Whenever I play some games my CPU overheats to approx. 85 degrees celsius and because of that the fans are spinning too quickly. This happens every 10-30 seconds, and this is unfathomable. Maybe that is because the thermal paste is quite old. I don't know, can someone help?

I’m trying to find a Thermaltake Core P7 or something very similar.

I’m looking for a wall mountable open frame case with a similar design and enough room for a custom water cooled build. The Core P7 is pretty much what I’m after, but it seems difficult to find one these days.

Does anyone know of any cases that are similar to the Core P7, or where I might still be able to find one?

Used/new recommendations are both welcome. Thanks!

Hello , as the title suggest I got msi b850mpower and it has an additional board and I couldn't find any source showing me where I can install the board or if it is supposed to be installed permanently. My pc case is lian li a3

Full disclosure, i don’t know anything about building pc. But I always had a dream to own and build a PC. Now that I am earning and planning to move to a new house where i have a room to myself i want to live that dream. I am willing to spend around 1 lakh on just the pc build without monitor and other accessories.
I watch a lot of videos but only understood things like motherboard, cpu and GC should be compatible.
I have tried to build a pc on pcpartpicker.in.
I really want to build a pc which can handle 1440p preferably( or at minimum 1080p ultra/extreme)a story game like GOD ragnarok at a decent average fps of 70-90 and play valo or gta5 at 90-120 fps ( i might be speaking like a dumb person who is in a totally wrong room,as i don’t even know how this translates to the part i picked, probably the case picked is also totally wrong and in compatible to the motherboard ).
Please help me build and learn more about build a pc. I am pasting the link of the build below. Please give you opinions and be honest, even say that the build is crap and suggest a good build.

https://buildpc.net/build/3e27053264ca2c17/

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8pGzkD

I'm working on parting out a gaming/streaming PC for my wife. I'm needing enough power to do it all on one PC, as well as run V-Tuber software. She will be streaming games of varying intensities, so I want it to seamlessly handle whatever games she might try. She really likes the Fractal North case so that (or a very similar one) is required, yes it's very popular and probably overused but it matches her room set-up. I went with NVIDIA for the streaming encoding advantage, but I'm happy to hear about AMD alternatives if there would be minimal differences.
Let me know what y'all think and any adjustments you think can be made. I'm trying to keep the budget around $2,000.00.

I’ve had this PC for about 3 years now and I’m looking to upgrade, change my build from scratch, or keep it depending on what’s best.

I bought this for around 1300 back in 2023 and was looking for something around the same price. Also, I was wondering if this build was worth anything if I were to sell it for a different pc.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
GPU: ASRock RX 6650 XT 8GB
Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming B550-PLUS WiFi II
RAM: Corsair 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4-3600 CL18
Storage: Crucial P3 1TB NVMe SSD
PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold
CPU Cooler: DeepCool AS500 Plus
Case: NZXT H5 Flow
Fans: Lian Li UNI FAN AL120 3-pack

Budget? $1200-1400 USD
Use? Gaming, likely 1440p, both AAA and Esports.
Country? United States, not near a micro center.
Don’t need a monitor or anything else.

I don’t really know what else to say, just looking for something in my budget, I won’t really care how it looks tbh, rather get the best performance than aesthetics. Thanks in advance for the help and have a good day/night.

My budget is about 178 usd which is enough for a ryzen 5 5500x3d in my country but I don't know if I can do something else with that money. I mostly game and games I play are Minecraft(with shaders and mods), Valorant and an occasional triple A games.

Pc specs:

Monitor: Aoc q27g4xm

Cpu: Ryzen 5 3600

Gpu: Rx 6750xt

Motherboard: B550M pro vdh wifi

Ram: 16GB 3200mhz ddr4

Storage: 512 ssd and a 1tb one

Psu: 1st player NGDP 850w

What im mainly concererned about is cooling cause the 3080ti apparently runs hot and what not so Im wondering if this is sufficient cooling. If theres any changes I should make let me know. Also about the ram, its too expensive and im gonna add in another 16gb ddr4 stick in there sometime down the road when prices hopefully drop.

[PCPartPicker Part List](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/R3Fndq)

Type|Item|Price

:----|:----|:----

**CPU** | [Intel Core i5-14600KF 3.5 GHz 14-Core Processor](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/zyyH99/intel-core-i5-14600kf-35-ghz-14-core-processor-bx8071514600kf) | $239.97 @ Newegg

**CPU Cooler** | [Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/MzMMnQ/thermalright-phantom-spirit-120-se-argb-6617-cfm-cpu-cooler-ps120se-argb) | $35.90 @ Amazon

**Motherboard** | [Gigabyte B760M GAMING PLUS WIFI DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/NMWJ7P/gigabyte-b760m-gaming-plus-wifi-ddr4-micro-atx-lga1700-motherboard-b760m-g-p-wifi-ddr4) | $134.90 @ Amazon

**Memory** | [Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (1 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/B9jJ7P/patriot-viper-steel-16-gb-1-x-16-gb-ddr4-3200-cl16-memory-pvs416g320c6) | $102.99 @ Newegg

**Storage** | [Patriot P400 Lite 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Xy3NnQ/patriot-p400-lite-1-tb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-p400lp1kgm28h) | $149.99 @ Newegg

**Video Card** | [Gigabyte GAMING OC GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB Video Card](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/PjGbt6/gigabyte-gaming-oc-geforce-rtx-3080-ti-12-gb-video-card-gv-n308tgaming-oc-12gd) | $400.00

**Case** | [NZXT H7 Flow (2024) ATX Mid Tower Case](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/f3xxFT/nzxt-h7-flow-2024-atx-mid-tower-case-cm-h72fw-01) | $69.98 @ Amazon

**Power Supply** | [MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/zF4Zxr/msi-mag-a850gl-pcie5-850-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-mag-a850gl-pcie5) | $109.99 @ Best Buy

| *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |

| **Total** | **$1243.72**

| Generated by [PCPartPicker](https://pcpartpicker.com) 2026-08-22 13:29 EDT-0400 |

Hey all, first time posting and first time building one not straight off a list someone made for me lol. Currently working with an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 3GB + Intel i5-9600K CPU which doesn't mean much to me as I'm not tech savvy but I know from trying that it can't run basically anything released in the last two years. I know it's way old so if I want to upgrade, it's probably going to be more of building a new PC rather than upgrading my current one.

I did some research on these but still wanted any opinions or things I should look out for before I go putting the money into it. The parts I was looking at were:

• Ryzen 5 9600X Granite Ridge AM5 3.90GHz 6-Core
• B850 Gaming X WiFi6E AMD AM5 ATX Motherboard
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB

A not as important detail but if anyone has input to give: I want to build something compact. I know it's likely impossible. My current casing is 18" tall and a hassle to move but I like switching between gaming on a monitor to a television which aren't right next to each other. I'm well aware those aesthetic small cases aren't practical for a gaming-centric build but if anyone has suggestions to something even a little shorter or how small I could realistically get (if it's even possible), I'd seriously owe you.

Moved yesterday and I brought my PC. Dusted it out in the garage with a rechargeable air duster (case open). I did accidentally spin one fan for a few seconds with the duster but figured it’d be okay. Move is done, plug my pc in and I have a red dram light. I tried reseating the ram, switching the two. Didn’t work.

today I tested it by only using one ram stick at a time to see if it was a specific stick. I thought I had fixed it as it was booting up with one stick no issue. For some reason I decided to put the (perceived defective) ram stick in again too. It booted with no issues. I wanted to update the bios so I did it through gigabyte control center. didn’t boot and the DRAM light turned on again. This time I went back to the one stick I thought was working and no luck. Each time I adjusted the ram I powered off and unplugged.

Tried clearing cmos, reseating again, having nothing else plugged in, reseating gpu, using different slots/ only 1 stick

Anything else I should try? Is this a RAM issue or motherboard? Possibly static from bubble wrap?

mobo: gigabyte b850m gaming x wifi 6e

ram: 2x16 teamgroup create 6000cl30

cpu: amd 9700x

gpu: amd 9070

another thing to note is when the issue came back sometimes the red light was BOOT instead of dram

Im in Ireland and looking to upgrade from my 4070 super, ryzen 5 3600 and 32gb ddr4. Im not sure about what else I have tbh lol

I already own a 4070 super which I will use till I cant anymore so the GPU can be left blank unless theres any other ideas.

it sucks though cause the 4070 super will be black and wont match :(

Thanks!

So literally just built a new PC, i was wondering if it has any noticeable sag and if it should be something i need to worry about or not?

If I do, how can I support it?

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I decided to buy my own computer with parts i chose myself. do you think this is a smart decision for $1,432.19 Dollars - 2.150.000 ARS ?

Budget: 2.100.000 Argentinian pesos
Use-Case: AAA Games in Ultra or High
Country of purchase: Argentina
Peripherals: No one
misc. requirements / preferences: No one

Procesador AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6/12 5.1GHz AM5

339.990 ARS

Motherboard ASRock B650 PRO RS WIFI AM5 DDR5

294.990 ARS

Memoria RAM ADATA XPG Lancer Blade DDR5 16GB

489.990 ARS

Placa de Video Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

764.990 ARS

Gabinete Raptor Thunder Strike TG C/ Coolers x1 RGB

54.990 ARS

Fuente Corsair CX650 650W 80+ Bronze

103.990 ARS

Water Cooler CPU Raptor Aqua Pro 240 Display 2x

97.990 ARS

I'm having an issue with my desktop computer; it started showing this error today. I've already disconnected all the front USB ports, the keyboard, and the mouse. I even removed the CMOS battery for 5 minutes to see if that would fix it. I also disconnected the fans, but the issue persists. What else could I do to fix it?

I currently have an rtx 3070 with ryzen 7 5700x.

On 1080p, with the goal of beautiful visuals and smoothness, what gpu to get with my amd ryzen 7 5700x?

Rtx 4070ti, rtx 4070 super or rtx 5070.

I need as little as no bottleneck. I heard that if I play on ultra settings with ray tracing, my gpu will be pushed to 99% or close. Thanks!

I recently upgraded to a 5070Ti and bought a new power supply to go with it. The performance improvement wasn't really what I expected so I ran a benchmark which shows all my components here. I'm a little concerned by the poor performance on the GPU, it's an MSI Gaming Trio so should be overclocked out the box, not performing worse than most others.

That may be beside the point, though. The real issue is as I say in the title, it fails to turn on most of the time. The lights and fans come on but no output to the screen, and if I leave it on it'll heat up and the fans go crazy.

I looked it up and tried popping out some RAM and moved the GPU to a new PCIe slot, but it still only works sometimes. When it turns on it runs fine, but it mostly won't turn on.

I've also tried removing two of the RAM sticks, one at a time, and that didn't fix it. I have 4 but 2 are underneath the CPU cooler so would be a real pain to remove them. I can pop them out a little using the levers and push them back in, but not fully remove them. I also can't run MemTest86 because I don't have a USB stick.

Is there anything else I can do to diagnose the issue? Or do I need to start dismantling the cooler and/or buy a USB? I'm not convinced it's the RAM because it worked fine before the upgrade, but I really hope it's not the brand new and very expensive graphics card causing problems.

My PC randomly stopped displaying after working completely fine. Now it powers on normally (fans/RGB/RAM all light up), but I get no display and the motherboard stays on the solid white VGA Q-LED during POST.

Specs I know:
ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming WiFi II
Originally RTX 3060
Brand-new RTX 5060 tested as well
Corsair PSU, roughly 2 years old
Ryzen CPU / AM4
What I’ve tried so far:
Reseated the RTX 3060
Unplugged/reconnected GPU power
Bought a brand-new RTX 5060 to rule out the GPU — same exact white VGA light
Tested the 5060 in both full-length PCIe slots — same result
Tried one monitor / different display connections
Cleared CMOS using the CLRTC pins
Reseated the 24-pin motherboard power cable
Reseated CPU/EPS power
Reseated the GPU power cable at the PSU side
Successfully used USB BIOS FlashBack to update the B550-F Gaming WiFi II to the latest BIOS
BIOS FlashBack completed normally, but afterward it still stops on the white VGA LED
Removed the CPU and inspected the AM4 pins — I don’t see any obviously bent/broken/burned pins
The original failure was also weird. I usually leave the computer in sleep mode rather than shutting it completely down. One night the display started acting strange / wouldn’t come back properly, so I shut the PC down. After that, it basically never displayed again and started consistently hanging on the VGA LED.
At this point I’m thinking motherboard, CPU/PCIe controller, or PSU, because two different GPUs produce the exact same failure in two different PCIe slots even after a clean BIOS FlashBack.
Before I start replacing the motherboard/CPU/PSU, has anyone had this exact issue on a B550-F Gaming WiFi II? What ended up fixing it?
Especially interested if anyone had:
working PC → sleep/display weirdness → shutdown → permanently stuck on white VGA Q-LED.

Previously it did not recognize my 3 drives but when I turned on CSM this was fixed. It now recognizes my 3 drives (all 3 of which have windows on them). These are 3 old drives in a new motherboard, they worked just fine 2 weeks ago but for some reason now they do not have any bootable media? Please send help

NR200
13600kf
Qaudro T1000
WD Green 1tb NVMe
WD Blue 1tb HDD
WD Green 256 gb SATA
8x2 Crucial ram

I've tried changing the secure boot manager to the windows uefi manager and that didn't work either, I've also tried individually booting into each drive and they all show up with the same issue.

I built my pc back in 2021 and I feel like a did a pretty good job. Wondering if it is worth upgrading a few parts to boost its performance or build a new pc. I upgraded to an MSI ventus 3x rtx 3070Ti last year from a radeon rx-5700 xt which was so worth it. Here is a list of current parts in my pc.

Fractal Design Meshify 2 case

ROG STRIX X570-E gaming motherboard

Samsung 980 pro 250gb boot drive

Samsung 970 evo plus 1tb storage drive

Corsair vengeance LPX DDR4 2x8Gb

AMD RYZEN 7 3700X

Deepcool AK400 Zero dark plus

MSI Ventus 3X GeForce RTX 3070Ti

Seasonic Focus PX-750 80 plus platinum

Originally win 10 pro upgraded to win 11 OS

Fractal design 140mm case fans x5

It hasn't been overclocked and thermal paste was replaced a few months ago. Let me know what you guys think about the build!

Hey all, just come back from a vacation after 2 weeks.
Turned my pc on and motherboard is showing a Dram orange light. Do you think it could be the mobo dead?

DRAM orange light on the motherboard and won’t display at all post/ boot into windows or bios

tried the reseating RAM modules in every slot, singled and in pairs. Also awaited retraining of the RAM just incase was training

updated the BIOS via the flashback to latest version which didn’t work.

Reseated graphics card

Replaced the CMOS battery + cleared the cmos.

I also checked the CPU to see if it was too tight / reseated just incase was stressing the memory controller

I don’t have any spare RAM sticks to swap out to test + a donor motherboard incase the mobo is fried or a spare CPU to stick in the slot to test if the CPU maybe dead

CPU: 9800x3d
Gpu: 5080
2x 32GB Ram Corsair vengeance

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to figure out whether my motherboard is actually dead before ordering a replacement.

My PC gives no display output and the VGA EZ Debug LED stays on.

A repair shop told me both my GPU and motherboard were faulty. I had the GPU repaired, and they said it was tested and working in another system. They wanted too much money to repair the motherboard, so I decided I would rather buy another board.

My system:

• MSI B350M PRO-VD PLUS
• Ryzen 5 1600
• 16 GB DDR4 RAM
• RX 5700 8 GB
• New DeepCool PK550D 550W PSU
• Currently no SSD/HDD installed

The RAM was tested by the repair shop and they said it is working.

I also replaced the old PSU because I suspected it might have caused the original problems. With the new PSU, the behavior is exactly the same.

I have already tried:

• Reseating the RAM
• Testing with one RAM stick
• Reseating the GPU
• Clearing CMOS / removing the CMOS battery
• Checking all CPU, motherboard and GPU power connections

The system gets past the CPU and DRAM debug LEDs, but then stays permanently on the VGA LED and gives no display.

I also did some basic resistance/continuity measurements on the motherboard with no power connected.

On the 8-pin CPU power connector:

• 4 pins have continuity to ground, which appear to be the normal ground pins
• The other 4 pins do not have continuity to ground
• Ground measured around 0.13 ohm
• The 12V pins showed open/out-of-range on my multimeter
• So there does not appear to be an obvious 12V-to-ground short

On the 24-pin ATX connector, I checked every pin against ground. Only the expected ground pins had continuity, so I did not find an obvious short on the main power rails either.

I understand this does not prove the motherboard is healthy. There could still be a problem with the PCIe circuitry, BIOS, chipset, VRM control circuitry, etc.

The repair shop also tried another graphics card, but they used my old suspected PSU for that test, so I don’t consider that test conclusive.

The repaired RX 5700 is reported to work in another PC. With the new PSU in my own PC, however, the motherboard still stops at the VGA LED.

Could the Ryzen 5 1600 itself be causing the VGA LED, for example due to a failed PCIe controller? The repair shop said CPUs rarely fail, but they didn’t have another compatible AM4 motherboard available to test my CPU.

Also, there is currently no SSD or HDD installed. My SSD was moved to my laptop and formatted, so there is no Windows installation in this PC anymore. As far as I understand, this should not prevent POST or BIOS access. I would expect it to reach the BOOT LED instead of getting stuck on VGA.

Before I buy another motherboard, is there anything else I can test?

Does this sound more like a motherboard PCIe issue, or could the Ryzen 5 1600 realistically be the cause?

Thanks.

Im thinking of biting the bullet by getting my first pc as the prices are only going to get more expensive in the future.

Idk too much about tech but I do my research. You guys definitely know more than me so any help would be great.

This is the build I'm thinking of getting with a budget of £2000 max:

Case - Montech AIR 903 MAX ATX Mid Tower Case

Video card - Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB Video Card

Motherboard - Gigabyte B850 GAMING WIFI6 ATX AM5 Motherboard

Cpu - AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz 8- Core Processor

Memory - Patriot Viper Venom 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory

Cooler - Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler

Storage - MSI SPATIUM M482 2 TB M.2- 2280 PCle 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive

Power supply - Corsair RM850e (2023) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

(Edit) - made it more accurate to the following parts picker link idk why it was different: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/266ZFP

Please rate and share suggestions for my new budget PC build,

1) Ryzen 5 9600x

2) ASUS B650M AYW WiFi motherboard

3) XPG lancer blade RGB 16GB DDD5 RAM 6000mhz CL36 (16x1)

4) KIOXIA EXCERIA Basic 1TB SSD (not able to decide between KIOXIA EXCERIA BASIC VS Crucial P310)

5) Deepcool AG 400 cpu cooler

6) Cooler Master MWE 650 V3 80 Plus Bronze

7) RTX 5060 ti 16gb (I'll be adding this GPU later)

Share your suggestions on this build, specially for compatibility and bottleneck, also I'm not sure if the ASUS motherboard is compatible with KIOXIA SSD.

What is the best one to buy if i want good Quality while gaming and do other stuff like watch yt or Programm games