Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I figured it out. Everything's booting up now, but now there's no display showing on my monitor not getting any POST beeps either so I have no idea what the issue could be now.

hmm I've had that happen when the power cables aren't seated all the way in somewhere (usually on the gpu or the one next to the cpu)

yeah if it's not beeping it really seems like a gpu issue or maybe the cmos, I'd take out the battery for the cmos if you haven't already and try booting it up if all the cables look good

Nah. This is my case amzn.to/32aK6qJ

Make sure your ram sticks are in the proper DIMM slots according to your MOBO requirements.

Make sure your RAM is compatible with your mobo and that your mobo is on the current bios update.

Main PC

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X @ 3.6 GHz
Motherboard: MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 MHz
Boot Storage: Intel 660p 1TB M.2-2280 NVME SSD
2nd Storage: Western Digital Blue 1 TB 2.5" SSD
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB WINDFORCE
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C
Power Supply: Corsair TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold
Operating System: Windows 10 Home

2nd PC
2017 MacBook Pro 15-inch w/ Touch Bar

CPU: Intel Core i7 7820HQ @ 2.9 GHz
Memory: 16 GB LPDDR3-2133 MHz
Storage: 512GB PCIe-based onboard SSD
Video Card: Radeon Pro 560 4GB

Peripherals
Monitor: MSI Optix MAG241C 144hz
Keyboard: Ducky One 2 Skyline Double Shot PBT w/ Cherry MX Black switches
Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum RGB
Mouse Pad: SteelSeries QcK Gaming Surface Large
Headset: Sennheiser GSP 300

bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-12tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6364259.p?skuId=6364259
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CPU: Intel i7 7700k
Motherboard: msi z270 gaming pro carbon
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 MHz
Boot Storage: Samsung 970 evo plus 1TB M.2-2280 NVME SSD
2nd Storage: Corsair mx500 1 TB 2.5" SSD
3rd Storage: WD Black 3 TB 2.5" SSD
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Gaming Xor som s***
Power Supply: EVGA 750w
Operating System: Windows 10 Home

got this in march 2017

Ryzen 7 3700X
Asus TUF X570-PLUS
G.Skill TridentZ Neo 16GB DDR4-3600
Zotac RTX 2080 Super 8GB AMP
Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB
Seagate 2TB
Super Flower Leadex III Gold 750W
Lian Li PC-O11 DYNAMIC RAZER

Getting this p soon 11.11 sales

Ryzen 3600X
ASUS Prime B450M
G.Skill TridentZ 32GB 3200Mhz
RTX 2070 (EVGA XC Ultra)
Samsung 860 EVO 500GB
Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 1TB
Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD
EVGA SuperNova G2 650W

Will take pics of when I switch out the case it's in and motherboard with something a little better.

Ryzen 7 2700X
ROG Crosshair VI Hero WiFi
G.SKILL Flare X 16GB DDR4 3200 CL14
WD Black 256GB NVME SSD
WD Blue 500GB HDD
WD Blue 1TB HDD
WD Green 1TB HDD
Seagate Momentus 500GB HDD
MSI RX Vega 64 AIR Boost
EVGA G3 750W Power Supply

is buying a prebuilt cringe if I just wanna get into entry level pc gaming

No buy what you wanna buy, just do price comparisons to make sure you’re getting a good deal

Why did you choose this cpu and gpu?

Was suggested, needed one for gaming

I didn't get it though cause i was buying a bunch of other things instead

Pretty tough situation. I'm upgrading my GPU from a 2060 because I really hate the card. Originally I was thinking of a 2080 Super but it doesn't really seem like a good enough value. So then I was looking at the 2070 Super and it seems like an incredible value. Well now I'm aware of the 5700xt at $100 less than the 2070 Super which seems like an amazing deal. So I'm leaning towards that AMD card now.

Other thing is upgrading my mobo from a B350 Gaming Pro Carbon to an x570 board, mainly looking for more sata ports like 6-8 minimum. There's the x570 TUF board that is really enticing at only $180 with 8 sata ports but only 3 chasis fan headers which is f***ing whack. x570 might be more than I need anyways, but it sure would be nice to pick up a PCIE4 NVME drive one day.

idk what to do. advice on the gpu and mobo situation?

For the gpu I’d wait to see what AMD unveils during the ces conference, their card is dubbed the “Nvidia killer” by leakers who know about it so wait to see the performance.

Motherboard I’d go with an x470 highend board the prices are dropping additionally you could also look into the b450 boards, do you really need pcie4 ? Are you ever actually gonna use that much bandwidth fully ? If not skip it no reason to spend the money.

Sadly I just don't have the patience for the CES conference to happen, founders cards getting released, and then finally aftermarket cards being available. My opinion on the AMD cards has since gone down after finding out about the poor VR performance in comparison to the 2070 Super.

I certainly don't need the pice4, but I do really want to get some of those pcie4 SSD's. I could definitely look into the b450 boards but I'm just worried about the potential in not being able to overclock to the max ability like how I can't on my current b450. I'll definitely look into the x470 boards though. I'm going to buy everything at Microcenter and it seems they've mostly just been carrying x570 so my options may be pretty limited.

Just built first Pc

-i5 9600k
-asus rog strix z390e gaming
-2060 rtx
-Samsung 970 evo plus
-Corsair 2x8 Gb 3000 ddr4
-Corsair h60
-nzxt h510
-Corsair rm750

motherboard not recognizing both ram sticks even though they’re compatible 😔

What made you go intel instead of amd?

Microcenter has a small selection of x470 boards that are cheap just check the website for your local MC

Ryzen 3700X
ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2070 OC 8GB
ROG Strix X570-F
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB
Corsair RM750x
Noctua NF-A14 PWM
NZXT H510
Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB

thots

my first was prebuilt

Are u guys picking anything up for black friday

amazon.com/Samsung-Inch-Internal-MZ-76E1T0B-AM/dp/B078DPCY3T

waiting for this to hit $100 but i bought it for $110 today
is already a v good deal

27" HP 27f 1920x1080 FreeSync IPS LED Monitor $110

bought one of these too

cyber monday is usually better for pc parts