JosephMcCarthy

I recently built a low-budget gaming PC with a Ryzen 2 2200g, Mini-ATX motherboard, and a 256gb SSD, and 12gb of DDR4-2400. I have a EVGA 450BT broze 80+ PSU. My college advisor is offering me a GTX 770 to put into my PC, for only $45. I am currently using the integrated Vega GPU, and while its decent, a 770 would be a nice upgrade. I have dual monitors, both are only 720p. What I'm wondering is if the 450w PSU is enough or if I should upgrade that. He has the ASUS Direct CU II version, which has better power efficiency. According to multiple reviews, even overclocked with an overclocked CPU, it doesn't even reach 380w total power draw. Mine will likely be much less, considering my CPUs TDP is much less than their test bench. The only thing I have overclocked is the RAM, (was 2166 Mhz, OC@ 2400). So my question is... will my 450w be enough to add a 770 or is that cutting it close? Cooler Masters PSU calculator said my system uses 180w max, but I'm skeptical. There is no way my tiny motherboard uses 100w of power, even with the SSD, HDD and light-up fans. Its hard to pass up $45 for a 770.

I just tried that. Nothing happened. What exactly is that supposed to do?

No, I hit the F2 key when the computer starts. I hear a beep.. and then nothing. The screen stays off. Minutes go by. Still nothing. Then I restart, and it immediately boots into Windows, with no option to go into the Bios.When I first built the computer, for a brief second, I saw ASROCK on the screen, with an option to go into the BIOS menu. Now it skips that, and I am not sure why.

Hey, so over the summer I built a budget gaming PC. It was my first build, so I'm a newbie. I used AMD Ryzen 3 2200g, Asrock AB350M-HDV, 12gb Ram, Silicon Power 256gb SATA SSD, 1Tb Western Digital 7200 RPM HDD, a cheap case, and an EVGA 450w PSU. Anyways, when I start my computer, it refuses to boot into the Bios screen. If I try, I hear a beep, and then nothing happens. If I don't try, it skips the ASROCK logo, and boots right into Windows. So the MOBO/computer still works works fine, (in fact, I'm typing this on it right now) The clock is always off, and I cant enter the Bios menu to overclock the RAM, or enable virtualization. I think it might need a new CMOS battery. Does anyone agree? Also, if I replace the battery, would it still boot fine?

Its not a browser, its Google Earth. But yes, on Windows and Ubuntu is usually use Opera. Although I'm not sure how thats relevant. The problem is with Google Earth, not any browser.

I am trying to use my joystick for the flight simulator in Google Earth. It's a logitech 3d pro, and I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The joystick shows up on jstest-gtk, so my computer recognizes it. But Google Earth doesn't. It works fine on the Google Earth flight simulator on Windows. Does anyone know a fix for this? I'm somewhat new to Linux so I don't know a whole lot. Is there a command, package or driver I could install from Terminal that would make it work?

Everyone, I have another question... If I want to do dual monitor, will a mini-atx motherboard support that? Or will I have to add a GPU? I actually do have a couple old GPUs from older computers, but they are both more than a decade old. If I put one of those in, would it work in tandem with the APU? If not, could I set it up that way? One card is 256mb, the other one is 512mb. I think they would be good for dual monitor setup, and maybe helping with gaming if its possible to do dual GPU. Is that possible? Would that help with gaming, or should I just leave them out?

Okay, I'll probably do that then. Thanks for the info!

Would it make any difference if I game on an SSD or a hdd? Because I have around 150gb of flight simulator games on Steam, so I am considering doing dual drive. If I went that route, I'm assuming I should put Windows 10 on the SSD, and maybe a couple games, and put the rest on the hard drive? How much effect would that have on frame rate?

Thanks, I might use something similar. I will buy some from Newegg, and some from Amazon where I get Prime discounts.

Okay, so pretty much I would be fine with the SATA SSD? For flying simulators, I don't think it would affect the FPS at all.

Yes, problem is I am looking forward to actually building the PC myself. (This is my first ever PC build) I think that will be wicked fun, and very satisfying to look at the finished product and think- I built this!

Western Digital's is about $20 more than most SATA ones of the same capacity. So not the same, but not much more. I've seen benchmarks saying there is no difference in gameplay between the SATA and NVME, so what exactly is faster? Isn't it supposed to be 3x faster than SATA? https://www.amazon.com/Black-256GB-Performance-SSD-WDS256G1X0C/dp/B01MS6BYJD/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1521602698&sr=8-4&keywords=nvme+m.2+ssd&dpID=41OJCQNclyL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

Will 3000Mhz vs. 3200Mhz make a significant difference? because the faster RAM is wicked expensive. Also, should I get an NVME SSD or a SATA SSD, because the 256gb ones are pretty much the same price on Amazon right now.

I'll consider that. If I can spring for the Ryzen 5, I will. But more than likely I'll get the 2200g. I've seen YouTube benchmark videos of 2400Mhz Ram vs. 3000Mhz Ram, and the FPS difference is only slight. What is everyone's opinion on that?