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Thanks, I'll hold on to them. If it looks like I won't need them, I can put them on Facebook without worrying about losing a ton of money on them at least. Looks like I got in right before things went crazy with a few builds before Christmas. Lucked out.

I know ram prices have gone crazy lately, but how about SSD? I purchased a few drives before Christmas that I was going to return. Current price is over twice as much at Walmart now. I might need at least 1 of the drive in the Fall and was wondering if I'd be better off keeping it on the chance...

Sent PM for the 7600X

My daughter upgraded her computer recently and has a 5600x, B550 motherboard, 16GB ram and a 3GB 1060. She wants to upgrade her video card but we have a limited budget. She games at 1080p and they main game she is playing now is Balders Gate 3. Was looking at the following Local PNY RTX2070...

Thanks, I missed that. Explains why it was cheaper. I expected the bigger number to be better.

Will check out the used market here and will see what is available on Black Friday if I don't find something used that looks good before then. Not much on Facebook marketplace in my area right now and try to avoid ebay when I can. Thanks for the help

Looks like the AMD Ryzen 7 5700 is a little cheaper than 5600 atm and might end up going that route. Will probably hold out and see what is available on Black Friday to see if I can find a deal. Thanks

Would a Ryzen 5 3600 be a reasonable option? More cache and PCIe 4.0 support? I'm going to be pairing it with a 3 GB 1060 but would give an upgrade path for a better card.

She decided on getting a new motherboard+CPU and moving parts over. I have a power supply and case already, and can take the video card and ram from the old system. Was looking at getting a ASRock B550M Phantom Gaming 4 Micro ATX and a AMD Ryzen 5 5500 unless anyone sees any issues with those...

One other upgrade option, I also have a oem HP with this mother board https://support.hp.com/hk-en/document/c06418627 . It can support up to a AMD Ryzen 7 3700x which looks to better cpu than the 7700 and is around $90 on ebay. I could then move the 1060 over to it. The power supply is only 300...

Sorry about that, should have mentioned it before. That computer has a 300 watt standard power supply and I have extra 500 I could put in if needed. Was confusing it in the above post with a different computer I have with a proprietary one.

Good point on Windows 10, I was able to get extended support but that is only for 1 year. I have an AM4 system that is a prebuilt that I could try to upgrade but I don't think it supports any of the better CPUs and the power supply is probably proprietary. Might check the used local market to...

The 1060 is the 3GB unfortunately. I upgraded it to a SSD a while back. The computer is a prebuilt HP so I double checked that it would support the 7700 and it looks like it will. Realized that the power supply probably wouldn't have supported much of an upgrade for a new video card anyway...

Thanks, looks like building something new will be the best option. Can use old video card for a while if needed and upgrade it when the time comes. For the price, it might be worth trying the 7700 also. Not out much if it dosen't work out. I'll give her the options and let her decide. Thanks again.

My daughter has started to have some issues playing Baldur's Gate 3 when playing with her friends. Pretty sure she games at 1080p. The system is old, i5 7400, GTX 1060, 16 GB ram. I'm well out of the loop at this point in my life so not sure what would be a reasonable upgrade. Looks like the...

My wife has been using her chromebook charger on her Samsung S21. The charger is 45 watts I think but I don't know if it is USB PD PPS and was wondering if using it could hurt the battery. The Chromebook was from 2021 and is a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 3 if that makes a difference. Thanks

I was worried about the bios. Probably only way to find out is to see what happens and can always switch back. Just a lot of messing around if it turns out not too. I think the i5 7400 had better H.265 quicksync support than the i3 6100 also that was making the upgrade look worth while.

The motherboard is listed as Odense2-K on HP website. They do not list the i3 6100 as a supported CPU only i3 7100, i5 7400, and i7 7700. The chipset is H170 and supports the i3 6100. I want to switch because my plex server has the i3 6100 in it and I think there would be a benifit to...

I'll probably just reinstall on this computer but I have another computer that I'd like to clone the SSD to a nvme that I'd expect that I'll have the same issue with. Would you have a product that you'd recommend that should be able to do this? I saw AOMEI backupper pro will do it but it is...

I was going to use it for storage. To be honest, I thought I unplugged the original drive when I installed on the nvme. I'll try to move the bootloader. Thanks for the help.

Good point, if I can see it, it must be compatible. I was wanting to avoid a reinstall but might be the best route to take. I double check the bios again but everything seemed to be ok but I couldn't select the Crucial NVMe as the boot device.

I picked up an HP AMD computer cheap for my kids that came with a HDD but has a M.2 slot. I picked up a Crucial P5 Gen3x4 NVMe ssd to upgrade it. I installed Windows 11 on it. I can boot from the drive it came with ,select the new drive during the process but if I remove the original drive I...

Thanks, I thought that it should but thought it was worth double checking.

I need to repurposed the Asus Z170-E to be used as a Plex server. It has 6 SATA , 1 SATA Express, and 1 M.2 skt 3. The manual says 6 x SATA (2 from SATA Express) and that the M.2 shares SATA mode with SATA Express. I wanted to double check before buying a drive, but should I be able to connect...

Thanks, I'll give it another try and double check to make sure I have it set correctly. I'm moving from a i5 2500k to Ryzen 3 3200G and thought the age and switch from intel and AMD might have been asking to much.

My daughters computer needs an upgrade. I tried to move the ssd to a newer computer but couldn't get it to boot. I'm guessing the hardware is to different for Windows 10 to deal with. I'd normally have just done a clean install but she has some apps/games that no longer appear to be available...

I'm looking for a cheap way to expand my Plex server and found this pretty cheap. It is an older model but would there be a reason this would be a bad choice for my use case? I'm using Stable bit drive pool and anything critical is backed up elsewhere also. Cost is around $60 but don't want...

Thanks for the help. I'll pick up one of the TP Link APs to start with but will also try a wired connection. I already have a USB to ethernet adapter. If it works enough better than the AP, I'll get a few more.

My router is a NETGEAR R7500 Nighthawk and is located in the basement. With 3 kids going to school online on the 2nd floor the signal is getting a little weak. I have wired runs to each room on the 2nd floor but their chromebooks are wireless only. I'm assuming that my best option would be to...

Ended up being the power supply. Each HDD checked out on another computer. I was almost hoping it was a HDD issue since changing the power supply is a pain vs dropping in a new HDD and I had back ups of everything.

Power went out and computer wouldn't reboot after. The boot drive is a SSD and I have 4 HDD for storage. When booting, I can hear a clicking noise so thought one of the HDD failed. I disconnected them and booted fine. I started adding them back in one at a time. With one added the computer...

I asked him for more info on his ram, he has 2x Ballistix Sport LT 8GB Single DDR4 2666. Would that work ok with a Ryzen setup? Any motherboard recommendations?

I haven't built in a while and have a friend looking to put together a PC for some light gaming and video converting. He has 16 GB of DDR4, 1 TB SSD, GTX 1060. I was thinking going with an i5 8400 would be a good choice but wasn't sure what motherboards would be good. He will not be...

My kids computer is getting a little old and the integrated graphics on the 2500k no longer works for all of the games she wants to play. She was using an old system that I had put together but was wanting to move her over to and HP that I was able to pickup on clearance. I know a clean...

I was looking at the UniFi AC In-Wall but there are some really good sales right now on the UAP-AC-LITE-US ($70) Will they both give comparable coverage? I assume that they can work together so I could get one of each? Also, just to make sure I'm understanding this correctly, if I purchased...

Thanks for the help, I was thinking about something like a Netgear Nighthawk Mesh X6S but the options listed here would be cheaper and better fit what I need.

I have a Netgear Nighthawk X4 AC2350 in the basement. The wireless signal is pretty weak when you get to the 2nd floor of the house. I do have Cat5e running to each room of the house. I set up an access point with another router but devices wouldn't switch to the stronger signal. Is there...

I'm running off of intel integrated graphics, i3 6100 with intel 530 graphics. I went to intel and downloaded newest video drivers the 530 and still have the problem. Any other ideas on what I should do? I can switch back to previous version of windows if needed but would like to get it fixed.

Well, final update I think for anyone that finds this looking for the same info. I believe there are a few models/options on the Acer Spin 1 and some of them came with a 500 GB HDD. Those models have the sata connector where the empty solder spot labeled HDD1 is on mine. That maybe why...

Just read some where on a similar model that you have to remove the battery to do it. I'll give it a try later and see how hard it is to take out the battery.