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With that kind of budget, build your own system. Prebuilts at that price are an absolute ripoff, a markup of 35-50% over what the parts would cost. Building your own system is a totally noob-friendly activity that will either save you a ton of money or get you better components.

With that kind of budget, build your own system. Prebuilts at that price are an absolute ripoff, a markup of 35-50% over what the parts would cost. Building your own system is a totally noob-friendly activity that will either save you a ton of money or get you better components.

With that kind of budget, build your own system. Prebuilts at that price are an absolute ripoff, a markup of 35-50% over what the parts would cost. Building your own system is a totally noob-friendly activity that will either save you a ton of money or get you better components.

this is why you scroll up and down to see if the pixel moves or not.

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.