NunoLava1998

https://merkandi.com/products/3pcs-graphics-cards-1xrtx2080-2xrtx-2080-ti-grade-a/479745 Shh, there's actually a better deal~ (Found it while looking around on merkandi, don't really know if it's legitimate or not but the prices are pretty good if true, and if it's out of stock then I wouldn't be one bit surprised)

I'd probably go for the SF750, it's an excellent power supply and it'll leave more space in your case

Does your motherboard use UEFI? Without UEFI a lot of BIOSes just don't know what to do with hard drives larger than 2TB

Oh, I misread that, I'm sorry-

Those scores seem all okay (and 630 single core for a 5950X is completely normal), it's just that R15/R20/R23 produce results that aren't really comparable with each other

The major limitation is that it's not a normal PC; it's based on ARM, and Apple's standards. This isn't an issue if you're running macOS, pretty much every program already runs natively on the M1, but, for example, you can't dual boot Mac with Windows or Linux (yet, atleast). Other than that though, I do have to say that it's absolutely excellent to use

It should work, though it'll be a bit tight

PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 3.9 GHz 6-Core Processor (€288.92 @ Amazon Italia) Motherboard: ASRock B550M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (€84.90 @ Amazon Italia) Memory: Patriot Viper Elite 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL16 Memory (€69.90 @ Amazon Italia) Storage: Samsung 980 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (€119.99 @ Amazon Italia) Case: Thermaltake Versa H15 MicroATX Mid Tower Case (€52.78 @ Amazon Italia) Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€46.99 @ Amazon Italia) Total: €663.48 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-08-31 14:32 CEST+0200 This should do fairly well

Intel is a lot cheaper right now, so I'd probably go for that. Both should do well though.

You don't need a cooler, the 5600X already comes with (a pretty good) one. You can use that money to get a better SSD: PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor (€324.90 @ Jimm's) Motherboard: ASRock B550M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (€89.00 @ Jimm's) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (€84.90 @ Jimm's) Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (€99.90 @ Jimm's) Video Card: Asus GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB Phoenix Video Card (€369.90) Case: Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case (€48.90 @ Jimm's) Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€69.90 @ Jimm's) Total: €1087.40 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-08-30 18:23 EEST+0300 Everything else is pretty good though!

The 5600G is a good CPU, but you can swap it out for something a bit better, as you already have a dedicated graphics card. You also don't need a CPU cooler. That motherboard is on the low end, I'd recommend getting a B550 motherboard instead. Don't just get a HDD! You should probably have an SSD in the system, it'll make your system a lot faster.

I have a MacBook Air with the same specs, it has a pretty fast SSD and macOS overuses the swap a lot, so even when it gets past 8GB it doesn't feel any slower. I do agree that 256GB isn't that much though, and Apple loves to overcharge for upgrades like more RAM/SSD capacity. That HP desktop is a pretty horrible deal as well though.

That limitation was from real mode. It's not that DOS was poorly built, I don't really know if it was actually. It's just pretty ancient and not that good to base an operating system off of

I don't know about MacOS 9 (other than that it was extremely unstable), but from my knowledge on Windows 9x, it was a pretty poorly built operating system, based on DOS. It would be pretty hard (and dumb) to build an operating system like that nowadays. The biggest issue with not being able to use NT early on from what I've heard were hardware limitations; NT 4.0 needed you to have atleast 12 MB of RAM, and 24-32 MB of RAM for a more comfortable experience, which nowadays is a bit like you needing atleast 12GB of RAM to run Windows. That's a lot just for Windows.

The memory might be faulty... try something out like Memtest86 and see if it has any errors

I'll pick a better board in the list below I had forgotten about ADATA having done that, thanks for reminding me actually. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor ($519.99 @ Newegg) CPU Cooler: be quiet! Shadow Rock 3 CPU Cooler ($49.90 @ Amazon) Motherboard: ASRock B550 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($119.99 @ Amazon) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory ($97.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Corsair MP600 Force Series Gen4 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($154.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case ($98.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS 650 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($87.99 @ Newegg) Total: $1129.83 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-08-28 07:25 EDT-0400

I mean... you could probably buy a used Xeon workstation with an SSD, but it probably wouldn't perform too well, and you definitely can't buy anything new unless it's a Chromebook

I do agree that I should've chosen a better board, I just thought it would be fine. I chose it for it having 2TB of capacity instead of 1TB; it's a bit cheaper, and going for a drive with slightly lower (but still great) performance but higher storage is a good trade-off imo.

I mean, that's 70$ extra just for it being ATX. It's a better board but unless you're overclocking you'll probably be fine with either

You don't need to spend that much on the case, power supply and motherboard. With the money you saved you can get a better CPU and SSD though: PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor ($389.99 @ Newegg) CPU Cooler: be quiet! Shadow Rock 3 CPU Cooler ($49.90 @ Amazon) Motherboard: Asus PRIME B550M-K Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($104.64 @ Amazon) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory ($92.99 @ Newegg) Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($217.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case ($98.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS 650 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($87.99 @ Newegg) Total: $1042.48 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-08-27 12:08 EDT-0400

Maybe an old Xeon workstation with a graphics card (if you can somehow find a good value one) thrown in it?

I mean.. it pretty much just explains what it is and what you should do

It uses a U.2 connector, which is based on NVMe, not SATA. As far as I'm aware most non-server motherboards don't have U.2 slots, but you can buy M.2 -> U.2 adapters for about 20-30$.

Alright, thank you!