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Ask how they're getting into the supply chain unauthorized. Because after-market parts are unauthorized, but somehow "Genuine Unauthorized Apple parts" doesn't make a compelling reason. https://in.mashable.com/tech/52519/rotten-operation-finally-comes-to-an-end-14000-pirated-parts-of-apple-and-samsung-seized https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/international-trafficker-counterfeit-apple-products-sentenced-prison https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3ppvj/dhs-seized-aftermarket-apple-laptop-batteries-from-independent-repair-expert-louis-rossman https://www.vice.com/en/article/evk4wk/dhs-seizes-iphone-screens-jessa-jones https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3yadk/apple-sued-an-independent-iphone-repair-shop-owner-and-lost I don't need to tell you that "Counterfeit" doesn't mean it's fake, the same factory could be producing the "counterfeit" part and a third party is putting apple logo's on it to sell as legit. Counterfeit in terms of how it's treated globally simply means "this bears the trademarks of a company who didn't manufacture it" The serial numbers, defeats the ability for counterfeit items to be installed in devices, be it obtained from broken phones, stolen phones, or "aftermarket" sources. Customers don't want to be deceived by Louis Rossman and Jessa Jones that their devices have been fixed with genuine parts when they clearly haven't been. This entire parts swapping issue stems from a practice many tech people do, which is "Frankenstein's Monster" assembling a device from several broken or obsolete devices to make one or two devices that work. In which case Apple's compromise here solves that. But many customers just lose devices, and if they're not locked out, someone else wipes it and uses it as their own if the owner doesn't report it stolen.

Along with and in addition to what Pdifolco said, just get a B650 board, the B650E boards provide nothing extra currently and a 7800X3D can easily be air cooled or at least cooled with an AIO thats much cheaper and performs much better

I don't know if "is it good" or "is it high quality" are valid questions to ask when it's 9%-23% the cost of real options that don't even have built-in speakers... I'm anti-vinyl record. So, no. Digital media is beter.

but its still a meme so who are you and how did you kill it? maybe you arent as big of a deal as you think....

I don't because it's not a thing, not for parts. Not only because this doesn't happen for not iPhones but because it has been widely known that non-genuine Apple parts are essentially worthless so the addressable market size for people not aware and willing to buy is not that large. The phone theft crime statistics are poisoned by ~70% simply being misplaced phones. The vast, vast majority of crime reported phones are not actually stolen. Not for a long time. Few have the devices and capability to unlock and wipe them making them able to be sold. You can only fob off so many that are still locked before it'll bite you like I already said. This as I have already said don't originate from stolen phones, they come through the supply chain unauthorized, sold as "new" Are stolen iPhones sold, yes, meaningfully so by numbers? Not really. Again Apple saying it is a problem doesn't make it so and Apple labels the mentioned unauthorized sale of parts as stolen. If everything is stolen then it's a problem right? Because it doesn't matter that thousands of QA rejected screens are passed off by the ODM and then end up on the market, that's the same as an iPhone stolen in NYC right? Really the core issue and what I have been pointing to is that parts pairing is a supply chain control and not an anti-theft measure.

IPhones are stolen by street theives and organized crime, and then "refurbished" and sold to people who don't know the origin. All the stuff that is locked and doesn't allow activation, gets chopped up and sold as parts on eBay that amazingly some sellers have hundreds of. You may not want to believe it, but this is pretty much what the majority of the used electronics on eBay and other market places. "Sold As-IS" = Stolen, "No Warranty", Broken "parts only", are all stolen devices if they are still under the manufacturer's warranty date. We know this is true because of the kinds of disputes raised at Paypal. A three year old device, nobody is going to question if it's stolen or not. But a seemingly "new" device being sold for parts is.

Yep, the two mentioned here are the two I've heard mentioned most often for the 5800X3D. I have the peerless assassin myself (although I'm only on the 5600), and it's definitely excellent.

so at the end of the day is there ANY reason at all for people to actually get these other than they are desperate to get people to pay attention to them? any actual, practical, real reason that isn't just "hey look at me!"? based on all the posts that seems to be the sole reason.

Not yet, I'll try that once I'm back home.

Did you try completely removing and reinstalling the Nvidia driver package?

I don't think your proposed method will work. App installers may put a number of different files on your PC and possibly create some registry changes also. You might be able to save a copy of your user profile and transfer programs over that way but it could be hit or miss. When I do a full windows install to a new build, I always do a fresh install of apps. I keep a current copy of all the apps names, download sites, and passwords in 'txt' file and this lets me just paste in the passwords as needed. Some apps auto configure if they are linked to the website such as Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud. For others, you also need to know where the 'customizatioin file' is located. For example, I use Atom for HTML and Python coding and I've put a lot of work into customizing it.

Basically the PS4 Pro came out with the PS4 Slim, and then they discontinued the Pro and kept the slim for another 3 years. Personally, any time I've even bought a console, I waited for the "Slim" or whatever refined model comes out, because problems with the existing models. Like the Xbox 360 was notoriously bad, so I waited for a redesign , the S model. Which was fine, but then the hard drive died and I was like "well f microsoft then." So I bought the Switch after the "OLED" model came out, but didn't buy the OLED model.

Be aware this is unmaintained, it hasn't seen a update in 3 years. Also the way it handles user accounts is kind of stupid, which is a randomly generated single long key that can't be recovered. Have yet to find a usable alternative to it however.

In which world are there resellers selling stolen parts from stolen devices? 0.1%? 0.2%? Apple calls all parts not come from them as stolen, this does not mean taken from consumer devices that are stolen, parted out and then sold. What happens is what I pointed out, unauthorized distribution of parts aka stolen. I see an issue of lying about what is really happening and pretending that consumer iPhones are being stolen in any meaningful quantity to harvest parts from, this isn't happening and not because of serial number pairing, this wasn't ever happening. There is a very clear line between an iPhone being stolen from a person and parted out and unauthorized sale of parts, I really don't care that Apple ignores this line. These are categorically and objectively different event types. You should really sanity check your examples, in which city would it ever be possible and realistic to steal 1000 phones a day? In all of Brazil, the whole country, just under a million phones are stolen a year and in the US about 3 to 4 million. Then to follow on from that how many would ever actually be stripped for parts... This is also phones not iPhones. Correct, to on sell the stolen phone and not for parts.

Here is something from my post: What tests exactly are you talking about? I have looked up some crystaldiskmrk results for some nvme nand SSDs So: The Q1T1 random 4k reads are 159.43MB/s. As I understand that is the bottleneck for an OS. Most are less than that - unless paying much more - which I am not willing to do. I did ask these: 'I would like to know who else is doing the optane caching in this way for the OS drive? What is the cache hit rate?' If 16GB optane is too small, could add system memory as cache also. Are you using primocache at all? If not your replies are of little use to me.

Or the PS4 Pro

A x3D chip will be quite useful in your case, hi refresh rate 1080p