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Hello community, I wanted to know if the samsung evo 970 plus 2tb is compatible and works good with the gigabyte b450m ds3h v2 with ryzen 5 3600 and rx 6600. In the gigabyte website it stands: 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe x4/x2* SSD support) * Actual support may vary by CPU. * Supports only M.2 SATA SSDs when using an AMD Athlon™-series/ 7th Gen. A-series or Athlon™ X4 APU. Thank you.

So I've when I built this PC it worked for an entire year without any issues: i7-10700k 2x16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4-3200 DIMM CL16 MSI Z490 Gaming Edge Wifi RTX 2060 One day the RAM suddenly broke, both sticks. Randomly had bluescreens, pc crashed, memtest86 failed (individually for each stick too), etc.. I tried my broken RAM sticks in my friends pc and he instantly had bluescreens, crashes and all the issues too. I tried his RAM in my PC and it worked fine. He has 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX LP DDR4-3200. So i refunded the RAM and got brandnew 32GB Trident Z's. They instantly broke again. Same testing as before, doesnt work in friends pc either once again. I figured it has to be a mainboard issue then, so i replaced my MSI Z490 Gaming Edge Wifi with a MSI Z590 Gaming Edge Wifi. I refunded the RAM once again, got new ones and they broke once again. Now i replaced the PSU from a 600 Watt beQuiet with a 850 Watt beQuiet, refunded the RAM once again and it broke again. Im bought the same RAM my friend has for now, since they seem to work in my PC for whatever reason. I have no clue what could be the issue at this point but i want to have 32 GB of RAM back. Do you think I can get 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance without them breaking? I hope someone can help me.

Hello, a few months ago, I bought the HP Omen 25L with an i7-13700F and an RTX 4070ti, and upgraded the RAM to 32GB. I initially had issues with XMP, as it simply wouldn't activate through the BIOS. Last week, I managed to activate XMP at 5200 MT/s. Everything was working fine this morning. In the afternoon, when I turned on my PC, I noticed that booting into Windows took quite a long time. In the Task Manager, the RAM speed was back to 2000MHz. I've now set it to XMP Profile 1 in the BIOS 10 times, but the Task Manager still shows 2000MHz. CPU-Z and CMD both display different RAM clock speeds. Which one is correct? I'm even considering replacing the motherboard because HP's BIOS is simply AWFUL. Can anyone recommend a good Micro ATX motherboard with LGA1700 socket and DDR5 that isn't too expensive? The RAM sticks are 4x Kingston Fury Beast 8GB DDR5 each, specified at 5200 MT/s. Or is there anything else i could try ? Thanks in advance for any replies.

Hi there, Is it possible to use a 3rd NVMe SSD in an MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI with a Ryzen 7 5800X3D. I would like to use a PCI/PCIe expansion card, however I'm not a big fan of using one in the PCI_E3 slot as it would cover the GPU fan quite a bit and I believe it would affect cooling. I was planning to move the GPU to PCI_E3, but that slot is only x4, so not optimal for my 3080. Not sure if PCIe 3.0 x1 NVMe expansion cards are the way to go or not. Thanks in advance for any help! Nzxtime

Hi, I want to get a new SSD because my old one keeps filling up with stuff. I was thinking about buying a Samsung 990 Pro or a WD Black SN850X, and I was looking around the Internet to find out whether my motherboard, Z97 MPOWER MAX AC, is compatible or not. I found some posts stating it was compatible and some stating it wouldn't make a difference between a normal SSD and a M.2. I also found an article where someone used a "Lycom DT-120 M.2 SSD to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter Card" to attach a NVMe SSD to his Z97 motherboard. I honestly have no clue what to do. Maybe you could help me understand the differences and decide what I should buy. Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone, My problem started 8 months ago where my PC occasionally didn't start. I needed to press the power button more than once in like a minute for it to start. After being away for a weekend and turning of the power extension, the PC didn't start at all. Yesterday, I finally got to put my components out of the case onto an OpenBench Table and it worked with bridging the power contacts. Today, it failed again. Since these 8 months, everytime I tried to boot it, it mostly only worked when the LEDs turned on (only some seconds). If the LEDs are off, PC doesn't start. When it is on, it doesn't crash or anything. Also there isn't any MB Beeping. My guess is that It's either the MB or PSU. Though I suspected the Power Button of my Case before aswell. Specs: Aorus B450 I Pro Wifi AMD Ryzen 3700X Noctua NH-L12S Asus ROG 2080 Super Corsair SF600 Platinum 2x 8Gb Crucial Ballistix Crucial 3200 MHz Crucial P1 Crucial MX500 Original Case: Silverstone Raven RVZ03 Current Case: Streacom BC1 V2

I was playing on my DJ Deck which is connected via USB-C to USB-C to my PC's MB on the back. After a couple of days I tried to plug it in again and its not lighting up anymore. I already looked over the Windows USB selective suspend setting but I couldnt fix it like that. If I connect my phone with the cable it charges rapidly and windows detects it so the port is active but its not giving out enough power for the Deck to run. Is there maybe a setting that I can change in the BIOS? I updated my PC inbetween the last use and now I think it changed something. I have a MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX on Windows 10 The deck works on my work laptop so I am sure that neither the deck or the USB-C cable is borken. Thanks in advance

Hi Everyone, I just upgraded my PC, new MB (X670E TUF PLUS), CPU (7600X) and RAM (Dominator Platinum 6000 EXPO II). After that I tweaked the CPUs PBO Settings and tested it for Stability. Everything seems to work and Performance is in line with the hardware. The only "Problem" is that the MB starts to beep 1x every ~11s after being ~30s in Windows. AMI BIOS code says it should be DRAM refresh failure but I don't thinks thats the problem here since PC works normal. I already ran Memtest with 2048MB till 100% with 0 Errors. Maybe someone knows how to fix this. Thanks in advance.

Budget (including currency): 500-800€ Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Hogwards Legacy, Squad, all new stuff Other details: Existing RIG: i7 8700k@5Ghz 2x8 GB DDR4 3200Mhz Strix RTX 3080 12GB OC bequiet 850W Kraken z73 CPU Cooler Hello there! Well im running at a bottleneck at the moment. I knew from the beginning that I need a new CPU and Mainboard sooner or later, but now it is the time to think about it and maybe i can find some good deals. I was thinking about an AMD Build with the new 7700x because they are going to support AM5 for the next few years. Im not sure if I should go for it or give intel a try but at the moment I think AMD is the way to go. I was looking around to find some Mainboards talked to some people and the answer was always the same. I should wait for a Mainboard with PCI 5.0 to be affordable. At the moment the lowest PCI 5.0 MB is around 400€ in germany. With DDR5 and CPU I would be somewhere around 800-900€. Im not that informed about the new DDR5, new CPUs and new Mainboards. So it would be great if you could give me some help about my problem... Should I wait? Go for intel and DDR4? And if you think the new Mainboards are good what DDR5 Ram should I use? 6000Mhz or 5600Mhz and which CL. Thanks for your help and have a great evening guys! EDIT: And also do you have any suggestions for a new case? I always had small and annoying cases where my Aio didnt fit or anything else. A nice big case around 100-150€ would be great!

I just swapped my mainboard to a new mainboard because the old mainboad is broken after i tested it in another machine, my old mainboard is B550M DS3H and i swapped it with A320M-S2H. Everything worked fine then i tried to update the bios to F32 so i could update it to the latest version. Then after the update process was finished it reboot itself, then after the reboot there was no Post and my VGA fan won't spin. I dont even know if the VGA is working fine in the new board or not, but i do know that it was working fine before the update. I already tried to clear the CMOS by jumping it or removing the batteries but theres no change after doing that for few times. I dont know what to do now, if it wasnt working for a week i probably will try to get my warranty. Here's my computer specification: AMD Ryzen 3 3300x AMD RX 560 2GB 2x Kingston Fury 4GB DDR4 Gigabyte A320M-S2H

Hello LTT Gang, I want me to build a Truenas core server (Linus is you're fault!!!), CPU i3-8100 I have and just need a Mainboard. After some ebay germany search I found 4 but can't tell or see if NVMe M.2 SSD or if wake on LAN compatible is. So please help me. MSI H310M PRO-M2 PLUS Gigabyte H310M D2P 2.0 Rev.1.0 MSI PRIME H310M-E ASRock B360M-HDV Thank you everybody for the help

Hello user, i have some trouble with my setup, yesterday my pc crashed out of nothing and after a restart it didn't recognise my nvme's anymore. Of course i started google up and searched through some forums, but without success so i'm writing here. Before the final bluescreenm (CRASHCODE: CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED), came some other, I was like ignoring them away, but however, my problem now is, that my bios and linux, doesn't recognise my nvme's anymore, When I use an adapter (PCIe x16 slot) the bios recognises the nvme's but they are not bootable. I updated the bios per flash drive and tried to reinstall windows per usb, the installer setup doesn't recognise the drives either. I mentioned 2 ssd's, one of them I bought after the crash, to check if the storage was broken. It seems that it isn't. I'm writing here in hope, that the mainboard isn't broken. My mainboard: ASUS B550-XE Gaming WIFI My drives: SN750 WD_BLACK; SN850 WD_BLACK; I appreciate every kind of help and ideas. Thank you!

Yo guys, I got an Asrock Steel Legend B450m mATX motherboard & I just wanted to ask if it`s compatible with a 8GB MSI Radeon RX 6600 Mech 2x DDR6 (image attachted) Thanks.

Does a ASRock H110M-DVS R3.0 Mainboard have a slot for M2 SSD? Best regards Tom!

Hey guys, I recently got my hands on an s5520hc setup with dual x5690 Xeons for a good price. I plan to use it for some visualisation experiments. I successfully build the system and upgraded BIOS etc. to the newest software. But the system is schowwing an error, the CPU0 Fan check LED is glowing ember, I assume that means that there's a Problem with the cpu0 fan. I checked in Windows and the fanspeed is normally showing up. There are also no thermal problems. As an result of that error the fans are spinning at full throttle, and thats pretty annoying in the livingroom. Do you guys have any suggestions or solutions for this problem? My config: Mainboard: Intel s5520hc bios version: R0069 cpu: 2x Xeon X5690 Ram: 96gb Fans: 6 case fans, 2 CPU fans psu: Sharkoon WPM Gold Zero 750w with two 8 pin eps connectors gpu: gt730s

Hey there! I have a question about whether or not it is possible to throw two GPUs from different manufacturers into one PC? I don't want to run it in AMD Crossfire or Nvidia SLI mode, i just want to use them for different tasks. Why? You might ask... that's a easy one, i have the option to buy a RX 590 for cheap, and i have use for it (running a render while gaming or passing it through to a virtual machine). I assume i need both drivers, but is there anything i need to pay attention to, if it is possible to run the computer at the first place? Thanks in advance!

Recently I put together a new build with a 5600x and a budget B550 motherboard, namely a Biostar B550MH. Whenever the CPU is under load and boosts for a couple of seconds, the clocks go all the way down to as little as 500Mhz. This doesn't just happen in synthetic loads like benchmarks or stress tests but also in games (though it takes a bit longer for the frequencies to drop). Setting the power mode to "eco" helps extend the usable time a bit further as well, but I can get at most 10-15 minutes of playtime before the system locks up due to the extreme clock drops. After googling a bit I found that other people have similar issues so I'm assuming the board just uses bad VRMs in general. Is there anything I can do to alleviate this beside trying to limit the CPU's frequency? Perhaps using heatsinks or a downdraft cooler? Unfortunately the store refused to let me return it due to "physical damage to the board" (i.e. a small scratch at the side of the board from installing it in my small case). If anyone has experience with this kinda stuff, please let me know.

Budget (including currency): 2000-2500€ Country: Austria/Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: eSport titles & AAA-Games Other details: I am currently using an i7-4790, a GTX 970 and 16 GB DRR3 1600MHz RAM (some Medion prebuild), which is probably ready for the trashcan after the upgrade. Since summer, I desperately wait for the upcoming AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D, and I will do everything in my hands to get one of these. Besides the CPU, I would see myself in getting a Corsair 5000d airflow, but if you can't recommend it for that price, I would be fine with a 4000d airflow or something similar. I am mainly struggling with finding a fitting main board, RAM and GPU. I could see myself in taking the time to snipe an RTX 3080, but would you say the 12 GB version is worth the effort, or are the 10 GB versions enough. I already got 2x 1TB M.2 SSDs, so no need to buy more storage. Currently, I am playing 1080p 144 Hz, however, I wouldn't be unwilling to switch to 1440p in the future. I hope you can help me finding the foundation for a new build. Thanks in advance! Laserlord

Hey, my Mainboard isn't getting any power at all after installing a custom watercooling loop. The loop was redone today because I saw room for improvement, hence i rebuilt it, when the loop was filled again and I connected everything back, USB Power was present for a few seconds, because the leakshield started to measure the fill level, but after that the board was not responding to anything that I did. When filling the loop I used a jumper and only the pump was connected to power. Now the board is completely black and no sign of power, no matter what I try. Troubleshooting already done: -Checked outlet and powersupply (OK) -Checked each and every connector -removed and replaced the CMOS battery - reseated RAM and tried different configurations -reseated CPU and checked for bent pins in the Socket (OK) -removed everything non essential -shorted the powerpins manually -Cleared CMOS with the Button on the rear IO -removed Graphics card -blew compressed air on the mainboard to verify that I didn't spill any liquid -Checked if the mainboard PCB had contact with something that could result in a short circuit Specs: Intel Core i9 9900KF 4x 8GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 3200MHz CL16 Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master (Rev. 1.0) BIOS version F11n EVGA RTX 2080ti FTW3 Ultra Seasonic Prime Gold 1000W Aquacomputer D5 NEXT wiht Leakshield Hope that I'm blessed by the Tech Gods and someone is able to help me

Hey there, I recently (1week ago) build a new, first, PC and everything works fine. The mobo (z690 Aorus master, so E-ATX Board) also sits well and doesn’t move at all. But now, the more I think about it, didn’t check if the standoffs on my case (Lancool 2 Mesh RGB) were at the right place. I saw that the case mostly comes with the standoffs pre installed for ATX/E-ATX, but as I said I didn’t check it. Do I have to check it again? And is there a way to check it without taking everything apart again? And would I notice it if they weren’t? Thanks for any help

I want to build a PC in which I need 32GB of RAM and im unsure about wether or not I should use 4 Sticks of 8GB or 2 Sticks of 16GB RAM. The Description of the Mainboards states something about being Dual-Channel, so does that mean that 2 Sticks of 16GB would be better? The RAM in Question is: G.Skill RipJaws V DDR4-4000 DIMM CL18

To keep it short. I'm interested in buying the "MSI x570s unify max" but the thing is compared to other boards the pcie slot for the graphics card seems to be lower on this one. Will that have a huge effect on an aorus rtx 2070 in a be quiet 802 case regarding temperature or should I go with a vertikal mount in this case?

Specs (Relevant): Mainboard: Asrock Extreme 4 B550 IPad: IPad Pro 21 12,9“ Excuse my englisch please im not an native-speaker IMG_0169.MP4 Okay so Hear me out, im shutting off my PC as usual and flicking my little Off Switch on the back of the PSU. Then i Notice some weird blinking in some Part of my Mainboard. To my suprise the RGB-LEDs and The debug code display lit up. I was thinking im going insane. Now the thing i noticed was that my Ipad Pro 21 was still connected via USB-C to the USB-C port of the Mainboard because i use it as a Portable second Monitor that needs the wired connection. I unplugged the IPad because i thought it might deliver the Power from the IPad via USB. And to my suprise i was right the IPad powered The mainboard. So my Question now. Is this Harmful? is the current and voltage being controlled? Is this generally Safe? Like that made me wonder why that would happen… I would love to read and reply to your answers soon. Greetings From, Germany

Setup: Ryzen 2700X (stock Prism cooler) Asus X470-F Gaming on newest BIOS 2x(16GB (2x 8192MB) G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4-3200 DIMM CL16-18-18-38 Dual Kit) running at D.O.C.P. speeds Palit RTX 3070 version 1 750 Watt EVGA SuperNOVA G3 Modular 80+ Gold LG C10 connected via HDMI to the GPU BenQ 1080p 120Hz LG G900 mouse LogiTech Stream cam Firefox using the AMD Ryzen Balanced Power Plan Hi Everyone! I upgraded from a 1080p monitor to the C10, from a 1080 to the 3070 and from 16 GB to 32 GB a few months back. Somewhere around that time (apart from initial RAM issues, which happened immediatly) the problems started. Since then i have experienced freezes (with the iconic sound problems) that don't resolve to a bluescreen and thus don't produce crash reports (i think?), bluescreens and back to desktopcrashes specifically in Dota 2 (was always rock solid) and Star Citizen (a mess and crashes could be coincidental) without any error messages. I have been trying to analyze the bluescreen files using WinDbg, but i'm a little out of my depth there. From what i can tell it attributes the crashes to the modules: - nt (x1) - amdppm (x2) - hardware (x1) - nvlddmkm (x1) It also starts each debugging log with: *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for win32k.sys These are just the results from the clean install on the new drive, so i don't know what the other errors were, but from my recollection it mostly said amdppm.sys on the bluescreen. Such diverse errors would have led me to believe that it's a memory problem, but memtest says it's fine and i don't know how else to test for errors. "Unable to verify timestamp" leads me to speculate that the MB clock is bad (battery low?) but for all i know that could be a normal warning for a bluescreen crashdump. To troubleshoot i did (roughly in chronological order): - ran bootable memtest 86 for all tests, dialled in the RAM speed at DOCP timings but 2866 MT (earliest speed without any errors on all 4 passes) -> greatly increased stability, did this directly after installing the second RAM kit, thought the memory controller on my CPU just couldn't handle the same speed on 4 modules vs 2 - updated all drivers/windows updates -> no change - changed Dota 2 renderer in an attempt to stop the btd crashes -> no change - ran sfc -scannow (it repaired LG drivers and something with onedrive) -> no change - ran chkdsk -> no errors - reset windows to earlier image using the built in function -> no change - disconnected the second display and replaced the HDMI cable (first cable sometimes showed intermittent picture loss/artifacts) -> no change but no more artifacting/picture loss - reinstalled windows on a different drive, removed (almost, windows apparently put the bootloader on my second m.2 and neither of my m.2s was previously part of the install) all other drives -> no change (didn't install the LG drivers this time, never connected the webcam) - used ryzen master to turn off precision boost overdrive -> no change - updated BIOS from factory version from 2018 to most recent and ran bootable memtest 86 for all tests, dialled in the RAM speed at DOCP timings and speed, 0 Errors 4 passes -> bios update improved RAM stability, but didn't fix the problem - ran sfc -scannow (it repaired onedrive again) The problem (bluescreen and freezes) happens most often when running a game and starting/stopping video playback in firefox, but i didn't collect rigorous data on that, so that might just be a false correlation. I can't reproduce the problem by running stresstests (furmark + ycruncher) and at this point i don't even know where the problem could be. I already sold my 1080 and i don't have a different AM4 chip, so i can't test by swapping hardware. These problems are generally hard to predict, sometimes they don't happen for multiple days, sometimes multiple times per hour. If You have a concrete idea what the problem could be that would obviously be great! Otherwise clearing up a few questions would probably go a long way towards helping me narrow down my search for a solution: - Could the RAM be unstable, even though memtest86 says it's completely fine? - Is it possible for the graphicscard to cause failures in the nt/amdppm/hardware modules? (aka can i rule the graphicscard and display out?) - Could my secondary M.2 drive that apparently hosts the bootloader be the problem or can i rule storage out? - Would it be worth it to switch out the MB battery or am i on the wrong track there? I don't know which files to make available, i obviously have some crashdumps, but i don't know if they would help/if i should censor something about them, so tell me if You think any specific file would help with diagnosing the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank You!

This is for upgrading Budget (including currency): ~620€ give or take Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Main focus is gaming (newer AAA etc.), however it'll be also used for compiling and occasional 3d rendering Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I'm currently running a GTX 1070 with an I7 4790 and 16 gb if ddr3. While not bad I wanted to build a new PC but since GPUs are hard to come by for a reasonable price I just want to upgrade since I find myself more often then not CPU limited. (Monitors: 1080p at 144hz and 1080p at 60hz) I am planning to stick with my Corsair carbide 600c case, my 650 watt power supply, my PCIe WiFi card as well as my 4 sata drives and my sata DVD drive. And get an M.2 nvme SSD later down the line. I wanted to get an Ryzen 7 5800x to in the future pair with an RTX 3070 or the equivalent on the market when prices come down. I'm not sure however if the Ryzen 7 would present the best value or an Ryzen 5 5600x would be good enough and at over 100€ less present a significantly better price to performance ratio. My current shopping list/plan is as follows: Ryzen 7 5800x (~ 379,00€) Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz (~ 72,90€) However I'm not sure on the mainboard. The current contenders are: MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus (~ 113,00€) Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming II (~ 107,90€) ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming(~ 171,90€) with the latter on being significantly more expensive and I was wondering whether the second one which I'm tending towards is suited for it. Are there better price to performance boards I missed. Moreover I would need a new CPU cooler. I'm not sure what to get. Nocuta is good but not exactly cheap. What would be suitable coolers air or aio for around 60-70€. Should I stick to my Ryzen 7 plan or would you recommend another CPU and if not what would be an advisable mainboard and cooler combo?