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Yeah he has cabled connection, but having a lookout if a WiFi version goes on sale, just because it's nice to have. It will offcourse be 2x8GB or 2x16GB, seems like he's interested in having 32GB total. So maybe buying two kits of 2x8GB to get 32GB total.

Would you not recommend pairing two identical 2x8GB kits of for example the Ripjaws V CL16 3600MHz F4-3600C16D-16GVKC to achieve 32GB total? or am I misunderstanding?

As far as I've read theese should be fine, it was worse with Corsair. I belive the memory was on the QVL list for both motherboards at the XMP/DOCP speed.

Hello I'm currently helping my 15 year old nephew to figure out what parts he needs for his upgrade, and need some help on deciding on RAM and motherboard. Country: Norway, NOK. Budget: Not sure, what he is able to save up depends on his patience. Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, probably Fortnite, CoD, Overwatch, etc. Other details: I belive he is using a 1080p 144Hz monitor, with an RTX2060. Not sure about his current CPU and RAM, it's a second hand, might be Intel X99, or X99A something, waiting for him to verify what he has. He has his eye on the 5600X and B550 motherboards. The 5600X is currently at an all time low in price here at 2100NOK (201,94USD at time of writing). For reference, currently 13600k is at 4095NOK, 12600k around 3000NOK, and in general Intel motherboards are priced fairly high here, as far as I have seen. I've tried to narrow it down to the following: - Motherboard: MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk at 1849NOK or Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming at 1790NOK (both of these have been on sale intermittently, and I'm counting on them beeing agian, down to about 1200-1300NOK) - RAM: Remembering all the back and forth about single rank and dual rank, and two or four modules, at launch of the CPU generation, I might have overloaded my brain with information. So I ended on the following: Single rank Ripjaws V CL16 3600MHz F4-3600C16D-16GVKC at 900-1000NOK, or lower latency Single rank Ripjaws V CL14 3200MHz F4-3200C14D-16GVK at 1200-1400NOK. Both of theese giving him the opportunity to maybe upgrade by buying an additional kit later for a full set of 4x8GB RAM. If anyone has any other recommendations or combos, feel free to share them, and I'll have a look, thank you

Thank you. I do use a PS5, so the an avr with 2.1 would be nice, but I might wait until it's more available then. If not then I would have to switch away from the avr when using the PS5, and that's back to where I am now, switching around on optical cables.

Hello In the beginning of 2021 I got a new TV, to replace a noisy 12 year old projector. The TV is a Samsung with one HDMI 2.1 and one HDMI eARC. In the room I have a 5.1 Canton speaker setup connected to an equally aged AV reciever, a Pioneer VSX-1019H, all of this is something I inherited. Currently I have my sound going through an optical toslink cable from my TV to the reciever, but I'm wondering if I could get more out of this system, as I have read that the optical interface is aging, and only giving me compressed 5.1 audio. Is there anything I can do with my current setup, or do I need to switch out the reciever with a newer one with eARC or someting similiar? Any help is much appreciated, thanks.

Thank you for the reply, do you have any recommendations on tutorials/videos/text guides that are worth a look at for a newbie,. on how to manually set up a safe overclock?

Hello I've slowly been trying to educate myself a bit more into the basics of overclocking. I have a 9700k paired with a Z390 Aorus Pro WiFi (Bios version F12a). In videos and guides I've seen, people tinker with alot of settings in their BIOS, to achieve the overclocks, and I haven't grasped all of them yet. So biggest question for me, would be the following: In my BIOS I have 3 "CPU presets": Default, Gaming, Advanced. With the Advanced selection I'm getting 4,9 steady on all cores, I belive. Is this even a proper overclock, or only halfway there? Most other settings in the BIOS just gets put to Auto due to this. For info, the PC is used for gaming only, just want to make sure I'm not beeing fooled by the motherboard manufacturer Added a screenshot, with the values I'm getting.

Hello, hope you can hlp me, having some strange stuff happening. I got a a M.2 NVMe SSD, that I wanted to use as my OS/boot drive. So I unplugged all my other drives, put in the new one, and used a USB with windows installation tool to set up the new OS drive. The installation went fine, had to delete some partions on the new drive, as it has been used before. Then when the windows installation wants to restart the PC, I'm sent directly into the BIOS, where it can't see the new drive, so I can not select a boot priority. The BIOS does see that I have a NVME installed on my motherboard, but it will not allow me to select it as a boot drive. So I went from having a perfectly functioning system to nothing, haha. I've tried clearing the cmos, and doing the installation several times, urrently making a newer USB installation tool. Is there something I'm clearly doing wrong here? (Using a Z390 Aurous Pro WiFi, drive is Kingston A2000 500GB.) Update: Ended up going back to my previous setup. Startet getting warning in windows installation that it would not let me install windows on the SSD and that I might have to change/update the controller in the BIOS. Read online, thx google, about CVS, keys, legacy, any OS settings etc, and that got to complicated for me, ha!

Hello I've have steadily been upgrading my PC, and I've been trying to figure out if I shold get some new RAM. Escpecially with a January sale going on where I live, I might find something with an ok discount. Currently I am using 16GB (2x8GB) HyperX Fury DDR4, at XMP profle 1 (the only one available in BIOS). That gives me 3200Mhz, and according to CPU-Z the following: CL 18 / tRCD 21 / tRP 21 / tRAS 39 / tRFC 260 / CR 2T I don't know much about timings, and don't want to tweak to much of that. PC is mostly used for gaming, with the following specs: Z390 Aorus Pro Wifi i7-9700K GTX 1070 TI My budget is around 200 USD, and some RGB for aesthetics would be a bonus. If you have any recommendations for better RAM, if it's even necessary, all replies are much appreciated.

Thank you @Jurrunio and @minibois for your replies, I'll probably upgrade in the future then!

Hello I'm wondering if it's worth switching my motherboard from H370 to Z390. As far as I understand, my RAM is currently limited to 2666MHz, and I don't know if I my CPU gets limited some way by the chipset as well. My current setup is the following: CPU - i7-9700k Motherboard - Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi RAM - HyperX Fury DDR4 3200MHz 16GB (2x8GB) GPU - GTX 1070 Ti Storage - Kingstan A1000 / Seagate Barracuda 1TB PSU - Corsair RM650x Display - Samsung 27" 1440p 144hz Cooling - Corsair H60 (2018) Operating System - Windows 10 Pro 64bit I just recently started to dig into PC hardware, and bought this PC used before I knew to much. Mostly use it for gaming, and the H60 cooler keeps the CPU under 60C at around 50-60% usage while gaming. (35C ish during idle) I don't know much about overclocking and don't plan on doing anything fancy, but with Z390, as far as I've understood, I can get the 3200MHz from my RAM and maybe get higher safe speeds on my CPU? Been looking at Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro. Any recommendations, help and tips are greatly appreciated

Thanks for the reply. I set it to Profile 2, but I can't find anywhere to change the frequency. Is it possible that it's because of the H370 chipset, not being able to overclock? Think I read something that my motherboard is limited to 2666MHz or something similar....?

Hello I'm trying to learn more about my PC and what I can tweak on it, so recently I've read a bit about Ram and XMP. I currently have HyperX Fury DDR4 3200MHz 16GB (2x8GB), but it doesn't look like I'm getting 3200Mhz, and I don't even know if I can? I went into my BIOS settings, and looked at the XMP settings, it was disabled, so I tried the "Profile 1" and "Profile 2" options to see if there were any difference. Pictures show the results, using CPU-Z info program. So, can I increase it safely and easily up to 3200MHz, if so how? If I could bump the speed up to 3200Mhz, would I get a performance boost in games or other places? If I can't do any of that, should I even bother with XMP? Using the following: Motherboard: Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi Cpu: i7-9700k Any recommendations, help and info is much appreciated, thansk!

@WoodenMarker Thank you, I was wondering how that worked. I'm using a Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi, and as far as I have found online, the fan headers are 1A. Currently I'm using two Noctua NF-S12A PWM 120mm, and if I add a third, then it will be the same type. Below is a copy/paste of the specifications of the fans. Max. input power 1,44 W Max. input current 0,12 A Operating voltage 12 V I have enough Y splitters lying around, so that should work.

Thanks for the reply! How do I then connect those three fans to a single header on my motherboard? I've read about some voltage/amp limits, and do I buy a splitter with 3 to 1 4pin, or use two Y splitters, if that even works?

Hello. I've been doing some google searches, but didn't find any good answers, hope you can help me, and hopefully this is the correct sub forum. I'm interested in switching out my Phanteks P300 with a P400A (non RGB version). The case comes with a built in fan controller for the front fans, and I might put three fans in the front of the case. My question is, how do I connect those three fans into one fan header from the fan controller? I'm currently using two Noctua NF-S12A PWM 120mm as my front intake fans, and if I get the P400A, I might want to add one more. The fan controller in the P400A is a 3pin connector, with low, med and high as its settings.