Upgrading components

Forum discussion tagged with Upgrading components.
  1. Merge.-

    Question Motherboard upgrade confusion

    How to avoid issues when upgrading my build? Tomorrow I'm planning to upgrade from my old B450 Tomahawk Max and a 5800x to a B650 Aorus Elite AX V2 with a new 9800x3D, so I've spent some time reading older posts on the forum about changing to a new motherboard and it's clear I should do a clean...
  2. SupersonicSaint

    Question Has 3600mhz RAM been outclassed?

    Hi, I have a Ryzen 5900x on a ROG Strix B550-F Gaming which can power RAM up to 5000mhz. Currently I am using a Corsair Ballistix 3600mhz cl16 kit which was the recommended when I bought them ages ago. I have found a very affordable Corsair Vengeance 4600mhz cl18 kit which is 400mhz u der the...
  3. Moth254KF

    [SOLVED] A 1660 Super can fit in a B85M-DS3H-A?

    Hi, this is a odd question to ask, because the motherboard has PCIE 3.0, but... A graphics card will fit and conected correctly in this motherboard? Because the place where is the ram is so close to the PICE so I don't know for sue it will fit correclty (asking because I am upgrading my old pc)
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    Question motherboard is causing static noise from speakers, am I safe to upgrade other components?

    Hello, My desktop's motherboard is causing speakers to make static noise which starts after POST boot and continue till I shut down the PC, I already tried: 1- Installing a separate sound card. 2- trying a different PSU and different speakers. 3- installing the components in a different case...
  5. L

    Question Upgrading to a better CPU?

    Hello! I've recently bought an NVIDIA 1070 Ti GPU since my old R9 390 died and I noticed a CPU bottleneck in various applications or games. I've decided to upgrade my CPU from my old i5 6600k to an i7. I have a GIGABYTE Z170X GAMING 5 motherboard which supports a 6700k or a 7700k processor...
  6. LordVasky

    [SOLVED] Upgrade Suggestions

    Hello Community this is my first post and i need some help, so i wanted to do an upgrade to my PC but i'm kind of new to this so i need help and suggestions. I'm just a casual player so i don't want or need anything too fancy, i just want to be able to play some games at higher quality that i...
  7. D

    GTX 760 Dual monitors problem!

    Hi - i recently bought myself a new monitor(samsung LS27E391HS 27"). I thought i could use my new monitor as my main monitor and use my old monitor as my second monitor. But as i connected both monitors my new monitor was the only one who connected. When i tried identifying my monitors windows...