Resurrecting my dead computer.

[zushiba]

Budget (including currency): $1000

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cyberpunk 2077, Blizzard games, Destiny 2, programming, adobe products photoshop etc, Plex server, transcoding. 

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): 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$350.00
CPU Cooler	Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler	$89.95 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AC ATX AM4 Motherboard	$189.00 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Flare X 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$169.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$798.94
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-02-23 01:52 EST-0500

These are the parts I'm looking at getting to resurrect my system. My desktop system died a few weeks ago. 

Parts I hope still work

• PSU
• 1080ti
• Fans
• SSD's / HD's
• Maybe the WiFi card but I'm not holding my breath. 
• Also reusing my Define R5. 

 

My old system is a 5820k on an Asus X99-1 motherboard. After moving it to paint the wall, it died and refuses to start. I tried reseating ram, cards etc. Buying a new X99 motherboard is too expensive and only really available via shady Chinese channels. So I'm simply going to build a new-ish system. 

Any glaring issues or places I might save a bit of cash? 

EDIT: Amazon has Ryzen 5 5600x Tray CPU's for $350. 

 

[mariushm]

I would strongly suggest trying to fix your computer first. 

Most likely it's a loose cable, maybe something as silly as the on/off switch on the back of the power supply broken or on the OFF position, power cable not fully in etc.. 

Try to turn the power supply without anything connected to it, by shorting the PS_ON pin in the 24 pin connector to any ground pin - google 24 pin atx pinout and use a wire to connect that pin to any ground pin, and if the power supply works the fan should start spinning. 

 

if the power supply works, then you should have some leds on the motherboard turn on even when computer is powered off. Standby power (5v) feeds the chipset with energy, so it will show some status leds indicating there's power going through motherboard.

 

[truecrafting]

11 minutes ago, zushiba said:

Budget (including currency): $1000

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cyberpunk 2077, Blizzard games, Destiny 2, programming, adobe products photoshop etc, Plex server, transcoding. 

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): 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$350.00
CPU Cooler	Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler	$89.95 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AC ATX AM4 Motherboard	$189.00 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Flare X 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$169.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$798.94
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-02-23 01:52 EST-0500

These are the parts I'm looking at getting to resurrect my system. My desktop system died a few weeks ago. 

Parts I hope still work

• PSU
• 1080ti
• Fans
• SSD's / HD's
• Maybe the WiFi card but I'm not holding my breath. 
• Also reusing my Define R5. 

 

My old system is a 5820k on an Asus X99-1 motherboard. After moving it to paint the wall, it died and refuses to start. I tried reseating ram, cards etc. Buying a new X99 motherboard is too expensive and only really available via shady Chinese channels. So I'm simply going to build a new-ish system. 

Any glaring issues or places I might save a bit of cash? 

EDIT: Amazon has Ryzen 5 5600x Tray CPU's for $350. 

 

id change the ram ngl something like this kit G.Skill Ripjaws V 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory (F4-3600C16D-32GVKC) - PCPartPicker its faster too and ryzen likes them fast ram 

[zushiba]

11 minutes ago, mariushm said:

I would strongly suggest trying to fix your computer first. 

Most likely it's a loose cable, maybe something as silly as the on/off switch on the back of the power supply broken or on the OFF position, power cable not fully in etc.. 

Try to turn the power supply without anything connected to it, by shorting the PS_ON pin in the 24 pin connector to any ground pin - google 24 pin atx pinout and use a wire to connect that pin to any ground pin, and if the power supply works the fan should start spinning. 

 

if the power supply works, then you should have some leds on the motherboard turn on even when computer is powered off. Standby power (5v) feeds the chipset with energy, so it will show some status leds indicating there's power going through motherboard.

 

I have, I've pulled it out and attempted to power it up with a different PSU all together to no effect. Jumping the PSU does result in power to the board (LEDS, the CLC pump etc) but it doesn't turn on either with the power button or the button on the board with either the old PSU or the backup 550 watt I have laying around from another build. 

I've always had issues with this motherboard/CPU combo. It constantly requires restarting several times before it'll boot complaining about a failed overclock, apparently a common problem with the Asus X99-A. My 5820k was never a good overclocker so I ran it at stock. 

[zushiba]

1 hour ago, truecrafting said:

id change the ram ngl something like this kit G.Skill Ripjaws V 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory (F4-3600C16D-32GVKC) - PCPartPicker its faster too and ryzen likes them fast ram 

I heard there wasn't much of a difference above 3000, but I'll definitely to some more research. I'm not planning on buying any parts for another few days.