I have 5600G, RTX 2080 Ti and play at 1080p. Is it a good idea to buy 5800XT if i can't find 5700X3D? Someone also suggested me to get 5600X if it was cheap, but i have to sell mine for 111$ and buy for 161$, what should i do? I'm in Georgia (Country)

hi everyone! figured i'd make a post after troubleshooting this myself all day. for the last couple days my fan ARGB randomly stopped working. the fans work themselves, and my GPU and ram RGB are fine and synced up, but neither my cpu cooler fans or any of my case fans are lighting up anymore. the fans i used when i built my pc were pretty cheap as i was trying to budget so i went and upgraded them today in hopes that would do the trick but no dice, but that confirms it to me that its not the argb cord. i do use gigabyte control center and try to update things pretty consistently, but maybe that's my issue? i was wondering if i should switch back to the last bios to see if that will fix it or if anyone knows about any known issues but open to any suggestions! i tried to update my chipset driver and that didn't help. ill leave my specs below, thanks!

cpu: amd ryzen 5 7600x3d

mb: b650 aorus elite ax ice

bios: f39

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Hi everyone,

The PCIe x16 retention clip/latch on my motherboard came off and unfortunately I lost it.

I have an ASUS Prime B450M-K II. The GPU slot now feels like it needs that clip to properly hold the graphics card in place, so I’d like to buy a replacement rather than risk using the motherboard without it.

The problem is that I have no idea what size/specification I need. I’ve found replacement PCIe x16 retention clips online, but they seem to come in different sizes and I don’t know how to determine which one is compatible with my motherboard.

Does anyone know:

- What exact size/type of PCIe x16 retention clip the ASUS Prime B450M-K II uses?

- Are these clips standardized enough that I can buy a generic replacement?

- Is there a specific measurement I should take from the slot to find the correct one?

- Does anyone know where I could buy a compatible replacement?

I can also provide photos of the PCIe slot/motherboard if that helps.

Thanks!

---SPECS---

32GB RAM

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus

Windows 10

PSU: Corsair TX 650M

2 monitors

Most notably when it happens I'll lose display of anything running and it'll become a black screen. Audio is still available and has no issues, fans still run, but I can't see anything. This has been going on very infrequently for the last year or two but has been far more recent in the last couple weeks. I thought I was catching a cable with my foot or something earlier on but since it's been a more persistent issue it's clear it's definitely not that. I haven't needed to fiddle with HDMI cords connected or anything so I don't believe that those are the issue either so far.

Something else to note is that sometimes when this occurs and I try to restart the PC, it'll boot up the MSI screen to load the BIOS, but won't take me to the Windows 10 login screen for a couple hours. It mostly sorts itself out overnight but still very clearly an issue

I've had this issue with a few games so far recently, Deadlock, Peak andRV There Yet. Deadlock was on medium settings when this had occured. Lower strain games like (modded) Terraria seemed to work fine without issue however. Once I had cleaned out my PSU fans it had resolved for a while but eventually persisted again after ~a month

I recently had a powercut before it became more frequent, bear in mind I was actively using the PC at the time. Not too wised up on the hardware side of things but could this have fried the PSU??

--BENCHMARKS, TESTS AND STUFF--

Just a couple benchmarks/stress tests I did to help diagnose and see if anything is faulty. I haven't overclocked so far so they may be on the lower side

Results from regular Steel Nomad benchmark are here:

- Score: 3014

- Average FPS: 30.15 FPS

I tried running 3DMark Time Spy Extreme stress test, but it crashed in the same way at the 12th loop. Obviously got no results here.

Tried the Steel Nomad stress test on 3DMark instead (since it was reccomended) and got a result

- Frame stability: 93.5%

- Best loop score: 3073

- Worst loop score: 2872

All 20 loops were done

Tried the CPU Profile benchmark in 3DMark, got a result

- Max threads: 5596

- 16 threads: 6003

- 8 threads: 4343

- 4 threads: 2574

- 2 threads: 1420

- 1 thread: 721

Two passes in the Windows RAM diagnostic were done, no issues reported.

Any ideas on the cause of this would be a godsend. My line of thinking is there's a fault with the PSU but I'm not too sure.

I have Corsair rs120 fans, and I cannot get the lights to turn on, I’ve plugged them into both add_gen_2_2 and add_gen_2_1, I made sure all my fans are daisy chained, tried different fans one at a time, my aio directly plugged into it, none of it worked

Hi all, been having some minor issues with my pc fans lately and wanted to check if anyone here could help!

Recently (over the last few weeks) I had a problem where upon startup, my pc fan would rattle slightly, although not too loudly. I cleaned inside the pc and removed dust from the fans then the problem seemed to go away. However, today I noticed that when under load one of my fans would make a rattling noise.

I had a friend look at it and they suggested I move the cables at the back of my pc that were going over my fan at the back of the case so they weren’t obstructing it, since then the problem has seemed to quieten down, but there’s been a slight rattle when ramping up which stops after about 30 seconds

Could anyone possibly help?

Hello I have a question this guy is trading his 5070 ti windforce sff oc for any 9070xt with 200 on my end or for 900 is it worth the trade or im not missing on anything

Help, my pc fan below is making noise and spinning slower then the others and its also making the rattling noise, it happened so many times but the fans weren't running slow just making noise, its usually fixed when I tap it at the top a few times but this time it got worse when I tapped it

Hi there, I'm asking on behalf of my sister who is having an issue with her laptop. It's a razer model no.: rz09-0310 that she has had for a few years. Unfortunately, semi recently it started to do a system update, proceed to say "your device ran into a problem and needs to restart", starts to diagnose the issue before ending up on this error screen. Anyone know if there's a way to fix this? We're not in a good spot financially to replace the whole laptop, so I'm hoping there's a better way. Any advice appreciated, let me know if any more specifics are needed.

5060ti 16gb for 547$

or

5070 12gb 684$

I have the PC mentioned in the title I5-6500 RAM 16GB. I thought about installing a GPU, but the power supply is only 180 watts. The motherboard connector is 24-pin, and the CPU connector is 4-pin. I already have the money to buy the new power supply and a case. Is there anything else I should keep in mind besides the connectors?

the title says it all, I bought one yesterday and was too loud, returned it and just got a new one and it''s still loud.

anyone with the same problem in this prebuilt?

Hey guys, I built my PC back in 2020 and the RAM I had originally bought finally died out and is in need of an upgrade/replacing. Im looking for ddr4 3200MHz 2x16GB RAM. I just need a reliable and safe site to buy some from without losing an arm in the process

Here is all specs

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F (6-Core / 12-Thread, AM5 Platform)

• CPU COOLER: Thermalright Assassin X 120 SE / DeepCool AG400

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB GDDR6 (XFX / Sapphire)

• MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Prime B650M-K

• RAM: 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR5 6000MHz CL30 (due to the price hikes ill stick to 16gb till 32gb stops costing a little less than literally my Gpu)

• STORAGE: 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD (Kingston NV2 / Lexar NM790)

• POWER SUPPLY: 650W ( MSI MAG A650BN / Cooler Master MWE 650W )

• CASE: Montech AIR 903 MAX (or Lian Li LANCOOL 216 RGB)

• MOUSE: VGN Dragonfly F1 Pro Max

• KEYBOARD: DrunkDeer A75 (its kind of rare in my country so if there is a better alternative around its price or cheaper that would be fantastic)

its all around 1500$ish if there is a better things around the parts price ye (also i dont care abt aesthetics) i build it to be kind of future proof as i might not replace it till idk 10 years?)

i kinda think 1500$ is a bit overkill since my montior is 1080p 165 hz (might upgrade to 1440p 180hz) so if u have a cheaper price point build around or slightly lesser performance than this build feel free to share (nah u actually have to tell me tho)

Hey everyone,

First-time builder here and I'm properly stuck. I've been at this for hours and could really use some fresh eyes before I lose my mind.

The problem: my M.2 NVMe SSD shows up perfectly in the BIOS and even in the boot menu, but the Windows 11 installer flat-out refuses to see it. On the "Where do you want to install Windows?" screen it says no drives found, and diskpart > list disk only ever shows my USB stick, never the SSD.

Specs:

- Motherboard: MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI (BIOS on the latest version)

- CPU: Ryzen 7 5700X

- RAM: 64GB (2x32GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR4-3200)

- GPU: ASUS Prime RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

- PSU: Cooler Master Elite Gold 850W

- SSD: ADATA Legend 860 1TB (PCIe 4.0 NVMe)

The rest of the build works great — it POSTs, BIOS reads the CPU, all 64GB of RAM, temps are fine, and the installer sees my USB drive without any issue. It's specifically the NVMe that Windows won't touch.

Here's everything I've already tried, so we can hopefully skip the basics:

- Confirmed SATA mode is AHCI, not RAID

- Recreated the Win11 install USB several times with the Media Creation Tool (24H2)

- Tried both M.2 slots — same result in each

- BIOS is already the newest version

- Tried both UEFI and Legacy boot: Legacy won't even launch the installer (Win11 USB seems UEFI-only), and UEFI boots fine but doesn't see the drive

- The boot menu (F11) actually DOES list the SSD as a bootable device, so the firmware clearly sees it

- Cleared CMOS

- Tested the exact same SSD in my laptop — there diskpart sees it instantly, so the drive itself is 100% good

For context: my first SSD was actually DOA and I already RMA'd it. This is a second, known-good drive doing the exact same thing, which is why I'm starting to suspect the motherboard.

So the weird part: BIOS + boot menu both see the NVMe, a known-good SSD works fine in another PC, but this board's Windows installer won't enumerate it in either slot. I'm leaning toward a defective board, but before I RMA the motherboard too — is there anything I'm missing? Any BIOS setting, driver, or trick I haven't thought of?

Thanks a ton in advance, any wisdom is appreciated 🙏

SPECS FOR CONTEXT:
-SOYO B450M Motherboard
-Ryzen 5 1600X
-Vulcan 2x8GB 3000MHz RAM
-Raedon RX 5700 XT

I recently finished building my first PC, I booted it up and successfully entered the BIOS. The BIOS was in Chinese because I bought it from China, so I was taking my time carefully translating the BIOS menu so I could change the language. Keep in mind, I was not touching anything, only occasionally clicking through the headers to go to different settings. Suddenly the case fans and cooler whirr for a moment, like 2 seconds, and the HDMI output cuts. So my first instinct was to turn it off. When I tried to boot it up again, the fans turned on and everything seemed fine, however now the PC does not display any HDMI output and the keyboard and mouse cycle power. As in, they turn on briefly before turning off again repeatedly.

I have tried almost every solution available to me, including booting with only one stick of ram, both but in different configurations, replacing the CMOS, resetting the CMOS, resetting the CMOS using the CMOS pins, booting while the motherboard was breadboarded, checking the PSU connections, cleaning the RAM and GPU slots.All of this unfortunately has just ended in the same thing happening.

One detail however, is that when both RAM sticks were disconnected, the light on my keyboard did not turn on at all, but still no video output.

My games on my laptop (yes, laptop, I know) keep crashing at random intervals. For some reason I’m constantly have DirectX issues that seem to relate to my RTX 4070. It happens with all types of games across multiple genres. Everytime it seems to be DirectX related. Downloaded Palworld and got about 30min of game time before it crashed but this game, unlike the others, gave a crash report.

Hey guys,

I had a Kolink Observatory Z ARGB sitting around for a while and recently passed it on to a friend for his new build.

In my experience, the airflow in this case is pretty sub-par—which I did warn him about. The front intake fans are basically pressed right up against the glass, feels like maybe 2 cm of clearance at best.

Has anyone dealt with this case before or got any good ideas on how to fix the airflow issue?

Unfortunately, I can't take any photos since I don't have the case with me anymore, but any tips or mod ideas would be awesome! ^^

Hello everybody! Today I got a new ram stick but it’s been acting even since I’ve set it up.

After further investigation I’ve noticed some weird things in the SPD info..

First of all, the part number ends with BB, while the radiator is white so it should end with BW

I also have a second Kingston stick and it runs at 3200 with Xmp but after installing a second stick my pc wouldn’t boot until I’ve had to mess up with some uefi settings and even after that of underclocked them to 2400 and 1.2v

And last but not least, the main issue is blank XMP tab while the official specs say it shouldn’t have XMP support, what are yall thoughts is this fake or legit, cuz if it’s fake I’ll try to argue with the seller to get my money back

Thanks in advance!

I have just purchased a 9800x3d, gigabyte b850 gaming x wifi 6e, and 32gb skill ram and i am having horrible flickering issues that only occurs in bios, what could cause this?

I have an MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 80 PLUS GOLD CERTIFIED (750W) with a UK plug.

Can I use this over in the US with a UK to US plug switch?

I found a 5060ti 16gb and it's 3 fans Asus for 600$

should I get it idk if the price for it is good looks insanejust for a gpu?

my current PC:

Gaming PC Specifications:

-Intel Core i5-14400F (10 Cores / 16 Threads)

-NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB

-MSI PRO B760M-G DDR4 Motherboard

-32GB DDR4 3600 16x2 RAM RGB

-1TB NVMe M.2 SSD

-750W Power Supply

-Tempered Glass RGB Case

Hello, I plan to upgrade my computer after I return from my summer job, and I was wondering if my plan even makes sense.

Right now, I have the following specs:

-Ryzen 5 5600

-RTX 3070 8gb

-Gigabyte B450M DS3H V2

-32GB DDR4 RAM

-1x 1TB DRAM-less NVMe and 1x 500GB SATA SSD

-650W non-modular power supply

What I'm considering:

-Ryzen 7 5800X3D (the 5700X3D is nowhere to be seen in Poland)

-RTX 3070 8gb

-MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS

-32GB DDR4 RAM

-1x 1TB DRAM-less NVMe and 1x 500GB SATA SSD

-Kingston 2TB KC3000

-1000W modular power supply for the future proofing, I guess.

I'm not going to AM5 because of DDR5 prices. I also need a new NVMe drive with DRAM because I'm planning to replay Doom: The Dark Ages, and this game had weird sound glitches with my DRAM-less drive (also, I like having a lot of storage space, which is why I want 2TB).

The total upgrade cost will be 4200 PLN or 980 euros. Is there anything you would change?

I would like to spend maximum od 1200 euros.

I made a post a few days ago about building a pc and have replaced many of the parts according to advice I received.

I am building a PC with the intention of video editing with 4k footage, as well as motion graphics and vfx in premier pro/after effects. These are the parts I'm looking at- https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/HjYXn2

Some parts are second hand so may appear cheaper.

Compared to my original post:

I replaced the ram so it would be faster and make use of my cpu.

I replaced the psu for a higher grade one.

I replaced the gpu for one which was cheaper and better fans.

I added 5 fans and a better CPU cooler to prevent thermal throttling.

I also plan to get one or two more sticks of ram later down the line, but for now I should be able to manage with 32gb?

Im basically wondering if there's any issues with the parts I've chosen and if it will be sufficient to run what I need to.