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Sorry, it's SEMI-modular. The 3 non-modular cords are the main moth connector, the small mobo connector, and the GPU. Yes I can just wrap up this GPU connector and buy another one. As far as what I did to wrap it up, I cut the extension cords flush with the top of the adapter, then tightly wrapped where the cords go into the head with electrical tape. I can't cap them as I didn't leave enough wire to do that. I guess to make it extra safe, I could dab a bit of non-conductive glue or epoxy on the exposed tips, then rewrap the adapter.

Selling a spare PC and it has a 750W Seasonic Gold PSU. Was going to sell it with a 3070, but when trying to plug in the single PSU cable with 2 ends into the GPU, the extension end partly came out. No way for me to put it back in, so I cut the extension ends, wrapped them up with electrical tape, and went hunting for a spare GPU cable since the PSU is modular. Apparently I don't have one. I decided on selling that 3070 and now have a 3060 I can put into the system and it only takes a single 8-pin PSU connection. Just making sure it's safe to use the damaged end. I did tape everything up so no wires will touch and the main connector is solid. I think it should be fine, but double checking here.

1080p or 1440p?

No, I already have a used EVGA FTW3 3070 and a brand new Asus Tuf 3060. Going to sell one on it's own and the other is to be included with the system I am selling.

With so many used PC's being sold without GPU's, selling one with a RTX GPU is a huge advantage and should allow me to get max money for the whole system. I was just debating which option would bring in max money, and am leaning towards the 3060 with the system and the 3070 solo. Please speak up if you think I should do anything differently.

Reminder, this is for a system I am selling. My recently upgraded system is a 5600X & 3080 Ti. I am trying to maximize my ability to sell the used system, but at the same time, maximize my profit as I still have to pay off my main system, which wasn't cheap!

I upgraded my main system recently and thus I am getting ready to sell my old system, which is a 9700K@5.0Ghz with 32MB RAM and an NVMe OS drive. I have both a used 3070(non-LHR) and a new 3060. Not going to explain how I got those, just that several things surprised me by hitting at once. Thus I will sell one on it's own and will pair the other one with my old system. My initial thought would be sell the 3070 on it's own and pair the 3060 with the system, but I am worried that a 3060 is a bit weak to pair with an OC'ed 9700K. Thoughts?

At 1080p, the CPU is used more than at 1440p, which is why I didn't mind pairing a 5600X with a 3080 Ti as I game at 1440p, usually High or greater visual settings. Thus I would presume that it's a rare occasion where my CPU would bottleneck my GPU, if ever.

Ya, that's exactly why I bought the 5600X instead of the others, little to no difference in current AAA games. However, with consoles going 8c, games will start to be coded to better utilize 8-cores in the near future, so once there becomes a bigger difference, I might upgrade at that time. Original question still holds, is my CPU bottlenecking my GPU, or might it be just this game and the way it handles hardware?

I could always upgrade to a 5800X or 5900X, but currently don't have the funds for that, maybe Black Friday time. However, I am an OC'er and that 5600X has a Dark Rock 4 Pro on it, so got plenty of cooling power for more OC.

I was looking in Afterburner at the total CPU utilization, but will keep an eye out on the per core utilization next time. With that being said, since this is a 6c12T CPU, I read that once it gets to 50%, the CPU has maxed all cores and 50-100% just shows the logical core utilization. I didn't look at the average, but seemed to be getting in the 120's most times.

I have a 5600X with PBO on and recently upgraded from a RTX 3070 to a 3080 Ti. I was playing Wildlands last night on 1440P Very High settings and noticed my GPU was bouncing in the 70-90%, averaging around 80% utilization instead of the normal all 90's. My CPU was bouncing in the 40-60% range, so say 50% average.

I am upgrading my daughter's PC from a 2c/4t Pentium to a 8700(non-K). It's an ITX system with 16GB RAM, 250G SSD, and a GTX 950 2GB GPU, and might look for a GPU upgrade when prices calm down. Current PSU is an EVGA 450W Bronze, probably the BT or BQ, not sure. My daughter barely uses this PC, maybe a couple hours a week tops, and it was built new about a year ago. I am hoping the newer CPU gives her more of an incentive to use it more. At the same time, I am upgrading my main gaming PC's PSU from a heavily used Seasonic G12 750W(SSR-750RM) to an EVGA 850W G3. This older Seasonic PSU will fit in her case, so was wondering if I should replace her current PSU with my old one? While my old Seasonic is a superior unit, it is 6 years old, bought in 2016, and has had fairly heavy use, probably on for 40-60 hours a week with an average of 6 hours a week gaming or other high current activities. While her current PSU isn't a great unit, it's still fairly new with very little use in the past year. I don't have the funds to purchase a replacement at the moment, have to wait for pricing to return to normal, so she will be using which ever PSU I choose for another 6-12 months. Which would you pick and why?

I have an RTX 3070 and a 1080p 144Hz monitor. I was wondering what would happen if I set a game to run at 1440p(supersampling), then use DLSS to take it back to 1080p. Would that help or hurt FPS and visuals?

I have 4x3TB WD Reds to be used in an external 5-bay USB enclosure that I will connect to my TrueNAS server as backup. I plan on setting it up in RaidZ1 for 12TB of backup space. To reach that amount, I need a 5th drive. While I could just spend $90+ and buy a new 3TB WD Red, I have spare 3TB WD Purple & Green drives available and was wondering if I could use either and not have to pay for another HDD. This will only ever be used as backup storage for my TrueNAS server, so 99.9% of the time will be writes only. Because the Purple drive is designed for Raid and heavy writes, I think it will fit fine. Thoughts?