Recent content by bakedj

Sweet. Just so used to "max" temps being quite a bit lower and all the warnings that you would kill your cpu at these types of temps. As long as it's safe I'm good, even tempted to maybe just run with these current temps, but I'll probably go ahead and buy that cooler anyways for the ease of...

That's a beast. I probably won't be able to get it until next month. Been doing a little reading and it seems like 95 degrees on a 5600x is actually normal and expected. Anyone have a 5600 or experience with one and know if its the same? More to the point, should I be concerned at all...

Yeah, from everything I seen it seemed they were decent enough. I expected to see high 70s and mid 80s. Never expected to see 92 the moment I loaded into a game though, that seems dangerously higher. I'd assume it is accurate, but having never used it and having no knowledge of it I figured...

I just upgraded my mobo, cpu and gpu. Gigabyte b550m DS3H, Ryzen 5 5600, rx 6650 xt. I'm just using the stock fan/heatsink that came with the 5600. I've got idle temps of 43-44, when I move my mouse over a youtube video that alone makes it jump to 56. However, I tried playing Battlefield 2042...

Nice. Thank you very much. Merry Christmas!

TLDR: Can the ram be upgraded on a laptop and could the hdd be swapped for an ssd in the future? Turns out she made a mistake and has until tomorrow (if she is right this time lol) to return it. She apparently didn't mess with it much as it started updating everything when I turned it on and...

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Hi. My mom recently purchased a hp laptop model number 14-dk1025wm (https://www8.hp.com/us/en/laptops/product-details/34443624) for $300. I haven't had time to mess with it at all, but she says it seems really slow for a brand new laptop and I seen a lot of the same complaints on Amazon...

3300x seems pretty good for the price point. Was a bit concerned at first when watching that video, as the 1600 AF was actually out performing it on some stuff, then it got to gaming benchmarks and the 3300x seemed a clear winner between the two. Assuming the 1600 AF does drop in price again...

I have not. Will check out that video now. I've mostly gone through cpu/gpu hierarchy lists and budget pc build videos on youtube, but a lot of that stuff has gone up in price or simply isn't available, most notably the Ryzen 5 1600 AF I believe it was, which was only $85 dollars and seemed like...

Hi. I'm trying to put together a decent $600 dollar gaming pc for a friend. I haven't really been keeping up with the technology these past 2 to 3 years though. Ideally, I'd like it to be able to play most games in 1080p at highest settings while maintaining 60 fps. I understand perfectly well...

SuperSoph, you are awesome. Thank you very much for all your help. I did it! It took like 3 days of frustration, but I learned a lot. Mostly that Windows 7 and modern hardware can be very complicated to get to work together. Lol. I steered clear of updating the BIOS because I read a lot after...

So, I'm looking at the driver and bios page on Gigabytes site right now. BIOS page: http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5833&dl=1&RWD=0#bios My BIOS version is F7, so I'm assuming I should grab the F20 update? I'm a little hesitant to do that due to it saying "* This BIOS...

No place in my old pc for the SSD. Unless I'm just stupid and can connect an m.2 SSD somewhere other than directly to the motherboard, which may very well be the case, as this is the first SSD I've owned and before this had never even heard of m.2 Lol. I'm going to make sure I have the latest...

Hi. Thanks for the reply. I can't seem to find an option for IDE in my BIOS, I did try RAID though and it didn't help. Tried the command prompt > diskpart > list disk in both modes and it still didn't list the SSD. I've followed several guides now to no avail. On the bright side of things, I...