motherboard and cpu

Just got a new motherboard and processor. Everything is fine, I just need to know what to do now. I've read that you should do a clean install of windows for the motherboard but I'm not sure why and the links most people provide are way too complicated. I still have "windows" on my old HDD...

hi guys i just playing fifa23 and then suddenly the music is kinda stop but its kinda stop before a blue screen but its not a blue screen, and then i immediately close the fifa but the sound still kinda stop, so i restart it but it wont turn of kinda looping on "restarting" screen, so i force...

Hello, Recently I tried updating a 2-year-old PC after some time away, downloaded all the Windows 11 updates as well as updating the GPU drivers and installing the latest support for my CPU. I might have gotten a bit ambitious flashing the bios to the latest version, because after I did so...

I have a new computer I put together that had no problems setting up, however the CPU cooler wouldn't properly sit on the CPU causing it to overheat, so I went to buy some rubber washers to use as spacers on the back CPU bracket, and after doing that I was able to sit the cooler properly and...

Hello , so I costumed built my water coolant pc , everything was running great . Then one day I decided to upgrade my graphics card to a better one so that I can game . I had on there working GeForce 8800 GTX and the graphics card I bought used from somebody on offerup to try to upgrade it was...

The Family PC (the PC where every member of the family is using) has better cpu than my PC i want to swap the motherboard or the cpu since they are in a same generation i just dont know if it is possible or whatever what are the things i need to prepare before the swapping of components? Family...

Hello, guys! My build: MoBo: Asus ROG Maximus Hero VIII CPU: i7 6700k RAM: 2 sets of "Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK16GX4M2A2133C13(2x8 GB in each set)" (so 4x 8GB ram sticks, 32 GB total) GPU: Gigabyte AORUS Xtreme 1080 Ti CPU Cooler: Corsair H110i Extreme 280" PSU: Corsair HX850i platinum...

I'm trying to decide which one would be better buy considering my circumstances. I mainly will be doing photo editing, and possibly some light video editing too. I do want something that will also be able to play games for the next few years as well. I don't overclock my computers. They are...