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Hi folks, This is my first PC build and I have a pretty dumb question; is it possible that my CPU cooler is too heavy for my motherboard? I have both in hand, and the cooler seems super heavy. I don't really see how my motherboard could withstand all that weight when hung on it's side; The...

Just out of curiosity. I see traces on motherboards mere millimeters from mounting holes and am wondering if such a layout increases the risk of damge from forces imparted on the board from CPU coolers.

Hello, At the moment I have a stock cooler on my ryzen 7 3700x, but it's to loud. I wanted to get a new big aircool so I could OC it a little bit and found the noctua NH-D15S. My question is: will it be to heavy and bend or break my mobo or will it be ok? It will not move around for LAN party's...

My nephew bought a new PC which simply won't work with Windows7 and he's really wanting Windows7 installed. Fair enough, I've tried Win10 for a bit and prefer Win7 myself. Anyways... looking at components for a build, and saw a few articles about new Intel CPU's no longer going to support...

Hello guys I posted yesterday because I was installing a motherboard for the first time and have had more than 10 problems until now which all got solved. It seems though that the last problem is the biggest one. This post will be long because I want to explain everything in detail...

Can someone please help. 2 out of my 3 machines have encountered issues...some similar and some different. In this case, after having to reinstall my Bluetooth drivers, I'm having the following problems: - In Device Manager it has renamed my Wireless USB adapter (a Netgear A6210 using...

I'm going to be building this primarily for use with 3D modelling/animation (Maya) and graphics/editing (C4D & CC2015). The other requirement is that it needs to handle and render 4k footage over the next few years without too much in terms of upgrading. Here's my pcpartpicker list: CPU...

My motherboard is not powering up thus the computer is not booting up, I tried the list of things to do and none of them worked,this is my hardware -Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-H Micro-ATX Motherboard -ASUS EAH6450 SILENT/DI/1G -AMD Athlon X4 860K - 3.7GHz -G.SKILL Value Series 8GB 240-Pin DDR3...

Hey guys this is my current PC...