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I've tried EK's opaque / "Sold White" coolant in the past -- once.
It didn't clog the CPU block, etc, but the pigments did fall out of suspension.
It looks like they eventually got it sorted out, according to people online.
 
Used their Cryofuel Clear concentrate (with the occasional use of their dyes) and so far, no issues since I started water-cooling in ~2016(?).
 
Absolutely agree though, their pricing has shot up over the years.
I'm running a full EK loop right now, but may really look into Alphacool (or other alternatives) products now.
Getting things shipped to Canada isn't cheap - even through the resellers / retailers in Canada, rather than direct.

That top left screw at least doesnt look like its providing any tension on that bracket unlike the one beside it which seems to be providing at most adequate tension, you wont be any to get nearly enough torque by finger tightening, you need to tighten with a screwdriver

I'm confused...why do you need to ADD a separate WiFi card, then the ASUS Prime-B760M-A AX COMES with a WiFi + BT combo??
It has the antennas included with the motherboard...
 
The WiFi card won't work because it is a different M.2 key type.
The motherboard supports M.2 Key M only.
The WiFi card is M.2 Key E.
 

I've tried EK's opaque / "Sold White" coolant in the past -- once.
It didn't clog the CPU block, etc, but the pigments did fall out of suspension.
It looks like they eventually got it sorted out, according to people online.
 
Used their Cryofuel Clear concentrate (with the occasional use of their dyes) and so far, no issues since I started water-cooling in ~2016(?).
 
Absolutely agree though, their pricing has shot up over the years.
I'm running a full EK loop right now, but may really look into Alphacool (or other alternatives) products now.
Getting things shipped to Canada isn't cheap - even through the resellers / retailers in Canada, rather than direct.

I was about to purchase over €1000 of custom loop parts from them in just 2 weeks at the beginning of May to start my custom loop build, but with that news breaking out i no longer have the desire to do so. The question about warranty coverage (if the company sinks) aside, there is the bad taste of sliminess in doing business. But they were so good for so long, that i can't help but wonder if some of their competition sabotaged them by having a mole in the higher management positions. Someone deliberately kept their policy of outsourcing manufacturing instead of having it inhouse. You can't simply miss the ever increasing numbers of the expenses. You either have to be a complete and actual idiot to not see the trend when looking at the graphs or you do it on purpose to sink the company. 
 
As for the US vs EU office - sadly this kind of interactions is not that uncommon. Most EU offices really see the US offices as lazy, because of the difference in the work flow scheduling. The 9 - 5 day with 30min or 1 hour launch break in that time is more like 8 - 5 in Europe. Some companies and offices (mainly the tech ones) have the practice of including the commute to and from work in their work hours, which is ok in the EU where you simply hop on a train, a metro, a bus or even if you drive a car and you are rarely more than 10-15 minutes away, but many people in The US spend an hour or more each way, which when added as an overtime to the already seen as the lazy 40-hour work week, pisses off not only the managers, but the rest of the employees as well. My current employer doesn't include the commute in the work hours, BUT we get the fuel paid based on the average consumption of our cars and the distance to and from our workplace which is a compromise everyone is happy with.

Clock speed isn't that important, what matters more in this case is how much work it can do per cycle. A 12100F can do more work per cycle than a 6600K, even with that clock speed deficit.
 
That's why a 3.4GHz Pentium D can get absolutely curbstomped by a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo.

There is a purpose behind the lower and higher end variants of the same GPU.
These are both RX580’s


 
The purpose is more than an aesthetic preference. Better cooler designs, heatsink coverage, pcb design occasionally. That can all translate to slight differences in performance related to thermals and power delivery. And this applies to basically any GPU, and can vary wildly depending on the cards. Nearly every 1050ti ever made will perform almost the same with the exceptions of the single slot ones, sometimes.
But there are 3090’s that range from power limited 2 slot blower cards to cards with a 20% factory OC, 4 slot hybrid air/water cooling and power delivery adequate for liquid nitrogen overclocking. Still both 3090’s, but wildly different performance.

Crucial P3 Plus or any of the other Gen 4x4.
 
No need to spend Pro money on a secondary drive, especially when you were using a shit HDD as secondary for the longest time.  Don't sell the Corolla and get a Ferrari.
 
There is no real world benefit to gamers for expensive PRO level drives.

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Neither of these support overclocking, so nothing to do here.
 
This is a bit more weird. If you're going to overclock an AMD card, I'd recommend you use either Wattman (this is included in the AMD driver) or MoreClockTool. Assuming you're using Wattman, open up AMD Adrenalin, go to the performance tab, then to tuning. Click Manual Tuning Custom, and this is where you can mess with all the settings. First thing to do would be to max out the power limit as RX 6000 series cards tend to be pretty power limited in my experience. Next would be to tune the VRAM, where you want to change the timings to fast, set manual control, then max out the slider (AMD artificially limited the memory slider on all cards but the 6900 XT/6950 XT, to the point where almost every card can max out the memory slider). Finally, tune the core. Raise the max frequency until the card starts to crash in a stress test (I personally just run Time Spy, but everyone has their own preferences) or until the clock speed stops improving, then raise the minimum frequency until it starts to crash. Test a bunch of games to make sure it's stable, and you're done. 
 
Another thing you can do is use MorePowerTool to effectively disable the power limits of that card, that can get you a few extra percent of performance, though I'd reserve that for more in the future. 

The Intel 9400F can't be overclocked as its locked.
The Radeon RX 6600 however can be overclocked!
 
This is a very easy to understand guide on how to overclock with MSI Afterburner ( You dont need an MSI card )
Watch it fully if you are new to overclocking. AMD specific at the end.
 

Literally took 45 sec to find the manual and the page.

its not even joking about sexual harassment. It isn't even implied in the joke. 

The joke is not getting away with harassment and using drinking as an excuse to get away with it. 
being promiscuous is NOT harassment. Unwanted/unappreciated advances is harassment. 

Calling something out that is not an harassment joke, as one also trivializes the term in highly damaging ways. 
Like I said, I'm often the first to call out these types of behaviors from people, I am as feminism-pilled as you can get without out going into radicalism.

Both the BIOS are the same.
One acts as a back-up, in case your corrupt the other one...either through modding the BIOS or some other freak accident.

Both the BIOS are the same.
One acts as a back-up, in case your corrupt the other one...either through modding the BIOS or some other freak accident.

I recently did a test with Cyberpunk on my R9 5900x, by taking cores online/offline. Yes, it does scale all the way up to 12 cores/24 threads. And there was a noticeable difference between 4 cores to 6 cores. But beyond that, it didn't really benefit all that much.
 
~edit: managed to find the results I posted. Primary gain is minimum fps, but average and max stays largely unaffected
 

Uhhhhh, have you edited off a HDD? If not, you really need to try out your workflow before dropping cash on it. 
 
 
You're reading the specs wrong. It's SATA 3.0 compatible which is a connection that has an up to 6Gb/s that's bit not byte) so capable of moving about half a gigabyte a second. But the fact that it's an HDD means that it will top out at ~1Gb/s sequential reads or 100MB/s
 
As for a games library? Yeah, an external HDD is gonna be fine. Might slow down some loading times a bit, but it should be fine. Though I'd maybe recommend not just keeping all your games installed at all times. Unless you're on a brutally slow (<50Mbps) internet connection in which case, sure, but most connections are at least 100Mbps.

I think the important questions here is: Are you a fully professional content creator? Is that your primary source of income? 

Looks like Rossmann noticed his reddit post:
 

After an extremely frustrating day of troubleshooting, I figured I'd share my story on here as a word of caution to anyone else out there who might be in the same, rare situation that I found myself in yesterday.
 
For a bit of backstory - I built a new PC about a year ago which included a new EVGA GQ 1000w Gold power supply. Unfortunately, as soon as I booted up the PC for the first time, I knew there was something wrong with the power supply. The coil whine was horrible; worse than anything I had ever heard from any other PC in the past. I sent it (at my own expense) to EVGA under warranty as it was brand new. As per their instructions, I sent only the power supply unit itself and no cables. They were very clear in their instructions - "Keep all accessories as you will only be receiving a power supply in return." No problem. I set the aside for when I would get the power supply back from them. In the meantime, I re-used my older Corsair power supply as it got the job done. A few weeks later, I received the RMA'd power supply from EVGA, but life got in the way so it sat in the box until yesterday, when my Corsair unit started getting noisy enough to really bug me.
 
I pulled the Corsair out, along with all of its cables as I am very aware you cannot mix power supply cables. Then I opened up the EVGA box and grabbed the cables that go along with it, which I had set aside and labelled previously. I plugged everything in and tried to boot up the PC with no luck. Only a click, which I figured might be an overload protection circuit. I immediately had to double check to see if I mixed any cables somehow, but everything was correct and only the EVGA GQ cables (that came with the power supply) were used. As the first step of troubleshooting, I disconnected the SATA power from my SATA hard drives. And just like that, it booted up completely fine. Once I had isolated that the SATA power was the issue, I decided to check the voltages with a multimeter. To my surprise, they were all completely wrong. 12V where 3V was supposed to be, nothing where 5V was supposed to be, and so on. I tried a different SATA power cable from the same, matching set and it was the exact same.
 
At this point, I called EVGA. To their credit, I was able to speak with someone in a matter of minutes, which can't be said for most manufacturers. After explaining the situation, and the tech pulling up my RMA file, he knew what the problem was. He notified me that "At some point, the pin layout of these power supplies was changed". I was never told this when I received my power supply back from warranty, and clearly my cables were incompatible with the power supply now - with no way of knowing other than by checking with a multimeter. The tech told me that he believed it was only the SATA power that was changed, which would make sense as my PC was able to boot just fine with the SATA power disconnected from the drives. He said he was sending me a new set of cables and that would fix the issue. While that should be the case, what a horrible decision to change a power supply pin layout within the same product (with the only way to know being manufacturing date?) with absolutely no notice. And by following EVGA's protocol of not sending in power supply cables during a warranty claim, you're essentially screwed. I thanked the technician for his help and acknowledged that it wasn't his fault, personally, that this happened and that I'll wait for the new cables to arrive - once again using my old Corsair in the meantime.
 
After removing the EVGA and putting the Corsair back in, once again, the problem really showed itself. All of my SATA drives were gone. They were fried. 22TB of storage gone. I double and triple checked, using a different PC as the test PC with the drives even, but they were dead. Thankfully, I do have cloud backups, but my wife and I did both lose our entire day's work as the most recent backup was from the morning. I did contact EVGA again and spoke to another technician who said he will be speaking to his manager about this tomorrow to see what they can do about this situation. As other people have said, EVGA's customer service is quite good and I do appreciate that. Hopefully they're able to help me by fixing my situation, but this could still be a serious problem for other people.
 
TLDR : EVGA decided to change their SATA power cable pin layout on the GQ power supply and you'd have no way of knowing without checking the pins with a multimeter. And they can, and do fry hard drives.

@-rascal-after some tinkering i found it best to keep 2600MHz min and 2700MHz gpu clock. 
 
Was able to push 2710MHz average in Horizon Zero Dawn benchmark but that was't stable in Baldur's Gate 3. Also it got the same fps with that OC as the previous. So i rolled it back.
 
Thanks for the help. It was fun to tinker with. 

You can go just straight to 5001.
 
If you are NOT using the USB BIOS Flashback method (e.g. plugging the USB stick in and updating through BIOS), you do not need to rename it.
You have to rename it if using USB BIOS Flashback because the motherboard is in bare-to-the-bone-minimum "headless" mode.
The XXXX.CAP IS the BIOS image.
 
You don't have to use the BIOSRenamer tool...
It is LITERALLY the same as YOU right-click -> Rename -> type in "SX570EG"

Update the BIOS first.
You are using a REALLY old BIOS version.
 
The best method, to minimize the chance of corrupting the motherboard, is by using the tried-and-trued method -> putting the BIOS file onto a USB flash drive.
Updating it through internet or within Windows adds complexity, and more chances for things to go wrong.
 
Some reminder tips:
Download the latest BIOS file onto your PC / another PC / laptop. Unzip / extract the downloaded folder. Format a USB stick to FAT 32. Copy JUST the BIOS file (XXXX.CAP) onto the USB flash drive. As someone already mentioned, your higher-end motherboard has the USB BIOS Flashback feature.
Even if you DO corrupt the BIOS, you can recover it.
 

For people NOT using their PC for gaming?
 
Like...compiling and building FPGA code.
At my workplace, we ditched our old @$$ dual-Xeon (2x 20-core CPUs) FPGA Build server for a 7900X build last year... HUGE difference.
It will use ALL of the RAM, and ALL the Cores / Threads.
 
We went from a total of 40-Cores to 12-Cores...but 12-cores from 2022+...and it still cut down our times by over HALF.
A smaller FPGA build took ~17 minutes on the old Xeon set-up, new took ~8 minutes.
If we go for a higher core count ThreadRipper, it would probably reduce us into the 1 ~ 2 minute (or even less!!) range...

For people NOT using their PC for gaming?
 
Like...compiling and building FPGA code.
At my workplace, we ditched our old @$$ dual-Xeon (2x 20-core CPUs) FPGA Build server for a 7900X build last year... HUGE difference.
It will use ALL of the RAM, and ALL the Cores / Threads.
 
We went from a total of 40-Cores to 12-Cores...but 12-cores from 2022+...and it still cut down our times by over HALF.
A smaller FPGA build took ~17 minutes on the old Xeon set-up, new took ~8 minutes.
If we go for a higher core count ThreadRipper, it would probably reduce us into the 1 ~ 2 minute (or even less!!) range...