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  1. Is it a bad idea to buy a 3700x now that Ryzen prices will probably fall? I found this bargain but I'm still not sure.
  2. All the pins are fine and straight. I don't know if it's worth the risk to redo the soldering.
  3. I had a R7 2700 which didn't work (PC would't boot) because it had two broken pins. I fixed it soldering two new pins. I tested it two mobos and in both cases I only have 7,9GB usable RAM. However, it still gets dual channel. Overall it works just fine. Is there anything I can try? Thank you! PD: which CPU is better for gaming? i7 3770 (non K) or i5 4690 (non K). I used this ram: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 2x8GB CL15 Tested in Gigabyte GA-A320M-S2H V2 (updated BIOS) and Bazooka V2 (unupdated BIOS).
  4. But isn't there any risk of short circuit with a heatsink touching a capacitor?
  5. Hi, I have this cheap GA-A320M-S2H V2 motherboard which has no heatsinks on its VRMs. I installed these heatsinks as well as I could, but I'm not sure if there is going to be any conflict due to one of the heatsinks almost touching a capacitor. Are they well installed? Any other recommendations to avoid CPU thermal throttling other than directed airflow? Thanks! Untouched motherboard:
  6. So what you recommend me is to try to overclock that 3000mhz RAM as much as I can? Will it be easy in a B350 motherboard? What else should I try in order to get the max potential out of the zen+?
  7. In that case, which graphics card upgrade would you recommend me? I'm looking more for used cards.
  8. I already have all of them but I want to sell worst one for gaming. Also, which graphics card would you recommend me to upgrade to?
  9. I've been doing my own research for a while now and I can't get an answer. I think the i7 and the i5 are better in single thread therefore they will perform better in most non new games (is that right?). I want the CPU exclusively for gaming and I don't think I'll stream. I can OC both i7 and i5 but it will be hard to OC the R7 because the motherboard has B350 chipset. I'll have good airflow and I bought heatsinks for the VRM tho. My GPU is GTX 1660 and I play 1080p 144hz but I might upgrade to a 1070 or a 1080 (ti?). If I upgrade to a 1070/1080 (ti) which processor will bottleneck the GPU the less? I think the R7 but only because of the DDR4 RAM. One more thing to mention is that I'm looking more for FPS stability rather than unstable FPS. Is there any way to achieve that? RAM for the i7/i5: 2x8 1600mhz CL9 RAM for the R7: 2x8 3000mhz CL15 PSU: Corsair 750W 80 plus gold. The other PC will be sold so I can upgrade from the 1660 to the 1070/1080 (ti?) Thank you!! Pd: it's i7 non K, i5 non K and R7 non X.
  10. I only posted it in a friend's house because I don't have RAM. I don't have the case neither. If you want, I can do a little update when I try it.
  11. First, I tried if it worked without these two pins, but it just would not post. I tried inserting two pins from an old AMD CPU into the MB socket so it made contact with the CPU, but it woulnd't post neither. It took me a while to get all the necessary items to fix it: soldering station (with flux, tin, etc.), 0,3mm copper wire, an AM4 socket motherboard to test it... I followed the same steps than this video: Here are two pictures of the fixed pins:
  12. Hehehe That won't happen!! I won't spend more than the 30€ I paid for this motherboard XD
  13. By the way. What RAM do you recommend me?? I haven't bought it yet. I want 16GB. I was thinking about 2x8 3000-3200 mhz pack.
  14. It's a 2700 non X. And why do you keep saying it's A320 chipset if Gigabyte says it's B350?
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