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Hi All. if this is the wrong spot let me know

My ASROCK H81M HDS motherboard, probably about 7 years old now, (at least im suspecting motherboard) wont power on.

I was on my pc as usual, went out, and came back to my keyboard not working (plugged into usb 2.0 ports), but everything plugged into USB 3, such as my mouse, external hard drive, and phone on front usb 3 were fine, moving my keyboard to usb 3 worked fine

I thought this was weird, so I restarted my computer and it boots fine, no errors, but usb 2.0 on motherboard is still dead.

so I turn off the computer, then at the power supply, then the wall and left it for a few minutes to ensure everything is out of power

I have swapped the cpu, ram slot, tried a different case power on switch, reseating power supply, and the old shorting with a screwdriver and the pc wont turn, (this is with just the cpu, ram, 24 pin and 4 pin cpu connector in, as well as a cpu fan to see if the pc turns on at all)

My power supply is fairly new, but I do have another I can try, but my only other guess is that the motherboard is toast or potentially the cmos battery has died? I have read that if they go weird issues can arise and it wont turn on

has anyone experienced this before? is there another way to turn the motherboard on in case its just the power on switch that has failed such as the reset button?

Id say its possible but youd need your computer on and the extra load on your computer. just buy a cheap gigabit switch and you'll be fine, you can get them for under $20 from Amazon

I think it will be similar to phones and pcs even, Apple is in its own little world, with Windows for PC and Android for phones also having their seperations, unless Android or Apple suddenly died, I dont think so

Each company wants its users to wear its tech and they give the best features and operations with that, even though Samsung uses Android they have their own watch os and give their best features there, Apple with Apple, there is also obviously Googles Android Wear that would work pretty okay with every phone

Just now, RadiatingLight said:

Gaming is much more GPU-based than CPU (although obviously you need both) and assuming you're upgrading from a much older GPU, you should still be getting a huge uplift in performance.

If the gpu is putting out alot of frames it can actually hurt the cpu performance causing stuttering and lockup, you will have to most likely lock your fps at 60 (if it reaches that with a 1650 depending on settings) 

The difference would be marginal, most power from the screen would be used on resolution and brightness

Seeing you have intel integrated graphics they have a control panel you can open to make a custom resolution and refresh rate

11 hours ago, Aereldor said:

What GPU is it? 

950, so it will definitely not be drawing much power even when gaming lol, perfect for basic 1080p games he would be getting into

Thanks!

To those suggesting parts,

The 9100f is perfect as its not "only" for Web surfing... slowly getting him into some gaming, im able to reuse spare parts at the moment (hence spare gpu) so all I need to buy is the cpu and motherboard which are on a deal atm in aus, hes getting a decent computer for less than the price of a cheap monitor 

The differences in power usage are also useless to our living situation, i was purely just reassuring it was compatible as I couldn't find an answer set in stone

Is the i3 9100f natively (not needing bios update) with a b365m motherboard? Planning on a cheap web surfer for my stepdad, I have an old gpu to go into it

What are your thermals diong?

1 hour ago, Diegonnc said:

will 8gb make a difference in terms of lets say "cranking up the game texture settings to maximum" ?

You wont be able to really with the 570 for the kind of games that will use more than 4gb, so 4gb is "enough"

I have a Rx580 and can play any game at 1080 with tweaking

If youre sticking to 1080 60 you will be fine, you may find on higher end games you will be turning down some graphics settings to keep above 60 but you will be able to play just about anything with tweaking

17 minutes ago, JuiceBew said:

WiFi drops randomly

17 minutes ago, JuiceBew said:

Both my comp and Xbox are hooked up to Ethernet.

If youre plugged in via ethernet then you're not on WiFi??

Do you mean your actual internet drops out?

18 minutes ago, JuiceBew said:

my WiFi provider is time warner cable and the router is an Arris router.

I think you're getting confused with "WiFI" and just generally your internet service, you can call time warner to see if they can discover and issues on your end / send a tech out, or potentially just swap out your modem/router as it could be causing issues, when you have a drop out try to restart it and see if it comes back online, if it does its most likely that

I think theres a reason why "gaming" mice exist and not "gaming" trackpads you can buy for a pc

1 minute ago, lexusgamer05 said:

The Xbox 1 and PS4 actually do run on the x86 platform, but again, the problem is DRM.

UWP, having the same games on Xbox and PC is amazing

3 minutes ago, lexusgamer05 said:

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 had PowerPC chips in them,

The PS3's cell processor was such a double edged sword, it was very powerful and alot of the later releases still had so much visual depth, but that was usually only for platform specific games, as it was so hard to optimise for

Old Console hardware had their own specific way of working, aka not the same processing architecture, instructions, as today, and then on top of that the way that the games were developed and stored on their also very specific code, theyre all programmed differently, and stored mediums such as cartridges, and the way it had to read those mediums

Its not as simple as "just translate the code to run better", there essentially isnt "code" for the old consoles that can be easily translated for computers, then theres the optimisations for the old hardware, the way its compiled for that hardware,  emulation basically brute forces our hardware into creating that non standard environment to read the games developed for it

Also, alot of emulators are developed and released for free

Wine works because you can run Linux and Windows on the same machine using the same hardware and you dont need to 'emulate' the windows environment because the ability to run those programs already exists

It's alot easier to just redevelop the game to work on newer hardware, which is what alot of companies are doing

Disable/Enable Audio devices and try reinstalling audio drivers?

Are you using USB or 3.5mm?

Dont buy or change anything until things are no longer intelligent guesses or leaks/rumours

a 750 seems like it would be fine

RX 580 or a 1650 Super, with a deal you could get either from 250 to 300, I believe the 580 has slightly better performance than the 1650 super but nvidia also has better drivers and support in general

https://www.techspot.com/review/1958-amd-radeon-rx-5500-xt/#:~:text=Performance Summary&text=On average the 5500 XT,than the GTX 1660 Super.

1 hour ago, Wiebenor said:

Hey guys... I have an idea I've been wanting to try, and I'm wondering if it will work...

It can be done but  a ceiling fan will obviously be better, look at cfm (cubic feet per minute)

ceiling fans from basic googling usually do around 4000-10000 cfm depending on model and size obviously

a 120mm case fan would do about from 40-60

but then you are also able to spread out the case fans to apread out the movement of the air in the room than just the one central area of a ceiling fan

I would personally do 180mm fans as they would still look like case fans but actually be able to move more air

Try to rule out as much as you can

End all the background software you can through task manager

Use DDU and reinstall your gpu drivers

If possible, reinstall windows or boot up in linux and see if the performance changes

If you dont want to get anything off of it you should just be able to reformat it and use it

Your router will most likely have its own firewall for blocking ports, hence the whole process of setting it up to allow 25565 through, unless youre handing your ip out to everyone and downloading some sketchy things you will be fine

?? Are you trying to fix this? Its unavoidable, just use both at 1080p

Of course this will happen with different sized monitors, Windows cant detect 'monitor size', only resolution

Why not just turn windows firewall off, it detects the new edge as a virus (woops thats defender lol)

14 minutes ago, Srebrenko13 said:

both CPU and GPU aren't crossing 50-60% usage while games are stuttering a lot,

What was the experience like on the 380?

The 1500x may not be strong enough, but I dont want to talk out of my ass if its not that if the gpu really isnt ramping up on clock speed.

Download msi afterburner and try to apply an overclock to the gpu

This might sound strange but increase your resolution to 4k, it will push more of the load to the gpu and less on the cpu as it will have to deliver less frames and obviously the gpu will have to work harder to render at 4k