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Crunchy Dragon

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About Crunchy Dragon

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  • Location
    62 West Wallaby Street
  • Interests
    good food, good company, self-government
  • Biography
    Intel HEDT Fan. MacBook Enjoyer.
  • Occupation
    not an astronaut
  • Member title
    The Sushi™

System

  • CPU
    Intel Core i7-7820X
  • Motherboard
    EVGA X299 FTW-K
  • RAM
    Corsair Dominator Platinum 8x8GB DDR4-2800
  • GPU
    EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 Super FTW3
  • Case
    Fractal Design Define 7 XL
  • Storage
    Crucial MX500 250GB, 3x 1TB WD Blue 7200RPM, Crucial MX500 500GB, Crucial P3 1TB
  • PSU
    Corsair RM1000e
  • Display(s)
    Asus VG279QR, Dell SE2717HR
  • Cooling
    Corsair H110i
  • Keyboard
    Corsair K68 RGB
  • Mouse
    Logitech G Pro Wireless
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
  • Laptop
    2019 MacBook Pro 16" Core i7-9750H, 16GB DDR4-2666, Radeon Pro 5300M, 512GB SSD

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  1. I'm quite scared to see how much power my home server draws on average.... Probably gonna downsize to a NUC or something in a couple years.
  2. Honestly, I've never ran XMP in any of my systems until very recently when I switched to X299. I don't think it matters quite as much as people make it out to, especially on platforms that aren't Zen or Zen+.
  3. It'll run. XMP settings might be finicky, but it shouldn't be the end of the world. DDR5 is so blazingly fast naturally, I doubt any of us would really notice a performance difference with the slowest DDR5 compared to the midrange DDR4.
  4. I'm not currently aware of anything that would let you do that. It may be faster to install if the installer is directly on the drive you're installing on, but it's near infinitely more convenient to have a USB drive with your installer on it. I keep a USB drive with Ventoy installed that holds all my various operating system installers, that I can grab and install just about anything short of macOS from just one drive.
  5. The pin in the very bottom right corner stands out, it looks ever so slightly flatter than the rest. Doesn't look like it should be a problem though, based on what I can make out. I would say it's up to OP if you want to try fixing it or not, or just return the board under warranty.
  6. Definitely do it for fun when you have a replacement laptop. It's just not quite worth that kind of time and investment when it's your primary device, if that makes sense.
  7. The only thing I would consider worth doing to it while this is your main laptop is replacing the battery. After you have another, better laptop, then you can mess around with this one to your heart's content.
  8. If you can hunt down an Intel NUC or another similar mini PC, that'd be a pretty good place to start. Small, quiet, enough horsepower that you can throw Proxmox on there and run some virtual machines without drawing too much power. For a NAS, you could look at some external drives either plain old USB or in a Thunderbolt or RAID enclosure. HP and Lenovo make some compact PCs as well that you could check out, HardwareHaven on YouTube has some videos covering those, the HP EliteDesk and Lenovo ThinkCentre. Honestly, even a laptop running Linux or something similar would be a viable option if you can find one with enough CPU, RAM, and storage.
  9. Are you tightening it down properly? It's similar to putting a wheel on a car; you have to tighten all the screws by hand until they don't turn anymore, then pick one and torque it down, then do the one in the corner opposite that one, in an X pattern. Tightening the cooler down to spec shouldn't cause your PC to stop booting, is there anything bent or out of place, either in your CPU socket or otherwise?
  10. Seems like a silly obvious question, but is your CPU fan plugged in? Many modern motherboards refuse to boot if the CPU_FAN header isn't populated. What exactly do you mean by this: Are you putting the heatsink on the CPU but not tightening it down? Are you tightening it down just enough to not hit the line before it stops booting?
  11. Yup. It basically doesn't matter, but to some extent, you will get what you pay for.
  12. I'd definitely try the classifieds, or other circles(online or IRL) you're in where people might be interested.
  13. Does your PC shut down when your monitor turns black, or does it keep running? Do you still get audio output after the screen turns black? Have you tried running DDU and installing a slightly older GPU driver? What you're describing sounds like either a driver crash or a software problem, in this case specific to your Adobe programs. The legitimacy of your Adobe software may or may not be to blame here. Are you able to try a different software version?
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