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Hi, I will start the story from the beginning. About a month ago, I had a bad ram stick, GSkill Trident Z RGB. Computer worked fine with it in, but had random crashes about once a week. Sent it back to GSkill and got the replacement pair today. Since then I was using the other 8x2 GB pair that I had. When I went to put the new sticks in, one of them lit u and one didn't, I took out and put back in the one that didn't, still nothing. I swapped the two to see if that would make a difference, then neither of them lit up, but the other two would still light up. I then tried one of the older sticks alone in that slot, nothing. Then I tried the last stick that had always worked in one of the slots that none of the other ram had been in since it was all working, and nothing. Now I have 4 sticks and none of them work in any slot. I have no idea if my motherboard is broken or if the ram is broken. I am worried that if I get a new motherboard, if the ram is frying it, it will break that too, and if I get more ram if the motherboard is broken, it will just fry the ram. And I for sure did not install them backwards or use any excessive force, they all clicked in as they should. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

How was it using EaseUS to do this, looking for the easiest way to change mine to GPT. No problems using it on the drive you're currently booted on?

Just got a new laptop for work and i’d like to connect 2 displays to it but it only has a single displayport output on it. Just found out that displayport daisy chaining is actually a thing so i was wondering if it would be possible to use it to connect both of my monitors. It has a 7th gen intel cpu and is using the integrated graphics so i’m assuming it has displayport 1.2 at least and would technically work. Did a quick search and didn’t really find a lot of dongles that would work for it and the ones i did were over $100. If it does work, a recommendation for a dongle would be great too thanks!

Helping a friend build a new pc, just wanna make sure the ASUS b550f is compatible with a 5800x out of the box or is able to flash bios. Just don't have another cpu to update the bios. Thanks.

youre the best, ill try and post what happens, thanks

windows 10 home version 1909

DPC Watchdog violation

So today I bought the new call of duty and am trying to download it on my pc, but every time i try to download, i get anywhere between 0-30% before i get the blue screen. I’ve tried this like 5 times and same thing. It says 135GB of required space and i have about 170 free on my 970 evo. Getting a bigger ssd for christmas so not too worried about filling this up. Right now i’m trying to download it on my hard drive instead. but would really rather it on my ssd. If anyone has any ideas let me know, probably another hour left if the hard drive does actually work so thought i’d post something in the meantime. Thanks!

Hey guys, just upgraded our internet to 500Mb and I've been using an old cisco router as an access point/switch in my room for better coverage. I can only get about 100Mb on it wireless and it gets pretty hot so I figure it might be time to upgrade. Just looking for some suggestions for something cheap but newer, don't need anything too fancy it just sits in the corner of my desk. Right now I have one ethernet cable going and and 3 going out so something with at least 3 ethernet outputs would be great to avoid also getting a switch. I live in Canada and price range would be under $200 Canadian. Thanks!

Thanks for the responses, I'll look into it.

it was an old samsung plasma tv, everything around that price is a 4k smart tv which would be good. HDR is nice but not necessary, I think I'm the only one in the family that even knows what HDR is.

So our TV broke yesterday, it was 10-15 years old so we're getting a new one. Just looking for some recommendations around $800 preferably from best buy canada. We were looking at 65", the old tv was 59" so somewhere around there would be good. I'll link below the one I was thinking of. Thanks! https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/tcl-6-series-65-4k-uhd-hdr-led-roku-os-smart-tv-65r615-ca/13185855

Thanks! One question that I've had lately, are motherboards just really expensive now. When I've looked at stuff for this, it always felt like I was spending way too much on the mobo. When I built my pc, I got a z-370 strix for $220 but now they're in the $300 and $400 range. I love my motherboard and am biased towards strix boards but is it worth it to spend that much on the motherboard? Just wondering thanks.

Yeah it is, could be something to look at. Doesn't have to be right at $2000 though, something for good value in the $1500-$2000 range would be good, but if it's worth getting in a 3950x that might be an option.

Budget (including currency): $2000 CAD Country: Canada Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Some games, most importantly for CAD, Rhino and vray Other details: He's upgrading from a 6700, only thing he's keeping is his 1070ti so no graphics card needed. Just hoping someone could throw together a part list to get us started with ideas. Like mentioned, need everything except gpu, including storage. I've tried making parts list but I know someone on here could get a much better value for that budget than me. I've looked at both intel and amd, most of the 10th gen intel cpu's are out of stock except for the 10700k which could be an option, although I'm 99% sure whoever answers this will use a 3900x which is fine. Also I know the xt cpus are coming out soon, who knows when we'll build this so if they're out will probably consider that or maybe get a sale on the old cpus. Only other thing I can think of is 2x16GB ram just in case he needs to upgrade to 64GB at some point. Thanks!