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Is it only your mouse? If so I'd just say its a defective mouse.

Funny enough, I had both a Darkflash PSU and a Corsair CV PSU blow on me. The Darkflash took my MOBO with it and the CV luckily didn't harm any other parts. The cheapest option I would go with are the EVGA BA 500w/ EVGA BR 500w for $60. They're no top tier PSU but I've used them in a lot of budget builds and they work perfectly for what they cost.

Tried, nothing. Im almost sure its not thermal paste.

I mean that I deliberately scrubbed the areas containing the grey residue and it still wont go away

Dont see why it wouldnt.

If thats thermal paste then its the most persistent thermal paste of all time. Ive scrubbed it with a noctua 99% IPA pad probably 300 times.

Alright, the pc works as intended so I won't worry about it.

When I bought a 9700k used off EBay, I noticed that when it arrive it had some weird discolored contacts. When looking at the contacts from a top down perspective they don’t look bad, in fact, they look completely normal. But when I shine a light on the side of the cpu, I noticed some weird discoloration. It almost looks like thermal paste, but ive tried cleaning it with noctua pads so many times that I know thats not the case. The images below show what im talking about. Theyre not the clearest but I think you can get the picture

He's only using a i5 7400

So, my friend is perfectly content with his system specification wise and performance wise, but his system keeps crashing and it has been troubleshooted to be caused by the motherboard. I'm searching ebay for motherboards and what not but it's very hard to find a B250 or Z270 motherboard that is not completely overpriced. The only one I have found is this one, but it claims to be a "mining motherboard." and i'm not sure if it will perform well when gaming.

I see, I guess I will just stick to Moca then.

im not planning on adding more than 2 devices, so should I still go MoCA? I dont understand the premise of Cate5/6 as I can't run long cables through my walls without it being insanely hard.

Okay, so I tried using power line adapters and those failed miserably, they kept causing my CAFCI breakers to trip constantly and I could not find a solution to it for the life of me. Someone recommended to me MOCA adapters to get Ethernet speeds, however. The problem is the price. These cost about $170 and after wasting $110 on powerline adapters that netgear refuses to refund me on, I'm really not looking forward to paying that. I found these that look pretty similar to the moca adapters that were reccomended and am wondering whether or not they will suffice, if they will do the same as powerline adapters and trip my breakers, and if they will give similar speeds to wifi.

Could I get a link please? I cant find it

I guess I'll have to start saving for the coax moca 2.0 adapter then. I've seen them online before and they seem pretty good, but sadly I'll have to go back to my subpar wifi connection until I can afford them.

I've noticed that recently my NEATGEAR 2000mbps powerline adapters have been causing my CAFCI breakers to trip after around 5-6 hours of use. I've tried to return them and I even got some TP LINK ones on amazon- same result. I'm just wondering if there is anyway to fix this except for going for the traditional ethernet cable running throughout my house?

I mean, just using the top m.2 slot seems to be fine. SSD still runs cool and speeds remain fast

I guess just a faulty M.2 Slot?

Sorry, no, I'm using 1909. One weird thing that I noticed is that the problems seem to seize when I use to the top M.2 Slot, however, this slot lacks a heatsink on my motherboard(z390 MPG PRO CARBON AC from MSI) Any explanation for that?

Yes, and I'm using the latest windows version

So, I discovered an odd problem where, despite being on a z390 chipset, my 970 evo is causing my gpu to crash my system when running at x16 speeds. When my GPU runs at x8 speeds, the system runs perfectly fine. No weird crashes or anything. When it run at x16 however, my windows almost runs at 1 fps. It's insanely unresponsive and it usually ends in a crash(no BSOD however.) I just find it very strange that my GPU has to reduce the PCIE lanes in order to work with the 970 evo. Could it maybe be the motherboard or bent cpu pins? I just don't 100% understand the issue. When I unplug the 970 evo from my system and run windows on my 860 evo, it works perfectly fine at x16.

It's flush alright. Also, the 1.1 isnt that normal. Because in GPUZ it shows the max bandwidth usually being x16 3.0, but this time it also showed it being x16 1.1 and when I put a load on it, it remained there

So, recently I noticed that my GPU is running at x8 3.0. Which is odd because previously it had been running at x16 3.0 but now it currently is not. I've tried Reseating GPU Updating Windows Checking CPU for bent pins Trying different GPU slots Updating BIOS(this one was a bit weird though, keep reading) Trying a different GPU Cleaning the slot Okay, regarding the BIOS i noticed something rather odd, when I updated the bios, it said that the slot was running at x16 in the bios configuration, when I went into windows it said the same, GPU running at x16(But it was running at 1.1, no matter what load I had put on it). But when I had restarted the pc, all the sudden it is running at x8 3.0 once again. Is there any logical reason behind this? I almost think that it's an ill manufactured bios. SPECS I9 9900k MSI MPG z390 GAMING PRO CARBON AC RTX 2080 ZOTAC AMP RM850x 32gb of Corsair Vengeance RGB ram 1 TB 970 EVO & 1 TB 860 EVO

You cant,theyre keyed

So, I recently have been having a problem with my newly built pc. Whenever I boot up my pc after it has been shut down previously it boots into windows fine. But soon after the screen locks up. Ive updated bios, memtested my ram, and done about everything i can think of. When i hard reset the pc and boot it back up after it crashes it works perfectly. No errors whatsoever. But its just that boot when it has previously been shut down that freezes my windows. specs 9900k z390 mpg pro carbon ac Rtx 2080 rm850x 3200mhz Corsair Vegeance RGB ram. ive also checked all my disks and crystaldisk reports no errors