Recent content by john.varghese.5099

After a lot of contemplation(like I always do) I went ahead with asus tuf b450m pro 2. It has good audio as per spec. Initially I thought of going ahead with MSI B550M pro vdh, but after seeing quite a few negative reviews I dropped the thought. Well I hope I'm right. Anyway guys, thanks for all...

Can you guys suggest a good ASUS motherboard. I have a service center in my town and never had problems with a previous one that I had. Also an MSI board has been suggested above. How good are they now. I had heard earlier that their after sales service is not that good. One more thing: b450 or...

Ok. Update. Did the bench test after which I took it over to a service center about 10 days ago. Today they called and said that it couldn't be repaired - something about the bios shorting out. Looks like a new motherboard for me then

No display at all i.e. no POST. It was working fine till the day before. Initially my case fan didn't work. So I cleaned my PC and tried again and it did start spinning. However still no display. Fans on all components i.e. gfx card, PSU, CPU are all working - so no problem there. I swapped my...

Ok. I am planning to carry on with my rig for at least another 5 years. By AGAIN I was talking about the mobo on my previous rig. It was a Gigabyte one (don't remember the model) and it had to be replaced 2 years after purchase and it worked for 3 years before it gave up. All the other...

Ok. Sorry for bumping up this old thread. Seems like my motherboard (Asrock B450 Pro4) gave up on me AGAIN. Just a couple of weeks beyond warranty. Please suggest a replacement My specs are still the same - R5 3600, 16 gb RAM & RTX 2070. No overclocking.

Yeah. The motherboard was done for. It was also out of warranty and none was in stock. So I had to go the upgrade path. Bought a ryzen 5 3600, asrock b450 pro motherboard and 16 gb ram. Thanks for your suggestions here and in another thread (started so I could make the right choice for upgrade)

Installed Win 10 on my hdd. Somehow my second hdd stopped working. Checked it and found that it had a lot of bad sectors. After the next restart it stopped showing up on 'My PC'. Any suggestions on how to get it working?

Tried that, didn't work. Gave up. Downloaded and installed Win 10.

I just downloaded the tool and patched win 7 installation file to an image. So if I install the patched win 7, then I'll be able to use my usb drives. Is that correct. Because now none of the usb ports are working. Like I said, I managed to install win 7 with the ps/2 mouse but on desktop I...

Thanks. Hope it will support usb gen 2 also. I initially thought I had a faulty motherboard. Also ryzen 5 3600 temps as indicated in the bios is hovering around 65 deg (idle) - stock cooler. Is this normal? I did apply sone thermal paste but no change in temps.

Bought the Asrock b450 from prime abgb & ryzen 3600 and g.skill ripjaws V from itdepot. Total cost under 32k. Also the Asus turbo 2070 rtx from Vedant (thanks to whitestar_99 for his suggestion. Saw it in another thread) Tried to boot my win 7 installation of my old system. Didn't work so had...

Asus Turbo RTX 2070 is selling on vedant computers for 31k. It's a blower style card so how do you guys rate it. Since its cheaper (for the time being) than a 2060 super and should perform similarly. Also are founders edition cards better than partner models? There are rumors that FE are better...

The reason I am going for an upgrade is because my current motherboard gave up; probably fried. I still do have my hdd (win 7). So I dont have to get a new win 7 OS. I did have compatibility issues with some older games & some softwares (freeoffice, printer driver) on win 10 (updated when it was...

The reason I am planning to go with rtx 2060s / rx 5700 is that I still wish to play at 1080p @ 60 fps avg with most settings at v.high even after 5 years (provided that ray tracing dont make the current gen obsolete) 1) Also, will an SSD improve gaming performance, i.e; higher fps? or only...