Had an absolute nightmare, started building my new PC with the intent to reuse my NZXT Kraken x63 only to realise that, of course, I didn’t have the mounting bracket. Silly me for forgetting I would need a new bracket I know I know.

From what I can see, the cooler is about 4/5mm off the face of the CPU when using the AM4 bracket.

Would it be possible to remove some of the height of the screws to lower down the face?

Thanks!

My power supply cable sparked and the screen went black, is there a way to fix this? Or just buy a new power supply?

I am getting a new gigabyte x870 mobo with a sensor panel port. I watched a video explaining the port but I am still confused.

It says I need a USB DP cable.. but are all panels created like this? Are some just USB C to USB C? Could I use an older galaxy cell phone for this? I am not sure exactly what to look for.

Edit: I see the panel port is HDMI 1.4.. I am guessing a phone would not work as I'd need to hook the phone up with an HDMI cable and would still need a way to power/charge it.

Hi, I recently made a post about my Mac Pro Case build, I’ve acquired motherboard standoffs from the seller of a case but standard motherboard screws does not seem to fit in those, they are too wide. I ve been searching for details in apple technical documentation and I stumbled across a picture of a screw. Does anyone know the type/name or how to find it not having to buy the exact apple ones. Ideally I just want to find them in local hardware store but I don’t know what I am looking for.

Here is a photo of a screw

Weird color combo?

My new PC at work is the size of a compact book. That got me thinking: computers of that size open op a whole "new" (at least for me) range of modding options. So: assuming one wanted to build a rather strong PC - how small is still a healthy size these days?

i’m being serious

Hi everyone I'm doing a little project of spray painting my nzxt h7 flow 2024 in white to begin my alien movie franchise setup. Just wondering what steps do I need to take?

I was recently gifted a PC, and decided to turn it into a retro gaming machine running Batocera 40.

It has an i7 4770, AMD R7 265 with 16gb of RAM.

I made the front panel, relocated the power button to the top, and made a custom mount for a red COB LED strip.

https://imgur.com/a/i62nYdR

Bought 4 sticks of RAM off Ebay, 2 of them stop the PC from posting, got the refund, but was told I can keep the broken sticks. I read up what little has already been covered on the topic online, and here's what I'm thinking:

1. I need to stop the electrical signals that allow the RAM to send/receive data, while keeping the power and RGB instructions from the PC
2. I know which connections on the RAM to remove by looking at images of dummy RAM.

What way is best to remove the metal at the specific points? High-grit sandpaper is currently my best guess, but I am open to pretty much anything aside from working with chemicals.

Hi all, as the title says.

I bought stat screen from AliExpress that has in description (it needs aida to work)

Could someone point me free easy manageable alternative please?

I did try turzx, which looked simple but didn't work.

Thank you all.

Can i still add another set of ram and ssd?

Cpu specs: Please check

PROCESSOR: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D*

MOTHERBOARD: MSI MPG X670E Carbon WiFi*

GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER AERO OC 12G*

RAM: T-Force Delta RGB 32GB Kit 2x16GB 6000MHz DDR5 CL30

SSD:WD SN850X 2TB M.2 2280 NVME GEN4

PSU: corsair RM850 white gold 850w 80+

CASE: NZXT H7 flow

So im getting this mobo: GIGABYTE B650E AORUS ELITE X AX ICE and it has a thing called a sensor link on it.

This is the video that explains how to set it up Aorus Sensor Panel vid, in the vid they say they are using a "USB DP" i have searched everywhere for whatever a "USB DP" cable is and i have no idea. It would've been nice if they listed the exact items they use in the vid or at least showed a little more or talked about it more.

There is also this https://global.aorus.com/blog-detail.php?i=1220 basically same thing as the vid but its text.

Another thing is the panel they use in the vid says HDMI its actually this panel here Waveshare panel, so im insanely confused on what i do and dont need, what cords, or what parts they used. I cant even find that right angle adapter they use in the vid either.

If anyone experienced in this can please look through the vid and guide and tell me what parts i need, or if anyone owns a aorus mobo with sensor link please tell me what parts you had to order to set this up.

I originally thought this would be easy after seeing the supposed "How to" vid but i was so wrong been around 3-4 days of google searches and amazon browsing and reddit surfing trying to find out what it is that i just seem to not understand.

TLDR: I'm dumb and need help.

Edit: Is this micro HDMI?

https://preview.redd.it/hx3hi0ro23yd1.png?width=398&format=png&auto=webp&s=80ab18de91720004d35ca9702902209e0f6b7c0e

Could also be this USB C to DisplayPort 1.4 Cable

Could also be this though USB C to HDMI Cable this one seems more likely with the panel being HDMI also and the MOBO listing the sensor link as being HDMI also.

List of MOBOs on board connectors

https://preview.redd.it/vrrk362d53yd1.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb3aed670b133d2dd19a4754ccce30177cf551c5

Probably gonna end up going with this cause its about the same price and easier with more info available on its setup WOWNOVA

As the title says. Has anyone designed/build their own tower case? I'm thinking of having rad/fan in the bottom and the top and then make the case as small as possible but still able to fit a ATX mobo. Let's say you put 4x 140mm fans with rads in the bottom and also 4x 140mm fans with rads in the top. Then hide the PSU and pump/res behind the mobo. This should free quite a lot of space on my desk. What am I missing? Do you guys have any good input?

2020 build consist of :

Tuf X570 wifi plus 3900X DDDR 32GB CL14 Rog Strix RTX 2060 Super 2 - 970 Evo Plus 1TB nvme's Seagate FireCuda 2TB for gaming Constellation 4TB 7200rpm for storage

I'm using and 1080p monitor, so no bottleneck going on it works great but now it's time to a second monitor and step it up to 2K, and create AI Faceless Automation Videos

What should I immediately make upgrades?

Hi all, I'm looking to add an external power button for my computer as it's currently setup about 2m away from my desk.

However, I've seen plenty of 3rd party amazon, ebay, and aliexpress sellers sell prepackaged ones which all quite frankly look awful.

So I'm thinking of going down the DIY route and buying a nice looking switch I can 3d print a housing for, but the issue I have is I cannot for the life of me find a 5m cable to attach to my motherboard and feed down the shelf the pc sits on and up to my desk (it needs to be 5m to accommodate the distance and my standing desk height range).

Does anyone know anywhere I can buy a 5m cable which I can plug and play then wire up to a switch? I do not know the exact name of the cable, so my google searches are coming back with nothing but generic 3rd party complete packages.

Any help is greatly appreciated!