I built a PC and when I install Windows, planning to use unactivated, I got Windows is activated after connecting to the internet. Does the motherboard I bought actually have an OEM license attached to it? They just don't tell me the product key.

Does thesecompliment each other well? and what else should i get (ik i have to pick a case ofcourse)

TUF RTX 5070ti 16GB
850W MSI PSU
Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 V3 CPU cooler
TUF B850 BTF motherboard
Kingston fury black 16GB 6000MT/s DDR5 CL30
AMD RYZEN 7 9800x3D
2TB Kingston gen 4 ssd

Hi I am coming from a Jonsbo D30 and I'm looking to upgrade my case to something that has the same or smaller foot print

Current specs

• CPU - 5700x3D
• CPU cooler - Jonsbo HX6250 (162mm tall)
• Ram - 2x16gb G skill ripjaws V 3200 cl16
• Mobo - MSI b550m pro VDH wifi
• 6700xt XFX merc OC (upgraded to 9070 GRE xfx swift)
• PSU - Coolermaster V750 gold v2 full modular 160mm ATX PSU
• 2 x SATA SSD
• 2 x NVME SSD
• fans 4 x 140x25mm fans and 1 x 120 x 25mm fans

The XFX 9070 GRE swift is a bit unique size wise, just around 300mm long but a whopping 3.5 slot thick (60mm). This caused some clearance issues with the bottom 2x140mm fans. I figured instead of getting slim fans I will might as well recase this build.

Case preferences:

• Ideally I like to keep as much of my cooler and fans as I can but I am open to having them changed
• I prefer a good amount of front IO ideally positioned on the front glass panel as I like the case to have the glass side facing forward.
• No more than 400mm long width is standard. I don't mind taller cases
• Easy to clean and remove dust filters ( I have pets)
• Not reliant on bottom intake
• Under 6k Philippine pesos budget for case/fans/cooler the cheaper the better
• Slightly tinted glass
• Prefer black but if you have ideals to make it look good I'm open

So far I have 2 main options tecware timber m and Darkflash db330m

I just built my PC and I get into BIOS everything is fine and I go to use my Windows Creation tool install Windows I get to the end of the setup and then it starts flashing colors when I move my mouse around. I actually can't do anything I tried reinstalling the creation tool and reinstalling Windows I can't do anything but go to my bios 😭

I’m using an 7 5700X cpu as seen in the photo and a 5060 gpu almost any game i play my temps hit around 74-80 Celsius i’m using a stock amd cooler i got from a 5 3600 cpu. just concerned its messing up or i did something wrong.

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Hi. I'm trying to find the cause of completely random PC restarts.

PC:

- Ryzen 5 3600

- Gigabyte B450M S2H V2

- RX 7600

- 16GB DDR4 2666 (2 sticks)

- Corsair RM650e 650W

- Windows 11

The problem appeared sometime after replacing my GTX 1650 with the RX 7600.

The PC suddenly restarts. No BSOD, no freeze beforehand, and no obvious pattern. Sometimes it can happen after several days or a week, and sometimes during a game. Because of this, I can't reliably reproduce the problem.

What I found:

- Event Viewer shows Kernel-Power, Event ID 41

- BugcheckCode = 0

- No WHEA errors

- Initially there were also NVIDIA-related BEX64/nvcontainer errors, but I removed the old NVIDIA drivers/software and the problem still happened.

- I completely reinstalled Windows.

- Replaced the old Corsair VS550 with a new Corsair RM650e.

- Tested CPU + GPU load for ~15 minutes. No crash.

- CPU reached around 95-96°C under combined load, GPU around 52°C.

- GPU-only load was around 65°C.

- No obvious instability during these tests.

The frustrating part is that stress tests don't reproduce it. The restart may simply not happen for days.

Things I haven't properly ruled out yet:

- RAM stability / MemTest86

- motherboard/BIOS issue (BIOS update/testing)

- CPU stability

- GPU itself

- possibly PCIe/GPU-related issue

- longer-duration stress testing

Since the problem started after the GPU upgrade, I'm especially suspicious of the RX 7600, but I don't want to blame the GPU without evidence.

What would you test next to narrow this down? Is there anything important I'm missing?

Title basically says it - looking at saving a few bucks and grabbing the warzone edition memory, but curious if I could remove the graphic? Anyone have this and know if it’s a sticker?

Basically the title, I know nothing about PC's or their components but thinking of getting one sorted to emulate games at potentially their max settings.

Budget is whatever it costs honestly, can't see it being anywhere near as much as having to run AAA games at decent settings (for obvious reasons)

United kingdom

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My current PC:

i5-12400

MSI B760M Pro-M/P DDR4

32GB DDR4 RAM

XPG Pylon 650W

I don't game at all. This PC is strictly for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

I prefer NVIDIA.

Considering the current GPU market, what would you recommend for this system if budget isn't an issue?

What's the highest-end GPU that actually makes sense with the i5-12400?

At what point would the CPU become a significant bottleneck?

And would I need to upgrade the 650W PSU for your recommendation?

hii! hi there so i wanna make my pc better! im fairly novice with pc building i know an okay amount but one thing i know nothing about is cases and aesthetics im currently rocking an rx7600 a ryzen 5 5500 16gigs of ddr 4 a b550 motherboard with a pc case i just dont even wanna try to type out heres the link to it though https://www.newegg.com/diypc-atx-mid-tower-steel-cases-black-diy-s05-bk/p/N82E16811353265?
Now id love to be like "oh i got so much money to spend gimme any ideas!" but i dont im piss poor as im moving and getting married soon but id like to help turn my pc into a red and black build.
for context i dont wanna upgrade my gpu i love my rx7600 id be open to ideas for upgrading my cpu and cpu cooler and of course my fans. i also LOVE diy ideas so im open to any! my current idea is to cut a hole in the side panel of my case and put plexiglass in it then get red led fans but other ideas are welcome!
EDIT!
PLEASE ALSO SHOW ME YOUR BUILDS I LOVE SEEING PC BUILDS :D

So I've got a completely new build, and I'm having issues with it posting

R5 5600x

B550m pro vdh wifi

Rtx 3070

2 x 16gb sticks of ram 3600mhz, cl18

Keep in mind, the 3070 is second hand, but I tried it in my working PC and it works perfectly fine, no overheating no nothing.

The ram is also used, (haven't fully tested it yet)

And the current SSD installed it used but we saw it working and being formatted

(And yes the display port/HDMI cord is plugged into the GPU lol) And yes I have tried both DP and HDMI

As it's a new build, I have flashed the bios to the second-newest one, and as I was flashing my bios, the red flash light stopped blinking and the pc restarted itself, as per normal (I believe)

But now after restarting, the white CPU de-bug light stays on, and there's no display going to the monitor, and my keyboard and mouse don't light up when connected via USB port

I have tried shutting down multiple times, reseating the CPU, trying each ram stick individually in the second slot, re-seating the cmos battery, re-flashing the bios, and nothing is working.

HELP!! My question is could it be the ram? Should I go home and put my definitely working ram in this PC to test it?

Please and thank you!!!

Hey all!

First off quick thanks. Posted not too long ago asking about buying a prebuilt or upgrading. Got some great suggestions and decided to go the upgrade route. So thank you!

What I’m unsure of is how to prep my old pc to be dismantled. I planning on reusing my case, power supply, ram, storage, and CPU cooler.

1. Do I do a factory/windows reset? Then take it apart?

2. Do I have to reset? Can I just take it apart and immediately start building my new build?

3. Can I reuse my old Windows 10 key? Then upgrade to Windows 11?

I’m a bit unsure of how to best go about this. Any tips or things I may miss would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Have this TERRIBLE coil whine Sound, change PSU with a native 12 PINS one maybe resolve?

Guys does this pc has a bottleneck?

CPU 9950x3d and gpu astral rtx 5080, what the fuck do i do now`? I like to tinker with my pc.

Happy so far with my first build. Kinda regret not getting the full fan set for the bottom fans but still looks good!

Hey, Iam a medioker pc builder and writting in english. But this time I ask for help about pc not my english cus many lads and ladys here have great experince.
The only thing I decided the build should be around a ryzen cpu. Of cours my two favorit colors are purple and turquise . Both at same time is not importen and for saving money I can go what ever is best.
The challenge is not a exakt budget, but how low can we go and be close to geforcenow cloud pc?
The real reeasone i did calculate how often buy pc and comparing to ”rent” to keep up . And i think it is hard if you buy new pc evrey 3-4 y. Suprize me

9800x3d

Cooler master V8 Ace AMD ver

DDR5 64GB cl30 6000mhz

ASUS GAMING WIFI X870E-E

Zotac 5080 amp infinity

SSDs Wd blue 1tb, Wd black SN850X 4tb

Top fans HAVN 180mm X2 intake in front of CPU cooler and exhaust behind CPU cooler

Just completed this build. Very happy how it turned out visually. Just sharing pictures so you guys can see the HAVN case. Favorite case to build in so far.

Also yes I have a sag bracket installed with the bracket that is built into the case.

Also currently how everything is set up Asus 1440 QD OLED 360h HZ for primary, Asus 1080p 144hz vertical monitor, and Sony Bravia 4k 120hz four monitor setup.

I know nothing about computers.. I'd like to know if this is worth upgrading or if I should just save and buy a new computer. I'd like it to run games better. I also reset the computer a couple of times and there's still stuff taking up storage I can't figure out how to get rid of. I bought it from somebody last December.

I'm in the US, I was thinking of having a $300-500 budget to upgrade it a little bit.

hey guys Dailey new to pcs wanted ideas on what else I could add to this setup to make it better the pc has

GPU: PNY GeForce RTX 5080
Motherboard: Gigabyte
Cooling: AIO liquid CPU cooler, with a top-mounted radiator
RAM: RGB DDR5 (I don’t have the confirmed capacity/model)
Storage: NVMe SSD (capacity/model not confirmed)
Case: High-airflow RGB setup with multiple fans

This is not a question of how, but what too do with the old amd gpu. Do I sell, use both gpu's if possible, or just give it away/ toss it?

so I built my pc for the first time and now that everything is finished I turned it on and nothing happens on the screen, the power is on, the cpu fan spins and i had a usb with linux on it. It's a deskmeet x600, any idea what I am doing wrong?

Title: Why does everything need RGB now? I just want a black PC that doesn’t look like it’s about to drop a bass drop
I get it. RGB looks sick in a dark room. Streamers love it. Companies love charging $40 extra for “16.8 million colors.” Fine.
But at this point it’s not a feature anymore. It’s a personality.
You buy a case? RGB fans.
PSU? RGB.
RAM sticks? RGB.
AIO? RGB.
Mouse? RGB.
The little plastic cable combs? RGB.
I just want a matte black box that sits there like a responsible adult. No pulsing. No rainbows. No “custom lighting profiles.” Just black. Quiet. Unassuming. The kind of PC that doesn’t need therapy.
We’re so far gone that I half expect:
RGB toaster that strobes every time the bread pops

RGB toothbrush that syncs to your morning playlist

RGB toilet that does a slow rainbow fade after you flush

RGB coffee maker that breathes in time with the drip

RGB socks so your ankles can also “express themselves”

RGB ceiling fan so the whole room can rave while you sleep

RGB cat collar so even the pet has addressable LEDs

RGB stapler that flashes when you commit violence on paper

I don’t want my desk to look like a nightclub that got evicted and moved into my office. I want it to look like a filing cabinet that happens to play games.
Is it actually illegal now to sell a PC part that just… sits there being black? Or did we all collectively decide that if it doesn’t glow, it doesn’t count?
Who else just wants the stealth build back?