CPU socket

I'd like to swap out the motherboard. Which motherboard is recommended? Preferably with an Am4 socket type.

I noticed some damage on the cpu socket cover on my motherboard, would this void the warranty I am not sure if the board is working. I am using an asrock b450m /ac . There are some sellers on eBay but the shipping times are slow and I can’t find any sellers on Amazon or a cad model to 3D print.

Hi, I recently bought a returned/damaged motherboard, B450 F gaming asus strix. The plastic covering over the cpu socket has broken off, it came with half of the plastic casing but not the rest. The retention arm is usually attached to the plastic covering, and the arm arrived separately. Is it...

Recently I built a new PC and it’s my first build. It is all new parts except the motherboard, which I bought refurbished. I promptly bent a couple of the pins on install, but was able to bend back very straight. I had an initial issue where in order to boot, I seemed to have to switch the...

I have an AM3+ socket AMD Phenom II X4 965 Proc 3.40GHz and Im up for an upgrade becuase of APEX ssse3 requirements. I have two questions: 1. Can I buy a up to date replacement and just pop it in the same socket? If so What is a good replacement (Yes Im playing Doom eternal as well) 2. If I...

So I've just bought a new PC: MOBO: GIGABYTE Z370M DS3H CPU: Intel i5-8500 3.0 GHz RAM: Patriot Viper4 16GB 3200 Mhz PSU: NJOY Agon 600W SSD: Kingston A2000 500GB GPU: (awaiting installation) So the problem is that my CPU Socket on the motherboard is missing one single pin. My brother said it...

Hi. I recently bought a 2nd hand Gigabyte GA-Z170N-GAMING 5 ITX Motherboard and was worried maybe the socket was damaged (See photo). The box had things missing and it was wrongly described on ebay so i just would like to double check everything. (Intel LGA1151 Socket) View...

Hi, I need a new mother board because I want to have a better expancion potential in the future. The rest of the components i have is: -2x8gb crusial ballistix ddr4 2400MHz -Palit GeForce GTX 1060 dual 3gb -Asus PCE-AC55BT -3 Noctua NF-A14 -1 Noctua NF-A12 -Crusial MX500 2.5" 250gb SSD -Seagate...

I just changed the title as the situation changed once I made this post. Here's my current rig Motherboard: Asus H81M-CS Processor: i5-4440 3.1Ghz Ram: Kingston hyperx fb-dimm (4GB) SSD: Kingston SSDNow 300 (128GB) HDD: WD 1TB Graphics Card: GTX 750Ti PSU: Antec VP450P So, a bit of context...

My PC says that CHKDSK is not working because it is a RAW file system. Can someone help me please. It's really important to me.

Hey there.. I just bought ryzen 5 2400G.. Motherboard is Asrock b450m HDV. FYI it has vega 11 igpu,which relies on system ram as it doesnt have own ram.. Now my question is, how much vRAM i am gonna have by default?? And if i want to increase or decrease that? How do i do that?

So um using a gigabyte aorus 360 gaming 3 motherboard with bitfenix enso casing. It comes with a built in rgb front and a static rgb fan. My motherboard has rgb fusion technology. Someone help me to connect the casing controller with the motherboard. Or should i directly connect the casing rgb...

I have only my one SSHD and some USBs lying around. Is it possible to just throw the program files into the USBs and then place the files into the fresh install and have them work? Hope this doesn't seem too confusing.

My laptop has an AMD Radeon R7 M340 but it always uses the AMD R7 Graphics i have searched on the internet and tried practicly everything. Even changing games in catalyst to "High Performance" didn't work i also wiped my laptop and that didn't help too is there any other way ? i am currently...

Hello guys, I want to check with some people on this forum whether everything in my build would fit (measurements etc, this mostly depends on the case but as far as I know everything fits but I need somebody else to check too to see whether I'm actually correct). This is the build...

Recently i clean installed windows 10 64 bit and it came with the radeon crimson graphics at version 16.6 but there is no update button like it used to have

■ ■ I have an asus z97 ws mobo. Recently just got this motherboard 2 days ago, and installed windows onto the ssd without the hdd attached. Ssd is set in AHCI, and without the hdd the windows splash screen is insanely fast, however when i connect my formatted hdd, the splash screen does the...

I would like to know because I will be doing a new build and have windows 10 on a usb. If it helps I put windows 10 once usb using the windows media creation tool. Thanks