Gen 5

Long post… Just wanted to vent a little bit after a long weekend of system builds, rebuilds, research and giving up on PCI-e Gen 5. Please don’t bash me, I know some of the issues are just a “me problem!” I know RAID is not recommended, blah, blah, blah. I did what I did to try it out. BIG...

Hello, Im doing a new build. it will be..... i9 13900KF -- RTX 3080 -- MSI Tomohawk WIFI MAX Z790 -- mixture of Gen3 and Gen 4 NVME drives ( I have NO Gen5 NVME) I just received the new MSI Tomohawk MAX Z790 board to use with a 13900KF. I was reading thru the manual and realized that it...

I'm looking at Tom's top motherboards, but unfortunately not all of them have a gen 5.0 NVME slot and the other features that contribute to high end gaming performance. I am am neutral between getting a i7-13700K and 7700X CPU, although AMD seems to be more cost-performance effective as well...

Haven't built a gaming pc in 6 years and it's about time. Current in shambles plan is the rog Z790 extreme / 13900k / aorus gen 5 10000 / 4090. Already have the 4090 and just ordered that gen 5 M2 which is expected around the end of this month. Here's the issue: The gen 5 M2 has to go in the...

I just built a new computer and it won't start up. I cant find a solution. I think it may be the power supply but I need to make sure. Specs: i5-2400s Nvidia GTX 750ti 1gb EVGA 450w Bronze 8gb RAM