I bought a working laptop for just $50 today. Its a Acer Aspire 5536-5142.
It didnt have a HDD but I managed to get my own 5400 rpm HDD 500GB.
Will Linux Mint be better than the Windows 10 on this HDD and laptop? The only way Im considering Win 10 is because of Microsoft Office.
I am not building a PC but just wanted to know which of these two CPU's are good for gaming.
Ryzen R5 1400 or a i7 2600K, Both overclocked, paired with a GTX 1070. 1080p 75Hz.
Im just curios as I cannot find any benchmark videos with these two head to head that are legit on YouTube.
But do you by any chance know why when i overclock my ryzen 1400 the monitor goes black and the keyboard and mouse will become unresponsive.
I changed the voltage to 1.35v and the clock to 3.8ghz.
Everytime i save and exit out of the BIOS i get the problem above.
So i have a MSI B350M GAMING PRO mATX motherboard with a ryzen 1400.
I updated the bios through mflash in the bios in order to use a R7 2700X.
I used the latest one that uses the 2700x in the website of MSI.
So it worked and was able to boot.
But I rebooted inorder to Overclock it since after...
My current rig has a Ryzen 5 1400 @3.8Ghz 1.35v and a RX 460 4Gb. 12Gb(1x8Gb,1x4Gb) of DDR4 2400 RAM and a PowerSpec 750Watts Gold 80+ Semi Modular PSU
Basically I got $520 to spend on a new GPU as the games that I play kind of sucks at the moment with the RX 460. The games I play most are...
So I have a used MSI B350M mATX Motherboard that I got for free from a friend.
He is also willing to sell me his Ryzen 5 1400 CPU with the Stock Cooler for $100. But I was also looking at the Ryzen 5 1600 as people have said its the best money to performance chip from AMD atm. I live near a...
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B350M-GAMING-PRO.html
I have this same Matx board.
I currently have a Ryzen 5 1400, but I have never did update any BIOS of any motherboard before. So thats why Im asking.