Simple Questions - May 02, 2020 |
- Simple Questions - May 02, 2020
- Tonight I spent four hours troubleshooting my new build. I reslotted everything multiple times, examined the board thoroughly a dozen times, and did countless google searches.
- Building a PC case out of two ikea boxes
- Do I have something to worry about?
- Returning the 5700 XT. Used 1080 ti, new 2060, or just shell the extra for 2070?
- I overclocked my CPU last night, then returned it to stock. Now I'm getting stutter every 1-4 seconds
- My brother made a really stupid mistake with his new build today
- Thinking of upgrading
- PC suddenly shutdown while gaming with a burnt smell, what happened to my GTX 970? New build or just change GPU?
- Please Help.
- I just finished building my PC and it works!!
- Accidentally scratched my motherboard with the screwdriver, no post from GPU now
- First time building pc could I get your opinion on the parts I picked?(Budget $1000ish)
- RX580 owners, have you had any issues with the GPU so far?
- First PC build
- Help with 144hz please
- What is the best 550-650w power supply currently for $100 or less?
- M.2 NVMe SSD's vs Sata SSD's?
- I need some help for my first Pc
- First time ever making a build + looking for monitor help
- Ryzen 3600 very hot 93C
- Ram Upgrade Failure, possible dead mob ram slot
- I just need a pc that can get 30fps 1080p on single player games
- 1440p/144hz or 1080p/144hz monitor for my 2070 Super?
- Upgrading Cpu Cooler
| Simple Questions - May 02, 2020 Posted: 02 May 2020 05:10 AM PDT This thread is for simple questions that don't warrant their own thread (although we strongly suggest checking the sidebar and the wiki before posting!). Please don't post involved questions that are better suited to a [Build Help], [Build Ready] or [Build Complete] post. Examples of questions:
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| Building a PC case out of two ikea boxes Posted: 02 May 2020 06:52 AM PDT Hi ! This afternoon (france) I am buiding a two compartiment pc case out of two ikea wooden boxes. I will try to update with photos and/or différents steps ans issues. Im not following any tutorial, i just go inspiration from my broken pc case and a few youtube videos. If you have any question, tips, comments, let me know :) Update : *Curruntly marking the holes the motherboard mounts and sanding the back for the PCI mounts *The motherboard is fit well and is screwed ! I need to sand the back to let the graphic card slide. I will continue Tomorrow with the psu and storage box and the câbles optimisation Also here is the link to the imgur post with photos (im sorry my hair hid the case a bit) Imgur post [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Do I have something to worry about? Posted: 02 May 2020 10:47 AM PDT This is gonna sound really dumb but im really new to pc building, but do the power supplies come with a cable to plug into the wall. Im just really unsure and dont wanna build it just for it to not have something to plug into the wall [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Returning the 5700 XT. Used 1080 ti, new 2060, or just shell the extra for 2070? Posted: 02 May 2020 01:40 PM PDT After a crushing three days of tweaking with the 5700 XT, it's time to move on past the black screens. For alternatives, what would you consider a good choice in the $400 to $500 range? I was weighing the 1080 ti, 2060, and maybe the 2070. Help me choose please! [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 May 2020 02:10 PM PDT Hi, thank you
This morning my cursor, or video (YouTube) stutters every 1-4 seconds. I have experienced this before!
It now clearly seems that my original stutter experience last year was related to the OC What's happening here? What can I do about it? Thanks a million. I love my computer and want it to be happy. Edit: I cleared CMOS, resetting to stock
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| My brother made a really stupid mistake with his new build today Posted: 02 May 2020 04:01 PM PDT Some background: I've been building pc's for friends and as a side gig for at least a decade now and if any friend of my friends needs a part list they always just defer to me. I usually don't charge even to assemble it for them, as we all know this is something some of us just like doing for other people and we've done enough stupid things building pc's to know exactly what to do and more importantly what not to do. This is fortunately a case of the former rather than the latter. My brother just called me in a panic, he bought a new motherboard, cpu, ram and power supply and he assembled it all outside of his case to make sure it all worked correctly before tearing his system down and I'm on the phone with him for like an hour asking him a million different questions and I'm just absolutely stumped and I'm literally about to ask him, "If I come over with a mask and a bunch of sanitizer is that okay? Because without seeing something I might just be missing it" and as a last ditch effort before I get my stuff and head over there I just think to ask him: "Tell me exactly what happens from the moment you short the front panel power connector to when you realize it's not gonna POST, give me the play by play" and he just goes "what do you mean short the front panel connectors". He had just been flipping on the power supply switch and assumed it would all boot up by itself since his current pc has a power button on the motherboard 🙃 [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 May 2020 12:46 PM PDT So... basically I made a mistake back in 2017 and bought a pre-built. I now need to upgrade and I thought I'd ask everyone on this subreddit before i pull the trigger and purchase it. Current System: CPU: AMD Athlon FX-4300 RAM: Some generic DDR3 800mhz 16gb ram Motherboard: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M5A78L-M LX3 (Yep, I'm actually using that in 2020) GPU: Asus GTX 1050ti with 4gb vram Storage: Samsung 860 qvo 1tb (I recently upgraded this so I'm gonna keep this in the new system) PSU: I don't even know its some generic 500w 80 plus thing but it looks real dodgy Upgraded system: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 RAM: Corsair vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 2x8gb ram Motherboard: ASRock B450M Pro4-F Micro ATX GPU: Gigabyte OC RTX 2060 Storage: Staying the same PSU: CORSAIR CV550 ATX PSU - 550 W Also, I am not buying all of this now, and all of it at once. I am buying the CPU, motherboards and RAM in july, then the GPU and PSU in December. I'm stuck with a 1050 ti for a while.... I am also hoping to buy some of this stuff on prime day, black friday and cyber monday, just to save a little bit of money. Thanks for any help given in the comments! [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 May 2020 10:44 AM PDT What is your parts list? ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 AMD FX8320 @ 4.5GHz Corsair H100i Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming 2x Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3 1866 MHz ASUS Xonar DGX OCZ Vertex 3 120GB WD Blue 500GB WD Green 2TB Corsair RM850 I've had most of the parts since 2014, only the H100i and the SSD are a bit newer. Describe your problem. List any error messages and symptoms. Be descriptive. I've had been playing Frostpunk for some hours when my computer suddenly shutdown; I thought it was a power loss (sometimes happens) but I instantly got scared when I noticed my monitors were on and I noticed a smell of something burnt. I unplugged the power cord and opened the case but didn't see anything wrong. I tried following the smell and I noticed it came from the GPU, after removing it from the case. I was hoping it was the PSU because it could've been an easy fix, but it looked okay. I tried booting the PC without the GPU, just to see if it would turn on and it did, it just gave a beep error code of missing GPU, so PSU/motherboard/CPU/anything else should be working fine. I then tried turning it on with the GPU plugged in this time to see if it would work, but sadly as soon as I powered it on I noticed some sparks from the GPU and the same smell but stronger, with the computer turning off soon after. I removed the heatsink and tore down my GTX 970 and took some pics: https://imgur.com/a/JunpF22 As you can clearly see from here something blew up, I think it's the back of the MOSFETs? I'm not sure. Obviously my GPU is gone, but I'm making this post to try to find out what happened: could it have been my PSU? I wouldn't wanna buy a new GPU just to get it blown up again :( I also had a doubt that maybe it could've been a droplet of water from the H100i but everything looked fine. My best guess would be that too much voltage for too long just slowly damaged it until something related to power delivery blew up. I was running it at 1.2750V, 1531 MHz clock and 1800MHz memory (see here). I know the voltage is pretty high, but I wanted to squeeze every last megahertz. I had no issues with the temperature though; while playing Overwatch I was at a cool 60C, when running more GPU-intensive games the maximum I reached was 79C/80C. I thought that as long as my temperatures were low there weren't gonna be major issues, looks like I'm wrong? I never had any artifacts or shutdowns or freezes or whatever. Everything was running fine, until something blew up. Post relevant photos of build/parts here. https://i.imgur.com/Ygna1KF.png https://i.imgur.com/vjk2JIM.jpg <--- culprit Provide any additional details you wish below. Sadly I don't have another GPU to test my build. While I made this post mainly because I'm curious about what happened to my GTX 970 and if my PSU and the rest of the parts are safe to work with, I would also appreciate suggestions regarding what to do now. I've been thinking of a new build for quite some time, I have the money needed but I wanted to wait for AM5, I don't wanna buy a new CPU now that the AM4 socket is almost at the end of the line. I could buy a mid-grade GPU and keep going till AM5, but that feels so long from now. What would you do if you were in my situation? Thanks for all the help! [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 May 2020 01:33 PM PDT This problem has been plaguing my PC ever since its been built a month ago. I've been noticing sometimes everything on my PC would slow down to the point of nothing responding. (windows wont respond, task manager would struggle to open) I've been forced to hard shutdown my PC every time this has happened, and the problem usually goes away after I turn it back on. I've looked at my Event Viewer but I can't make any sense from what I see. I suspect something might be wrong with my HDD or my Installation of windows, but I can't seem to find out what exactly is wrong. Can someone please help? Part List: MSI rtx 2070 Super barracuda 2TB HDD AMD R5 3600 Corsair 16 gb ddr4 RAM (2x8) Gigabyte Aorus elite x570 wifi Motherboard EVGA 650 PSU I have the file that has all the system errors and I can send it to you through email. [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I just finished building my PC and it works!! Posted: 02 May 2020 02:03 PM PDT Sorry I know this is a dumb post but after 5 years of wanting to build one, one year of looking at parts, and one month of picking out my parts I finally built one last night!! It took me about 8 hours total but when I plugged it in it booted right away (after jiggling around the 24-pin connector)! I honestly didn't expect it to work because I thought for sure I made several mistakes while I was building it. I still have to install Windows, update the drivers, and finish some cable management but for now I'm so happy that it works and I can breathe!! This community is awesome, I couldn't have done it without this subreddit! [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accidentally scratched my motherboard with the screwdriver, no post from GPU now Posted: 02 May 2020 01:56 PM PDT As the title says I have absolutely screwed up my motherboard with some scratches/dents by mistake and dizziness. Now the gpu will not post anything but the internal graphics are working as intended and my whole pc is fine. I have tried both pcie ports, nothing. I will attach a video with the gpu symptoms as well as a photo with the dent/s. They are between the cpu and pcie 16x port. Could the gpu be damaged as well? Bios will not recognise anything from my pcie slots. The dent/s are right above the m2 stand-off. Kudos! [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First time building pc could I get your opinion on the parts I picked?(Budget $1000ish) Posted: 02 May 2020 10:26 AM PDT CPU - Ryzen 5 3600 GPU - RTX 2060 Storage - 1 Intel 660p Series M.2280 1TB RAM - G.Skill RipJaws V Series 16GB (2x8GB) Motherboard - B450 Tomahawk Max Power - Corsair CV Series CV550 80 Bronze Certified Case - Fractal Design Meshify C [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RX580 owners, have you had any issues with the GPU so far? Posted: 02 May 2020 10:58 AM PDT I'm planning on getting a RX580 soon and wanted to know if there were any compelling issues that you guys might have had with the GPU? For the most part I think its a strong GPU especially for its price but I read through some amazon reviews that their GPU stopped working within the 3 month range? Not sure what happened but I thought I ask this subreddit [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 May 2020 04:16 PM PDT Hey there, After saving up for a while, I finally decided that I'm ready to get a PC. My main goal is video editing since my jobs kind of moved that way (I'm an elementary school teacher). I also want to use it to save/store/stream media files and maybe do a little gaming on the side. Eventually, I want to upgrade/add additional storage and memory, but this should hold me over for the time being. A few buddies helped me choose the parts and another said to toss it up here to get confirmation from the Reddit world. So here I am. I'm happy for any opinions, especially if anyone has good tips for cutting cost without cutting performance. (If I can save a few bucks, cool, but I've met my budget and I won't go over). Affirmations that this will do well for a dope build also go a long way. TL;DR Budget is one stimulus check (who needs to save when this comes around): https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WMZkyk [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 May 2020 03:47 PM PDT I've recently got a 1080 144hz monitor (Acer Nitro VG271 Pbmiipx on a rx 580) and disappointed by the 144hz feel not any different from 60hz including changing the settings or lower the settings on game going past 144fps. I've been working on it all day. I've changed the display setting on windows to 144hz. Setup a custom resolution and refresh rate and more. Even found a unboxed hdmi 2.0b cable but nothing helps. Will using the display port make a difference? [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What is the best 550-650w power supply currently for $100 or less? Posted: 02 May 2020 03:16 PM PDT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 May 2020 04:04 AM PDT So I recently got a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD to replace my 120GB Sata SSD as my boot drive. I was comparing the read/write speeds and the M.2 SSD had read/write speeds of 3400/3000 MB/s whereas the Sata SSD had read/write's of around 530/370 MB/s. I thought holy shit the M.2 is so much better, but there is almost no difference to load times and after watching various videos comparing load times, the M.2 is only marginally better, so why is that? Why is there only a marginal increase in load times when the read/write speeds are so much faster? [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I need some help for my first Pc Posted: 02 May 2020 04:59 PM PDT I am building my first Pc and this is what i have so far. I don't know if I should downgrade my cpu to a 5 3600 and use the money to get a 2060 Super or keep it with what i have. [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First time ever making a build + looking for monitor help Posted: 02 May 2020 04:54 PM PDT Hi! I'm going to put my first ever build here to get some feedback. I'm hoping to do some gaming, streaming, and editing photos. That photo part comes into play because I'm hoping to get some help in choosing a monitor. Overall, I'm not trying to break 1500$ so if there's anything to cut down costs on the build or anything, I would appreciate it. Here's the build:
edit: I'll also say that I chose a lot of these parts sort of at random because I don't know things like the best motherboard or cpu fan [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 May 2020 02:38 PM PDT So I upgraded today to a ryzen 3600 and tomahawk b450 max and the when I finally played a game I noticed the fan going full chat. I opened up the MSI dragon monitor thing and it said it was 93 degrees Celsius. I have the stock cooler screwed tight. Any ideas what's wrong? It's my first amd cpu I've never had heat issues before. [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ram Upgrade Failure, possible dead mob ram slot Posted: 02 May 2020 02:34 PM PDT Hey Everyone, I'm having an issue I've never had in the past when it came to upgrading ram in computers, etc. I've just about searched every corner of the internet and I can't seem to find a solution. About 3 years ago I built a custom PC with the following specs: Motherboard: Asus H81M-K CPU: Intel i5 4460 Memory RipJaws DDR3 (F3-12800CL10S-8GBXL) GPU: (Added later) GeForce GTX 1050 TI PSU: Roswell (something or other, if I can get the model number if needed, 500 watts) Since then I've only done minor upgrades such as replacing my HDD with 2 SSD's, the GPU, and most recently an additional 8GB of ram. When I first put this computer together I accidentally put the ram in the B1 slot and the computer won't post, I didn't think anything of it and put it in the A1 slot and it booted just fine. I recently bought another RipJaw 8GB stick to max my system out at 16 GB, Everything on the stick matches exactly with the older stick and for some reason when I populate both ram slots (This board only has 2) the computer just sits there and the fans just run endlessly without posting. I tried the new stick individually in the A1 slot, no issues. So I thought maybe there is some kind of difference between the older stick and the newer one I'm not seeing, so I bought yet again, another stick from the same seller. Tried the 2 new sticks and still, no post. Then I tried just populating the B1 slot like I did when I built the computer, no post. I kind of wish I paid more attention to this when I first built the computer and sent the motherboard back because now I think the slot is faulty. I've tried everything I can think of: Resetting the BIOS settings by taking out the CMOS battery Trying all the sticks individually Disabling XMP (To be 100% honest I'm not sure what that is Haha) Reseating the CPU, looking for bent pins If anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it! There are a lot of settings in the BIOS for the RAM that maybe need to be configured that I just am not aware of, I'm not very technical when it comes to RAM speeds and it's configuration. Thank you, in advance! [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I just need a pc that can get 30fps 1080p on single player games Posted: 02 May 2020 04:41 PM PDT How can i cut this price in half? I game on a Nintendo switch and use a 10yo laptop for computer stuff. Im not trying to build a monster i just need it to work. My 10yo laptop used to be able to play modded zombies on call of duty world at war but not anymore. I just need a computer thats alittle more powerful than my 10yo laptop and my Nintendo switch I plan on playing terminator resistance, sims 4, cod waw modded zombies, and maybe fortnite. Designing 3d models, slicing STL files for 3d printing, editing metatags, uploading to spotify. And streaming movies
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| 1440p/144hz or 1080p/144hz monitor for my 2070 Super? Posted: 02 May 2020 12:38 PM PDT Just wondering which monitor to get for my pc. I have a 2070 Super and Ryzen 7 3700x with a stock cooler. The games I play are a mixture of multiplayer and single player games like CSGO, COD, Flight Simulator, Metro Exodus, Assassin's Creed etc. Would appreciate ideas as to which monitor to get. Ideally I would like to stay over 60fps and play at high/ultra settings. [link] [comments]  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 May 2020 02:10 PM PDT I was wanting to upgrade my cpu cooler from the stock cooler I got with my Ryzen 5 3600x to something that works a bit better and runs quieter. Any tips for removing the heat sink without ripping the Cpu out of the motherboard and should I completely take you the motherboard from the case or doing the upgrade In the case should be fine? I was looking at either the Hyper 212 cooler or the Arctic's Freezer 34 esports duo. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
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