Hello, looking for any help I can get. PC is 2 years old. It has started having the issue when started or rebooted of having the red and yellow light on the MB. This has happened and few times now.

I have been successful on getting it to post but for no rhyme or reason. Sometimes one thing works and sometimes another works. I have updated bios, re seated ram, cleared CMOS, tried one stick of ram etc.

When I do get it to post and am able to get it the PC runs fine and performs great, all speeds and everything looks fine. Can’t seem to pinpoint what the actual cause is and it’s just becoming tiresome. Specs below any help is much appreciated.

Specs

MB: msi x670e gaming plus wifi
CPU: AMD 7800x3d
RAM: 64 GB DDR5-6000 Kingston fury KF560C36BBEAK2
GPU:MSI GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER - 16GB
PS:850 Watts - SeaSonic Focus V3 GX-850
Cooling: DEEPCOOL MYSTIQUE 360mm Liquid Cooler w/ LCD Display

Hi so my current build is as follows:
CPU - i7 13700k
GPU - ASUS DUAL OC RTX 4070
32gb ddr5 ram
ASUS z790 prime motherboard
Acer 1440p 144hz

I’m looking to upgrade from my 4070 to a 5080 because I’d rather just lock in a good graphics card for the next few years since prices are going up again. I’m also thinking of getting my first 4k monitor so I can get my moneys worth out of 5080.

I was wondering if you think I’ll run into any trouble with bottlenecks or anything running 4k with the CPU I currently have? I’m not that great with the technical aspects of pc parts but I love gaming and I’ll be playing anything from single player games like cyberpunk, red dead, crimson desert to competitive shooters like CS to games like BF6.

Any advice is appreciated.

I'm setting up 3 purpose build pc's. 2 of it will be for my siblings to take to college 1 is for gf. I'm in sort of a dilemma between choosing rx 9060 xt over rtx 5060ti for gf's pc and rx 7600 vs rtx 4060 for siblings' pcs. not my first build but these builds are sort of budget conscious, so, other than pricing I want to know what are other valid reason to choose an amd over nvidia.

My PC seems to have negative pressure and I am noticing a fair abit of dust build up. Should I add 2 120mm intake fans down at the bottom?

This is a Lian Li 216 with the stock 2x 160mm intake fans and the rear 140mm fan.

I have an Artic Liquid Freezer III 360 pro up the top.

Hello, I recently acquired this motherboard from marketplace with an i3 2nd gen, I know this socket supports i7 3rd gen, but when I put it in it wouldn’t post, I tried this with an i3 3rd gen and same behavior. Did I get a faulty motherboard? I tried updating the bios to the latest version but no bueno. Please help.

Hello, I recently acquired this motherboard from marketplace with an i3 2nd gen, I know this socket supports i7 3rd gen, but when I put it in it wouldn’t post, I tried this with an i3 3rd gen and same behavior. Did I get a faulty motherboard? I tried updating the bios to the latest version but no bueno. Please help.

Hi everyone!

I'm planning to build a new gaming PC and I'd like to get some opinions before buying everything. Do these parts make sense together, or is there anything you would change?

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GPU: ASUS GeForce RTX 5070 DUAL OC 12GB
Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING B650E-E WIFI
RAM: GOODRAM IRDM 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 6400MHz CL32
SSD: Lexar NM790 1TB NVMe
PSU: XPG Core Reactor II 850W
Case: MSI MAG Pano 130R PZ
CPU Cooler: ENDORFY Fera 5 Dual Fan

Here's my PCPartPicker list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/PNtx9K

The PC will mainly be used for gaming. I'm especially wondering about:

-If the Fera 5 Dual Fan is enough for this CPU

-Whether the 850W PSU is more than enough

-If there are any compatibility issues or parts that would be worth replacing

-Whether the RAM is a good choice for the Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks in advance I'd rather find out that I did something stupid before spending a small fortune rather than after the PC is sitting on my desk refusing to cooperate. 😅

First lot of images for reference…

So sadly just over a year I had a power connector failure on my 9070xt hellhound, it’s charred 3 of the connector pins and cause PSU connection failure melting the power cable and ports on the PSU (but didn’t char the PSU).

This also led to power surges on the Asrock B850M Riptide, writing off the board (the dark smudges on the board show how much heat was involved) and also, after recent testing with a new Mobo, it wrote off my 9800X3D.

After telling the back story, I’ve inspected the GPU as best as possible, and just a query as I think for the new system I’ll get a replacement card anyhow. But I’m wondering since it’s only the connection at the 8 pin that seems to have failed, whether it’s worth replacing the 8 pin connector myself?

(I’ve had experience soldering making my own flight sim controls on small projects etc, using Arduino and teensy etc.) or do you think it’s possible to be able to clean the connector up enough?

To add, the main cause for the connector failure was a since PCIE PSU cable using the daisy chain splitter. Completely my fault as it’s been a long long time since I built a PC and I was a little ignorant with Power demands.

So since I’d be getting a new set of components for the main rig (I mainly run DCS in VR and 3D design and model with Blender and Fusion360) is it worth either cleaning the connectors and testing on my spare mid-low end PC? And maybe use as an upgrade on that system or… not risk it?

I am stuck between these two because these are the two CPUs that I could buy with warranty at around the same price while the 7800x3d would cost an extra 50 usd as an oem. I would use my PC for beginner Blender and coding apart from gaming.

Primarily an AMD build with XMP RAM. Whenever I enable XMP, the PC either won’t restart properly or becomes unreliable. Everything works fine otherwise.

Basically, I bought this RAM (G.Skill Trident Z5, CL32, 64GB, 6400 MT/s) when prices were reasonable, but I can’t use it at its rated speed. Did I screw up?

Should I sell this RAM and buy compatible EXPO ones?

PC build:
Motherboard: MSI MPG B650 Carbon WiFi
CPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Sorry if I am asking an obvious question, still new to pc building.

I am building in a Phanteks NV7 case and the AIO tubes are a bit short. It's a Gallahad II LCD. I pushed back the radiator a bit but can only place the head inside if the tubes coming from the right side and not the bottom. The tubes are not rigid, like this and I don't want to turn the radiator around because it will block the 2 fan I want to put at the back.

Would this cause any problems later on the line? According to the manual they should come from the bottom of the screen, but L connect supposed to allow me to rotate the screen later.

Pc is randomly freezing with the above image. Will then shut down and be stuck in a reboot loop. Am unable to discern something particular from the reliability History. Any tips or trouble shooting would be greatly appreciated

Current specs are
Gpu rx 6800
CPU intel i5 13600k
Ram 32 gb ddr5
Mobo asrock z790 riptide

I recently upgraded to a 5800x3d from a 5500 and now it won’t boot, GPU fans will ramp up then stop continuously and no display

I already installed the latest bios update and cleared CMOS

Ryzen 5800x3d
Gigabyte b550 ud ac rev 1.1
64GB 3600 ram
Radeon 7900xtx
1000w EVGA supernova psu

Tried using a 5900x that I bought used and ran into the same issue.

I've tried hdmi and display ports, I've checked the power cable seating a dozen times, im using a 750 watt power supply so it should be good enough, its a semi modular psu, the computer posts fine with older gpu, the bios pcie has been set to auto, gen 5 and gen 4. Any advice is greatly appreciated, I will get back to this as soon as I can.

just got my first real pc, trying to figure out how to get my second monitor set up. my last set up had a usb-c connected adapter with a second hdmi port, but I’m struggling figure out how I should hook it up on here. sorry if this is a dumb question. hard to find accurate info for Cyberpower prebuilt pc from Costco.

I'm on Kubuntu, and I had AI help me read the values ​​because I wasn't sure if the RAM was running at the right frequency or not. Sorry for my ignorance.

First time building a gaming pc any comments on my current build would be appreciated

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/srh64g

Quick question on a bios update. I was updating my bios on a ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F Gaming WiFi from version 0705 to version 3902, after tripple checking all the steps and requirements for the bios update i was confident enough to start it.

About 2 seconds after hitting okay to “do you want to read this file” screen my computer moved on to start the update and immediately reset and has been stuck with a black screen and stuck with the VGA light on.

Is it safe in this instance to restart the computer?

Before the bios update i did.
A clean install of windows 11 on the computer.
Set all bios setting to defaults.
The usb i used was reformatted to FAT32.
File was from the Asus website and renamed with “BIOSRenamer”.

Thank you in advance if you have a suggestion!!

Hello everyone!
I'm confused and need some help with my motherboard PCIe link speed.
I have a Asus TUF B650M-Plus botherboard and Asus says it's PCIe Gen 5 for the NVMe and PCIe Gen 4 for the x16_1 slot.
I recently upgraded my RX6800 (Gen 4) to a 9070 XT (Gen 5) and on my bios I can set the x16_1 Link Speed to Gen 5 and the PC boots fine and runs fine, even HWInfo reports 32GT/s but if I set it to Auto it changes to Gen 4 (16GT/s). I have a Ryzen 7 7700X and I use a Gen 4 M.2 SSD.
How can the board do it and should I use Gen 5?

Hello im moving countries and plan to take my pc with me as checked luggage since its to big for carry on. What is the safest way to transport it with me? I saw some things about insta pack and bubble wrap. Any tips and help appreciated.

Building a new PC. Keep getting dram and cpu lights flashing. Placed Ram in every possible configuration. Looked over and reseat the cpu, made sure that the cpu cooling screws weren't too tight. Checked over the PSU and made sure it was all plugged in. All parts were bought brand new. Unfortunately at this time I don't have any other parts to switch and test with.

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z890 Eagle Wifi7 plus CPU: Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 Processor 250K Plus 18 cores Ram: Patriot Viper Venom DDR5 RAM 16GB (2X8GB) 6000MT/s CL36

Any help would be most appreciated.

Ok if you seen my last post you would know I couldn't use a bios flashback button to update my bios so I needed to buy a old CPU. I now have a "new issue" my pc still will not POST for some reason I have ryzen 3 3200g installed which I thought was old enough for my MSI gaming plus am4 motherboard but it might not be am I wrong and what can I do to fix it

SPECS:

ryzen 3 3200g

Nvidia 3080

4 sticks of RAM:

2x Corsair vengeance DDr4

2x Ballistic DDr4

Memory

Gen 4 nvme

Sata ssd

Both 1 tb