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  • Birthday Jun 17, 1999

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  1. Hello everyone, This morning when I clicked the power button on my PC, fans started spinning up, the storage drive started humming, and my monitor detected signal from the DisplayPort as usual. After waiting for around a minute though, I realized that something was wrong. I clicked the power button on top of the PC, and it immediately shut off. After work I went about troubleshooting. During troubleshooting I noticed that the boot light seems to stay on. I can't seem to get to BIOS or boot screen. I've tried the following: 1. Replace CMOS Battery. 2. Bridging the Clear CMOS Pins. 3. Reseating GPU. 4. Starting without drives plugged in. 5. Starting while holding down delete/F12 key. 6. Using HDMI and DisplayPort on GPU. 7. Using DisplayPort on motherboard. 8. Powering on with one stick of RAM removed. 9. Letting it sit for a while with power on. I'm kind of out of ideas. Everything has been working for about 6-8 months (this is how long I've had the motherboard, GPU, and RAM). Based on what I'm seeing it seems to be a motherboard issue, but I really can't figure out any way to confirm. Has anyone else run into this issue, or a similar one? I appreciate any information that can be provided. I'd love to figure out what's going on with my PC so I'm able to use it for work rather than my laptop (not to mention gaming). Component List: Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X GPU: MSI Radeon 6800XT RAM: 32GB G.SKILL Trident Z 3200Mhz Storage (boot): 500GB Samsung 850 Storage (other): 2TB Western Digital Blue HDD PSU: Corsair RM750X
  2. Thanks for the replies, everyone. After further thought, I think that I will likely ride out the inevitable issues while gaming until later this year when I plan to upgrade my rig (and can hopefully get an RTX 4000 series).
  3. Hi all! I believe that this is the correct place to post this, but if not please let me know. Yesterday, I ordered the Samsung G9 Neo (it was 500 USD cheaper yesterday so that's a win). Anyway, as I started thinking about it, I began to question if the GTX 1080 that I currently have is enough to drive it properly (I know I won't be able to get the full 240hz until I get a card with display stream compression). Here's my current setup: Intel Core i7-7700k - stock speed Asus Strix GTX 1080 16gb DDR4 3000mhz Corsair RM750X 750W power supply I was planning on building a new PC this year around the start of December, so the main question I have for everyone is this: will the 1080 be able to perform well enough for this monitor in games like Farming Simulator 22, Satisfactory, and Minecraft? If not, should I go ahead and get a new graphics card (probably an RTX 3080) and pair it with the current system until December, or is it time for a new PC now? Any help or tips are greatly appreciated. Thanks! edit: just wanted to mention I got this monitor primarily for work. We will be switching to work from home soon and programming on a 21 inch monitor was killing me
  4. Hi all! I’m trying to put together a computer for as cheap as I can to host a farming simulator server and maybe a Minecraft server. I doubt that either of these servers would have more than 8 people on at one time. I’ll likely go 16 gb RAM. I’m having a tough time deciding between a Ryzen 5 3600 with a gt 710, or just a Ryzen 5 3400g. I’m mainly just worried that I might miss the extra cores/threads on the 3600, but will it really matter with the small amount of players that will be on? I welcome any advice about which to go with! Thanks!
  5. A new cpu would be good, but to get anything newer/better you would have to get a new motherboard and new RAM as well. I don't really see any way to upgrade from where you are with that amount of money.
  6. Hi all! Right now I'm pretty sure that I'm about to buy the Sennheiser hd6xx from drop.com, and a magni/modi stack from Schiit. Could anyone that has any experience with these tell me what type of cables I need? Also if anyone has any recommendations / advice regarding this please feel free to let me know.
  7. So i just need to change vcore right? Is there anything else that I should be concerned about changing as well?
  8. Okay cool. That's what I was thinking. I honestly just left the voltage at auto because I wasn't quite sure what a good value would be. I might tinker around a bit more and see if i can get anything else out of it. Thanks for such a quick reply!
  9. Hi all! Today I delidded my i7-7700k and used some thermal grizzly conductonaut. I also changed the cooler to the corsair h115 pro aio. My temps used to be mid-90s in prime95 at 4.2ghz. They're now down to 65 degrees at 4.8ghz! A great improvement, but I had a question since this is really my first time overclocking. Is it safe to keep my processor running at 4.8 ghz all the time, or do I need to change back to 4.2?
  10. A quick update on this. Amazon promptly sent me a new cooler. This one came sealed and everything looks as it should.
  11. I’ll do that too. I just looked closer and noticed that the baggies for mounting equipment were torn open, so this is definitely used.
  12. Yep I think that’s what I’ll be doing. All the unboxings I watched had plastic wrap around the box and instructions underneath styrofoam. I had neither of those so I’m thinking it’s used. Thanks for the quick comments everyone.
  13. So I just got my new Corsair h115i pro rgb aio in today and was looking through the box. Everything looked fine until I noticed that there is either used thermal paste on there or just a terrible application of thermal paste. I have my own, so it’s not a big deal to clean off and use my own, but I didn’t pay new price for a used product. Do you think it’s used?
  14. You know what... I think that you're right. I think I may still get some more RAM because 16 GB hasn't really been enough lately, but the rest of my system is still fine currently. Thank you for your suggestion, and allowing me to consider whether I truly needed, or just wanted, to upgrade my system. I'll probably spend that money on some other things in my setup that I actually need more than the components and save the rest
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