I'm clueless build...or first build in 30 years

Ric678 · 8 Feb 2020 at 09:00

Well I'm building a new pc, kinda for my kids, maybe a bit for me

. My daughters like to play Sims and their old laptops won't keep it running very good so we decided to build a sort of gaming pc. The amazon guy visited yesterday

Ric678 · 8 Feb 2020 at 09:02

So the amazon guy forgot one important piece.....or it's on back order....

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no motherboard in my delivery

Ric678 · 8 Feb 2020 at 09:11

I built a few pc's back in the stone age but it seemed to be quite easy back then, so i'm giving it a shot again.
I decided to build my own budget machine vs purchasing prebuilt because I thought we could start with a few more premium pieces to avoid upgrading everything later.
I went with a Ryzen 3 because it comes with graphics already on it, I figured later when the budget allows we will get a dedicated graphics card.
The missing motherboard is a MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon.....mainly because it sounds cool

Only 1 storage device for now, Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB, we will add a conventional drive if my kids start adding to much junk to it.
Only 8GB of memory for now...It will still be a massive upgrade to what we are used to.

Ric678 · 8 Feb 2020 at 20:10

EsaT said:
Ryzen doesn't come with integrated GPU.
Only APUs ending to G in model number have integrated GPU.

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it says on the box it has graphics

Ric678 · 8 Feb 2020 at 20:28

I was a bit surprised at that

Ric678 · 9 Feb 2020 at 20:27

Pete @r... said:
Is that your front door??? I actually do deliver for Amazon and he/she should never of left it like that. It should be left in a safe place, so out of sight, and he should have taken a picture of it, so the boxes should have been turned round so you can't see the delivery details

Well yes it's the front door, but you can't see it from the road, it's on the side tucked in the house. And I was quite surprised also

Ric678 · 9 Feb 2020 at 20:28

Our motherboard should arrive Monday or Tuesday so then the real building can start

Ric678 · 10 Feb 2020 at 13:02

Yeah it’s 2200G , for some reason only my first picture showed up

Ric678 · 10 Feb 2020 at 14:55

Yeah I didn’t figure it was very difficult to put together, could be move of an issue getting it running right, but that’s what the internet is for now

Ric678 · 10 Feb 2020 at 16:07

Ric678 · 10 Feb 2020 at 16:07

well that worked....I think

Ric678 · 10 Feb 2020 at 16:08

Ric678 · 12 Feb 2020 at 21:23

Well the Amazon guy showed up with our motherboard.....assembly was pretty straightforward no big surprises, we didn’t have to flash the bios before as the board already had pretty new stuff on it

Ric678 · 12 Feb 2020 at 21:24

No big issues installing windows, we can’t seem to keep WiFi connected though, tomorrow I’ll try hooking it up wired

Ric678 · 13 Feb 2020 at 16:53

Bios worked out of the box, I guess it’s newer stock so it’s already updated.
Only issue was the WiFi not working properly, I’m on now wired to my hub checking for driver updates and such

Ric678 · 14 Feb 2020 at 16:44

Pics.... everyone likes pics....
naked board

cpu and ram

fan also

little fiddly screws

horrible pic... but it lives

Ric678 · 14 Feb 2020 at 16:47

now for a really stupid problem....
When I go to the bios page it has a wonky display

it looks nothing like what I've seen on MSI or online

that second pic was a video I was watching about setting up

Ric678 · 14 Feb 2020 at 16:56

bummer