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Which card would you rather have, and why? PowerColor Fighter AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming Graphics Card with 12GB GDDR6 Memory, Powered by AMD RDNA 2, Raytracing, PCI Express 4.0, HDMI 2.1, AMD Infinity Cache GIGABYTE Gaming OC GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 ATX Video Card...

I love when people literally don't explain the problem correctly at all before bringing a PC for repair. Was supposed to repair this PC because it "was slow". It did take about 10 mins to fire up to the login screen. I messaged them and asked for the PIN/password... They don't have it. They...

I'm trying to figure out if my ASUS Prime Z690-A supports NVMe M.2 SSDs. I'm finding the motherboard manual confusing. It lists 4 sockets, and they each have different descriptions. M.2_4 says it supports PCIE 4.0 x4 and SATA mode M key design, type 2242, 2260, 2280. The manual doesn't say...

ASUS said they will update the BIOS for free because it is under warranty. I'm sending it in today and should have back in a week. :D

I don't know why they would have to honor that return, when they already don't honor the return of the motherboard. I spent 2 hours arguing with them last night before I lost the will to live.

They already won't return the motherboard. I'm not going to buy something else and be stuck with that paperweight too. I can't keep throwing money away.

Nevermind, I called them already they said they can't do it. It's too new motherboard. Guess I'm stuck with this paperweight. 😞

I hate my life right now. I was going to order a system from CyberPower PC. That's where I got my last PC, but people on discord said no build your own its cheaper and easy. But its turning out to be a pain like I thought it would because I don't know all what I'm doing. I will ask the local...

They said it's not returnable. I contacted them twice. They said I need to contact ASUS. In any case, I'm stuck with this board, but I don't know how to update it.

Whelp, I'm up 💩 creek, I think. Because Amazon won't return it, and I can't find a CPU to update it. I looked for a Celeron and they were $200. I can just buy a new motherboard for that price. So, I'm going to have a motherboard sitting in a box that I'll never use. Man, I messed up. 😔

Just an update for anyone else with this motherboard. I got the motherboard in the mail. I checked the serial number on the motherboard and called ASUS to check. They said this motherboard has 0803 BIOS per the sticker on the motherboard. It has 12th gen BIOS. ASUS told me to send it back to...

And what happens if I install the CPU and it doesn't support 13th generation? I don't want to damage something and be out a few hundred dollars.

Ok, well how do I tell if my board has been updated with 13th generation when I receive it? I already ordered that motherboard. I read that you can tell by a BIOS version number on the motherboard sticker, but I don't know what that sticker should say. I don't want to ship it back if it already...

The RAM I can update easily. I have 32GB in my current PC and I rarely use more than half of it. I can pop that in at any time. As far as GPUs go, would you recommend this one then, over the 3060ti? It's in stock and about $100 cheaper. But I have never heard of this brand. I have never bought...

I think I'll just swap the motherboard out for the z790 to be safe. It looks like they are out of stock of the GPU I listed right now, so I was thinking about getting this one instead. I'm not sure what the difference is between Gigabyte and MSI, but they both say RTX 3060ti. I'm assuming just...