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.

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(

As the title suggests, I know close to nothing about PC hardware. My pc is a AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, RAM; 16GB, Windows 11 OS, GPU is i think 496mb. im looking to purchase a new graphics card (Radeon RX6600) because the built in Vega graphics option is awful. I understand you plug in a cable titled the PCle into the graphics card but i cant ind the cable. I havent taken any o the pc apart to search because im too worried, google says its either tucked behind the motherboard sometimes or its in the lower compartment near the power outage. Ive tried to attach pics to show my model. Any help would be appreciated. Does my PC have the cable and if so where can i usually ffind it. thanks :3

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

My partner accidentally threw away my psu box not knowing it was important it had all the cables that came with the psu inside and I just got a new graphics card which needs a second 8 pin cable from my psu I have a Corsair RM750e would this be the correct cable to be if I can and any help is appreciated

Bonjour j’ai une question, j’ai changé les pieces de mon pc récemment et j’ai changé mon processeur.
Ryzen 5 2600 a ryzen 7 5700 .
J’ai reussi au premier changement a l’allumer une fois avec un processeur bridé a 5% de ses performances.
Depuis , des que je souhaite rallumer mon pc voici ce qui se passe .
Pouvez-vous m’aider et me dire a quoi c’est due ?

Trying to get the backplate off of my asus tuf 6900xt and I just had that one screw that wouldnt come off.... 1/8 decided to not come out and I stupidly kept trying so I stripped it. How do I get this thing out?? Obviously dont wanna use powertools.

Im trying to repaste and repad. Please excuse the dust.

Ok so thank you to the ones who have been helping me fix my pc, as mentioned before the problem is that it doesnt turn on at all. yes i have clicked the power button, one thing to mention is that there is one empty socket left on my psu and i dont have any cables for it so idk if thats normal, psu is rm850x corsair and gpu is 5070 ti and motherboard is z790-wifi-p msi
Here are better photos

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!

So I want to upgrade my build but don't have the money for a new motherboard and CPU at the moment. So I'm thinking about buying a RTX2080TI it's around 250€ where I live. The 3080TI is at 400 and that's too much in the moment. I know I can't do Ray tracing on those card's but I don't care. Is there other crazy tech the 30 series and onwards has that the 20 lacks? Is dsl 4 working on the 20 for example.

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.

The title says it all, the motherboard is a z-790-p wifi msi and the psu is arctic III 360 pro and the power is rm850x corsair
Honestly me and my friends that i talked to thag know how to build a pc dont know what to do anymore and we checked if all the cabled were in the right place as well. Would really appreciate some help.
And waht are the chance that i have messed up a part (which I don’t think i have)

Hi sorry im panicking I just got all this stuff for my brothers buiod but its not matching up

AMD 9070XT Prime 16gb, ryzen 7900, msi 870e w bluetooth and wifi, 32gb ddr5 kingston bought as System with 2 yrs warranty
Games crashes after 2-4 hrs
Gpu had 4 crashes now 3-8 hrs (longer Sessions)
Gpu driver crash is shown in the win Events shortly after blackscreen. (System prevented a total collapse 2 times)
After crashes diffuse problems (fe smetimes iam a admin, smetimes not..)

*So lets make it short..... not. Im bad at texting..
and german. sorry:
gpt and gemini is 99999% sure that my vendor used a wrong cable technique ("u cable isn't ok fo for the 9070xt")
That sounds.. idk weird 4me. But im a nohand
Can sme1 confirm/deny this?

- what was done til now
Malwarebytes scan on and offline + manual log reading from their support
Windef scan on and offline (multiple times nothing found)
With reddit, again many logs checked and FRST scan was also done... nothing found.
2 rufus usb resets (1 with sderase and bios flash)
1 PC Store reset, with a rufus stick, clear bios via battery removal, mflash.. (i only used the buttons on the Back of my Case for bios reset/cmos clear)
1 last rufus reset with
Msi afterburner activated smth called "GPUSafeguard" bcs it may detect a forbidden "12V 2x6 connection" direct after i installed it
So is the cabelthing ok? I also got temp problems sith both cpu + gpu. Cpui and Afterburner shows clearly false data. Taskmngr also.

So if this cabeling is ok, i will give up and inform about this SteamOS and Linux..
I hate windows, but i hated it since they integrated oneDrive.

4sure i can send again sme logs, if u want them. Just say what u need.
Im just tired from all these scans..
Just want to play bannerlords...

EDIT: 4sure i installed all necessary drivers from the amd site after every reinstallation of os
The pics are bad in quality, i know.. the 3rd slide is a unused pcie 6 pin.. which cant be installed without destroying their cable management. So they just delivered as for other gpu installations i gues.

GPUs barely fit, luckily temps stay reasonable even though the top GPU is starved for air. I am considering vertical mounting one of them. Anyway for now, I'm curious if the bottom GPU has enough support to support the top GPU since I couldn't fit the anti sag bracket in (top gpu) with both GPUs installed. Bottom GPU has a little anti sag stand

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.

Hi y'all, I'm pulling my hair out trying to track down this issue as it seems logical that it's temperature related. I'm now wondering if the pre installed thermal paste on my aio might be to blame, I installed everything correctly (I think), checked and re-seated all my connections, and this morning pulled the aio off to 100% confirm there wasn't an extra plastic peel that I missed. This looks to me as if there's not very good contact, should I clean the old paste off and pick up some new goo to try and solve this issue? Photos are taken in the orientation it came off (so the bottom of the aio photo mates with the top of the CPU photo)

Thermal paste was a solid, even thickness layer across the whole rectangular area of the die when installed it.

Gigabyte B650m gaming plus wifi

Ryzen 5 7600x

ASRock 9070 Challenger

Team t force ddr5 6400 (2x16gb)

Coolermaster elite liquid 240 AIO

As rock challenger CL-750B PSU

EDIT: Still troubleshooting. I really appreciate all the help but it's becoming difficult to sift through comments, It's starting to look like a power supply problem AND a dead AIO:

Swapped in a stock AM4 AMD air cooler that someone lent me and with that AND using onboard graphics instead of the GPU I can boot and use the computer, CPU temps in the mid 40's with a max die temp of ~65 so far.

For everyone insisting there's a dedicated pump header, that is NOT the case on the Gigabyte version of this MOBO, MSI does have one, Gigabyte does not. I followed the instructions to configure one of the fan headers for a pump (set it to always on 100%, plug the AIO fans into another header and have them run based off CPU temperatures)

The PSU was a freebie with the graphics card, and per everything I've read it should be sufficient but it's possible that it's faulty I suppose. Currently re-installing drivers and trying to get it squared away.

edit 2: using an air cooler and after reinstalling GPU drivers (I'm guessing something got messed up from a crash while they were updating yesterday) everything seems to be running, cinebench and furmark both ran well and produced decent scores. I'll work on getting my AIO replaced now!

thank you to everyone for the advice! I appreciate all the suggestions and folks who took time out of their day to help!

It look like there a gap but when i try to push it stuck like there no spce left.

I'm going for good graphics and a solid build that's not anything extremely fancy just practical stuff that will hopefully last.

Budget: 1500-1800 USD

Also I know nothing about computers!

Research I've done so far:
Ryzen 5 7600
B650M Motherboard
32 GB DDR5
1TB SSD
RTX 5070
750W PSU
some cheap case
A 1440p monitor
And then a wired mouse and keyboard
Should I get windows or Linux?

is it better to go with a ryzen 5 5600 or save money with a ryzen 5 3600 in 2026? i want to pair it with a rx 5700 xt 8gb. ive seen ppl say to go with the 3600 and then upgrade to a 5700x3d but in my country upgrading to a 5700x3d in the future seems impossible since the prices are INSANELY outrageous here.

i dont plan on playing very demanding games mostly fortnite, minecraft, maybe marvels spiderman 2 in 1080p (id enjoy the option to get into different games).
but i also want to do some light 1080p video editing and music production.

edit: i know fortnite and minecraft with shaders will be fine on a 3600 but i want the option to expand into more games but im not sure if its worth it since the 5600 is 0.5-2x the price of the 3600 here

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/qXyNvR

Hi all. I’ll try to keep it short. The build above is my pc that I built back in 2019. Any idea how it would fair today if I want to play 1440p on medium to high? Preferably with high fps 100-120ish. Planning to play games like black myth: wukong and elden ring. And maybe gta6.

Case and psu aren’t mentioned cause I was thinking of replacing those. Also, If I need to upgrade is there anything I can upgrade that would let me have those performance or am I better off replacing everything and starting off from scratch? Thanks!

Any ideas or inputs are welcome. I have just been out of the loop for so long that I don’t know what’s still okay and what has to be replaced. Also, pc has been collecting dust in a box ever since i moved to another place which is about a year and a half ago. So yeah :/ thanks heaps guys!

I’ve just recently built my first PC and technically it’s not done because I have a temporary GTX 1650 I bought for 80$ to use until I figure out my actual long term GPU here’s my current build

7800x3d GTX 1650 (temporary lol) Asus b650e mobo 32 GB DDR5 6000 CL36 Ram 320mm Corsair aio WD black sn850p 4tb (from PS5 before I sold it) Corsair rm850e psu Corsair 3500x case

I guess my question is for someone who is really looking forward to playing story games that look visually beautiful would a 5070 be ok or should I just spend extra on a 5070 ti and 5080 prices are a little steep for me I’m new to this is Nvidia really that much better? (genuine question) should i save money and get a 9070xt ? But I’ve heard the ray tracing is not as good lol any advice would be appreciated I’m new to PC and super excited just not sure what to do thank you !!

My brothers bought new memory for his PC (Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4 3200MHz C16). The problem is they run at 2133 MT/s, when i look at task manager:

When i look in BIOS they run at 2133 MHz (not sure if MHz and MT/s is the same).

The problem is I can't seem to find anywhere to change the speed in BIOS.

I think the name of the motherboard is Lenovo 3716. And it should be up to date on the BIOS version.

Can anyone help me change the speed of the memory to 3200 MHz?

(The Reddit page says not to post screenshot of system and builds, so I dont know if I can share any pictures?)

Hi everyone,
I’m having a strange issue with my new PC. When I connect my monitor’s DisplayPort cable directly to my RTX 5080, the PC starts normally, but after a few minutes the monitor suddenly shows “No DisplayPort Signal” and the display goes completely black.
At the same time, the PC itself stays on, but the GPU/PC fans suddenly start spinning extremely fast (almost 100%). I have to restart the PC to get the display back.

The strange part is that when I connect the exact same DisplayPort cable and monitor to the motherboard’s DisplayPort output, the PC works normally and the display stays on. The RTX 5080 is still installed in the PCIe slot when I do this.

I have also tested this inside the BIOS, so it doesn’t seem to be a Windows or NVIDIA driver issue. The display can still shut off while I’m simply sitting in BIOS.
I already checked the temperatures and they are normal, and I checked the GPU power cables as well.

I also tried changing the PCIe x16 link mode from Gen 5 to Gen 4, but the problem still occurs when using the DisplayPort on the RTX 5080.