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Firmware Issues with WD NVMe drives and 24H2
Greetings, Be advised there is a known issue with some WD and Sandisk NVMe drives that can cause instability and OS corruption with the 24H2 update. See this article for more information: https://support-en.sandisk.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/51469 Impacted Drives and required firmware versions: WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD…
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Find the All-New Blog on Micro Center News
The recently launched Micro Center News is the new home of the Community Blog and our new editorial content. All of the same great articles, reviews, and news, just in a new home. And we’ll be bringing even more news to you, with more regular uploads and new articles, including upcoming tech highlights and unique maker…
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PowerSpec General Questions
Greetings, We'd like to hear your questions regarding our PowerSpec PC's. Please ask anything you would like. Pre-sales and post-sales. Questions about the testing and qualification process internally. Really, anything you would like and we'll answer as soon as possible. Our intent is to compile the data gathered into an…
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How do I make a post?
If you're curious about where to start here in the community, you've come to the right place. We'll go over the basics of how to create a post, how to ask questions, and how to get involved in the community! We'll go over the basics of how to make a post, how to ask questions, and how to get involved in the community!…
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Issue posting with ASUS PRIME B650M-A AX II motherboard after I added another stick of RAM
hey all, coming here because I am at my fucking limit pc specs: MOBO: ASUS PRIME B650M-A AX II CPU: Ryzen 5 9600x RAM: 2 x 16 GB G.Skill Flare x 5 DDR5 6000 MHz GPU: AMD RX580 PSU: 850W this morning, I go to work, and double check my PC—it works fine. At that point I go to work, and my boss gives me another stick of ram as…
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Can you please open a store somewhere in the Buffalo NY or Rochester area. I am very desperate.
I live in Niagara Falls NY and I would like to see a Micro Center store open up somewhere in the region. The nearest store is over 4 hours away in Columbus Ohio which just isn't do-able for someone who wants to buy a new PC. There are almost no electronics stores in my area that actually have things in stock and provide…
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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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Can we please get a micro center at Gainesville Or Jacksonville in Northern Florida!!
I live in the northern part of Florida and I would literally shop there everyday!!! Please we NEED a micro center in northern florida!!!!
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Computer problem
The CPU cooler on my tower died so I brought it into micro center to have it replaced they swapped out the liquid cooler with a fan one with my consent and when I got it back there was no signal to the mouse keyboard or monitor so I tried every single thing I could think of to get to work unfortunately I'm not very tech…
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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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Why isn't the 3 year limitation posted on the website for GPU trade in?
Checked GPU trade in on my MC account, and it said my ASUS GTX 1080 was ELIGIBLE FOR TRADE IN and stated the value. Next it said to schedule an in-store consultation. I go for the consultation with my GPU in hand only for the clerk tell me my GPU cannot be traded in because it is over 3 years since purchase. NOWHERE on the…
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Oklahoma Needs You!
Please forward this to Mr. Mershad, Peggy Wolfe or John Noble, Please for the love of GOD and everything that is Holy..... build a store in Oklahoma City or Tulsa. Best Buy absolutely sucks! When you decide to do this, i will miss the short drive to Overland Park but Oklahoma has to get a Microcenter! I will volunteer to…
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Idaho Store?
Just wanted to make a case for Idaho. Boise and the Treasure Valley in general is one of the most up and coming areas around, especially with Micron's HQ, Meta building a data center and also Amazons distribution center here, I just feel like this is an untapped tech resource over here 😋.
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Never received email receipt, looks like I may have multiple Microcenter accounts
Hello — I bought a computer in person and they looked up my account and asked I would like the receipt emailed. However, I never received an email and I have no order in my order history on this account. The account I am using now is from a while back, and now that I log in I see the street address on this account is…
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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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Microcenter in Phoenix
We have vacant Fry's buildings in the Phoenix area that could probably be had for a song . The reason they went out of business is because they started selling stuff not even related to electronics and stocked a bunch of water and other stuff and never restocked the electronics . I tried helping out by buying whatever I…
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Wanting to Return product purchased in store but live to far away
Recently purchased a 4070 from a Micro Center on a trip and immediately had coil whine and would like to return it. Would it be possible to ship the item back to the store as returning it in person would be impossible for the distance needed to the closest Micro Center.
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Customer Complaint Line
I dropped my PC off to be diagnoses about a month ago and the technician at the desk which I dropped off my PC at the time stated it would take about 3-4 days to be done with the diagnoses. 3-4 Days later still not reply through email, phone, nor text message so I took matters into my own hands to find a contact number. No…
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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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Return item by mail - live far away from store
Hello, Yesterday I ordered a 240mm aio in-store while I happened to be near a Micro Center while on a trip. I realized that my PC case supports up to 280mm so I'd like to look into returning, as going back to that store would take 5-6 hours to and from. Could I mail this part and receive a return? I have not opened the…
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Credit card doesn't work?
Today I tried to make a purchase at the Parkville, MD store. I had a SSD I ordered online to pickup, and some PSN cards I was getting for a gift. At the register I used my Micro Center Insider card, swiped it, and it behaved as if I never did. I tried this multiple times with no luck. The store created a temp card, tried…
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I need a copy of my receipt emailed to me
On 3/25/24 I spent $5,913.59 on a new rig for myself, and a prebuilt for my son. I need a copy of that receipt emailed to me, and I have no idea why it is such a herculean act to obtain another copy. I apparently didn't have an online profile at the time, and it did not associate with my name, email, or phone number (which…
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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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Assistance Required: Newly Built PC Running Extremely Slow
Hi all, I purchased the PC bundle from micro center including AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, MSI X670E Mag Tomahawk motherboard and G.Skill 32 G D5 6000 memory, with ASUS AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT TUF Gaming video card. After putting them together (with three HDs SATA 360G for C drive and 2 SSD of 2Ts) , I installed a new copy of Win11…
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Need activation key for ESET which i purchased from Micro Center
I just bought a new laptop at MC and also paid for a 3 yr subscription to ESET. Was NOT given activation key….even cashier was confused about that. I have asked ESET to email it to me, they said I need to get it from you. So, please send me my activation key.....this is very frustrating!! Thank you
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Warranty question.
Some of the people will tell you that when you want to upgrade just use the warranty. That is kind of my situation. I finally got to start using the monitor I bought for work and it is just too dark. I paid for the 2 year warranty. Can I really just go in and say it is too dark?
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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…
