Recent content by Xman31

Nothing at all. Black screen, no signal detected. Fault was the PCIe slot defaulting to Gen 4. Riser only supports up to Gen 3. Tore apart the thing, put the GPU directly in the slot and viola, problem solved. Forced the slots into Gen 3, works like a charm. Sorry for the trouble! (Bah, of...

Hold on! Literally took one look at my profile after I posted this and realised I came across the same issue in 2021. Likely that the BIOS update reset the PCIe settings I had and forced the lane back into PCIe 4.0, while my riser cable is only PCIe 3.0. Will unplug the riser tomorrow (ugh...

Hey y'all, real lost on this one. I did a BIOS update this morning on my PC to bring it from BIOS version F13i to F20a. I downloaded the update file from the Gigabyte official page for the Aorus B550I Pro AX motherboard, and plugged in an NTFS USB drive to flash through the BIOS. I loaded up...

@dorsai @jay32267 Riser was the culprit. Thanks for the suggestions. I completely disassembled it and tried without the cable, it booted normally. Went into the BIOS and manually changed the lane configuration to Gen 3 speeds rather than Gen 4 as changing the CPU reset the config for some...

I've got a rather complicated problem that I can't solve. My new R5 5600X won't boot on my new Aorus B550i Pro AX motherboard. I've tested the CPU on another system and it works fine. I tested the motherboard with my old R5 1600X and it works fine. In terms of troubleshooting, I've: Updated...

I have the Steelseries Artic 7 headset. It has a function where you can change the volume of chat and game sound on the headset with a wheel. In order for this to work, you change the discord/skype/whatever program you want to output to "chat" and the rest to game output. The headset...

I see, since my motherboard (MSI B350 Tomahawk) has an extra USB 3.0 header (one is in-use by case IO), if I bought this would it work the same?

So I've used up my USB slots on my motherboard on my PC. I tried to use a single USB - 4 USB hub, but it was slow and ineffective, I heard that it is due to it being connected to a single controller, so the ports are split into this controller. This is what I intended on buying next, would it...

In some of the games I play I get stuttering issues, with frame rates smooth at 60fps, every once in a while my game stutters. I tried to fix this with V-sync, it worked for a small bit before going back again. I have turned off and on freesync too, but nothing seems to work. I have multiple...

So I have a R5 1600X, and a display and GPU for gaming. I had the idea of buying a crappy GPU and monitor just to have on the side so I could watch Youtube or work on a doc while gaming. My idea is to buy a something like a GT710 and a 60hz 21-inch monitor, plug the GT710 into the monitor and...

I am looking for some white RAM to go with my ryzen system (MSI B350 Tomahawk), and have decided on these two as my choices Trident Z Trident Z RGB The only problem is, I keep finding posts about people having problems with Trident Z and Ryzen. I know that G.Skill just released new trident Z...

Hi everyone, As i'm quite new to PC building, I'm just making sure I'm squeezing the best performance out of my system. I've already run everything through pcpartpicker. Could someone please check to see if they notice anything that could be improved or wouldn't work well together? I'd really...

I've created a list of all the parts I need for my own gaming PC, however i'm not an expert... I was hoping someone here could look over my sheet and point out anything wrong with my setup. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-Q4pwUTWj43VkJ4Mk9KQlo5Wnc Thanks!