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    Anyone tried Bios 4.20 on Asrock AB350 Pro4?

    i would revert back. they pulled the bios for a reason. i had nothing but issues with it. even my time clock was running twice as fast. edit: i figured there was something wrong with my overclock so i dailed it back to 3.8ghz to test. and the motherboard wouldn't even overclock, it ran at stock...
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    Anyone tried Bios 4.20 on Asrock AB350 Pro4?

    I have the pro board. 4.xx would reboot my system. I reverted back to 3.3. Asrock pulled the bios update. Looks like agesa 1.0072 just isn't stable. Ive been reading other manufacturers also having issues with it.
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    How will we know that Desktops are dying? What will be the signs?

    Been a rise in pc gaming. Doom and gloom too early
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    Please suggest a motherboard for i5 3470. Gigabyte H77 D3h stopped working

    Best bet is ebay. I tried looking for an ivy bridge board a few months ago. Could not find a new one for a reasonal price. Bought a used intel board off ebay.
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    Al Franken accused of kissing and groping radio host. Will resign.

    She accepted apology. Picture clearly show he was posing for a photo. Nothing burger
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    is the i3-8100 or R3 1200 a minimum spec for new builds?

    8100 if you're going apu route (don't overclock route). those motherboards are still too high though. i just abought an asrock ab350m pro4 board for $53 after rebate. cheapest z370 board is $110, thats almost a $60 price difference. you can use that $60 to get a ryzen 1400. gotta wait till 2018...
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    Does the availability of the i3-8100 (3.6Ghz 4C/4T) CPU, and in a few months, cheaper boards...

    i managed to find a board for $35. I5 3570s for 60, and 16gb of ddr3 for 60. Money we saved, put that into a pulled 256gb ssd, those cheap hgst 3tb hdd on eBay, and a used rx 560. It replaced a prebuilt 8310 with r260 (he gave that rig to his kid.) My friend was happy. But its hard to find cheap...
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    Does the availability of the i3-8100 (3.6Ghz 4C/4T) CPU, and in a few months, cheaper boards...

    Depends if you can find cheap mobo. I5 ivybridge is cheap second hand and ddr3 ram is way cheaper than ddr4 second hand. But its alot harder to find mobos. Most secondhand seem to be coming from china now.
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    What's going on with my PC???

    does that i3 have an integrated graphics? if it does you can take out the video card and see if it still crashes. you have 1 stick or 2 sticks of ram? try different sticks on different slots. if you are suspicious of your hardware components you gotta start removing pieces. when i fixed my...
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    Gaming Rig, Mid Range ~$1,200

    if you really want that 1080, you might want a beefier power supply. pretty sure you can get a 650watt for that price.
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    Gaming Rig, Mid Range ~$1,200

    the card went out of stock. sorry bro. i hate it when newegg does that. they always do limited stock when sales are on.
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    Gaming Rig, Mid Range ~$1,200

    ebay has 10% coupon right now for newegg's ebay store, coupon last till august 1st. check slickdeals, makes that videocard more affordable. edit: with the code it makes GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 only $465. but i don't know if i'm allowed to link to deals.
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    Anyone build a gaming PC, by buying a cheap OEM quad-core rig off ebay, and thowing in a GPU?

    mining is slowing crashing. few more months maybe gpu prices will be back to normal. i bought a 1050 for $87 in june, and back then a ti was 120-125. it sucked when miners found out how to use nvidia gpus to mine.
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    Help me with a $1500 Midrange gaming/workstation PC

    thats a good point. i didn't realize power saving mode. i also have a few less than 1tb drives lying around. mostly laptop drives that i pulled when i upgrade the laptops to ssds. i usually install the pulled drives to friends and families older pc's as storage drives for them.