motherboard

Hi. I built my first PC yesterday (all parts new) and the PC turned on nicely and I set up windows with usb flash driver and all. I updated the bios to the newest one too with flash driver and all was working fine. All up to this morning. I tried to boot up the PC but nothing shows up on the...

Hi everyone, first of all I know this is really a self builder forum, but I am really tearing my hair out over something. I was wondering if anyone can help me? I have autism and I know a bit about PCs, but I really don't know that much about building or hardware, I'm more of a software kinda...

Hi all, I am a little confused by onboard graphics on a motherboard and CPU. I thought if the motherboard supported onboard graphics then I should be able to use it to do basic tasks and even possibly run odd games, is this not true? For example, the Gigabyte...

Hi, Recently built a PC using this motherboard and I'm getting a white flash on the left side of the motherboard whenever I switch on the PSU. System works perfectly fine otherwise and it doesn't occur when powering on the PC itself; only when powering on the PSU. Anyone here have this...

Can anyone explain the options for motherboards for AMD processors and what is the best for the price

I currently have a ryzen 7 1800x and want to upgrade. I am looking to get the Ryzen 7 5800x and want to know if it will work with my motherboard - MSI gaming pro carbon AC. Any replies would be appreciated, thanks.

Hello All! My wife recently came in to possession of a Kingston A400 M.2 SSD, when we installed it on to her mother board and attempted startup the PC got stuck in an initial boot loop and then booted to the BIOS, where we discovered that the PC was not picking up the SSD that she has...

Hello all, I am currently trying to put together a box which will be quite storage intensive. I have a requirement for maximum CPU cores and fastest disks possible. I am looking at the ryzen 9 with maximum cores and threads and 2+ nvme disks with a total capacity of about 8TB. Could someone...

Dear all I just received the above motherboard from Amazon warehouse and tried to connect the CPU but it does not lock. Tried few times but it fails to lock. Thankfully did not press it hard. Anyway took a pic of motherboard and there are some white stuff sticking to CPU Socket, it looks like...

Hi guys. Had a bit of a disaster last night. I was going to swap my new CPU in (3700x replacing 3600) but when I removed the old CPU some surplus paste which had been on the side of the CPU somehow fell down onto the pin holes of the motherboard below. I've done my best to clean it but it seems...

OK. So woke up to a lifeless pc this morning. Have tested power supply and bypassed power switch but still nothing from the motherboard. So thinking this is gone. If it is... I want to keep most of my hardware obviously but was looking at upgrading processor soon anyway. Current system...

I can see Tomahawk is super popular. However, I can see the MSI Unify also received a lot of positive reviews. Is Unify better than Tomahawk other than the price, extra M.2, and Extra PCIe slot. Paying an extra £70 is not a problem. Just confused about which one to go with. Can Tomahawk handle...

hello nice peoples, im new to this so forgive me if im in the wrong place and ask stupid questions, ive had my hero v111 running for a while now, its built in a tt tower 900 with a amd series 9 3900x, power cooler red devil gpu, 2 m2 drives, 1 samsung 1 tb ssd, and other bits an bats, psu power...

Hi Putting together my first rig using an i5 11400f. Would love to know how the Gigabyte Intel B560 DS3H Micro-ATX and ASRock Intel B560M-HDV mATX compare. What is the difference between these boards and what are the options for expansion/wi-fi cards? Cheers

Hi all, I have recently purchased NVIDIA RTX 3090 FE and as my current spec is very weak for such a good graphics card I want to get a new Intel 11th gen processor for which I need a new Motherboard and maybe RAM as well? My Current spec is Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 3 Intel Skylake...

Hi All, I currently have an MSI B550 Tomahawk, however it has some coil whine coming from the VRM's at low load which is very unusual. I have to RMA it but I could be without a board for over a month. Would you recommend I get another MSI or ASUS board in the meantime. I am considering...

Hi there. I currently use a b450-f gaming motherboard and was wondering what the best m.2 ssd i could get for around £100. Im hoping for a 1tb drive. Currently using a 480gb sata ssd but needing the extra storage so thinking of having the m.2 as my main drive. Also would i need a heatsink for...

Im using an old Lian Li server tower and am finding the build a bit more difficult than i ever remember builds being. 1st issue is my h100i not fitting so having to do some engineering to get that to fit. Now my graphics card (980ti) wont fit as the motherboard (ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XII APEX LGA...

Hi all, I'm waiting for my 3090 Vision OC to arrive. I'm looking for something overkill to play games (fairly competitive PUBG) on a 4k 144hz monitor but happen to work in video so the 24gb shouldn't be too wasted on me. However I (think) I'd like lots of cores for work - mainly Resolve /...

Hi guys Its my first post here, so i would firstly like to say hello. Im a PC enthusiast and my job involves working with pc's so i know a bit about them. I have been given a Dell precision 3420 SFF device to keep and the specs are quite decent for a free machine. It has a Intel xeon e3-1270...