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Hello there, since I am going to build my very first PC soon, I have heard a lot of how electrostatic discharge can destroy you pricey PC components. According to many YT videos, it's a good idea to wear such an ESD wrist strap. Now I was wondering if I can DIY it? My idea is, to connect the one end of a crocodile clip to my power supply which is plugged in but turned of and the other end to a piece of alluminum foil which I attach to my arm and fix it with a rubber band. My question is, does this work or have I made a logical mistake? Any help is apreciated.

When I'm starting my pc and go into my bios settings, disabling XMP profile and reboot, my pc gives all kinds of different BSOD (Blue screen of death) errors, the commonly one is: - WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR" - DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (I did system factory reset, run a virus scan program to check, checking the command prompt etc) Nofthing solve the issue so far... - I have an Asus ROG Maximus XI Z390 motherboard (at December, 2018) I haven't installed the BIOS 0602 for my current Bios/Mobo yet..mabye it will fix all my problems? And how do I install it? I'm afraid to ruin something else or system... ? Another note is, when I have XMP enabled, I get no BSOD or any problem whatsoever...do I have to update my Bios? I really don't know what else might be wrong in the normal settings... Need some help please Thank you in advance,

Hello, everyone. I am planning to build a computer, I dont live in the US, I am from Guatemala but I will put the prices in USD for your better understanding. Some key things to note before: Everything is more expensive in my country and even if I purchase the components on Amazon and pay interantional shipping for them, it will cost almost the same as if I bought them here, so there is no huge benefit from this (I already did the numbers). Knowing this, my budget is $1,400.00 (this would be the equivalent to $950 in the US). Some other aspects for why I want to buld my computer and what I am aiming for: Would like to game at 1080p with 100+fps I just want to game all recent and upcoming games smoothly I do not stream and will not stream. I don´t do video/photo/3d editing or anything related to heavy programming. My computer will be used mostly for gaming and media. I want to build a futureproof gaming pc (at least one that will last me 4-5 years) I am planning to purchase a high end Nvidia GPU in the future. The components I have in mind: CPU: Ryzen 3600x ($300) (If you guys think it is necessary I can upgrade to the 3700x ($425) but if there is no benefit in the long run lets avoid that extra cash.) MB: Asus TUF B450 PLUS ($146) or TUF B450m ($118)(These 2 are the cheapest ones I could find and that are kinda acceptable by the community) RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x8 DDR4 LPX 3000Mhz ($120) (this is the fastest RAM available I could find in stores) PSU: Corsair CX650 80plus Bronze ($89) (this is the best one I could find without going to far for a "Gaming" branded PSU from Asus ROG wich is stupidly expensive) GPU: Nvida GTX 1660 SUPER ($319) (I plan to upgrade it in at least 3 years) Storage: 2tb FireCuda Drive ($126) (if you believe this is no necessary I can get a 2tb Barracuda for half the price) SSD: M.2 Green WD 128 GB ($33) (this will be used for the OS only) All of this will go inside a Corsair H110R Case ($65) My main questions: Are these components good enough for what I have in mind? Are these components going to work good together? Specially the MOBO with the CPU (take the 3700x into consideration here too) What other options do you recommend, so that I can look for them here and see if they are available and affordable. Overall if this is a good build Thank you in advance for your assistance and patience on this.

Down below is the same build from 2 different websites I put together. My main things I wanted was the 1660 super. So I went first got it then went on gathering other parts which fit the purpose or were the best bang for the buck components. Also I will get more storage afterwards. I also have a pic of possible peripherals since this is gonna be my first pc and and I wanted to build a nice setup with it. I will try to get the parts from wherever I get them the cheapest either Amazon,MD computers or Offline. At first I thought of going with the 1650 super but after watching benchmarks I wasn't quite satisfied so thought of going with it's big brother the 1660 super although it did hurt my budget of 50k INR still I think I can get away with it. Also I will not be buying all the peripherals at once(budget problems obvio). Although I will still be buying the monitor which I have watched a lot of reviews of and I think would definitely satisfy me. I would mainly use this rig for Gaming and Coding/Game developing (since I aspire of becoming one a day) and a little bit of 3d rendering or editing here and there. I want to know what other people think of this!

Hello guys, I haven’t been active in forums much, but now wanna use this as a way of looking for advice. Please excuse any noob-ish mistakes. initial situation: - 3 users in 3 different locations .... that’s why web access will be a major factor - my connection (where the server will be located) : 500mbit/s down - 50mbit/s up - other users: about 100mbit/s down - 10-20mbit/s up - every user should be able to upload images which preferably can be organized in some kind of program and can also all be accessed by everyone - every user should also be able to use the server as a backup for different PCs (both Windows and Mac) and use it as general file sharing - I do have experience in building desktop PCs and have a generally good knowledge of hardware - I don’t have old hardware laying around to reuse - budget preferably around the 500€ range or less, but possibly more if necessary and worth it - noise and power efficiency are a concern Questions: Self build or get something pre build like a Synology “xyz” I’m thinking self build can save me money, it’ll be fun cause I like tech and it can be adapted to my purpose better and can be expanded better. - is what I am looking for possible to achieve? - How much storage would make sense? For how much more does one plan? - what about zfs and raid? - I know raid isn’t a backup, so how would I realize a backup for the server data itsself? Or rather when is another level of backup necessary? - what kind of OS would be used? I heard of plenty of options like freenas, Ubuntu, windows server, unraid...... Do different OSs affect power consumption and CPU requirements significantly or all the all kinda equal? - How does one choose/decide on an OS? - server or consumer hardware? I’ve a lot more knowledge of consumer hardware and would kinda prefer that because of that I guess. But tell me otherwise if beneficial. - how much CPU power is necessary? Since I read in multiple threads, that once you have a server one will keep adding features and use it more and more for different applications I don’t wanna limit the future usability by getting a too weak CPU. From what I can gather something along the lines of a quad core should suffice!? - how much ram does a server need for my basics tasks? what would be future proof? How does one estimate the ram needs of a server in general? - do I need a gpu/apu? Or rather how do the GUIs of the different OSs work? - Do I need to worry about security when thinking about web access and so on? - the connection of the users and me are sufficient once the biggest chunks of data have been loaded onto the server from what I can tell. Incremental PC backups should and occasional photo uploads shouldn’t be too slow. - read and write speeds won’t need to be top of the line, since over the web the connections petty much cap out around 6,25 mb/s right? so I would only need to consider my local network speed which is 1 Gbit/s if any I guess. - when does an ssd cache make sense? - I read a lot about VMs. What can be VMs be used for? When does using one make sense? How much more CPU and RAM would implementing VMs require? - what other server applications are most common and useful for private use? Sorry for the wall of text. I thought about this topic for quite a while now and also read many different threads. I hope my questions are clear and make sense. I’d be very grateful for any advice and tips I can get. Thanks a lot to everyone in advance! musicbreaker

It seems that some online stores are selling "Upgrade Kits" that include New generation CPU's but with last gen "compatible" Motherboards. Which, in all technicality, is a good way to move older stock and since its still supported. No issues... Right? With both Intel and AMD upgrade kit options, a good amount of very budget friendly and darn good spec bundles include the latest Gen CPU's with the last Gen Supported Motherboards. The issue is they sell these upgrade kits without Properly warning the buyer that their new CPU and Motherboard are NOT compatible out of the box. These kits assume you are upgrading from a 1st or 2nd gen Ryzen to a 3rd Gen and can update the BOIS to a betaBIOS which supports your new CPU using your old one, and similarly with Intel. Most commonly with "B" series Motherboards. However you may very likely be upgrading from a 6th gen Intel to the New Ryzen 7 3700X or whatever... and CANNOT update the BIOS yourself. Example: https://www.evetech.co.za/amd-ryzen-5-3400g-prime-b450m-k-8gb-ddr4-upgrade-kit/best-deal/6373.aspx Source: https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd-ryzen-3000-cpus-x570-x470-b450-motherboard-performance I am a PC technician and see this too often where no one can assist the buyers to get their new Components working, since not many stock 2nd Gen Ryzen to be opened just to update a BIOS. If you are considering to purchase any of there 'Upgrade Kits" please do a bit more research whether you may even be able to use your new tech. Edit: Also just found this: Source: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100

Hello guy, i have a problem finding the names on some components on a card i want to fix. as you will see in the pictures, i got the on next to GPU removed it was cracked and i couldn't read it's name to google it up. same thing on the ones on the back of the card, i hope if someone have a card like this one who can help me by checking out the names of the parts on his or her card. or maybe you know them feel free to comment below. i tested everything,i want to replace them and see if the card can be saved. it's for a friend of mine, i hope that the pictures are clean enough so you can see what components i am talking about. thank you

Hello!We currently have at the office(a web development agency) a FreeNAS built from unused PC parts from around the office and we have been very happy with it. But now it's full and it's time for an upgrade.The parts I thought of are:Case: Zalman Z11 Plus2x HDD Rack: Thermaltake Max 3503 SATA HDD Rack6x HDD: WD Red 6TB SATA-III 5400RPM 256MB WD60EFAXPSU: Seasonic Focus GX, 80+ Gold, 650W FOCUS-GX-6502x USB memory stick: Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 32GBRAM: HyperX Fury Black 64GB DDR4 3200MHz CL16 Dual Channel KitMy thoughts: I choose that case because it's cheap and has four 5.25 inch bays to fit the two HDD racks. The HDDs will be fitted in the racks and used in a RAID-Z2. In the future, we could fit another 6 HDDs in the internal bays of the case and connect them using a PCI SATA controller. I'm undecided if I should go with AMD or Intel, the two options I thought of are:CPU: Intel Coffee Lake, Core i7 9700 3.0GHz box BX80684I79700Motherboard: ASUS TUF Z390-PRO GAMINGORCPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9GHz box 100-100000025BOXMotherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUSI've read about some temperature reporting errors with Ryzen CPUs but other than that couldn't find anything that could break the system. Besides I've read that Ryzen official support comes later this year when FreeNAS and TrueNAS merge.What it will be used for: finished web design projects and website backup storage with samba shares a separate share for web development around 10 people will use it, 5 of them through a VPN maybe a small Ubuntu virtual machine What do you guys think about this build? Should I go AMD or Intel?

Hi everyone! so i´m currently searching components for my new gaming/editing/studying/opening10000tabsonchrome pc, the thing is , with so many options for stuff like ram, ssd, etc. im kinda lost..... i somehow managed to build a rig after watching like a thousand top picks for xxxx. So i would love to hear your recommendations/advices, especially since i want this to be a "future proof" pc . Im gonna use it mostly for gaming, graphic design and video editingIm gonna write the why of every choice i made regarding each component, feel free to comletely destroy those if neccesaryCPU: I7 9700 - im not sure wheter i should go for a K or non K version, i´ve never overclocked in my life and i hate high temperatures, but if i can maybe overclock a bit without too much temp increase then maybe i should go for k?GPU: 1080 Ti Asus Strix - My current graphics card, planning to go for a 2080 ti from the same brand in a futureMOTHERBOARD: Gygabyte Aorus z390 Ultra - not much here, i choose it based on the other componentsRAM: Corsair Dominator RGB 3200 Cl16 or Corsair Dominator RGB 3600 CL18 - Where i live this two are at the same price as the g skill z and some others, so they are not expensive, however, i dont know wich one to choose.....STORAGE: Samsung 860 EVO AND WD Black SN750 NVMe - im planning on using the western digital to gaming and the samsung for the rest of the activitiesPOWER SUPPLY: EVGA G2 850/ G3 1000/ GQ1000 OR Thermaltake Tp Grand 850 - all 4 are 80 plus gold, the thermaltheke one is also modular(same as some evga) but the price difference is frickin big, although this is the only component in wich i dont care how much do i need to spend, as long as i get something very good. I need a minimum of 850(right now i dont need them, but who knows in 2 years?)CPU FAN: Cooler Master Hyper 212 - its price makes it a great choice(when compared with something like the Noctua NH-D15, the later costing almost triple)CASE: I dont know this one, im still chosing, not many Full Tower options to choose from(again, where i live) maybe i could go for a nzxt h710i, but i kinda want a full tower, it just feels better leaving more room for each component, also more fans and such...So that´s basically it, hoping to see what do you think of it!

Hello, so basically i have an problem with my GPU? when i got my new rx 570 8gb i couldnt go into my bios it is corrupted, i can click enter bios but when i do that it just gives me a blackscreen. hdmi cabel is plugged in the graphics card i do have a TV to play on my PC specs: Cpu: AMD ryzen 5 2400g 3.9 overclocked Graphics card: Rx 570 gigabyte 8gb Ram: 8gb of ram ddr4 3000mhz Motherboard: Msi b450 pro vdh plus PSU: be quiet system power 9 400w Some picuters which may give out some useful information

I am confused out of my mind about which GPU to choose for my build...On one side is Sapphire's stock variant of the 5700 XT by AMD https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/consumer/21293-01-40g-radeon-rx-5700-xt-8g-gddr6And on the other side are these "OC" variants of the 2060 super by NvidiaVariant 1:-https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-RTX-2060-SUPER-VENTUS-OCVariant 2:-https://www.gigabyte.com/in/Graphics-Card/GV-N206SWF2OC-8GD-rev-10#kfI'm pretty sure the 5700 XT is overall a better card but I also heard about its bad thermals and noise problem. As I live in India, thermals are a huge problem as temperatures can reach upto over 45°C in the summers.The price of all these are more or less the same in the local and online markets.Your thoughts?

I know some bit about pc building but, I know there are a bunch of smart people here that can help me choose some missing parts or non-correlating parts. Thanks in advance. P.S: My budget is €1600, that is $1800. Intel Core i5 9600K Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Master Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB DDR4 DIMM 3000 MHz/15 Zwart (2x8GB) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G Samsung 860 EVO 500GB 2,5 inch Cooler Master MasterWatt 750 Sharkoon TG5 Glass Red

Hello LTT Forums! With tons of Black Friday sales coming up I'm tempted to buy some parts going on sale, however i'm not really sure what I should be looking for. I have a very "decent" PC, it's nothing amazing, but it can play games and search the web which is all I need right now. I would like to be able to maybe play games at higher quality and possibly stream to twitch every now and then. So I'm really not sure what parts I should be looking for in order to upgrade my rig. I'm thinking the first thing I should get would be a graphics card / RAM, but again not to sure. Tell me what you think! Current build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/estrasser/saved/jKDTBm Thanks!

hi guys i am new to pc building so need some questions answered. so i have already put a post up on what parts to get and i think they are compatible. if have read alot of complaints about the motherboard im buying asus strix b350-f about how little ram it supports i have picked to get some vengeance lpx 3000mhz 8gb ddr4 c15 xmp this is on the motherboard qvl but i wanted to ask for security reasons if this will work for definite. one of the other things i dont understand is about the gpu drivers and if this gpu will work with the motherboard i have picked the gigabyte radeon rx 580 gaming will the motherboard and gpu work together, also about the gpu when i went to look at the drivers on the gigabyte website i saw 3 bios drivers and 2 utility drivers and ovs the regular driver what are the bios updates and should instal them and do i need them?

I recently got a 250GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD. I installed windows on it and installed games on it and it seemed to work fine, except when I loaded one of my games (Destiny 2), there was some stuttering. I restarted my pc and updated drivers and no luck. The framerate doesn't seem to dip when it happens. I checked my drive speed using Samsung's Magician software and using CrystalDiskMark. Both applications reported read speed of around 550MB/s and a write speed of around 320MB/s. I looked on Amazon to compare my score to other people's score and most of them reported a read speed of around 550MB/s, but their write speeds were around 520MB/s. I turned on Samsung's "rapid mode" on and reported a read speed of around 3,880MB/s and a write speed of around 3,740MB/s.

I'm looking to upgrade a couple of components on my pc i use for gaming, i want to get the best parts I can but dont know too much about what motherboards/cpus ect to get, my budget is 700CAD with tax. My current build is : https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/gunshot22/saved/3vQ299 Just looking to upgrade the cpu, ram, motherboard, and case.https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/ygRMdX Have already picked out a ram set and case (change if you like), the m.2 i already have, but feel free to suggest changes, would prefer it to be a microAtx build Thanks for the help

Hi People, In the last months, I have been building this ultra Video-editing and gaming PC with the following specs: CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 780T FULL TOWER CASE Intel® Core™ i9-7980XE Gigabyte X299 AORUS Gaming 7 Intel Socket 2066 128GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE 3000MHZ 11GB nVidia GEFORCE GTX 1080 Ti - still on the way 4TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA SSHD 512GB WD Black M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD 32 GB Intel Optane Memory 16X BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE INTERNAL 52 IN 1 MEMORY CARD READER CORSAIR 1200W HX Series Modular 80 Plus Platinium Corsair H1155i PRO Cooler w/ PCS Liquid Series Ultra Quiet Fans ASUS STRIX Raid DLX 7.1 PCIe ASUS PCE-AC88 AC3100 2100Mbps/5 GHz I am still waiting for the video card, but since I knew it's going to take ages to put everything together, I decided to install everything I've got except the video card thinking I can install it at a later point. So, I've put all the parts mentioned above together, as described in the manuals and as guided by tutorials on the internet. But when I wanted to test if it turns on, something very odd happened. When I turn the PSU on, the LEDs on the motherboard lights up for a second and nothing else happens. Also when I press the main power button, a very bizarre squeaky sound comes from the CPU as you can see in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaMi9us_DME Did any of you encounter this before? Or at least do you have any idea what it can be??? Also, I took a few photos of the motherboard and CPU install I've done. https://imgur.com/a/Exkgjdi Help, please??

My current build: Gigabyte aorus pro b450 mobo R5 2600x 32gb 3200mhz ram Zotac amp extreme 1070ti Kingston SSD 10tb ironwolf pro. I am writing this post as I currently have a budget of £700 and I can't decide on what I should do to upgrade. Should I wait and buy the Ryzen 9 when released or should I stick with my current CPU and upgrade the GPU to either a 1080ti and motherboard or go with the RTX2080. Or would getting an x470 board and a second 1070ti be a viable option also.

Hey guys, Am building a PC, here are my components: CPU - 8th Gen i3-8100 GPU - GTX 980 MOBO - TB decided PSU - Some 650W PSU HDD/SSD - Some 1TB HDD or 250GB SSD, doesn't matter too much Case - TB decided Everthing else is either to be decided or already confirmed. Will my GPU be bottlenecked? What COMPATIBLE mobo should I use? What reasonably sized case should I use? Thanks for any suggestions!

Hi, this is my first time building a gaming pc and i'm having a lot of trouble with choosing components. I've already bought a keyboard and a BENQ GL2460HM monitor, but i can't settle on the components. I also live in Italy so prices scale pretty badly, so i need help on choosing the best components. My budget is 800- 900 dollars.

Im Planing to build a Pc for gaming and programing and some video editing i wanted to know if these components are compatible newegg link : https://secure.newegg.com/Wishlist/PublicWishlistDetail?ID=5892176&&cm_mmc=snc-email-_-sr-_-wishlist-5892176-_-09/16/2018

guys are this components compatible guys im planing to build a pc i wanted to know if these components are compatible Newegg link here https://secure.newegg.com/Wishlist/PublicWishlistDetail?ID=5892176&&cm_mmc=snc-email-_-sr-_-wishlist-5892176-_-09/14/2018 (Please dont mind the headphones)

Here is my build: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti RAM: Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3000 MHz CL15 XMP 2.0 Mobo: ASUS PRIME B350M-A AMD B350 DDR4 S-ATA 600 Micro ATX Motherboard So I've been using this build for about a year now but around 2 months ago I realized only 8 gigs of my 2*8Gb RAM were being used. In BIOS it recognizes that 2 sticks of 8Gb RAM are present but it only wants to use 8Gb of them. And when I go into Windows' Resource Monitor I see that about 8Gb of RAM is "Hardware Reserved". So I tried switching the two sticks to different slots, resetting BIOS by removing CMOS battery, updated the BIOS version twice (just earlier today I updated to a version that was released yesterday so as recent as it gets), the 16Gb of RAM almost always gets picked up as 8 by default. I had some success with using the D.O.C.P profile provided by the BIOS, but I could only sit on 16GB RAM for 1-3 days, then it would just ramdomly stop working, which has happened both during and between boot cycles. Once it decides to stop working it would just refuse to boot into windows again until I go into BIOS and make changes. And I have tried tuning the frequency down in that profile (2933 -> 2800) and it did solve the issue very temporarily before breaking down again in a day or two. I tried messing with the other values in the profile that are potentially to do with timings(I have limited knowledge on how sticks of RAM work to say the least), but no change to those values I've tried made the PC successfully boot. So right now I'm after probably the 4th or 5th time the D.O.C.P profile stopped working on me and this time no frequency I can try is leading to a successful boot with 16Gb of RAM I feel like I've exhausted all my options. Am I missing something obvious here? Any help or suggestions at all would be appreciated.

guys im planing to building a pc i wanted to know if thses components are compatible and if this is good for 85% gaming and 15% editing,coding,opening millions of tabs,and streaming newegg link: https://secure.newegg.com/Wishlist/SharedWishlistDetail?ID=In46%2f9otwJA%3d&&cm_mmc=snc-email-_-sr-_-wishlist-In46%2f9otwJA%3d-_-09/22/2018

I've recently just upgraded my system. I have the base components from my old system and was wondering if they are worth selling here in the UK? The components I'll have available to sell are: -AMD FX-8350 Black -Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev 5) -16GB (4x4GB) Kingston Hyperx Blu -1TB Seagate HDD -AVP Commander X8 (Case) I used PSU (CX650) and GPU (Gigabyte GTX 1080) in my new system and have already sold both of these items that I had originally