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UPDATE, Looks to be a fauilty PCIE X16 slots, have aranged for refund and have now purchased GIGABYTE GA-B85M-DS3H-A

Okay so I just brought a Intel i5 4460 (my first modern intel since 775) and a Asrock H81M-DGS r2.0, along with a silver stone water cooler, I already had the rest of the parts. I was undure on where to make this post as it involved everything but maily the CPU, The system boots fine into...

what kind of games have you been playing and at what fps did you get if you played any games at all?

Okay so I sold my system about 2 or 3 moths ago which was 8GB 1600MHz RAM, AMD FX 6300 and a GTX 1060. Now I have realised I can no longer live without a PC for games Haha. I have seen a bungle deal of a FX 8350+24GB RAM and a Asus M5a97 R2.0 mobo for £160 Is this an okay deal ? This is...

Okay so I am doing a budget build. These are what the main parts consists of, Intel G4560 ADATA XPG Z1 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 2800MHz RAM Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H My question is am I able to "underclock" the 2800MHz RAM down to 2400MHz as the motherboard I have listed only supports 2400, will the...

Okay so I want to know what it the minimum size for an SSD that can be used for Windows 10? I will be installing the OS and drivers on this SSD and then have another SSD for games that boot slow on a hard drive and then a 1TB HDD for general file storage. Can anyone answer my question? Any...

Can anyone help me? I am building a budget gaming PC on Kaby Lake that I can upgrade in the future. My current plan on hardware is MOBO - ASUS PRIME B250M-K CPU - Intel Pentium G4560 I have a bit of a problem with choosing my RAM, this board only has 2xDIMM slots which I am fine with but I...

So this will be my first time using DDR4 RAM, I understand that a lower CL equals a quicker response time from an instruction given but I have a few questions if someone would be so kind to explain to me the difference and what is better in regard to my questions. 1) Why does DDR4 RAM have a...

Okay so I sold my PC a few months back as I really needed the money back then, now iv realised that was a bad idea as i am now bored and need to start building a new PC. I have a 450w PSU and a 500W PSU if that matters, as well as a 750ti but what I need is a cheap CPU and motherboard package...