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Welcome - Please Read Before Asking About Your PC
Welcome to the Micro Center Community. If you're looking to build or upgrade a PC, feel free to post questions and one of technical experts, or our savvy customers will help guide you in the right direction. Please don't forget to include relevant info to allow us to help you quicker, such as:* Budget * The games or…
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Building a Quieter, Better Performing PC - Aiming for 1440p 120hz max settings (no raytracing)
Hello! I am in the process of upgrading my PC I built back in February 2023. It has been a good system that has served me well for what I could afford at the time, but now I've got some extra cash and I'm finding it's not performing as well as I'd like. I need some help assessing my options and figuring out if the upgrades…
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Need Help Getting Advice on Parts Choices
This PC will be for triple 1440p monitor racing simulator setup (kinda like the SimRig in Micro Center), as Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator rely heavily on single core performance and do not need any ray tracing, I chose U7 265k and RX7900XTX. Any advice on parts choices? Thank you guys! CPU - Intel…
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Need Help Choosing Parts
Just wondering, is the 9700x CPU adequate for a 7900xt GPU?
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Need Help Choosing Parts
I am looking to buy a custom-built PC for virtualization (Proxmox). I want to run a mix of VMs running various Macintosh OSs, Windows 10/11, and Linux distros. I will probably need 3 GPUs to pass each one through my 3 VM types (Mac, Win, & Linux). One of those GPUs needs to be Hackintosh compatible (ie. RTX 6650). VMs want…
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Need Help Choosing Parts
Greetings, I'm a beginner in the putting a PC build together but I want to try it. If anyone can help put together or at least give me an idea for a Gaming PC with decent specs running an Nvidia 4090 and AMD Ryzen with 64ggb of RAM, It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, PS: Budget is mid high 3k to mid 4k
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Need Help Choosing Parts - For Running Solidworks, Acad, BIM
Doing a new pc build and I came up with the following parts, your advice would be wonderful: Intel Core i9-14900ks raptor lake ASUS z790-E ROG Gskill - Trident Z5 RGB 2x32gb Nvidia RTX A2000 Samsung 990 Pro 2TB Segate Barracuda 8TB 5400RPM - Backup Fractal Design North XL case Corsair RM750 MSI Coreliquid S360 Water Cooler…
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Need Help with Build
Hello, here's my build. What do you think? What would you change? I know Intel is better for AI, but I am looking at this build for games, movie playing, and making/developing AI models. I am novice with AI, but want to learn. Will this setup help me? I won't be multitasking so I won't tax my system too much. I also wanted…
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What to build a PC for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
I want to build a PC for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 for a nice-looking and smooth gaming experience at a budget of $2,000. Willing to stretch a little on budget if there's a jump in performance. RGBs would be nice, but not at the sacrifice of performance to stay within budget. Should I start with Intel or AMD CPU?…
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Don't no if this is atleast alright
First timer for building a pc and I do not know if this is at least alright. I mainly like to play games not a creator of online content but may start to do so in the future.
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Need Help if these parts are good compatibility wise
I put this parts list together and am looking for some advice. CPU: Ryzen 9 9900X MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte - X870 Eagle Wifi7 RAM: Teamgroup - T-create 32gb GPU: Gigabyte - NVIDIA 4070 Ti Super SSD: Crucial T500 2TB w/Heatsink POWER SUPPLY: Corsair RM1000x CASE: NXZT - H9 Flow CPU COOLER: Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360mm
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Need Help Choosing Parts
This is the first PC I'm going to build myself. Anyone have any thoughts? https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/custom-pc-builder-amd.aspx?load=978ffd9e-f302-4d94-b227-f96df2630142
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Need Help Choosing Parts
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Need Help Choosing Parts
I put this parts list together and am looking for some advice. I can’t post links yet so I am going to list all the parts: AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3D MSI X670E Mag Tomahawk motherboard Trident Z5 Neo RGB series DDR5 32 gig RAM ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics card Montech air 930 max case Corsair RM 750e power supply i left…
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Need Help Choosing Parts
Hi PC Building Family, I’m new to building a PC, and any help would be much appreciated! I’ve done a bit research, but I’m still a little over my head picking out parts. I am unable to share links in the community since I am a new member, but I put a list of all the parts at the bottom of this post. What my questions are:…
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GPU Upgrade
I have a Lenovo Ideacenter, running i7-6700 CPU with NVIDIA GTX 960 w/2GB RAM. I am using Davinci Resolve which relies heavily on the RAM on the graphic card and not so much on the system RAM (32 GB). I keep getting a message that my GPU RAM is full and all I can do is upgrade the graphic card. Based on the system can…
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Impromptu Upgrade after Bios fail
Had a 10th Gen Intel Powerspec system that recently had a Mobo failure when I did a BIOS update. Can't revive, no techniques to restore worked, I'm done with it and upgrading. Just want some help making sure I got everything paired right, no unforeseen annoyances I may run into with the particular memory and mobo/cpu…
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Help needed building first Plex server
Hi, I’m hoping someone could help me get a parts list for NAS to use for Plex. I would like to mess with homelab down the road, but for now I just need a media server capable of transcoding and playing 4k files. I know intel quick sync is popular in these builds. Some seem to also use a gpu, while others don’t. Budget is…
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Are these parts viable, if not what should I change, im aiming to keep it around $1800
https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/custom-pc-builder-amd.aspx?load=b0604ef8-886a-4b1b-9371-6d5096a90c1f
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Need Help Choosing Parts
Hi all, I'm trying to follow a parts list from /r/Buildmypc at but when I'm building it, I don't understand if the CPU needs a heatsink, the builder didn't mention his Ryzen 7 7740X heatsinks, and Micro Centers version of it states there's no heatsink with the one they have. so I added Noctua - NH-D15S CPU Cooler , the…
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Need help with Ram upgrade
I'm trying to determine what I need in order to upgrade my RAM to 32GB and that is also compatible w. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have an MSI GE75 Raider Gaming Laptop. Specs:
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Is This a Good Build For This Application, Pls?
This is my first time here. Wondering if there are any obv flaws or improvements for this build. No gaming, light video and graphics, some video and audio recording. Want to avoid excess heat and need many apps open. Thank you. Sorry, won't let me post links:…
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Need Help Choosing Parts
I am trying to build a gaming PC, nothing too fancy, just RPGs and MMOs once in a while. Also, I do Graphic Design and CAD, so I need a decent video card and enough cooling so I don't risk overheating the system. I am looking to spend no more than $1,900 on it. I'm planning on having Micro Center build it, but the $249.99…
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Powerspec G520
Just purchased one of these and a Acer 31.5 4k monitor 3 days ago. The performance in WOW is decent at 4k but drops to 30fps often on ultra. I want to try upgrading the memory first but this PC goes against all I have ever known. It has 1 16gb stick of gskill s5 ddr5 6000. I want 32gb. No one sells a single stick so I have…
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Trying to make a modern build but need advice
I'm planning to build a new PC and already know I want an AMD CPU paired with an RTX 4090 GPU. I'd also like to upgrade to 64GB of RAM and ensure I have at least a couple of terabytes of storage, and I’m considering the Samsung 990 Pro NVMe SSD for its excellent speed. Where I’m getting stuck is with choosing the power…
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Need Help Choosing Parts
help plz i have no clue what im doing
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Need Help Choosing Parts
these are the current chosen parts and accesorys, if anyone has any tips to anything i might need next i would appreciate it to make it the best looking white build, i also want to find an alternative so I have 7 rgb fans to be set on white but the nzxt ones to match the radiator are out of stock, any tips are helpful.
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Should I upgrade CPU and if so, what should I upgrade to?
I recently upgraded my CPU to an AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and my current CPU is a AMD Ryzen 5600G with Radeon Graphics. I want to run 1440p games without having to worry about bottlenecking preferable a reasonably priced CPU and it has to support AM4 Socket type.
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Need Help Verifying Parts
Just need an opinion if the parts that I have picked are compatible and not counterintuitive for gaming. If there are better options at lower prices or best bang for buck.
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Need Help Choosing Parts
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Question about the GPU I got for 1st gaming PC
This week I got a 6600 GPU with a ryzen 5600 cpu at my local Micro Center But I keep getting conflicting advices on build suggestions, even though I said I'm on a budget. One of the suggestions was a rtx 3060 ti, though my MC only has a rtx 3060 Using Userbenchmark, I'm incline to agree but I don't want to keep going back…
