Motherboards

Hello I recently purchased a MSi RTX 2070 Ventus, and a Corsair Crystal 280x as an upgrade for my PC. The problem is, ever since installed my new parts, every few times I boot it up my PC, it says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device", and I know how to fix it, but every few times I boot up my...

I'm building a pc for my little brother, he is going to use it for low spec games, CSGO, ETS2, etc. I decided the parts Im going to use except for the motherboard and PSU. What are the best budget motherboards and PSUs for Ryzen 3 2200g Ryzen 3 2200g WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm 4 gb hyperx predator 3000

Hello I have recently just update my bios on my ASRock B450m Pro4 from 2.00 to 3.40. And in the new bios I found few new stuff, and I want some of you guys to explain to me what some of these means on the pictures and to what should they be set. Previously I was just adding a frequency and...

Hello, since I have a ryzen cpu and nvidia gpu. I want to try out my luck installing Windows 8.1 on my PC while retaining my previous Windows 10 install. Since nvidia has support for Wimdoes 8.1 I have the drivers, also Realtek audio and lan drivers are there plus the usb drivers. So what I want...

Hi everyone! I switched out some hardware (CPU, GPU and PSU) a few weeks ago and have been getting strange behavior on cold boots. I will start with a general description and then say what I think is happening. The Problem The indicator lights will flash and I hear the fans powering up That...

Hello I recently got a BX500 240gb as a gift from a online shop and installed itnin my system. So I want to know that since I already have another ssd in my system which one of the two should Inuse as OS and game drive? 860 evo 250 as OS and Crucial as Game drive. Crucial BX500 as OS and 860...

Hello everyone. A friend of mine will buy a ryzen 7 3700x and he doesn't know what motherboard to pair the cpu with. He wants to buy a x470 mobo because x570 motherboards are really expensive. His budget is 120-160€. So which x470 motherboard should he buy? He doesn't want to overclock btw...

Hello, I recently built a new PC and I am having issues with boot times. In an other MSI build I did I was using a SATA Samsung SSD and got very short boot times, however now I am getting boot times of 17 seconds+ on an M.2 SSD. When I turn on the computer, it seems to take a while to post. It...

Hello to the community! I own an Asus ROG Strix X470-F Motherboard. I really enjoy the Aura Sync lighting on the board, however I have a couple questions that hopefully one of you awesome members can resolve. There is a lighting strip on the preinstalled IO cover. If you shut down the...

Hello everyone. I plan to buy a 2600x and I was wondering which of these two boards would be best. I know the asus one is 30€ more expensive but it may worth I don't know. I wouldn't ask if I was sure the CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 would run at 3000mhz on both motherboards. Will this ram run at 3000mhz...

What motherboard should i get for overclocking ryzen 5 3600 i am also going to use a liquid cooler and my budget for the motherboard is 146 dollars btw i was thinking of buying asus rog strix b450-f gaming and also what power supply should i get budget is 45-65 dollars. Pc specs Ryzen 5 3600...

I have a Samsung Evo 250gb and I have a 6month old Windows 10 install on it and I think that the ssd is getting slower with time. The space occupied is 28gb in windows and 23.29 as Over Provisioned out of 232.9 gb available space. Examples being: chrome,m s office used to open instantly on new...

Do all AMD B450 motherboards support xfr and precision boost? Or does it vary by motherboard? I want to know for the ASRock B450M Steel Legend motherboard specifically (micro-ATX version).

Hello everyone , So I thought about buying an RTX 2080 and my motherboard is supporting max PCI -E 3.0 x8 . The graphics card ports are PCI -E x16 . Do I need to buy a new motherboard ? If the answer is yes , can you please recommend about a good one ? (BTW the model of the graphics card I...

Hello Recently I benchmarked my ssd and saw that i have a pretty low write speed. Even Samsung SSD Software reports the same. What could be the issue here?

I recently bought a sp120 red led as a front intake fan and its rpm is kinda jittery. On initial startup it shoots up to 1650 then after sometime it drops to 1480 and increases to 1550 and then drops back again and keeps repeating this. I also have a Coolermaster fan but that isn't doing this...

Hello my newly bought CorsairSP120 is not running at its rated 1650RPM as advertised on Corsair's website. I have attached the screenshot from HWinfo. All are connected to Mobo headers Here is the bios screenshot.

This is likely a tall order, but is there any mini-ITX motherboard that has two PCIe x16 slots? I need one for a 2080Ti GPU at x16 and the other for a PCIe x4. If this is not possible, how about a micro ATX board that fits this requirement? This one looks good. ASRock MicroATX Motherboard...

Hello my current cpu cooler fan(conical 92mm-120mm) is damaged and I am in search for a better cooler like the hyper 212 red led. Now the problem is that the cpu cooler is bigger than my case can accomodate(150mm) so I have to mount it horizontally bottom to up exhaust rather than the...

Current fan setup in my case is 2xfront intake 2x top exhaust 1x back exhaust. If I change the setup as in the picture will it help the cpu temps?

For some reason whenever I want to apply my ram stick in my motherboard it doesn’t align with the gap in the motherboard I need help asap

The serial sticker on my gpu (Asus Gtx 1060 Phoenix) is peeling off from both ends(both ends have resistors underneath) and is attached in the middle (where there is just flat PCB). Will this cause any issues with warranty claim? I am from outside US so that US law won't apply to me.

Hello, I want to buy a new system but will put a used gpu (1060 3gb). This is strictly a very limited 720p budget build and new gpu will hit the roof easily. So my question about the GPU is that since there are ample used mining cards in the market so my question is that is it possible to mod...

Recently i noticed that the temps for my Ryzen 2400G is randomly spiking to 70C+ as my mobo is set to beep at 70C, i was also looking at reddit where some people are saying its because of XFR2. For example: I was playing AC:Unity and closed the game and immediately opened facebook on chrome and...

My new gpu is running at x8 1.1 instead of x16 3.0 on my motherboard Gigabyte AX370 Gaming Rev 1.x even though if its connected to the x16 slot. See the screenshot How to solve this issue? Specs: R5 2400g 1050ti Asus AX370-Gaming 2x8gb Crucial 2400 oc'd to 2666 1xWd Blue and 1xEvo 250Gb 5x...

I am facing low gpu usage issue in games. Added a new gpu yesterday. I played GTAV and Warfighter and all barely hit 100% on extreme settings but fps seemed fine. Cpu cores weren't hitting 100 and hits 80 sometimes. I play at 768p. My Specs are : R5 2400g 1050ti Asus AX370-Gaming 2x8gb Crucial...

I Just got my 1050ti and suring stress test on GPUZ the GPU Core Clocks shoot up to 1784Mhz. is this normal? card is Not OC'd. Its a unused card which I got for around 90USD.

Hello. There is not enough room for a new GPU inside my small SFF case and therefore I have to upgrade it. Unfortunately, the motherboard is from HP and not compatible with the standards as ATX and such. I thought a upgrade from SFF to Tower may solve the problem, but I don't know if I can or I...

ASRock’s manages to deliver integrated 2.5GbE at under $200, but mediocre overclocking and high temps with the stock i9-9900K hold this board back. ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 7 Motherboard Review: Fast Ethernet Slips Under $200 : Read more

Hello, I am looking forward to add heatsinks to my ram and would like to know that if it will void the warranty. Its a RGB heat spreader from jonsbo model nc-1/2. The issue is that the included thermal pads make contact with the sticker on ram sticks that says do not remove or warranty will be...

Will a cx450 (the better white label ones) be enough for my system after I add a Amd Rx570 4/8gb or a Gtx 1060 6gb? Also I hope there wont be any bottlenecks. Specs: AMD Ryzen 2400G Gigabyte AX370-Gaming 1.x 2x 8gb Crucial DDR4 2400Mhz 1x WD Blue 1tb 1x Samsung 860 Evo 250Gb Deepcool Gammaxx...

Hello everyone so i wanted to do some gaming and i just wanna know what is the best gpu that i can get for these specs that is compatible with em cpu : intel i7-3370k psu : Thermaltake litepower 650W motherboard: msi h61m p20 g3 8gigs of ram if there's no good gpu compatible with that...

We heard from MSI CEO Charles Chiang and others at Computex that AMD's third-gen Ryzen CPUs are going to bring higher-priced motherboards along with them. MSI CEO: Even Low-End AMD X570 Motherboards Will Be Expensive : Read more

i installed a fresh install of windows and my realtek ethernet adapter still does not show up i have reset the bios and made sure its enabled and i have tried too install drivers many times but it fails

Hi i bought a asus prime b450-plus So i wanted to connect the case rgb cable Because its capable of aura sync And my motherboard has a 4 pins But the case has only 3 holes in it for 3 pins only Sorry for my English Images : https://photos.app.goo.gl/7QmT8ZTHv6CiwS5r7

AMD's Socket AM4 compatibility matrix just got very confusing. Third-Gen Ryzen Not Fully Backward Compatible, X570 Chipset Doesn't Support First-Gen Models, AMD Explains : Read more

Asus’ dozen initial X570 boards include one that supports ECC, and a wide range of gaming- and enthusiast-focused options. Hands-On With Asus’ Dozen New AMD X570 Motherboards: From TUF to Crosshair VIII : Read more

MSI’s first round of AMD X570 motherboards includes some impressive ultra-premium models, as well as a few most of us might be able to afford. Hands-On With MSI’s First X570 Motherboards: From Godlike to Gaming Plus : Read more

Hey all. Ive had this problem the last few months and i cannot figure it out. A few months ago, my 1080ti stopped working. I put it into a friends PC and it worked fine, and my onboard graphics worked fine as well. So i tried it in the second PCI slot and boom it worked. So my final thoughts...

I need some help to update my bios.I have formated a usb stic in ntfs,downloadet the latest bios(1005) from asus, and got to files one is the cap file(bigger) and one is called renamer file(smaller) according to asus I have to rename my bios file to M11E.CAP this meens the file with cap at the...