Sandy Bridge

I have a CPU-upgrade question. I have an old (2012) HP desktop machine. I have upgraded this old PC every which way over the years (drives, fans, PCI cards, GPU, power supply, RAM etc), but it still has the original i7-3930K (Sandy Bridge) CPU. This is now causing me a problem. I am a heavy...

I currently have a Samsung H61S1 MP1.0 motherboard and its current bios is 04js, I was new to computers and bought an intel xeon e3 1220 v2 cpu, because i had an i3-2100, and i thought it would work on my computer because it had the same slot which is LGA 1155. Then when i changed the cpu it...

I want to upgrade my CPU. PCpartpicker.com says I need BIOS ver. 7678v30 for my motherboard to use the new CPU. On my motherboard's website (MSI) I cannot find a BIOS update with those digits. https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/H67MSE43_B3/support#bios My current BIOS is E7678IMS V3.2. Am I...

It seems that we haven't had such a cardinally huge upgrade (core count / performance) since almost Sandy Bridge in the case of Alder Lake. Looking at 13 and 14 gen CPUs it seems they will definitely not present a notably higher leap than that provided by Alder Lake. What do you think? Will...

I am generally talking about the times. The opulent moment, breathlessly reserved and mentioned variably through over a decade, appearing in the beginning of 2011 when Sandy Bridge became available, strewed a gilded polish over that generation of machines. It was a great shift in performance...

I have a thinkpad x220t, and it has the i7 2620m. I have been searching for a pretty long time on how to undervolt it and it seems impossible. It goes upwards of 90 degrees even with thermal grizzly and i clean it regularly. Any suggestions to cool it down other than a cooling pad which i plan...

Hello! Almost 4 months ago I finally had to upgrade to something better than my old laptop. The problem is, I'm 17 years old (and as you probably saw I'm from Bulgaria), so I can't really afford anything too fancy because I hate milking my parents since a kid and use my own money for every...

I have a CPU built in 2014 with Xeon E3 1225 V2 processor, Sandy Bridge motherboard and 24 Gigs of RAM. The display of this CPU works but has severe lag (every frame refresh shows lag). I have the following requirements for my display: 2K display support 2-3 monitors support Which is the most...

BEFORE I START: I have posted on multiple tech sites already, got no useful answers, let alone getting "HAHAUSELINUX"-ed. Basically, I've recently bought an Intel Core i7 2700k (Sandy Bridge-DT) system (Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV rev 2.2 motherboard, and a Gigabyte GTX 980 Windforce graphics card)...

Greetings. There are a few threads on the internet already about this particular question, but I've also discovered that there appears to be a modified BIOS that allows you to use Ivy Bridge processors. However, the thread seems to imply the BIOS isn't easy to install and they seem to be...

Hi everyone, Last time I built a dedicated gaming pc with money not being an issue was in 2011. I have... Asus P8P67 Motherboard Intel Core i7 2600K Sandy Bridge @ 3.4 (overclocked to a comfortable 4ghz with aftermarket cooler). Upgraded from a GTX 580 to a GTX 1070 16GB RAM SSD XFI Sound...

Would this Xeon E5-2687W CPU work with this dell precision t3600 computer. The cpu has the correct socket LGA 2011, correct architecture Sandy Bridge EP. But it says "Up to 130W" and this Xeon E5-2687W uses 150W. I have a 635W psu. Would this be a issue or not? I have had issues with i7-3930k...

I seem to be having a problem where I see red horizontal lines appearing on my monitor when I'm at 60 hertz, when I go down to 30 hertz they seem to go away, along with blue horizontal lines near the top of my monitor (when at 60 hertz, they go 'away' at 30 hertz as far as I've seen). I have an...

Hi, I just purchased a new system for my work. It has Samsung 970 Evo Nvme ssd 500gb as the boot drive, which is installed in the primary pcie 3.0 x4 slot. When I power on the system, after bios screen goes away, the windows loading screen (where the dots move around in circles) will be there...

Here's a screenshot of it: View: https://imgur.com/a/idnDYjA I haven't cleaned it out since I built my PC back in 2017, so would it be normal to have the temp folder this full? Is it safe to just delete all?

Hi everyone. I need some professional opinions from you as I am about to purchase some items for custom cable sleeving. This is going to be my first time so I am unsure if I had picked the correct items for the job. I am planning to do a full length sleeving as I need to save some space for...

Every time i try to connect on my steam main account on the windows app a steam warning pop up with the message "Steam is having trouble connecting to the steam servers". I reinstaled the steam app but still the same problem...i can connect on the browser but cant log in into the app and i got...

My new pc won’t start up just built it Brand new ram 16gb ballistix brand new motherboard asrock b450m hdv brand new ryzen 5 I plug my power button into where it says onto the manual but when I go to turn it on it doesn’t start up

Is this any good? ; HP EX900 M.2 500GB PCIe 3.0 x4 Nvme.

Hello,guys can this laptop Acer Predator i7-8750H+1060 gxt,16gb ram play lol at 1080p 60 fps capped and stream league of legends at 720p 60 fps capped??

So built a basic PC consisting of... MSI B450M Pro-M2 AM4 DDR4 mATX Motherboard AMD Athlon 200GE 3.2GHz processor Crucial Ballistix Elite 4GB DDR4-2666 UDIMM memory Windows 10 Home 64bit This system has been running fine for its intended use for the past month/two months. It was turned off...

Are there any mods you can do to a PSU in case where it fails or blows up it doesn't damage the other PC components which already happened to me, are there any mods?

I currently get about 50-250 ping sometimes 1000 if my family is on the internet, if I get a tp link av600 powerline adapter and a 10 foot cat 7 Ethernet cable how much lower will my ping be?

Hey. Nothing crazy, just a little a safe oc. Something like 4.1-4.2GHz will be fine. Got a Noctua Nh-u12s and my case is Nox Hummer ZX. Thanks in advance!

I was wondering if there were any underlying incompatible parts for this budget build I was planning on building, The main things I'm confused on are the ram speeds and mobo compatibility with R5 and certain ram? Idk, I'm confused rn and wondering if I can get some good quick second opinions...

If I want dual monitors (for my son’s school work- lol) But have an asus free sync and a dell gsync (both 144hz/1msrt)- will that effect performance with nvidea graphics card? I know one monitor is primary but just wondering if it will impede anything when homewok is done and the gaming begiins.

I have a CyberpowerPC gaming ultra desktop with a AMD Radeon RX 560 Graphics card. I currently have a Samsung SyncMaster E2420 connected to it by a DVI cable. I want to connect a second screen, that being a COBY LEDTV1926, to my computer but there are some issues. First, on my computer, it says...

Hello, I have had issues with my computer randomly freezing at any moment in games for months now, It has been returned TWICE to the store and every component was checked and stress tested TWICE. Each time they found that the CPU was failing, and replaced it with a brand new one, but I know for...

Hi guys. Been building pcs for a while but on my personal build I've hit a dilemma. My specs are : Gtx 1060 6gb asus dog I7 3700k not.overclocked. coolermaster cooler Intel dub motherboard 14gb ddr3 ram 450w corsair psu I want to upgrade this to get better performance gaming and rendering...

Now that the 9700k has been released, is it practical to upgrade now? I was going to wait for the prices to be lower before I pull the trigger. Or is it more ethical to just switch to the 8700k? Im currently running a GTX 1070 that will probably be switched to 1080TI later this year. Monitors at...

Can Xeon x5460 work on Asus P5Q SE2. According to dellided he can work with X5472 and E5420(SLBBL).

I came here many years ago and had some great advice and have enjoyed my computer and used it for work and gaming for many years. I have a nice case and 800w power supply and SSD and hard drives and DVD. I need a new Motherboard, CPU, Memory and Graphics card(Been using a Radeon as I have 3...

HI, I have a Gigbyte GA-Z97X_UD5H Motherboard, Samsung EVO 850 plugged into the Sata Express port, and I have just installed the Samsung 970 Evo NVMe M.2 into the motherboard. I ran the samsung magician utility and while I am seeing fast read/write times for the 850, about 5200/4480 the 970 is...

So I recently built a computer and I got pretty much everything up and working. However, for some reason the Aorus software will not change the color of my graphics card and I was really hoping to make my pc have matching colors. Whenever I hit the LED light change button in the Aorus...

I recently had an independent amazon affiliate guy build me a website. However, I was unaware that its possible and wouldnt think that a guy who has made millions would know to implement meta tags and make the site searchable to others? Whats going on? Is this a scam or am I being paranoid...

So I recently have moved from home to student accommodation and given that my speed back home is like 8Mbps I was pretty excited to see that I was getting speeds of around 150-180Mbps here. That's where the issue is though, for the first couple of days or so everything was all good, installed...

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I plan on upgrading my PC with a new motherboard so I can upgrade my CPU. But I've been seeing warning messages about how certain motherboards needs a BIOS update to make more current gen CPUs run smoother. I need to know if my selections will run without a bios update or not. And if it does...

Hi, I had an issue before where my PC wasn't working, the issue was it powers up but there is no display so i took it to the repair shop which faced no issue, when i got it to home it worked fine, this was around 3 months ago. Now the same issue returned again, however, fans were working...