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Are you having trouble running any applications?

3100 aswell.

Seems like your Memory is giving up. Try underclocking it. If problem still exists: F. Got 3 Friends that owned a 1080Ti aswell and all of them experienced those artefacts after some time. Pretty Sad if you ask me, especially considering the Price of this GPU.

Dont change the PSU. Its not highly overpowered and leaves some room for an eventual upgrade in the future. As already stated here you may want to change the 3600X for an 3300X or even 3100 if you are on a budget. The 3300x is a capable 8 Thread CPU, i just build a PC for my dad with it and im amazed what this CPU is capable off. You can spend those savings in a better GPU if you are mainly gaming. Also dont bother wasting money on another SSD if yours is running fine. 120GB is enough to fit an OS + several applications on it. Upgrade if you have some spare money. Regarding the B550 Mainboard: if you dont really need PCIe Gen4 (which i doubt reading your first post) theres no sense going for an B550 if you can have a good B450 for much less. Just get a solid B450 Board and youll be fine. Regarding RAM: i have absolutely no clue. Just give it a shot. But since you got it for free i would use it for now.

No problem! Usually from my experience Case fans wont be the loudest part inside your PC. For me its the old HDD i got inside my case and the Coil whine of the GPU, which is beeing reinforced by the GPU Waterblock. Below 20dB is pretty hard to achieve imho. If you really want to stay under 20dB, you shouldnt be having fans at all. Check out this Video Linus made, could be interesting for you:

Honest answer: It would bother me, but just to a certain degree. Heres the big BUT: Every reviewer is giving his best to give a good overview of a product. When it comes to performance, i think theres just slightly more to tell about productivity benchmarks than on game benchmarks. In games you have FPS, thats it. In productivity application you have time to finish, sometimes scores, sometimes even a mix of those 2. And as a reviewer you have to prepare all those results for your audience to interpret those numbers right. That costs time, and thats why - from my point of view - this usually takes longer. Since everyone is doing gaming AND productivity benchmarks, it wouldnt bother me that much. What really would have bothered me is the fact that intel is forcing is customers to a new chipset again, the power draw of those processors, price to performance and the fact that they are still on 14nm, but thats another story....

I havent tried 2 intake rads and 1 exhaust rad for a specific reason: Hot Air inside the case unable to escape. Since my Vega 64 runs pretty hot compared with the 3600X, water temperature reaching 45°C was no rarity. Thinking about those hot air temperatues around my VRMs and SSDs made absolutely no sense to me, so i didnt bother trying at all. When it comes to time for peak temps: With my all exhaust configuration it took the system a little bit longer to reach peak temps (they were a bit higher though), but also massively longer to cool down. With a all in configuration i would suggest that it would longer to reach peak temps and significantly reduce cool down time, but all for a big tradeoff: hot air inside the case.

A friend of mine owned a EVGA 1080Ti and had to RMA it 3 times because the GPU temperature Sensor went crazy and caused fans to spin up randomly. After the 3rd time he got his money back. Maybe this is an specific EVGA issue.

shut down normally instead of cutting power.

I trust you. Get that high quality cat food and make her happy!

Are you trying to tell me that you are not spending all your salary on a fancy shining VR Headset instead of getting food for your family or paying rent? ridiculous.

Mh, bad Board for Gen4 M.2 SSD i guess. Since every slot is covered, you wont have any option to fit an SSD with a big heatsink already installed on it. My ASUS Prime x570 Pro got 2 Slots, one under the CPU which is completely free of any obstruction which can easily fit an Gen4 M.2 SSD with a Big heatsink, and the lower one right next to the Chipset which got an Heatsink premounted on the board which can fit any Gen3 SSD without heatsinks. So i guess its about MoBo manufacturers thinking about their design or not thinking about it.

if it was Monitor with G-Sync or VR Headset i would have had more trouble deciding. But since you got so much going on in Option 1, there is no way to get a VR Headset and sacrificing crucial things like fast memory and proper cooling. Option 1 it is.

I did some testing when it comes to Radiator Placement for Multiple Radiators, and Linus released his Video shortly after that. TL;DR is: It doesnt matter that much.

wasnt meant that way. I wanted to say that both of these CPUs are a very good choice!