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I got a new motherboard and before I install it, I want to know how to go about the old motherboard stuff? I've seen reinstalling windows but it's a digital license (I have it linked to my account I THINK). The old motherboard is an Asus Prime H310M-A R2.0 with the H310 chipset. And my new...

I'm purchasing components for a new personal computer. I purchased the mainboard below and am now looking at a processor. ASUS ROG Maxims XII Hero Z490 LGA 1200 In hunting for a processor I've come across CPU's that are optimized for the Intel 300 or 400 chipset's. Unfortunately, I've been...

Hello! I am upgrading my cpu to a Ryzen 5 3600, and I was wondering if any of you fine folks had any good ideas for a mobo upgrade to go well with it for around the 125-150 price range. Note : PC part picker states that B450 chipset boards may require a BIOS update, and I have 0 idea how to do a...

So after a minor encounter with some coffee my Thinkpad X1 Carbon is permanently throtteling the processor to 0.4Ghz (minimum speed) and i am absolutely stumped as to why at this point. What happened: I spilled some coffee over the keyboard (still works) and in the side of the machine. Most...

Hi all! I bought an Asus Rog Strix X570-E Gaming mobo a few days ago, and a new Ryzen 7 2700x CPU. (everything else stayed the same from my older pc (gtx 980, m.2 ssd, 2x4gb + 1x8gb ram, 1tb + 500gb hdd)). The problem is that in HWinfo the chipset is getting too hot, it is 60-66C. The chipset...

So after the first lauch of windows on a freshly built pc i don't know which driver to install first. Should i do windows or motherboard first? In motherboards driver which first(BIOS, chipset or else)? Chipset drivers from motherboard support website or originally from CPU website? gigabyte...

I'm looking to switch to AMD and I know that the recent Ryzen CPUs use the AM4 socket. There are all these different chipsets but two that seem recent are the B550 and the X570. What are the differences in capabilities of these two, and is there a price difference?

I just downloaded some chipset drivers from AMD, but I dont know if they installed correctly or if I got the right ones. How can I check? Someone told me to go to device manager and look under system devices for the chipset identification, but I don't see anything listed. Please Help Thanks...

My friend bought a PC that was custom built from a guy on the Facebook Marketplace. Everything ran fine for a while, but now we suspect that the motherboard is in need of replacing. His PC would turn on for a split second and then turn back off. The only time that the PC would remain on is if we...

I have an i5-7400 and i want to upgrade my motherboard because i want Dual Channel and an M.2 port, where i live there aren't a lot of motherboards to choice and i choose the Gigabyte B365M DS3H, this motherboard have LGA1151 but they dont have a compatible chipset. Questions: A) If i update...

Hi All, Do I just formatted my PC and it seems like windows 10 Pro has installed drivers for most of hardware. But, Im not sure if i should install the Intel Rapid Storage software, though my Raid 0 storage is showing up along my other drive. would be there any performance issue on my drives...

Hello everyone! I am a big noob regarding modern storage and I want to keep it short and simple so I am asking directly: -ROG Crosshair VIII Hero https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-Crosshair-VIII-Hero/specifications/ -R9 3900x Cpu -planing to buy 3080ti (or the rumored 3090 if under 1500$)...

I was looking to buy a Supermicro board like this https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon3000/3400/X8SIL.cfm?IPMI=Y for a highish speed hard drive based ZFS Z2 NAS with 10Gig networking. I wanted to put an lsi hba card in along with the NIC, but the ARK listing for the 3420 chipset...

Here are some details: CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G MoBo: MSI B450M Mortar Max When checking for chipset drivers for B450 on AMD's website I get the following as the latest version (2.04.04.111): Chipset Driver But I get an error when unzipping it so that I can run it. Error 1 Error 2 I'm not...

Can the chipset support what it can't support on a cpu feature? Like, for example, the intel chipset chief hm76 cannot support the "Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)" but a specific cpu can support it, that specific cpu has the same compatible socket on ur mobo and there...

Hello! I have posted other similar threads, but I believe I have finally isolated the problem. Whenever I go to play games such as MW Warzone or even Fortnite, my CPU runs at 100%, compared to my GPU which only runs at 10%-30%. I have all of the settings turned down to low, and can't seem to...

Hello I have a i5-7600K and an Asus H170 Pro Gaming. I know that the mobo is for the older chipset, is this what's causing my performance issues? Thanks!

So i just bought an ssd ofr Rs 4100 to give a new life to my old pc .But only saw slight improvement as oppose to the reviews online. I did some googling to speed up my ssd and downloaded samsung magician software in which trim is activated but AHCI is shown deactivated. Did some googling again...

Hi. I've recently got a replacement motherboard for the computer I built a couple of months ago because all of my games were crashing on the previous motherboard. I now have a Z390 Aorus Ultra (1151), paired with an i7 9700k (Turbo Boosted) and I want to update my chipset drivers to improve...

Which mini-ITX motherboard would be best for this proposed build? I've looked at so many different ones, but they all seem to just have bad reviews. I don't want my computer that I will be spending $$$ on to crap out on me. I don't want it to overheat. I want the M.2 to work properly!! I want it...

Hey guys, I got a Dell optiplex 390 recently, going to install a simple graphics card (GT720) and some more RAM. I have noticed that the chipset (not exactly sure what this is) doesn't have a heatsink on it. I touched it after playing an old game (Stronghold 1 HD) and almost burned myself...

Hey, I've been meaning to update my chipset drivers, however I'm getting mixed responses from driver websites as to what is "current". It may be because my mobo was optimised for Win7? I'm not too sure. SPECS: OS: Windows 10 x64 Mobo: ASUS P8Z77 - V - LX CPU: Intel i5 3570K RAM: 8gb GPU...

I Dell XPS 15 l502x laptop running windows 10. I use external hard drives a lot as I am a photographer and have a lot of photos. I have an intermittent problem whereby the hard drives randomly disconnect, by which I mean after a while when I try to access them windows explorer loads for ages...

Bought parts to make a PC for light gaming and work: Ryzen 3 2200G HyperX RAM 8GB HX424C15FB2/8, 1 stick (I know it works best with two. No need to comment). HDD 1TB Barracuda Gigabyte GA-AB350M-DS3H V2 Motherboard Corsair VX 550W (it's an old PSU, but I was using it on my PC and it was working...

I have a new Huananzhy x58 rx3.0 motherboard, and it's chipset it's overheating so bad it causes the pc to restart in some cases, the board it's paired with a x5650 cpu. I don't know the temperature of the chipset but I can't even touch it after having the PC on for 3 mins so it it's really...

This has been confusing me for a while right now, And i have a lot of questions about it as well, please go through them patiently and try to answer me since I'm new to this. My CPU : Ryzen 5 1500x Motherboard : MSI B450M PRO-M2 MAX Chipset drivers can be obtained and updated from 3 different...

so after finishing this computer i built and all the troubles i went through, it now works perfectly fine, reads my graphic card, shows display, super fast i love it. installed the OS, do i need to download the chipset or anything else? it works fine and its reading everything fine, geforce...

Hi, I have an old mobo (m5a97 plus, chipset RD9x0 r.2) with an FX-8350 and a nice GTX 1060 6GB. I've been struggling with fps lately using 1440p on my monitor so I thought I'd check out the GPU using GPU-Z. Anyway, on the Sensors - it shows Memory Used being about 3GB when under 100% GPU Load...

I remember there was a website that had information about processors that also included the processor's chipset. Now I can't seem to find any websites where the chipset is clearly stated.

I just bought a Ryzen 5 3600 with a X570 Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard. I have a problem with the chipset temperature, its a 56-60° give or take and im not even gaming its at idle, also the fan rpm of the motherboard is at 3400 ... what is happening? should i be worried?

I recently planned forward to swap out my ThermalTake View 27 to a Corsair Crystal 280x micro ATX case. But the motherboard I have at the moment is just standard ATX: the Asus PRIME Z270-P LGA 1151. I want to discard that one and buy the Asus PRIME B360M-A LGA 1151, because it's roughly the...

Hi, I am planning to buy RTX2070Super, not for gaming but for Visualization and 3D Modelling. (UE4 & Blender) Which one should i buy? Gigabyte, MSI Asus chipset card or should I buy from NVIDA Original card What is the difference in both, Chipset & Original card? Hope i haven't confused...

Hello Intel 8th gen CPUs bus speed is 8gt/dmi3. I want to purchase g5400. What happened if I choose h310 chipset because it's bus speed 5gt/dmi2

Hi, I'm kinda confused in terms of storage specs on mobo with B350/450 chipset. For example, AB350M Pro4 R2.0: This one is clear to me, on Ultra M.2 socket I can only run NVMe SSD and on M.2 socket M.2 SATA SSD (3 SATA lanes left). But there is AB350M-HDV R4.0 : So... can I connect 4x SATA...

Hey, while i was playing skyrim on my new ryzen 3rd gen pc i noticed what seemed to be some coil whine coming from my pc. So i go back to my desktop and i could still hear it. So my first thought was that it might be the aio pump but after unplugging the pump while at idle the noise persisted...

As the title suggests, I want confirmation that my mobo is completely dead before I order a new one. So the thing is I was browsing youtube this morning on my pc and suddenly it turned off without any warning. I pushed the power button a few times but nothing happend. So I opened the case and...

hello i have an inspiron 580 not sure what the motherboard is and the chipset? The components aren’t connected as the computer stopped working long time ago and i want salvage the motherboard into another build i want to know both because i want to upgrade the intel processor from something...

The Gigabyte ga a320m s2h v2 has a B350 chipset as shown in the picture (bottom right of the box or on the left side). Can someone clarify it why? Also should i install the chipset drivers from the manufacturer website (Gigabyte) or the Amd support one (because i have to choose a chipset version...

Hello there! I'm wishing to build my first PC from scratch. I have a little experience in assembling computers and tinkering with spare parts, but I haven't come near any up-to-date part in ages, mostly sticking to laptops and abandonware as of late. I need some guidance here. First of all, I'm...

As the title suggests I'm trying to figure out what chipset my motherboard has, so that I can get a new and better CPU. I've been trying to find out what CPUs are supported and what chipset my motherboard has, but the more i dig into it the more confused i get. The PC that I have is a prebuilt...