Recent content by nembsuu

Gpu shouldnt matter. Your pc wont post if it doesnt recognize your CPU which it wont, atleast not until you update your motherboards bios. Z170 boards have to have their bios updated to recognize the kaby lake CPU cos kaby lake came after z170. Kaby lake and z270 are plug n play, not z170. To...

Alright, thanks for the quick replies! I'll contact the shop about the failing HDD and hopefully get it replaced. But since the pc is prebuilt, if we would have to send the whole pc I'll just buy him a new HDD no point sending out the whole pc just for HDD. Thanks again. :)

Hi! So, the HDD in my little brothers prebuilt pc has been acting up. Before it would sometimes corrupt random files saved on the harddrive, but now when you open something from the harddrive, opened program shows up in task manager but doesnt actually open. This pc is barely a year old so if...

Did you buy the parts new? You would have to update the bios on your z170 so that you MB recognizes your kaby lake CPU. You would have to use a skylake CPU temporarily on your MB so that you can get into bios and update the motherboard. You could try taking your pc to a computer shop and ask if...

I think ill just stick to the i5 7600k. How much of a bottleneck would the 1080 be compared to 1070?

Good day! So, im getting my first custom build where I actually picked the parts for myself and am planning building it myself. I wanted to post my planned build here to see what are your thoughts about it. Been doing my own research about pc parts but posting here just to be safe haha...

Cheers for the answers! One last thing, hows the upgradability on that build?

Hi! So as the title says, im looking forward to building my first PC. Never done it before but I asked a friend of mine to maybe look for some parts for my budjet (500$). Was wondering if you could give me some insight on the parts he chose, do they go together or smh. Because I dont wanna rush...