first PC build and know literally nothing about what I'm doing. I recently bought a B450 Tomahawk motherboard from B&H photo. However, I visited Micro Center today and learned that they don't have the CPU to work with it. I'd have to upgrade to a B550. Problem is, the Houston store has…
I want to get a Ryzen 7 5800x but the motherboards I am looking at all need a bios update and I am too scared to do a bios update because this is going to be my first PC Is there any motherboards that don't need a bios update to work with Ryzen 7 5800x
My specs show that I have an NVIDEA USB Type-C port policy controller. However, the port that's supposed to be a Type-C looks like a USB 2.0 or 3.0. It's still the fastest port on my G434 at up to 170mb/s. Is the Z390 Phantom Gaming 4S/AC a hybrid that replaces the typical Type-C port? Would a typical Type-C yield faster…
Hey, I've been waiting on B660 motherboard availability, specifically the ASUS B660-i. It seems like Microcenter has started stocking B660 boards, but the B660-I page remains a stub. Is there any word if Microcenter will stock this item? Newegg got them in stock a couple weeks ago but I'd much rather not give Newegg money…
Have a build of all-new parts(not my first build, either): MSI Meg Z690i mobo i5-12600k 2 x 16gb Gskill Ripjaws DDR5 m.2 Firecuda 2TB EVGA 3080TI Corsair SFX 750 Put it all together, got a white mobo led. Tried reseating RAM, CPU, CPU cooler and cables, now have a red LED. Where do I go from here?
Hi- In the process of a new build and ran into an issue. My Rogstrix B550A motherboard will not recognize my rkroyal kludge keyboard and I’m not sure why. Would anyone know or have heard of this issue before? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
My new pc has 1 drive with 1TB of memory. I would like to add another M.2 SSD for storage.....what should I buy / make and model? Thanks G
About a month and a half ago I bought a Ryzen 5 5600g and a Aorus b450 pro from microcenter. I bought it as a combo so I assumed that the bios would have been updated already to support zen 2. I just built the computer today and the cpu light on the motherboard is flashing so I’m assuming that the problem is the bios. The…
I am supposed to have 900mbs but when I run a speed test it will get maybe 300 if I am lucky and then bottom out to 0. I am still connected to the internet but will have huge spikes of lag where a webpage will take forever to load. I have tried swapping LAN cables with my boyfriend's computer and he will get 900mbs on my…
Any advice on different/better parts for my no GPU build? I WILL be adding something like a 3060 ti or 6700 xt down the road. I chose core i5 12600k for CPU with graphics since Ryzen G series dont seem to have the muscle left over to run add-on GPU as well. Agree? (I am an AMD fan, but looks like the i5 wins here) Im not…
Someone from microcenter please help, I'm at my witts end with this machine.... There is a semi long history to this but I will try to keep as short as possible... Basics: DIMM A1 will no longer post with xmp enabled. Was working fine until Xmas eve when I purchased, installed and attempted to update a MSI CoreLiquid k360.…
I have a Dell Latitude 5400 laptop. It currently has a Toshiba KXG60ZNV256G SSD. I need to replace it and would like something that would work and preferably a 512 GB.
Hello, I purchased the Asus Tuf Gaming Z690-Plus Wifi and found out after the fact that Asus has been using faulty intel Network chips in their boards apparently for a while now, as seen in several discussions: I bought 90% of the parts for the PC at Micro Center (pretty much everything that was available in the store)…
A couple months back I bought a cpu, I finally got a graphics card recently so I could finish building the pc. The pc would not start, no power, so I started troubleshooting and found that a pin was broken off my cpu. I purchased the 2yr warranty and was wondering if I could stop in store and get free replacement.
I have an ASUS TUF Gaming B550 Plus WIFI Micro ATX MB TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot are not enabled
I picked up a new asus z690 motherboard last week along with a CPU but can't the system won't post with ram in the second slot. It will cycle the cpu and ram lights a couple times before showing a solid ram light. I've tried each one of my sticks individually in slot 4 and am able to boot perfectly fine. I currently have 2…
Hey everyone, I'm not sure if anyone else has been in this situation before, but I'm not able to see my BIOS whatsoever. I bought a new motherboard, CPU, and cooler from the Cambridge Micro Center about 4-5 months ago and I've been having issues. My first cooler's bracket snapped while tightening it down and I had the…
Running the ROG-strix-x570-e MB with 64gb G.Skill Trident Z Neo Series RGB 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Dual Channel Memory Kit F4-3600C16D-32GTZN. Everything had been running for great for the last month, I unlocked the XMP to run the proper speeds and all good. Go to bring the computer on this morning and im getting a…
The closest Microcenter to me is in Denver,CO. I have been trying to find a set of 32GB DDR5 to finish my alder lake build but these sticks are near impossible to find and anything on ebay is insanely overpriced ($1500 dollars for a 32GB kit???).
I know this is a big thing to ask for but by any chance could I purchase a prebuilt pc and replace the CPU with a better CPU without having to pay for the first one. In my case i want to buy the "PowerSpec G509 Gaming PC" but I want to replace the Ryzen 5 5600X with a Ryzen 7 5800X without without having to pay for the…
I have tried ram re seating and unintalling then reinstalling the cpu (I do not have a GPU) but it hasn't helped and its stuck on this screen when I boot)
The Cpu we bought last week. This week it went down. Can I get the reduced price？
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