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I've located the required version for the A320 mainboard which is almost the latest BIOS that has been released since 2019/8/16 . I'm finding it unlikely for this to be already included in their mainboard stock so it will likely require him to update it for me. I forwarded this information to...

Thanks a lot punkncat for your expert advise. All that's left is waiting on the supplier to reply regarding the motherboard's BIOS version and if requiring an update whether or not they'll facilitate it free of charge. If not I'll probably opt for the slightly more expensive MSI B450M PRO-M2...

Thanks for the writeup, very informative. Whether the gfx card will work or not is going to be a question mark at the moment. What I do know is that if it's not in working order I probably won't be willing to shell out additional cash for one. 2600 would also likely be overbudget and can't...

Still getting back to scratch just like yourself since it's been around 8 years since my last dive into pc construction. I've found AMD Ryzen 3 to be solid for gaming considering they launch with 4 cores out of the gate. They're also proper cheap, a Ryzen 3 3200G runs you around 100 bucks...

After you checked the paste did you clean it out and reapply new paste? Did you update your drivers and did you try any other games besides CSGO?

So I checked local websites to see what they have in stock and this is what I spotted. Another vendor has a Ryzen 3 3200G instead for €110 which might not be a bad swap out. I'm guessing the memory I chose would fit the dual channel memory given, although I think it might be possible to go...

Had some chance to look at the AMD chipset and wow, things have come a really long way. 3.2Ghz hexcore That's insane. I could probably get by with something even cheaper than that. It doesn't seem anything particularly negative came out of the AMD chipsets either regarding VS development or...

Bit apprehensive of swapping over to AMD. I plan on working with MS tools and to be honest never had previous experiences with AMD and about their compatibility and support. At work we're exclusively sticking to Intel although I don't know it was a financial reason for that or otherwise. I...

Yesterday PC went off, after 1 or 2 seconds I see several sparks go off inside the tower, quite a surreal experience. Sparks appeared to be around the motherboard area but don't recall correctly. Of course it doesn't boot up anymore. My blind assumption is the PSU is toast and after several...

To update on this, I remember I did have a multiboot USB handy somewhere that I had completely forgotten about - and that worked just fine, so for some reason CD Drive is being completely ignored even when identified as a bootable location. I swapped all SATA locations and tried various...

I did use the same drive and. Same cd when first installing windows 10 which worked well and without issues, it appears as though the cd is found and detected but the boot process gets skipped for some reason. I'll report back but I jad already previously tried setting the dvd as first boot and...

Ooh cheers Sky that might explain quite a few issues I was facing. So once that's done what would I do with the HDDs? Connect them to the black ports once again after SSD is formatted and format them as well from windows normally?

I don't have one at hand but could get my hands on one I suppose and look up the process to make a bootable usb Do you think that might be a solution?