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Anyway you should use liquid metal on delidded CPUs

its super hard to do direct die thermal paste and use stock ihs as well. It would take me 10-12 attempts before I get it right. Results would vary 30c between good and bad mounts with my 3570K. Go liquid metal.

No, the whole point of deliding is to create as small difference in Z height between CPU die and IHS and thermal paste vuscosity is not good enough and as mentioned, will pump out over time due to thermal cycling.
I have experience with LM, graphene pad and PTM 7950.
I say go with PTM 7950, almost all the benefits of LM without the hassle and risks. 
 
Also read my edit on previous comment. 

Yes that will work. But have in mind that KryoSheet is also electrically conductive and is NOT reusable and it's not really easy to apply it as it can easily move around. 
 
Alternatively you can use PTM 7950. 
 
 
Btw the 4770k I delided back in like 2015/2016 still uns to this day in it's overclocked state with the original application of LiquidMetal (now in friends PC). 
 
- I just removed the glue from both IHS and CPU. 
- Applied nail polish for the small SMD components around the CPU die. 
- Applied LM on the CPU die AND on the IHS. 
- Put the CPU without IHS carefully into the MB socket THEN placed the IHS on the CPU. 
- Then carefully clamped the CPU in the socket while pressing on the IHS with a finger so that it wont slide
- Mount cooler and done (used thermal paste on cooler) 

My gf has finally gotten into  PC gaming due solely to the Steam Deck (as a concept).  Being able to play together rather than find time to "get away" to get my game on is priceless.  Steam has official refurbished units but they seem to be the original LCD versions, not the OLED.
 
We play Palia currently, but have played New World and Enshrouded recently too.  Performs fantastic for a handheld and devs are actively optimizing for it which is nice.
 
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamdeckrefurbished
 

It would be really nice if I could not have the double drives listed here as well as having just everything Drive C, D, E, F, X, Y, Z. 

The double listing as well as the secondary listing being all out of order is driving me insane. 

Performance wise no, but it will reduce power consumption, you may not need the cooler fan to spin as fast and it gives you more leeway if you need to run it in a hot room in the summer.  Not everyone has air conditioning so the latter can be a factor.

There's a difference between higher power limits and higher voltage. The power a chip draws is voltage times current, and current is proportional to clock speed in a given workload. Increasing the power limit will allow the clock speeds to go higher, even if the voltage doesn't increase any higher. 
 
No. 

completely different mice in different price ranges. both are palm grip. depending where your located I would find a retailer that has some on display and give them a try

it's accepted more on pc because media preservation on pc is easier than console. it's not hard to obtain movies/tv shows or games when sailing the high seas.

closed ecosystems like consoles it's less accepted due to basically being at the mercy of microsoft/sony/nintendo

 
then you did what the majority of people on earth did except instead of moving from a pc to a cell phone you went from pc to mac/console. so not really unique in that aspect.

Either you have enough RAM or not. So if you can't use more than 16GB then you'll just degrade your performance. 

The game looks and runs insanely well 

You can bypass TPM 2.0 and Microsoft account requirements of Windows 11 by creating a bootable medium with Rufus.
https://pureinfotech.com/rufus-create-bootable-windows-11-usb/
I have done that on my folding rig, it hasn't had any issues yet

Seller has most likely lowered "power limits", but why - no idea. 3DMark runs would be perhaps better proof, but also asking why the power limit is decreased might give some info imo.

IDK how to judge performace based on Furmark bench... Furmark is usefull as a power virus to max out the power on the card as much as possible.
I can tell you that the stock power of 6800 XT is 255W and this card is definitely running in a power limited state.
 
In adrenaline SW you can go down to -6% from the stock power limit which would make it run at 239.7W max.
 
Considering this card runs even lower than that suggest that either it's further limited by max clock and heavy undervolt (which on stock is around 2500MHz) or has some other SW or HW modifications.
 
Either way, ask him to run this card in stock config and ask what are both the avg GPU temp and the hotspot temp.

This makes it sound like they ran it with a lower power limit. The stock power limit for a 6800 XT is 285W, and Furmark is good at getting cards like this to run at the power limit consistently. That could be because they wanted to reduce the power draw of it, the cooler isn't performing adequately and it was the only way to keep it from overheating, or Furmark is misreporting the power figure for some other reason. 
 
Granted, Furmark is just about the worst test to determine if a card is good or not. It is about as far from a real world load as you can get, the performance metrics rarely make sense, and it's only good for thermal stress tests where you need a consistently high load. I'd ask to see a video of the card running something actually somewhat representative like 3DMark Time Spy to check for artifacting and compare the score to something else. 

Well, just by 20 minutes of suggested numbers it's not possible to say if it's stable, it's just that the seller is presenting numbers.
And @RONOTHAN## said the rest.
Still interesting would be to know how low are the "hotspot" temps if core is as low as 58C after 20 minutes, as that is really good.

IDK how to judge performace based on Furmark bench... Furmark is usefull as a power virus to max out the power on the card as much as possible.
I can tell you that the stock power of 6800 XT is 255W and this card is definitely running in a power limited state.
 
In adrenaline SW you can go down to -6% from the stock power limit which would make it run at 239.7W max.
 
Considering this card runs even lower than that suggest that either it's further limited by max clock and heavy undervolt (which on stock is around 2500MHz) or has some other SW or HW modifications.
 
Either way, ask him to run this card in stock config and ask what are both the avg GPU temp and the hotspot temp.

+ AI

"more and more people becoming tech literate" ? Are your sure ?
That's so 90s... didn't you listen to J Huang ? 😛 
People are becoming techidiots because tech progressed and they can afford to be ignorant now, they expect PC things to work out of the box, same as with their TV, phone, A/C ...

Me neither, I use rtings reviews, this one seems  good, but a bit old maybe (2021) ?
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/acer/nitro-xv272u-kvbmiiprzx
 

A lot of that really doesn't matter as much anymore on the x86 generation of consoles and there also wouldn't be any regressions for basically anything going between Zen 2 to Zen 3 or 4.
 
The bigger reason is this is still a custom monolithic SoC and it's not a direct Zen 2 architecture, it's a custom one designed with Sony so if the CPU were to be changed then it would be an entirely new SoC and require to go through a lot more design and manufacturing validation which is costly. Beefing up the GPU while requiring a lot of work doesn't require changing anything about the the CPU aspect of the SoC or likely any of the physical lay out of it.
 

 
The entire left side is most likely going to be unchanged and unmodified.
 
One of the key things about something like a PS5 Pro is cost, less work = better. So I don't think compatibility is the issue but the underlying reason is much the same. Also anything that runs on the PS5 Pro still has to run on the PS5 and if you give 50% more CPU power then you also run the risk of games being created to use that (intentionally or not) aka not running on the PS5.

Will vary wildly from game to game. My 3900X was holding back my 3060ti in some CPU intensive games at 1440p while being more than enough in GPU intensive games.
And what I mean by "holding back" is that I got only around 60-90FPS instead of 120FPS+.

Will vary wildly from game to game. My 3900X was holding back my 3060ti in some CPU intensive games at 1440p while being more than enough in GPU intensive games.
And what I mean by "holding back" is that I got only around 60-90FPS instead of 120FPS+.

Depends on the game but certainly nothing to hold you back from going through with it. You'll game just fine, this issue is massively overblown and really affects people with much more severe discrepancies in CPU/GPU power. Think 10400 and a 4090 @ 1080p.