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thanks for both of you. I have SATA3 ports on my mobo, so I should buy a SATA cable (doesn't matter if they are SATA 2 or 3, if that even exists for cables?) and plug in the HDD, then take the other port and plug in the larger SATA power connecter from my PSU. Hope I m not missing anything else!

Hi there, I just got bored and decided to start up my old desktop from +10 years ago, unfortunately it didn't boot. So I removed the HDD hoping I can plug it and access what's on it. But this is my first time dealing with HDD... I don't know what those 2 ports types and which cables do I need to plug in the HDD and to my modern B450M DS3H mobo. Appreciate your help!

yes I will be mounting that cooler back properly when I get the time and I am not using the pc until then, but I was thinking ahead in case the temps stays relatively high. Thank you for your concern I appreciate the feedback!

yes but which one would be better for the ryzen5 3600 as a replacement to the Evo?

thanks for your feedback, unfortunately I am limited to my country's (Tunisia) stores stock, buying online is possible but with shipping and customs delay and fees its not worth it. Although I appreciate your suggestions, I will into those!

Hi there, Although right now my CPU cooler Wraith Stealth isn't properly fixed (because of the backplate holding the cooler's screw fell behind the mobo, more details here: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1492755-cpu-cooler-isnt-fixed-on-motherboard/ ) I am getting very high temps on idle +80C and while using slightly I m reaching 95c easily and peaking to 100c (with surprisingly no lag, pc working smoothly), this got me thinking, other than obvisouly fixing the screws holding the cooler to the CPU, that I should upgrade the cooler itself since the stock Wraith Stealth isn't recommended at all and there are many reported cases of overheats with that cooler on the R5 3600). My search found that the best cooler to upgrade to is the Cooler Master HYPER 212 EVO, but unfortunately no stores in my country have that, but they have: Cooler Master HYPER 212 LED Cooler Master HYPER 212 LED TURBO Cooler Master HYPER 212 SPECTRUM I looked a bit and they seem to differ from the recommended EVO, so my question is which one of those should be a perfect fit (R5 3600+gigabyte B450 ds3h) and would be better than the stock Wraith Stealth? Thanks in advance!

so the video happens to have the same hole as me just by pure coincidence? wow!! I think I can't access it from from my case so I would need to remove the mobo as you said, but one more thing please, should I apply the thermal paste again or what I already applied yesterday should be fine? thanks

hi there, yesterday I cleaned my gpu/cpu fans and replaced the thermal paste, but when I screwed back the CPU heatsink/fan I only found one hole to screw in, the other 3 are non existent, so its like the cpu and the heat sink contact is only forced by one screw and the sticky substance of the thermal paste. Today I ve had some weird lags (no sound through one specific headsets, videos are laggy by games are not, some windows wont open) I noticed that the CPU temp reaches 90c and 100c easily. restarting the pc a couple of times fixed those lags, but the temp is the same. Pretty sure that the heat isn't getting transferred from the cpu to the heatsink due to the low pressure from one screw. This video show exactly what I have (Ryzen 5 3600 and gigabyte B450 ds3h ) but he somehow ends up with 4 hole to screw in https://youtu.be/FGHvckrhjzI https://i.imgur.com/AytPJKd.png there is for sure something mentioned in the video which I am missing (1:41 "retain the backplate" ???) Appreciate your help!

Hi there, So I just installed a new NIC, but it is blocking 1/4 of my 2nd GPU fan airflow like in the picture, would that be an issue? they are not touching, there is about 30/40mm (I guess) space between them. That is because my GPU 1660s takes the space of 2 out of 3 of my PCIE slots (mobo is b450m ds3h) appreciate your feedback!

sweet thanks for the confirmation. Just need some more clearance about the difference between "X16 physically, X4 electrically", the way I am understanding it is why make it a x16 slot if it will only work as x4 slot?

Hi there, simple questions for my B450M DS3H mobo: I already have one m.2 SSD, I m looking to add another one, from the mobo's specifications: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B450M-DS3H-rev-1x/sp#sp there is only " 1 x M.2 connector", just making sure that I cannot get another new additional m.2 SSD to add to my pc? also it states "4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors", do you think it is worth getting another 500gb SATA SDD in the time where m.2 are much more superior and relatively lower in price? I also want to add a networks card, from the "Expansion Slots", it is showing: 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16) 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4) 1 x PCI Express x1 slot I am already using one for my gpu 1660s, which should be the first one. I am assuming that I am able to add any type of network card I can find to the other remaining 2 slots? correct? thanks in advance!

using a VM is an interesting thought!

hey there! as the title says I am looking for a way to use wifi for one network and ethernet for another network on one pc, and use each network for a specific application. for example steam download through network1 and browser user through network2. I appreciate every input, thanks in advance!

Hey there, We bought a new HP smart tank 515, after a bit of struggle to stop it from being after setting it up, I wanted to print out some of my documents instead of the testing pages, and to my surprise it doesn't even print the border of the page, here is a scenario: I usually use a smaller margin for my docs (and yes my old Epson printer used to print them fine). Oh and also normal margin don't print too, but I need this margin to work because all of my older document use it. Now when I launching the print option from Word, the preview doesn't show the border like in the previous pic (the editing page). I thought about tweaking the settings of the printer, maybe I can manually edit its default margin but I didn't even find the other usual printer settings, just these useless settings Also the printers web interface doesn't seem to be helpful for this matter But this is the craziest part for me, in the printer's specification it says that it's capable of printing on basically the whole A4 page. Oh also I tried to make a copy of an existing document with a small border margin, and it did copy it properly, so now I'm more confused than ever, where is the problem coming from? Word? the printer? the printer's settings in Word? PLEASE HELP!!! thanks in advance.

Hey there, noobie here asking few questions hope I'm on the right sub =) Is the snort package the same as having snort running on an other machine on the same network as pfsense (duh) or there are few things missing in the package? Is this package ONLY using predefined rules based on snort's knowledge or can I add my own rules? and if so what are the differences from those rules and pfsense's fw rules? and finally a less pfsense related question but I'll throw it in here, how can I test my snort (see more of the possible alerts produced)? I've tried visiting some known malicious websites so I'd get " Potentially Bad Traffic" and " Unknown Traffic" alerts, so what are other attacks I can do? thanks in advance =).