Recent content by TheBeatboxer

Just to be clear, ASUS isn’t who told me the cpu was clocked at 2.5ghz, the Amazon seller told me that, their name is ‘Lucky Tech LLC’, just thought I should mention that in case it makes a difference. Needless to say, it sounds like I should go to a micro center a buy my own parts and build it...

I noticed that ‘4.7 boosted clock speed’ portion of the description as well and thought it was odd, something doesn’t add up. I asked the seller a long winded question and clock speed and so far all they’ve responded with was “The CPU speed of this product in our shop is 2.50GHz” which I thought...

What a bizarre thing to do to a fairly higher-end CPU. I appreciate your help, I will definitely not be buying that one then, thank you again.

Wow, I’m surprised to hear that. So there’s no chance it was a typo, you think it was intentionally under clocked and it’s locked at 2.5? If that’s really the case I’ll have to keep browsing. Thanks for the insight.

Hi all, I was looking at this prebuilt on Amazon: ROG Strix GA15DK Gaming Desktop PC, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, GeForce RTX 3070, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB SSD + 1TB HDD, Wi-Fi 5, Windows 10 Home, GA15DK-AS776...

Just what I didn’t wanna hear haha. Thank you for your reply. Ive let it sit out for 5-10 min but haven’t left the CMOS battery out overnight yet so I’ll try that and I’ll google how to short the pins, never done that one. I hear you about the board upgrade, I wanted to stretch the life of this...

TLDR: I updated my b350’s BIOS to the most recent non-beta version available on MSI’s support site to be able to upgrade my Ryzen 7 1700 to a Ryzen 9 3900x. Nothing bricked but my PC will no longer post; after the very first flash update that I did, it would post, could use the PC for a few...