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    Question Bottleneck possibility?

    Welcome to the newcomer! In all honesty, the answer is relative. What are you taxing your system with? If it's a gaming system, whereby you're gaming at 1080p, then you're overpowered in the CPU dept. If you upgraded the processor for 1440p gaming+higher details, you should look at an RTX4070...
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    Question ZZZ Sound in my new computer from the CPU part in the back of the motherboard

    Welcome to the forums, newcomer! When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so: CPU: CPU cooler: Motherboard: Ram: SSD/HDD: GPU: PSU: Chassis: OS: Monitor: include the age of the PSU apart from...
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    Question Very warm air around PC when idle or gaming

    Welcome to the forums, newcomer! Probable that the out of sight of mind setup of your build/case might've lead the AIO's radiator to get clogged with dust and debris preventing your AIO from venting. You might want to run HWInfo and see what sort of temps you're seeing. You should also mention...
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    Question Questions on Iris xe mother boards; laptop and desktop.

    Diablo 2 Resurrected min req is Intel® Core i3-3250 AMD FX-4350 and Nvidia GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7850 graphics card. + I heard/know the Iris Xe and/or UHD 630 can run it. Now I just need to find a mobo that can operate a Intel® Core i3-3250 or equivalent with Iris xe laptop or desktop mobo's...
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    Question Laptop refuses to completely boot from USB or install Major Win 10 or 11 Upgrade

    Would be a good idea to see if your laptop is pending any BIOS updates. If there is a BIOS update pending, update to that, reboot and then retry updating the OS. tried my Ventoy USB stick + Win11 23H2 created by Rufus Have you tried working with an USB installer fabricated using Windows Media...
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    Question Gigabyte X870E AORUS Pro Ice powers on but does not get to BIOS, 4d error code and DRAM warning light before auto shutdown

    Welcome to the forums, newcomer! Your motherboard allows you to flash the BIOS without the need for ram or a CPU, give that a whirl and see if that revives your platform. Use this guide; View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cQLYROKJ_Q (different board but the principle remains the same)to...
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    Question Case fan question

    Welcome to the forums, newcomer! Can you please pass on the model to your CiT fans? If the fans came bundled with the case, then passing on the model of the CiT case would help us two fold. Some fans have a single connector and if your fan has two connectors it's probably that they are for the...
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    Question How do I remove a folder in the navigation pane of windows explorer?

    Welcome to the forums, newcomer! If you right click ion the folder you're seeing in the navigation pane on the right hand corner, doe you see the option forUnpin from Quick Access ? Perhaps this guide would have more info for you...
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    Question D6 & A2 Q-code No Post

    Welcome to the forums, newcomer! It hangs on Q-code D6 for several seconds before stopping on A2. https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1200/ROG_STRIX_Z490-E_GAMING/E16538_ROG_STRIX_Z490-E_GAMING_UM_V2_WEB.pdf?model=ROG%20STRIX%20Z490-E%20GAMING referring to page A-1, are you sure it's not...
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    Question Cant Install Windows 11 - Asus ROG M16

    Installing the OS onto another platform and migrating it onto another is a recipe for failures. I would advise in recreating your bootable USB installer for your OS, then setting that as the primary boot device on your laptop. Make sure you the drive that you wish to install the OS onto, as the...
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    Question PC constantly reboots after 1/2 minutes of being turned on after CPU upgrade

    Welcome to the forums, newcomer! You don't put a processor like an i9 on a motherboard that's got a horribly designed VRM, let alone a motherboard that's meant for an office machine. Get a new motherboard with a beefy VRM design(and a heatsink atop of it,. notably an Z490 or Z590 chipset...
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    Build Advice Assistance with either upgrading components or new PC build

    You could just drop in a 11th Gen i7 into the socket but you will need to upgrade the cooler(if you're using a stock intel cooler at this moment) to something beefy. Either a beefy air cooler or an AIO(watercooler. The sweet spot for Intel's DDR4 platforms was between DDR4-3200MHz and...
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    Question No display on PC

    Welcome to the forums, newcomer! When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so: CPU: CPU cooler: Motherboard: Ram: SSD/HDD: GPU: PSU: Chassis: OS: Monitor: include the age of the PSU apart from...
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    Question Memtest showing error

    If you're on the latest BIOS version for your motherboard and the BSoD's popped up recently in spite of your platform working without any issue prior to that, then your ram might be on it's way out. Try and work with one stick of ram. Then drop your existing ram kit onto another known working...
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    Question Hardware Riddle

    the ability to handle the 2nd requirement in the list below So a RAID 1 array? 1| You've mention the X and Y axis, what about the Z axis? 2| I hope you've taken notes from this thread; https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/can-you-mirror-a-m2-drive-with-a-sata-drive.3878169/ 3| You sure you...