#Helo I am a very big noob with pcs and recently I bought one and I don’t know what parts I installed

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acoustic violet
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Please help
HELLO recently I bought this pc it came with some parts and I installed. But idk what I installed or what other parts do I have to install. If you know what parts I am left to install please tell me the name of items or even better the links of those items.

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unborn flint
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Do you have a reciept of the pc you bought?

lost blade
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....did you just take pictures of the whole thing and expect us too know what parts you did and didnt have in there?

acoustic violet
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I have the picture

unborn flint
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so from my guessing it's some kind of cyberpower prebuilt

acoustic violet
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ye

unborn flint
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do you have the reciept for that?

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a model number?

acoustic violet
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Lemme see

lost blade
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did you buy it from someone else or cyberpower itself?

acoustic violet
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best buy

lost blade
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im confused why you had to install anything then

acoustic violet
unborn flint
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damn, that's old. But you don't need to installing anything unless you want to upgrade it

acoustic violet
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I want to updgrade.

acoustic violet
unborn flint
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how much can you spend to upgrade?

acoustic violet
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900

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max

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I thought it was new 😦

unborn flint
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if you put those two budgets together and just got an actual prebuilt pc you would be much better setup

acoustic violet
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oh

unborn flint
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there's honestly not much salvagable from this aside from maybe the case and the power supply

acoustic violet
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Do I need any proccessors or graphics cards?

untold viper
acoustic violet
unborn flint
untold viper
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yeah

unborn flint
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you got real scammed by this my friend

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return it if you can

untold viper
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did you just buy it?

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should have paid like 300

acoustic violet
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I questioned about it and stuff

acoustic violet
untold viper
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yeah

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thats typical

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old stock

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guy who looks like he doesnt know whats up

unborn flint
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return it

untold viper
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they took advantage

unborn flint
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then come back and we can help design a better build for you to make yourself or recommend you a good prebuilt

acoustic violet
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ok

unborn flint
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you can return it right? It looks like it just came out of a pc box

acoustic violet
slow hull
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i see the graphics card

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oh its a refurbished unit with an old processor?

unborn flint
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return it, and start over

acoustic violet
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Pretty sure Best buy returns last for a month I will have to be quick

unborn flint
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just get it in tomorrow

lethal violet
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if the motherboard can have it's bios updated to support newer cpus, a 5800x3d and faster ram would be a fine upgrade to the motherboard and 6600 xt or 6700xt for $150-320 depending on what card you get

unborn flint
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if you can get your money back, you can take advantage of black friday sales to get a good pc

acoustic violet
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I willl try to do that

unborn flint
lethal violet
unborn flint
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he's got $1600 total to spend

lethal violet
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that thing probably has a b450 in it

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actually you know what?

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just buy a new pc and return that one

acoustic violet
unborn flint
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ok, that's fine

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still certainly better than the pc you got right now

acoustic violet
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damn my pc really sucks

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aight thanks sooo sooooooooooooooooooo much to the power of 10000

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You guys saved me so much money

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and time

unborn flint
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@acoustic violet do you want to buy only a prebuilt computer or can you build your own computer

acoustic violet
unborn flint
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no

acoustic violet
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for a beginner

unborn flint
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no, as long as you don't have the same hand stability and strength as your grandparents, you'll be fine

lethal violet
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i dont know if i'd build your own pc if you're alone

acoustic violet
lethal violet
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you could certain build one by yourself but having more eyes on it and someone who knows what they're doing would help a lot

acoustic violet
unborn flint
lethal violet
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there is more to building a pc than just putting it together

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every beginner i have seen do it have always run into issues because guides dont mention certain things

acoustic violet
lethal violet
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actually pc building simulator might be a good way to get an idea of how to do it in addition to watching build guide videos

acoustic violet
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or better

unborn flint
lost blade
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well i mean...

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back during covid that wasnt true, but now that we are back to normalcy thats true

kind canopy
lethal violet
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a prebuilt will technically cost less for the same basic parts but the user built will have better quality on certain parts assuming you buy quality from the start

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motherboard, ssd, power supply and case would be the main things you would probably want to get better quality on if building it yourself. the cpu and gpu would be the same basic thing and ram can vary in quality depending on how much you're willing to spend

acoustic violet
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I will actually know what I am paying for without spending 10 hours

lethal violet
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building your own pc an be a good experience for leaning more about your pc, but it can be a frustrating experience if something goes wrong and you cant fix it within a day

acoustic violet
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I will make sure that doesnt happen

lethal violet
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plus if you need warranty service, you have to do it for each part

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there are pros and cons of prebuilt vs user built and it really comes down to whether you think you are ready for the challenge

acoustic violet
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are those the pros and cons?

lethal violet
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it's not super risky, just a bit of a challenge if you're new to it

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the biggest risk is probably the cpu socket

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and possibly plugging in the power cables correctly

acoustic violet
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I am screwed if best buy does not let me return this

lethal violet
acoustic violet
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3 weeks ago

lethal violet
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ehhhh 1 more week would have been pushing it but get it done this coming week and it should be fine

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cross your fingers

acoustic violet
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I will

acoustic violet
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or a decent pc

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that can handle games bro. This computer is breathing to even process something

kind canopy
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Return is 15 days unless u have total tech...

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So u might be done

acoustic violet
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oh

kind canopy
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Check on the website on what the return by date is

acoustic violet
kind canopy
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I think you can try. Sometimes they give store credit gift card

acoustic violet
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so either I upgrade my pc or I get a new one or I just cry in my room

acoustic violet
kind canopy
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This is the specs it seems

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acoustic violet
kind canopy
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Other might differs...but I don't think anything is worth salvaging...Probably the SSD and HDD and maybeeeee the case

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But the rest is eh...

acoustic violet
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ohhhhhhhhhhh thanks

acoustic violet
acoustic violet
kind canopy
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I doubt it. That's a pretty damn old gpu bud

acoustic violet
kind canopy
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Yeah but with that system, everything is old

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so you gonna end up basically buying almost everything again

acoustic violet
kind canopy
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Probably but I think we can fix up something for under 1k that's at least viable in modern time

acoustic violet
kind canopy
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I need to check on the psu/power supply on that build

acoustic violet
kind canopy
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It's 600w

acoustic violet
kind canopy
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That's fine

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Take those off and you are saving additional 150$

acoustic violet
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tysm

untold viper
lethal violet
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@acoustic violetyou can still upgrade the system you bought, but you at least have a learning experience about buying computers without researching or asking about it first

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all ryzen motherboards can upgrade to ryzen 5000 cpus as long as the bios has an upgrade

acoustic violet
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thats what I would do but it sounds like it would cost 1000

acoustic violet
lethal violet
acoustic violet
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Well 500 dollars

lethal violet
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it depends on what you actually want to do with it

acoustic violet
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Use it for school homework, Code, Play games

kind canopy
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Literally gave the upgrade list above...

acoustic violet
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oh

lethal violet
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@kind canopydo you know for certain that that msi is the motherboard?

kind canopy
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Ok, pretty sure it's the asrock @lethal violet

lethal violet
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i looked at the pictures posted at the start and it's actually an asrock like i was thinking

kind canopy
lethal violet
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oh

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ha!

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i didnt se you posted that right as i hit enter because i was at the top of the thread

kind canopy
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Yeah I was looking at the pics he sent and tryna dig thru pcp

lethal violet
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it doesnt say what revision the board is

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not sure if that will matter, but that board likely has a ryzen 5000 bios update

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it could easily runa 5800x3d

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or just a cheaper 5600 non x

kind canopy
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It's a 12$ diff from non x to x

lethal violet
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if it was a b450, i would say a 5800x3d made sense but cheaper would be better so a 5700x may be a better buy over 5600

kind canopy
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5600g is only 122$ vs 155 5600

lethal violet
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no

kind canopy
lethal violet
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forget the 5600g

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the 5600g is only slightly better than 3600 non x

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or about a 3600x

kind canopy
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literally 3$ diff between 5600 and 5600x

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so eh

lethal violet
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yeah but also the price difference from a 5600 and 5700x is like $30

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cpu, ram and gpu are gonna be like a $600 upgrade if going for 5600x, 32GB ram and 6700xt

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could maybe get it down to $500 with a 6600 xt

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and then add on a $70ish nvme ssd

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$700 though for that system in 2023..... sheesh

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the parts new look like they would only be like $350

kind canopy
lethal violet
kind canopy
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Yeah but coming out of the recent parts shortage...I mean, 700$ isn't a bad deal for something competitively viable in 2023, when a goddamn gpu is 600-700$ norm

lethal violet
kind canopy
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Oh you were talking about the best buy system. Yeah that's a scam

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lmao

lethal violet
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it's not entirely bad since it can be upgraded to a 5800x3d