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I have the same RX 6700 (very similar system overall, tbh), and haven't had any of those issues. The only one for me is that once in a blue moon, my main display won't power up after turning on the PC. Reseating the cable fixes it 100% of the time, so I'm guessing I just have a bad cable and am too lazy to fix it. I've run 3 displays off of mine in the past, never tried 4. I'm assuming you've already disconnected and reseated the PCI-E power cables in the card and, if applicable, the PSU? You should still be in RMA territory. If so, I'd probably do it, because it reads like there is something wrong with the silicon.

“I am the unlikable douche, and I really want that on a shirt now.” LTTStore.com?

Just get something with the switch type you want. For mechanical clicking, you're pretty much looking at Cherry blues or Gateron blues, unless you want to dive into the world of Akko clickies (good) or Outemu blues (very common at this price point...run away). I personally prefer the Gateron blues, but I hate blues in general so ymmv. A shitty keyboard with the switches you want can be made decent with EVA foam and either painters tape or electrical tape, but a decent keyboard with shitty switches is a guaranteed way to spend an extra $25-40 on the switches you want. There are Cherry blue and Gateron blue boards at your price point, but there's also a lot of Outemu and proprietary trash out there.

An ITX case that can hold a 280mm long GPU with a 240mm AIO to cool it, plus a separate 240mm AIO? I don't think there is such a thing. You'd be better off looking at a smaller mATX case with a design like the In Win 301 that allows for two radiators to be placed while staying fairly small. The 301 would fit into a carry on roller bag, but it is heavy.

Optiplex, right? Do you have the desktop or SFF version?

Need more info. What are your system specs (including the OEM and model of your PSU)? What games? What detail setting? Are you the "upgrade every generation" type, or do you want this to last? Open to used?

Check your motherboard manual. Either one should work fine, but some M.2 slots will disable SATA slots if used. Once in a blue moon (and Gigabyte boards are frequently blue moons), you'll find a board that can't boot off of a certain slot. Basically, you should be fine.

Install the M.2 and leave the motherboard heatsink off. Or exchange the SSD for one without a heatsink built in.

You can put literally any 12th-14th gen Intel consumer-grade CPU in there. I wouldn't necessarily gamble a 125W CPU on it, but I would imagine it could handle a 65W CPU just fine. What are you using it for? Gaming? Why would you pay the K-SKU premium for a locked chipset? Has something changed and B760 now supports overclocking?

I have definitely seen LMG videos that call out Razer for everything from poor design choices to poor QC to their legendarily bad customer service. A laptop secret shopper would be great, especially if it focused on models with similar to identical specs across different brands. Something that really highlights the differences in cost and quality between brands. Like, brand A's laptop with a 7840HS, 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM side-by-side against brand B's laptop and brand C's laptop with similar specs so we can see who's using the crappiest screen, who's got a cooling system designed for the hardware and who's just dropped a blob of copper and a vacuum cleaner of a fan in there, who used crappy plastic and who used a metal frame, that kind of thing. That would be far more useful than reviews from all over Youtube that spend 15 minutes to get to the conclusion of, "Yep, $189 Walmart Specials with a dual-core Celeron from 2016 still suck." You out there, @LinusTech? I'm guessing you guys have a few laptops lying around with specs close enough to each other to do something like this.

KVM switch or USB adapters would be my first thoughts.

Clearly, your CPU is the rare Ryzen 9 1701, and Mr. Scott's giving her all she's got.

That's shifting to 3 slots for midrange and higher-end cards. It's like NVIDIA and AMD (NVIDIA especially) just gave up on efficiency in the interest of making tiny peens have massive e-peens.

How tiny must one's dong be to need a card that thick?

A typical GPU (well, what used to be typical anyway) uses 2 of the PCI slots on the back of the machine. A 3-slot GPU is taller and will need 3 of those slots. Motherboard connections are all the same, it's just got a thicker cooler.

That is quite old. 8GB of RAM and 160GB of total storage are tough sells for anyone, because they're going to have to go out and buy a new drive and more DDR3 immediately to make the PC viable for much of anything. I can get a 970 off of eBay for $60 (holy shit). An i7-4790 is $30. I would actually deduct about $20 from the value because I'd have to go out and buy RAM, and another $40 because I'd have to go out and buy a 1TB SSD. Bottom line, I'd probably offer you somewhere around $100 USD for this if I were in the market for it. You would probably get more from someone else if you leave it as-is, call it a "gaming PC" and let your buyer figure out that 8GB of RAM is woefully inadequate for most tasks in 2024, gaming or otherwise, and they can barely fit Rocket League and a few 2D side scrollers after they have Windows installed. $100 would put you in range of something like a mini PC with a Celeron N3350 or an Atom x5 in it. Neither one is anything I'd recommend. I also don't see enough value in the CPU and GPU for it to be worth upgrading the storage and RAM yourself. You won't get enough return on the added investment to be worthwhile. tbqh, I'd just keep the system and continue using it as your HTPC. It's better than anything you could afford if you were to sell it.

From the seller's feedback: I would assume that the GPU that earned that feedback died and was baked by the seller to keep it alive for a few weeks. Just long enough to get past the return window. Personally, I'd stay far away from that seller. I think $170 USD gets you into GTX 1070/1080 range.

When the actual f*ck did TN become desirable?!?!?! I've always known TN panels as the, "Hey, we had to cut costs everywhere," of the laptop display world.

That's a dangerous road you're setting off down, friend. "In case I need it one day," is the PC equivalent of, "Just one Oreo." Next thing you know, you have 74 computers lying around and your Oreos are gone.