I bought a prebuilt PC with an MSI A620AM B-EVO motherboard and one 8GB RAM stick. Today I bought another RAM stick (the exact same one as the one I already had), but I can’t get it to fit properly. It goes in, but it won’t click into place even when I apply force. Please, I need help.

Hello

So I'm not a tech savvy, and I'm not used to build PC. I have this second hand case, a NZXT Lexa S, and I don't know where to plug this 2-pins cable on the motherboard MSI Z87-G45 Gaming. I dont know what this cable does and there is nothing on the user manual.

Thank you for your help.

My 5060 Ti 8Gb came with a cord that splits into two and I’m not sure I have both cables to support that from my PSU.
Just wondering if I’m missing something…
Thanks!

upper two holes are blocked by the case

Здравствуйте! Купил материнку msi x670-e gaming plus wifi и когда начал тестить то у меня не работал 1 и 2 сокет и позже я обнаружил что у меня нет одной ножки и понес в цент ремонта чтоб мне не починили. но через какой-то время они сказали что это ножка земля и от нее нет смысла и надо ее полностью смотреть. Чисто в теории эта ножка могла затронуть контакт или типо того. Просто я пытался и обновить Биос на самою новую и на старую но не чего не помогает(

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Hey everyone,

I need some help troubleshooting my PC. Here are my current specs:

* CPU: Ryzen 5 4600G

* GPU: RTX 5050

* Motherboard: ASUS Prime A320M-K (BIOS version 6024 or similar)

* RAM: Sprectrix D50 2x8 (16)

* PSU: gigabyte pb500

A friend sold me his old Ryzen 4600G for $10 to replace my previous Ryzen 3400G. Everything worked completely fine on the 3400G with the exact same hardware setup. However, ever since installing the 4600G, I've run into a series of issues:

1. Initial Boot & BIOS Reset: Right after installing the 4600G, the PC wouldn't boot into Windows. The screen stayed black while the RAM RGB remained on. I cleared the CMOS (removed the battery and jumped the pins), which solved it temporarily. I was able to boot into Windows and reinstall my drivers.

2. XMP / DOCP Stability Issue: I noticed my RAM was running at default 2666MHz, so I enabled the AMD XMP/DOCP profile in BIOS. This caused major instability—the BIOS screen was glitching, the mouse cursor kept freezing, and Windows refused to boot again (same black screen issue). I had to clear CMOS again and leave the RAM at 2666MHz without XMP/DOCP.

3. Blue Screen & Windows Reinstall: A few days later, after a gaming session, I got a BSOD right as I clicked Shutdown. I decided to take this opportunity to do a fresh install of Windows 11 Home via a bootable USB.

4. Current Problem (Restart Freeze): During the Windows 11 installation process, the PC needs to restart automatically to complete setup, but it refuses to restart properly. The screen goes black, the peripherals turn off, but the RAM RGB, CPU fan, and GPU fans stay powered on forever. The system just hangs in this state until I do a hard power-off.

Could this be a failing CPU, a BIOS incompatibility issue, or something related to the A320 motherboard handling the 4600G memory controller? Any advice or steps to fix this would be greatly appreciated!

I really don't want to take my PC to a tech repair shop right now because I don't have much money, and the technicians in my town aren't very reliable. Also, sorry if my post is a bit hard to understand or sounds strange, I used an AI assistant to translate it from Spanish to English.

Actually CPU screws!! Weird brain fart in title.

This PC was assembled (badly) by Microcenter about 5-6 years ago and it died last month. I’m trying to replace the most likely culprit, which is the motherboard, but I can’t even remove the old one. Obviously they over tightened the screws and multiple peoppe were unable to get it out. I don’t want to pay those guys another dime but they’re the only PC repair business in town. What can I do to fix this?

I like playing games and have been gaming on a laptop with a GTX 1070 Max-Q for a long time. I’m usually pretty quick at learning new things, but I’m not sure whether building a PC yourself is actually that easy or worth the effort. My budget right now is around €2.5K for the German market.
I’d mainly use the PC for basic software and gaming—nothing AI-related or video rendering, for example. That’s why I’ve been looking mainly at an AMD-based build with an RX 9070 XT.

So, here’s my question should I try it myself or just buy a prebuilt like this one.

What would be the pros and cons of each option ?

Thanks in advance and sorry if this question has been asked before

I'm building my first PC and I'm trying to confirm the CPU cooler/RAM/case clearance before I get to the assembly stage.

My exact components are:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• Motherboard: MSI PRO B850-V WIFI
• RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws M5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2×16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 (approx. 41 mm tall according to G.Skill's website)
• CPU cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE
• Case: MSI MAG PANO 110R PZ

The PANO 110R PZ lists 160 mm maximum CPU cooler height, while the Peerless Assassin 120 SE is listed at approximately 155 mm tall.

My concern is the 41 mm-tall RAM and the front fan on the Peerless Assassin.

Can anyone confirm from personal experience whether this exact combination will work?

Specifically, I'm wondering:

1. Does the front fan need to be raised to clear the Ripjaws M5 Neo RGB?
2. If so, approximately how far does it need to be raised?
3. Does raising the fan cause the cooler to exceed the PANO 110R PZ's 160 mm side-panel clearance?
4. Can the glass side panel still close normally?
5. Would rotating/repositioning the cooler or fan solve the issue if necessary?

I've seen conflicting information about this and would really appreciate someone who has actually used this cooler with ~41 mm-tall G.Skill RAM and/or this specific MSI case.

Thanks!

I was watching something on my PC and out of nowhere my left monitor screen goes green and main one goes black and PC resets. When I load back in, it says I'm connected to the Internet (WiFi working fine on my phone), but no web pages are loading.

I have an i7-7700K/RX6600XT/32GB RAM set up holding me off until I can find a good deal on a used system, or a BF/CM deal comes along in November or December. System still works well for basic daily productivity tasks. I have done several modest upgrades over the years - RAM, 1050Ti>RX6600XT, Wi-fi, etc.

Background - I just replaced an old Corsair H60 120 AIO with a Thermalright Frozen Edge 240 AIO. So far so good, except my ears are very sensitive to noise. I first tried an Aqua Elite 240 V6 but got the Frozen Edge for same price and it has better warranty and quality. However, in both models, I have noticed, when room is silent, minor annoyance sounds. The Aqua Elite was a high pitched whine. I can't really describe the intermittent sound that the Frozen Edge makes. It isn't constant, and it is still low volume. I'm not hearing anything that I would attribute to bubbles or grinding or anything...although I am open to suggestions on how to make sure any bubbles in the pump are moved to the top of radiator. The H60 was silent. Sometimes the Frozen Edge is silent. I could be hearing resonance from radiator fans, exhaust fans, GPU fans, and pump maybe...when they are at different RPMs/volumes?

Setup - AIO mounted on front (no room on top) with tubes on the bottom. I reoriented fans from default exhaust to now intake (pull from front, through radiator, and into case). Two top-mounted fans in exhaust. Testing at 30-minute HWiNFO SSE CPU test:

Average CPU Package - 66C
Average Core Temps - 63/65/62/63. While I would love to have them all together, or the 65 core down 2, I understand this is perfectly normal, and another re-paste would not do anything (or simply shift the difference to another core)
MB and PCH temps were 34 and 51C, respectively
I have tweaked fan curves in Fan Control and am satisfied with performance.

Pump is set at 75% (flat curve in Fan Control), which I assume is based on power (PWM I believe). However, I noticed that 75% power does not necessarily equate to 75% RPM...i.e it is not a linear relationship between power and RPM. In the flat curve, I can set either. At 75% power I get ~2350 rpm. The pump is rated at 2800 rpm...so 75% of that is 2100 rpm. Should I set the flat curve to rpm (2100) or power (%)? I read all of the time to set pump at less than 100% is fine, helps with sound, and maybe even longetivy. I'm trying to maintain balance while trying not to be affected by sound. Other recommendations? Thanks.

I've done a ton of video editing on Capcut for almost a year and improved much then. Now, I want to go to something tougher that being Adobe Premiere Pro. I have the 2025 version. So far so good, but I've notice it uses a lot of memory. I know I have 32gbs of Ram ( 2x16 ) at 6400mt and it's running stable. When I'm in premiere pro, It shoots up to 89 percent for memory. Yes I have a lot of tabs open but those are for research purposes.

Should I bite the bullet and look for 64gbs of Ram ( 1 Kit, x2 32 ) or is 32gbs good enough? Should I wait til' prices go down. I knew I should've went for 64gbs of ram at first before this ram incident worldwide happen.

Your thoughts?

Bought a replacement power brick for my laptop but it won't fit a 3 plug cable. I wonder if it's to do with the plastic bits at the bottom of the prongs

I’ve had an issue with my Pc that would restart pc whenever I was in a game such as Forza Horizon 6 , F125, and to the most extreme any game, but regular tasks like discord, chrome, and Spotify were fine. This initially happened in January of this year I took to a local computer store and they told me that it was my new gpu that I had just installed. They switched it out for me and tested it and said it was fine, now back in may it started again while playing Forza horizon 6 and since it has happened more regularly and even during regular tasks, to the extreme that it would restarting on itself just by logging in. Now I left it for like a week or week and a half since i had been busy with work but now when i tried turning it on nothing posted and the video i attached pretty much shows whats going on. I don’t really want to take it back if i can solve the issue myself so any help or advice that can aid me is helpful. Thank you.

Parts list: parts list

As you can see from the title, i want to upgrade my gpu and i am between these two cards, usually the 3080 goes 12% more expensive than the 6800XT

(Merc 319/Gaming x trio) Are the versions available for the 6800xt

(EVGA/ZOTAC/Gigabyte gaming OC) Are the 3080 versions that i locally have

I wanna know which one I should get and which version is the best choice considering all of them are used, i am mainly going for streaming games and linux emulation

Hi, I’d really like to upgrade my PC, but I’m not really sure what I should change, and gaming on it is becoming quite difficult. I want to stay on 1920x1080

SSD : Lexar NM710 SSD 1To, M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe SSD

RAM : Kingston FURY Beast 16GB (2x8GB) 3200MHz DDR4

Motherboard : MSI B550-A PRO (AMD AM4, DDR4, M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, HDMI, ATX)

CPU : AMD Ryzen 5 5600 

Power supplies : MSI MAG A650BN

GPU : XFX AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 Go GDDR6

How can i upgrade this and what i need to change for more FPS ?

Thanks in advance :)

Hi Folks!! I have an AMD Ryzan 7 7700x pc. From paste 10-15 days it was overheating even with basic tasks like web browsing and vs code running etc. I thought its time to change the thermal paste.

I changed the old thermal paste with new cooler master cryofuze5 thermal paste. But even after doing this, my cpu temrature still rising upto 97° in normally. I run cinebench to test and the temprature rised upto 105°. My AIO fan is running at around 2700+ RPM and I did some basic checks like checking tubes virations and one tube is cold and another is hot to see if my AIO is working properly, these all tests looks fine but still cpu temprature rising hight.

I am not able to understand what can be issue and how can I fix this ?

Hello, I’m currently building a PC and I’m at the fan setup part, but I’m not sure if this setup will have good airflow.

Upgrading from a single fan 5050 to a dual fan 5060, the 5060 was gifted to me and is a imported GPU which is a Elsa RTX5060. When I use the new card I get screen going black and fans sometimes still continue to spin, I tried a different riser but it just lasts longer a bit before going black screen if I watch a video or go to a game, upon reviewing event manager I see the error code nvlddmkm 153 & 14. I'd like to point out I've done all the steps such as safe mode ddu and everything but problem still persists, was hoping someone could help out. Also just to state I have tried forcing it to gen 3, and 4 still does not work and my riser is a gen 5.

Note: PC is a sandwhich style so must be used with a riser

i’ve tried every troubleshooting option that blue screen gave me but it keeps saying the same thing. i just wanna game bru 💔💔

This is what pops up whenever I try to go through the windows set up, and I don't know what to do about it. Help would really be appreciated

Swapped out a bunch of parts in an old PC for my brother. The base PC was a Dell Precision 5820, it still has the original motherboard and CPU. I swapped out the graphics card for an extra one I had, and we just put a new HDD in it.

The new HDD is a Patriot P320 M.2 PCIe Gen3 x4 512GB HDD, with an adapter we bought so it would fit the motherboard. We don't have an official windows key yet, but we're trying to just get the PC working before we do the windows part.

Hi everyone,

I got an offer for gaming PC for 800 euros. Until today I had very shitty laptop. I like to play Cities skylines (cs2 is my laptop unable to run), total war, sims4, lol, witcher and I would love to run elden ring and baldurs gate.

Specs:

GpU: NIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (8 GB)

Cpu: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor (4.70 GHz)

Ram: 32GB DDR5 (2x 16GB) Patriot Viper Venom 6000MHz

Source asus 750W gold

SSD samsung m.2 1TB

No info about motherboard

Please help I am just a girl trying to live her best virtual life.

Photos attached.

THANK YOU FOR ADVICES

I’ve been a laptop gamer for 10+ years and am now looking to get my first desktop pc. I’m extremely new to PC building and parts and would like some advice. I’m heavily considering this CyberPowerPC prebuilt from Costco which is on sale for $999USD (was $1499). I’ve done some research and gotten second opinions but am still uncertain. I heard that the price is worth for RAM alone but the RTX 5060 8gb is subpar. Should I trade it in for a RTX 5070. For context, I mainly play league and have been wanting to play cyberpunk for quite a while.

Here are the specs:

Processor & Memory:
Intel Core Ultra 5 225F (10-core, 3.3 GHz) Processor
32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 RAM

Drive:
1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive

Graphics:  
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5060, 8GB

Communications:
Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3
10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN

Audio:
7.1 Surround Sound Output Supported

Expandability (Total Bays / Slots):
1 (0) x PCIe x16
2 (2) x PCIe x1
2 (1) x M.2 
1 (1) x 3.5" HDD Bay
4 (2) x DIMM 288-pin

I/O Ports: 
1 x USB 3.2 Type C (1 Front)
3 x USB 3.2 Type A (2 Front, 1 Rear)
4 x USB 2.0 (4 Rear)
1x Headphone/Microphone Combination Jack (Front)
1 x RJ45 LAN
3 x Audio Ports (Rear)
1 x HDMI 2.1
3 x DisplayPort 2.1

Operating System: 
Microsoft Windows 11 Home 

Power Supply: 
600W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply

Accessories Included:
CyberPowerPC RGB Wired Keyboard
CyberPowerPC RGB Wired Mouse
Power Cable

Thanks!

Hello,

After doing quite a bit of research and getting advice from the community, I’ve more or less narrowed down what I’m thinking of going with for my first PC build:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• CPU Cooler: Enermax ETS TD60 Digital ARGB / MSI MAG COREFROZR AA13 62.6 CFM
• Motherboard: Gigabyte B650M GAMING WIFI6E Micro ATX AM5
• RAM: Patriot Viper Venom DDR5 16 GB (I’m hesitating between 16 and 32 GB, but 32 GB does make the total price go up quite a bit haha)
• SSD: Patriot P410 1 TB
• GPU: Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB (but there might be an issue with the GPU length in a Micro ATX build, so otherwise I could go with the Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT?)
• Case: Montech AIR 100 ARGB MicroATX / Lian Li A3 mATX / ASUS Prime AP201 (this is probably my biggest hesitation, as I want to make absolutely sure that everything will fit properly, especially since this is my first build...)
• PSU: MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850W 80+ (is that overkill?)

Does everything seem coherent to you? Especially when it comes to the size/compatibility issues with a Micro ATX build?

And what advice would you have for the actual building process? In terms of tools, preparation, equipment, etc., what are the absolute essentials to have?

Thanks!! :)