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  1. just refresh the page, your quiz is already validated server side, but it just shows an out of stock message
  2. First of all check if the fan is correctly plugged on the motherboard, any pin should do but there's one dedicated to the CPU cooler, you should use that. Second, check in the bios if by any chance you disabled the Fan monitor, that page on your Asus BIOS is used only to report on your Fan speeds, but can be disabled, maybe reset the BIOS to defaults if you can't figure out what's wrong and try again. If you manage to get it going check if the Fan is set to PWM, if not change it manually. Even then, the cooler you picked is so small that i wouldn't be surprised if your CPU has very high temp spikes in a case with low to no ventilation.
  3. First time i read about that program, did you try using MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision X instead? These are well known programs and widely used by the community, that support any card on the market. But FYI if you do try using these programs instead remember to close Asus own program first, or they'll clash for priority when your GPU changes speed/temps/etc. leading to worse or no results at all.
  4. AiO look cool but perform poorly if your CPU it's constantly pinned and the loop doesn't have time to dissipate the heat, they're better for situations where you CPU might have spikes of high temps, like in gaming, or general day to day usage. In your case i'd go with a beefy air cooler, like mentioned earlier the Noctua NH-D15 or beQuiet Dark Rock Pro 4, and consider getting a better CPU while you can, if all you do is workbench then consider getting a 3950x or a base line Threadripper 3960x, but overall cost of the build will increase considerably.
  5. Monitor upgrade should be the last thing you do tbh, unless you upgrade everything at the same time, since with your current CPU but a better GPU you'll barely see any gains, and with a new CPU will get something extra from your GPU but not enough to justify a 144hz monitor.
  6. I'd say go the motherboard + cpu route, but you'll also need a new kit of ram since your old socket mounts DDR3 and you can't use them on the new one
  7. Did you remove the cooler recently? Because it seems like the cooler is not sitting properly on your CPU then, i had a similar issue a couple years ago after removing mine to repaste the CPU, but during installation i didn't notice that one of the supports got stuck on the motherboard, so i had like half my CPU that wasn't making contact with the cooler.
  8. It all depends a lot on how much money you can spend and if you're lucky enough to get a cheap used part from someone, but i would vouch against upgrading to any CPU from that era unless you get one for $50, but chances are people will try and sell them for 150~200, and you can buy a Ryzen 3 3300X with that money plus a cheap x450 motherboard. If you manage to get a decent deal on a 7700 then upgrade your ram too to something more robust like 3200mhz CL16, base 2133mhz is pretty bad and it's fine only on a PC that's used to write word documents or browse facebook.
  9. That CPU should handle Fortnite pretty easily, source me since i was using it till last November. What CPU Cooler are you using? Since if you got something decent you can easily overclock all core to 4.5ghz with by setting the voltage to 1.33v, that should greatly help with that, the stock 3.9ghz is not really enough to keep up with a lot of modern titles. That being said, also try and not do 40 things at the same time while gaming, that's a pretty old CPU and having Youtube, Discord chat, Spotify, some programs to control your chassis fans and so on running in background can kill your performance if the game is demanding enough.
  10. Can confirm that this works. Noticed my graphics card fans doing the "stock" spin up and spin down thing a few days ago, then today i checked and Afterburner wasn't detecting my graphics card, now i'm wondering if Valorant Anti-Cheat is preventing Afterburner to access the card low-level IO driver, since that's the only thing i installed in the past week.
  11. I'm actually surprised it runs on your system at all, considering all the issues it has.
  12. Are you in hurry? Because if you can wait go for the new AMD RX5500, it's going to replace the older RX580/590 at that price point, giving you an entry point into the much newer Navi architecture, and that's definitely going to be future proof, since the new console generations are going to be using it.
  13. If you search online there's a few videos or articles about that CPU in 2019 and seems to still hold well in 1080p gaming, so yes upgrading your graphics card will definitely help you, you just won't get the most out of it. That being said, the RTX2060 is a nice card, but if for the same price you can get a 1080TI i'd say go for this one instead, since in a lot of titles you'll see bigger gains, especially if you'll ever upgrade your monitor to 1440p, where your CPU will matter less in the equation and your GPU will do a lot more work.
  14. Not my personal experience, but i got a friend with a Vive and he gets comfy 90 fps on those titles with a GTX970 and an i7 4790k, just play around with the settings and stop background processes as needed.
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