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Seems like this comes down to having to take the card apart and voiding warranties and manufacturers not willing to ship bare graphics cards @emosunI'm not sure how you jumped straight to mining but sure believe what you want. I asked out of genuine curiosity. I have a 1070 if that matters and have no interest in mining

To be fair if I were to choose I'd rather watercool the GPU which is typically noisier and hotter than the CPU when gaming Same applies to CPUs yet AIO liquid cooling is very popular

I know historically aftermarket GPU cooling never was that big. I think this is mostly due air cooling being pretty good already and the added complexity wasn't worth it. If you wanted to upgrade from air you'd go custom loop but that's much more expensive and hard to do. With AIOs, the waterblock is small compared to air coolers so mounting shouldn't be as challenging and much cheaper and easier than a custom loop. Mounting brackets like the Kraken G12 are still very niche which is a shame because I think gpus can benefit a lot from AIOs I mean who doesn't want lower fan speeds on the GPU when gaming without spending a fortune? Is this just lack of awareness or am I missing something?

If you are in the UK I'd suggest going for the HE-400i 2020 as you won't have to deal with customs and having retailers here means you've got warranty coverage (Hifiman occasionally have QC issues, I naver had any but that's something to keep in kind) than if you were to buy the HE-4XX. Do bear in mind as @Psittacpointed out they are not the same headphones but the differences are very subtle though Regarding hissing I'll still suggest trying first before pulling the trigger on an external source, planars are less sensitive (requires more power to draw than typical consumer audio) and therefore are less prone to hiss.

No worries, feel free to expand your headphone collection before moving to the Schiit stack, the general rule of thumb would be 80% budget in headphones and 20% on amps and dacs, obviously this doesn't apply when you have one but yeah, I personally ran my Sundara off my motherboard audio for a while and it wasn't bad and going from the Fulla to the stack will not be that massive of a difference

Can you please be more articulate on the steps you have you done so far including whether or not you have checked the power button, power cables (CPU Power, PCI-E Power), power switches, your RAM seating to reach the conclusion of "nothing shows up"?

My experience with Arch has been pretty seamless too I'm currently dual booting with Windows as well but I haven't had to in weeks at this point. Your issue with Discord is surprising to me because I haven't had any issues streaming with it beside having both screens show up when I only selected one (but I'm sure I can fix it) What I love with Linux is most issues can be fixed or worked around fairly easily

You will need to check your motherboard's manual which contains a diagram with the pins where you are supposed to plug your power button. I don't think I need to explain why your PC won't turn on if you don't plug the button

And how do you work around compatibility issues?

This is a bit vague, can you describe what happens when you press the power button? If nothing happens have you checked the wiring of the power button?

Keyboard and mice can be extremely personal it's very hard to recommend something on the basis that it's a popular product. With that being said you can check out Rocket Jump Ninja's top mice list. He is one of the most well known mouse reviewer out there : https://www.rocketjumpninja.com/top-mice Keyboards are even harder to recommend due to the many flavors they come in so I'd suggest you order from a retailer with a flexible return policy and try a few until you find something you like.

Your best option is the Schiit Fulla 3 at $99 and you won't even have to upgrade from it with the HE-4XX/400i

I timed launching programs from SSD and the HDD. Some take the exact same time. Browsers and other frequently used programs always go to the SSD. I personally don't care about games being on an HDD they may take 10 to 20 seconds more but the games I play don't have that many loading screens anyways

Just wondered what you guys have as storage and your main use? I've got my OSs (Windows and Linux) on their respective SSDs and a large 2TB for games and media. Not the safest and most redundant storage but my data isn't critical. Now considering setting up a Raspberry Pi for low importance filesharing

I've seen many tests including Linus' blind test with NVMe systems not being noticeably faster than SATA. My friend has his OS on his NVMe drive and I can't notice any difference in boot times and system responsiveness either I am asking because I'm planning to get a 1TB NVMe (costs the same as the SATA equivalent) but I want to have the full capacity for work (editing/3D animation) and I'd rather leave Windows on my 850 EVO which is more than fast enough already but maybe I'm leaving performance on the table by doing that? Any thoughts?

I am getting a 3700X and will be using the stock wraith cooler at least for a while. Performance looks acceptable to me and I'm not overclocking it. Does the fan ramp up and down under various load? I don't mind a constant hum but I'm annoyed by rapid changes in RPMs. I know AIOs are far better at this but I don't feel like dropping £110+ on one for now I'm open to hear about your experience with the stock cooler

Well yeah I was mostly referring to modern CPUs. I remember upgrading to a Core 2 Quad was the last time a CPU upgrade made the OS snappier

There are workflows where a slower CPU can make the whole experience pretty terrible. My near decade old i5 struggles in Blender when working with complex scenes. Scrolling in a 4K timeline isn't pleasant either. What I don't know is if it's a huge leap going from a 6 core to a 12 or 16 cores. My guess is no and single core performance matters more than core count in short bursts like that There is no question that even a 1st gen Ryzen 5 would be a major leap from what I have now, I was curious to see if people went ahead and compared perceived performance besides render times

Fair enough, with my current use there is absolutely no way for me to justify the price premium. A Ryzen 5 3600 would do just fine actually I'll assume anyone flaunting their 12/16 cores for casual use are just flexing

To be clear I wouldn't personally consider anything above a 5800X and would definitely spend the difference on a graphics card rather than the CPU I'm just wondering if there is a case for HCC CPUs for non paid work and I already know it's a waste of money for gaming

Hobbyists meaning people who use productivity software like video editors, 3D software, etc... as hobby rather than paid work. Any advantages for going for say a 5950X over a 5600X besides faster render time? Also with GPU rendering, CPUs don't play that big of a role in most production softwares I get that fast render times are important for paid work especially when time is money but hobbyists aren't typically subject to deadlines The only uses cases I can think of are streaming/recording gameplay on the same machine and VMs but I'd love to hear what else would benefit from higher core counts

Can you do one more step and unplug the system from the wall and see if that occurs still? The fact that the buzz still happen even when the switch on the Off position means it's unlikely to be an electrical issue but we need to test that still

Could be coil whine. My Silverstone SX500-LG does make a significant whine under load

I am not sure about what you mean. Are you afraid that a SATA SSD will bottleneck an nvme one? That's not how it works though

In my experience keeping loads separate reduces the risk of the game crashing especially buggy ones. Some games just love to crash if you look at them the wrong way so getting a streaming PC can alleviate that to some extent