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As far as I've experinced with Lenovo laptops when using a smaller charger is that as long as the charging voltage matches that of the bigger charger then it would slow charge.
Although this was only on their bussiness and their Thinkpad lines of laptops so I can't garantee the same will be true for their high power gaming laptops.

It would have been really nice had they just said that on the specifications page... 😐

Blackberry says "Hello"
Blackberry says "Hello"
 
But in all seriousness (I own a BB so I can say that) that's a nice mod, well done 🙂
A little difficult to make portable, but I"m sure this is just a beta version 🤪

the wire issue has been fixed. 

You should be fine, altough I don't recognize that PSU name. The 3050 Ti hasn't been released yet (as you may know), but I'd figure that it's power draw is even lower that that of the 3060. So yes, if you want to be on the safe side get the 3050 Ti when it launches.

The RAM could still work since the damage appears to be mostly not on the contacts themselfes, but since you bought them new I would just return them and get a new set. What if it stops working in 2 months, you try to return it and the vendor says that it was damaged by you?

Sorry to tell you this. Its not going to work with a 20 or 30 series of cards. Because the design of the HP z230 is not intended for power consuming cards. By that I mean you are going to have overheating and shut down issues with any card that need external power from PSU, even if you upgrade the PSU to 650W or 850W, the case is not intended for the large amount of heat to be dissipated, lack of air intake is the main problem. Futher I dont think the card is going to fit on your mother board.  So, your only option is to upgrade to a 75W card, but the performance boast is less than 30% and GTX 1650Ti  seems to be your only choice, which are not worth it in my opinion.
 
I noticed that your system came with 32 GB of DDR3 RAM and it is intended as a workstation. If you want gaming with a budget built you should consider intel i5 10500K with 16G 3200 CL 14 DDR4 Ram with a RTX 3060 Ti Card. This will give you the ultimate 2K experience.  If you will be using it to edit videos, its is best to get a Ryzen 5800 or higher and get 32G 3600 CL14 DDR4 RAM and get 3080 or Even 3090, if your budget allowed. This is the ultimate 4K gaming and video editing machine other than HEDT which is a whole different story.   

Yes, it matters.
 
Vague questions get vague answers.

Obligatory 'Whats the weccomended amount of dedotated wam I should have to a survr'

First of all, I see that you're new around here, welcome!
 
Secondly, try a different SATA port on the motherboard. If you have a M.2 SSD, it's possible you may have used a SATA port that shares the same lane as that M.2 slot. Or it could just be a bad SATA port. 

It depends on how many featues you need from your motherboard (better power delivery for the CPU, more SATA ports, more USB ports, etc.). The B450 is newer as well.
For me personally, I would always go wtih a B450 over an A320.

might i add, when installing windows, unplug everything except the drive you wish to install windows on, to prevent accidental deletion/partitioning error

As far as I've experienced, resetting let's the drivers remain installed, whereas freshinstalling deletes everything. Usually when trying to fix BSOD issues I go for the clean install.
A couple of things to try before clean installing:
Running CMD as admin and typing sfc /scannow then restart. Running Powershell as admin and typing dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth then if nothing is found replace /checkhealth with /scanhealth. If something is found type dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth then restart.  

Aside from what @Chris Pratthas already said I'd like to add that a 1000W PSU is kinda overkill. If this was me I'd go with a 750-800W unit. Something like the Corsair RM750 should do fine.

Aside from what @Chris Pratthas already said I'd like to add that a 1000W PSU is kinda overkill. If this was me I'd go with a 750-800W unit. Something like the Corsair RM750 should do fine.

Aside from what @Chris Pratthas already said I'd like to add that a 1000W PSU is kinda overkill. If this was me I'd go with a 750-800W unit. Something like the Corsair RM750 should do fine.

10900, especially non-K is a horrible value. You'd be much better off with a 3900X. Better performance and cheaper as well. Plus, you don't need that expensive Z490 motherboard. You can pair the 3900X with a good B550, even. Even if you stick with Intel, you don't pair a non-K chip with a Z motherboard. The whole point is overclocking.

Idle temps for Ryzen is around the 50ish range. Seeing thermal throttling with Cinebench is not a suprise since its such a heavy workload for this model of CPU. i'd recommend to run R15 instead of R20.

Ah, seems I've been mistaken. In that case I'd say go for it.

You can use the app called Infuse. It can access files on your PC. It even has Plex integration.

Yes! It's coming in the next update (some time this year).

If its only assigning one IP per port, then using a router would fix the problem since it creates its own network and distrebutes IPs of its own. No need to rely on the dorm router to do that.

Yes, except they probably have rules against routers. There are some things you can do, but we can’t give advice on violating rules here. I’ll just say this: generally network admins care about new wireless networks - so just don’t create a new wireless network. “Router” doesn’t mean it has wireless, or that the wireless is enabled.

If its only assigning one IP per port, then using a router would fix the problem since it creates its own network and distrebutes IPs of its own. No need to rely on the dorm router to do that.

If its only assigning one IP per port, then using a router would fix the problem since it creates its own network and distrebutes IPs of its own. No need to rely on the dorm router to do that.