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    Question Recomendations for cheap board with bios flashback

    So I finally got a chance to look at the board. It says ryzen 5000 ready however ive read some threads of people saying they had their board say this as well and it still required an update. If I install the cpu and the board is in fact not updated to support the 5500 the worst that will happen...
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    Question Recomendations for cheap board with bios flashback

    Called them and they refered me to microcenter. Its quite far but for the 30 bucks they charge its definitely the much better option
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    Question Recomendations for cheap board with bios flashback

    So I recently purchased a Gigabyte B450M DS3H WIFI mobo to go along with my new R5 5500. Perhaps I misread or misunderstood but I was under the impression that the board came with a bios flashback button. It does not however. I have not had a chance to assemble the PC yet so I have no idea if it...
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    Question Possible PSU short ruined drives?

    So I want to start off by saying this post is for a friend that I'm trying to help not myself. I didn't have the computer in front of me to confirm this so I'm going off what hes said. I know that's not ideal but its all I have. Mobo: MSI 470x gaming plus New PSU: Corsair 650w Old PSU: EVGA...
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    Will this Ram work with my Mobo and other Ram stick?

    The RAM i have in my computer now is an ADATA Premier Pro DDR3 1600MHz 8GB Memory Module and i wanna get another one to upgrade to 16gb of RAM. Everyone of these i try to find either is over 70 bucks or wont arrive until mid september. I found a RAM module that matches the ADATA...
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    good resale value for desktop

    My pc what would be a fair price for my desktop if i was to sell it? GPU:750 ti acx 2.0 ftw CPU:Intel xeon 1231 vs @3.3ghz 3.8ghz turbo Disk: 500gb toshiba DVD Player:asus dvd recorder Mobo: asrock h81m-hds Ram 8gb ddr3 1600mhz (not sure of manufacturer but its not high end Ram...
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    device has been dead a year any hope of reviving it?

    i have a first gen ipod touch. when i got a smart phone it rendered the device pretty much obsolete and since the charger was broken i didn't bother with it anymore. when i last used the ipod it had some battery left and i assume it just ran out and died. that was around 8 months to a year ago...
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    required disk space bigger than actual download

    So i downloaded total war shogun 2 and steam said that the required disk space is 23GB but the actual download is only 15.1GB is there a reason for this?
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    windows 10 not recognizing optical drive

    when i changed my pc case i didnt bother to hook up my optical drive because i didnt really use it. today i went to hook it up and it works fine but it wont show up in file explorer. it only shows my c drive. is there a reason for this? my drive is ASUS 24X DVD Burner
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    is it safe to overclock

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    is it safe to overclock

    i have a xeon 1231v3 and a asrock h81m-hds and under load the temperatures reach about 122F. my cpu is at 3.40ghz and my mobo will allow me to overclock it to 3.8ghz. is it safe to overclock it to 3.8ghz? i have a 500w evga psu and a 750ti
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    New cpu installation

    Hi, so im upgrading my cpu from a g3250 to 1231v3 and i looked up several websites on the best way to do this but a couple reccomended that i take the motherboard out of my case to install the cpu and fan. Is there any reason for this? I did build my pc and know how to take it apart and put it...
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    is it safe to use a fan splitter?

    hi, my mobo is a asrock H81m-HDS and it only supports one fan. however my case has 3. so i ordered a fan splitter. is it safe to plug all 3 fans into it? will it fry my mobo and cause problems? here is a link to the fan splitter i ordered...