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Dirty little secret about Apevia (and other bargain brand arson box manufacturers): whatever they sent out to get that 80+ Gold and whatever they sent out to reviewers to get whatever positive ratings they have is not what's in the unit that appears on your doorstep. Don't buy a PSU that will put your whole damned system at risk in order to save $3.00.

Dammit man, are you trying to kill him?

Jesus Christ, an H5 Ultimate. What I wouldn't give to have one of those cooling my rig again.

Eh, I stand behind my thoughts on the capability of a 4790K. If mine hadn't been killed by a POS Enermax liquid cooler, I wouldn't have replaced it until I came into the 8086K. If I hadn't come into the 8086K, I probably would have just held onto it until the R5 5600 came along.

10 years ago?
 
i7-4790K, GTX 980 Ti, 16GB DDR3, 1TB 7200RPM HDD
 
6 years ago?
 
Dirty little secret: there wasn't a whole lot out there in 2019 that the 2014 system couldn't have easily handled. A GTX 1080 wasn't really all that much faster than a 980 Ti.

Dirty little secret about Apevia (and other bargain brand arson box manufacturers): whatever they sent out to get that 80+ Gold and whatever they sent out to reviewers to get whatever positive ratings they have is not what's in the unit that appears on your doorstep. Don't buy a PSU that will put your whole damned system at risk in order to save $3.00.

Dammit man, are you trying to kill him?

Dirty little secret about Apevia (and other bargain brand arson box manufacturers): whatever they sent out to get that 80+ Gold and whatever they sent out to reviewers to get whatever positive ratings they have is not what's in the unit that appears on your doorstep. Don't buy a PSU that will put your whole damned system at risk in order to save $3.00.

Dammit man, are you trying to kill him?

Dammit man, are you trying to kill him?

With the caveat that it's been a few years since I last worked with an E6420, my hunch is still that the power port has become damaged, disconnected or died. I don't really have much else to offer beyond suggesting that you open it up again, check the power port connections and cables. I recall that being kind of a PITA on the 6420, maybe one of the few things that wasn't a straightforward open-and-go, but my hunch is that something's gone wrong there.

Google straight-up harasses me for a backup email address almost every time I log in.

Google straight-up harasses me for a backup email address almost every time I log in.

Google straight-up harasses me for a backup email address almost every time I log in.

The VIA C7...there's a blast from the past. I don't think I've ever seen a VIA board with a PCIe slot, but I'm also not sure when the last time I saw a VIA-integrated board was.

I mean, technically, probably an LGA 775 Celeron, maybe even a Socket 478 Celeron, or AM2 single-core Sempron. Any motherboard with a PCIe x16 (physical) slot can install one.
 
The AM1 Semprons would also be a safe bet, as those AM1 boards did technically come with PCIe x16 slots that ran mechanically at x4, but I would assume even those painful little pieces of abject sadness outperformed the ancient Celerons and AM2 Semprons.

I quite enjoyed building in the SSUPD Meshlicious, and I believe even the Cooler Master NR200/P case can take an ATX PSU with an adapter bracket.

I've had a great time using the Silverstone Sugo SG13, would 100% recommend for an ITX case.

I feel as though there's some information missing here.