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I got a new 1070 to upgrade a PC I bought that had an i5-8400 and a 1050 ti in it. However, I discovered that the HDD bay blocked it by more than an inch. Doing some looking around, it sounds like I don’t have much more to do than returning it, getting a new case or, more likely, cutting out a...

Coming here out of relative inexperience. I have recently bought a hard drive on eBay advertised as a 2TB SATA II 7.2K RPM HDD. Most of this seems to check out upon receiving it, except for one thing. When I went to connect it, I realized that neither cable was able to connect to it because the...

MERGED QUESTION Question from thehyphenateit : "Unbranded Motherboard on eBay" So I have been trying to build a very “budget” gaming type pc. Admittedly, I am pretty new to working with computers in general but I am trying to pick up as much as possible. Anyway, I have found a pretty cheap...

So I have been trying to build a very “budget” gaming type pc. Admittedly, I am pretty new to working with computers in general but I am trying to pick up as much as possible. Anyway, I have found a pretty cheap i7-3820 processor and was looking for a motherboard for it when I found this one...