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I found a i9-10850k with a Gigabyte w480 Vision D motherboard and 16gb of ram and I offered $350 for it. I have a 4770k and want to upgrade my rig with these parts. So I have two questions: Is that a pretty good deal? And also is there any reason why I wouldn't want to upgrade to this? Mostly just looking for some backup thinking, Thanks

~A shower thought~ I've had both a Windows desktop and a Macbook for almost 10 years now and I often stop to wonder why I can't game (well and unhindered) on my Mac. Why is this, actually? Here's my train of thought: If apple were to enter the computer gaming space (somehow), I feel like they could rock the socks off windows. I know that linux gaming has recently made a rise so why not apple? I'd love to just have a beefy apple computer that could just do everything! That would be awesome. I love the ecosystem and I love the power that comes with my macbook. If I could play my AAA title games and be constantly in my apple ecosystem that I can text from, move photos around easily, enjoy a snappy OS and have my nice keyboard and mouse hooked up to it. That would be an actual dream. So after all this time and espeically going forward, why won't apple design something that will game? Does everyone at Apple play on a console? lol

I had it plugged into the header that comes off the graphics card. This header previously had the stock 120mm fan that comes with the card plugged into in. The wire comes out in the same spot that the radiator hoses do and follows them about half way, then terminates into a 3 pin header. Look like this:

Addition thoughts I noticed after the fact now that I have the new fan that is a 5 volt fan and the original evga fan seems to be a 12 volt fan. Maybe this could do with it?

Seems I'm on a roll with this card lately... Talked to a couple helpful people the other day and got some good feedback. Ended up grabbing a Noctua NF-F12 to replace the fan on the 120mm rad that is on this card. Received the fan about 15 minutes ago and now as I am installing it, The GPU doesn't spin the radiator fan up. To troubleshoot, the noctua fan came with a USB to fan header so I plugged that in to make sure the fan works and it does. I plugged the old fan back in to make sure it still works and it does as well. I launched EVGA precision X1 and cranked the fan sliders to max, hit apply and nothing happened. Even shows 0 rpm in the app. So does this mean that I can't use an aftermarket fan with this AIO hybrid setup or maybe something else? Looking for some insight. Anything helps. Thanks.

Alternate question. I have a macbook. My windows rig has triple 1440p monitors. I've seen the whole seamless back and fourth between windows and mac. Is it easy to set something like that up? i.e: I have two monitors running off my win10 rig, and then have one monitor pushing my macbook and I can move between them seamlessly?

That's a bummer to hear. How come?

I've tried a few times to research possible options to have a instance of OSX on windows and can't really come up with my own clear conclusion. I want a way to access OSX without rebooting my system and I am trying to do it via free options. I've found paid for alternatives but steer clear as that's not my goal. As silly as it might sound, my biggest goal is to have a instance of OSX so I can link my apple id and use the messaging app. I text a lot, and most people I communicate with operate on iPhones so messaging by itself suites my needs. Secondly it would be nice to have some sort of integration between my phone, macbook and this windows rig. TL;DR: Anyone know a way I can have a Apple OS on my windows 10 rig in a window? Thanks

Hopefully that shows you what you want. That little junction is a 3-pin coming from the internal of the gpu. I was hoping to get something more silence optimized? It's always been loud but if ain't broke I didn't want to change it. If im changing it now Id like to get something quieter.

Yup, just four screws, one in each corner attaching it to the radiator. There is a wire with a 3 pin that comes out of the gpu following the radiator hoses and the fan connects to that. You can just unplug it.

I've got a 1080ti FTW3 Hybrid and I think the fan is starting to go out. Makes a whining noise and sometimes ticks. I've tried cleaning it and making sure nothing is interfering but wasn't able to solve anything. I don't really know anything about fans especially for this little radiator. I knows it's 3-pin and 120mm. Beyond that I don't know what to look for in a new fan. Does anyone have a good suggestion for a new this? I'd like to buy one that is really quiet if possible and is more efficient at moving air through the radiator.

What's the consensus right now. What do we think is going to happen when AMD releases there CPUs and GPUs and people start buying them? Are we going to have shortages and scalpers or nah?

Hey folks. What are generally considered to be the top tier silence orientated cases now a days? I've been out of the game for a while and my knowledge of cases is based from 5 or so years ago. My current rig lives in a Fractal Design Define R4. I considered that "top of the line" back when I built it but I wanted to know what people regard highly today. Cheers Edit: I am planning a new build for myself in the next couple months and I like "silent computers" so I will use this info to shop for a case.

Free power, that's cool. I would also like to know what rig you're running for 180m/h @ $800. But with free power, why wouldn't you mine? I am very new to mining but you're basically just "printing money" in a sense at that point. Based off napkin math (and correct me if I am wrong), but you could have your rigs payed for within a year and be making profit after that. That said. Crypto is so mega volatile that you could either make extra money or just loose it all because it could crash and not be worth anything.

Oh. That's super interesting but totally makes sense. I think what I am gathering here is that for my needs and my style that I like, keeping my 27" LG 27GL83A as my main/gaming monitor and just buy some cheaper but nice monitors to replace my dying ones is the play. Saves me money and keeps things simple. I dig it.