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The IPA can also get expensive, since it's pretty much 90% alcohol (tossing wine or beer in the cure tank probably won't do anything :P) but you can get water-washable resins, which allow you to use tap water in the wash/cure tanks, but you still can't just pour the resultant water from those...

Nice, unfortunately, I cannot use a second SSD (even if I had one to use), as the second slot is on the back of the mobo, and i'd have to take nearly EVERYTHING out of the case to reach it (and I won't be doing that), so for my game drive, it'll either be the sata 2.5 inch mech drive i'm using...

Well, just ordered a Corsair MP600 1TB, should be here tomorrow :) Not sure if i'll keep the heatsink on or use the motherboard one.

I used to have a Sebrant 1TB Gen 4 drive, but had to send it back to Azn because a diagnostic run by a friend showed it had a random cluster error which meant it couldn't save data in a randomly written cluster, which would have made it unusable as an OS drive. That was a replacement for my...

Sounds like the drive could be defective. Time to RMA it.

Sadly, i can’t afford a 5000 series cpu, still waiting for AMD to approve my RMA request for my 3900X (probably will be monday, hopefully, i sent them all the evidence they wanted that the chip was defective, at least, all i could collect). I just hope the replacement chip they send will be the...

Well, I’m using a 240 AIO. Wondering if i should replace the paste on it when i get the new chip (I’ll also be getting a new nvme, gonna go samsung this time, different memory controller), unfortunately, whole lot is gonna cost me about £528, with an OEM chip (don’t need the wraith cooler) My...

No spare drives to test, only one i have is a 3.5 mech drive in a sealed enclosure, and tearing that apart to get the drive out might damage the drive. First nvme i bought for this system we sent back, believing it was faulty, now that i think about it, it might not have been, but i did get a...

In bios, my voltage is about 1.430v or so, all settings on auto, I never try changing the voltage settings, since I don’t overclock, I just let the system do it as needed. In bios, I get temps on the cpu round about 44*C,

No, i mistyped my post (i was on my iPhone at the time), he tested my chip in one of his boards, with my AIO, and my chip usually has temps in the mid 40s while in BIOS, and I’ve seen it reach temps in the 50s/60s under low/moderate load in Windows. He said he was getting temps of 25 with a chip...

Does anyone known what ideal idle temps in bios should be? Since I built the system 4 months ago, I was always seeing temps in the mid 40s in bios, and as high as mid 50s/60s under low/moderate load in windows. Had a friend look at it this past Monday, he said the chip is faulty (he was getting...

Hm, should I go with a gen 3 or 4 nvme? I’ve seen people reporting that the phison memory controllers on the gen 4s are prone to cause drive defects/failures. And I’ve already had at least one gen4 drive develop a defect.

Hello folks. Sooo....my relatively new ryzen system, that i and my father built back in June has been having technical issues for the past month, as I’ve pointed out in other threads on here. We had a friend who used to build and sell computers in a shop test the system over the past couple of...

Ok, so i may be having to replace my 3mo 3900X cpu, had to RMA my motherboard last week, but received an email from OC today saying they coudln’t find anything wrong with it, and they’re sending it back to me. So if I STILL get a WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR when i try to reinstall windows, then the...

Yeah, we still have the original box for it (paid for the cpu only, but it still came with an air cooler), i just don’t really have anything i can put it in that would protect it. sigh i really, really don’t want to use another ITX board, but at the moment, looks like i might not have a choice...

Ok, need a bit of advice. Had to RMA my ITX motherboard after it developed an unfixable fault, I have a feeling I’ll just end up getting a replacement ITX board from ASUS/Overclockers....but, honestly, I’d rather get a crosshair impact instead (but don’t have any options to get one shipped to...

Spoke to someone i used to shoot archery with, he used to run his own pc repair shop until lockdown forced him to sell it. He definitely thinks its the power supply, and advised that i replace it and then try to reinstall windows, so I’ve ordered one, should be here on monday.

I don’t even know where the battery is on my board, manual doesn’t show it. and I can confirm trying an older bios does NOT work, system says it’s not a valid bios. also, the POST state leds are showing a problem with the boot device, but it’s a brand new ssd, I don’t have any loose mech...

I tried that, it said the cap file wasn’t a valid bios file

Ok, I’m getting near my wits end. For those of you who may have seen my post in the Power Supplies section, you’ll know about my current hardware issues. Replacement ssd arrived today, but windows still failed to install, crashed as soon as i selected ‘install now’, so, i tried loading up...