Coaxialgamer

Try bumping up your DDR4 voltage from 1.2V to something like 1.35V and see if that helps. Also, do you have the latest board BIOS installed? Depending on the platform that may bring stability improvements.

never mind that, I'm seeing multiple aftermarket cards for less than 100 EUR over MSRP, noably on sites like RueDuCommerce...

Also: found an open box one for 1700 at best buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/gigabyte-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-gaming-oc-24gb-gddr6x-pci-express-4-0-graphics-card-black/6521518.p?skuId=6521518 Also seeing a few on newegg.com right now that seem to be in stock...

As long as its being sold by the brand that makes the card (and that even holds true on ebay to some extent), you're fine.

A whole host of things could be causing this, not limited to: did you take off the plastic cover on the block? is your block properly mounted? is you pump plugged in? is your pump plugged in to a port that is designed to support a pump (see mobo manual) is that specific port set to PMW fan control mode? You want a fixed 100% all the time, as you don't want your board to try and throttle you pump depending on system load. Can you hear water/pump movement when you turn on your PC? It should be distinctly different from regular fan noise. If not you may have a problem with your AIO.

woah man you might want to format that block of text a bit lol

You can actually save about 100 EUR for that level of performance by tweaking a few components. Going for a 5600x over a 12400 means saving a bit on the CPU and on the motherboard too. I assume you don't want a PC that screams under load, but conceivably you could get away with stock cooling. Also, that PSU is only 80+ rated. There are other units out there with 80+ bronze certification available for just as much, if not cheaper, while still being from reputable manufacturers. You can also save on the SSD if you don't plan on hammering it. A 980 pro is probably overkill for most people. Good call on the 6700XT, you're not going to get much more bang for your buck there, with 3070s being quite a bit more expensive for not a lot more performance. This is what I'd get: https://nl.pcpartpicker.com/list/bcRPk9

Yes, you'll just have to target that instead of your AMD GPU when doing said AI stuff

You can quite easily slot multiple GPUs into a single rig. Whether that's worth it to you will depend on your usecase. Many compute application will see those seperate processors and have no issue exploiting them: 3D rendering, mining, and other compute-heavy application can benefit from multiple cards. That's still not going to work well for software that can't explicitly take advantage of multiple GPUs though, such as games (with the exception of DX12 LDA explicit mode). For that you historically had something called SLI or Crossfire on the Nvidia and AMD/ATI sides respectively. Typically you had a small cable linking cards together, and that would allow potentially up to 4 cards to work on something like a game, assuming it was supported by the devs. Nvidia also has something called Nvlink which is similar and allows cards to pool ressources and share memory (basically more advanced SLI), but that's mostly reserved for server-side hardware and doesn't exist on current consumer stuff. For games, both Nvidia and AMD have now stopped supporting multi-GPU entirely, seeing as it often didn't work very well and the value proposition was always relatively poor. For compute you can still do either of the other things I mentioned. I should note that you do absolutely NOT need SLI to work using two or more GPUs.

The 5600x is easily strong enough to handle a 1650 at any resolution. Your GPU is what is going to be limiting your computer's ability to put out frames. The fact that GPU usage is near 100% is proof if that. For reference, I'm currently running that CPU with a 2080 within issue. As for recommendations: get what you can afford. Pretty much anything short of a 90 or 80Ti class card will slot into your rig without any issue. The fact that your GPU is the bottleneck as opposed to your CPU is generally a good thing.

Got a 5600x to replace my venerable R7 1700 (RIP) which was starting to struggle with more powerful GPUs. To be perfectly honest I haven't really been keeping up with what the CPU industry has been doing these last couple years, and I've been wondering about overclocking. Pretty much every CPU I've ever owned I have overclocked to some degree. However, I've been hearing that current chips are basically at their limit already and can't/shouldn't be overclocked. Is there any truth to this? I have PBO enabled and my chip is happily running at 4.6ghz on my NHD14, can I get anything more out of this chip with a manual overclock? What about adjusting voltages? Is that safe or even advisable here?

Does your board have the newest revision of it's bios installed (one that supports Ryzen 3000)? Are your bios settings at stock?

you may want to edit your original post response as it includes the info in the quote

you mayyy want to hide that product ID man

that would also work, as well as dual-booting another copy of windows onto the same drive.

Your computer seems to be boot-looping. Usually boards have error LEDs on them that can be used to infer what is causing the error. If you still have the 2600, can you test if the pc still boots with it? Also, does your board have the latest BIOS installed with support for 3rd gen chips?

The fact that newer drivers are causing issues is weird. You may want to look into a complete windows wipe as a last resort.

Basically you'll be limited by two things: your PSU and the money you're willing to dish out. Your CPU is certainly powerful enough for most GPUs out there. Unfortunately for 150$ most new cards available are just straight garbage: GT1030s, GT1630s, RX6400s... Best buy currently has an RX580 available but that's still a 6y/o card at this point. Your best bet is to jump onto ebay or some other used site and shop for something like a used RX5600XT or 5700 (on the AMD side) or a used GTX1070/GTX1660/GTX1660TI/RTX2060 on the Nvidia side, depending on what you can get your hands on. That way you'll get far more power for your money. Assuming you have at least 500W of PSU capacity (with external PCIE power) you should be fine with any of those cards. Otherwise I'd also look into a PSU upgrade.

For 600-650 all in? That's a pretty good deal. It's obviously not the best performer out there but it's the cost of a single midrange GPU these days... Still haggle if you can though.

Get a 4070ti then

Personally I'd just wait. But if I had to choose? I'd bite the bullet and spent the extra money on the 4070ti, even if I still think it's overpriced. Mostly this is down to the fact that the 6950XT is a last-gen card while the 4070ti is not: if the 3000 series has shown anything it's that the increasingly length cycles of these cards increasingly favor early adoption. Also, RTX and DLSS3.0 are Nvidia features that I would be willing to shell out a bit extra for personally, on top of CUDA for anything compute-related (if that's your jam).

Both Intel and AMD typically release a set of chipsets for every generation of CPUs they put out. For the 13th generation of Intel processors, that's the 700 series of chipsets. For the 12th gen, that's the 600 series. Both the 12th and 13th gen sockets share a socket though (LGA 1700), and Intel wants intercompatibility between all boards and CPUs that use this socket. The means allowing 12th gen CPUs to run on Z790 boards and 13th gen ones to run on Z690 boards. The former is easy to implement (just ship new Z790 board with a bios that supports the 12th gen chips). The latter is quite a bit harder, as a decent chunk of all boards produced were built before the 13th gen chips released, and are not compatible out of the box. If you put a 13th gen part in a Z690 board that hasn't been updated at all, it won't work: the board does not recognize that CPU. Using a 13600k requires a bios update. ASUS/Gigabyte/MSI/etc can simply ship new Z690 boards with the newer BIOS out of the factory, but that still leaves quite a few existing boards (those sitting on shelves, in transit, etc) without the newer bios installed. Some vendors might update the BIOS themselves before shipping, but it won't be universally done. Point is you could end up with a board that uses an older version of the BIOS and isn't compatible with your CPU out of the box, and that's what PCPP is warning you about. The solution is as simple as updating your bios, but given that this requires a CPU you might see how this is a catch22. Some boards include built-in hardware that allows for BIOS updates without a CPU, but it's far from the norm. Otherwise you'll need to get your hands on a 12th gen chip, which you'll either need to buy or that some manufacturers might lend you (I believe AMD did this a little while back iirc).