Crunchy Dragon

I would probably go to an ASRock board on the Z690 chipset. PCPartPicker doesn't have prices listed for all of them, but you could hunt around online or in a brick and mortar store if you're fortunate enough to live near one: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#m=7&s=40&f=2&mt=ddr4

Usually they make one die with a set number of cores, and activate/deactivate cores for certain SKUs. I'm not sure if the cores are enabled/disabled in hardware or firmware, though. If they're activated in firmware, theoretically you could flash a different vBIOS and have them activated, but that's a pretty sketchy venture with no guarantees of working and a higher chance of turning your GPU into a paperweight.

John Wick 4 Dune part 2, Mission Impossible, and that's about it.

I only buy bulk(typically 1000 at a time for 5.56/.223 unless I'm buying some expensive stuff), so $100 for shipping is a bit steep for me. I don't get worked up over CPR, I just buy what I buy when I buy it. Sure it would be nice to not have to pay as much, but when I only buy a case of 5.56 every 4-6 months, it's much easier on the defense budget even if I do pay $0.45/round.

Go into your settings in-game and slide the render distance option all the way up. Almost any render distance will only ever work on the client side. The server has its own render distance, and events outside of that render distance effectively don't exist, even if mods like Farsight cache the chunks on the client and allow you to see those chunks.

Important to note that UserBenchmark is fairly unreliable and skews the average performance towards the higher end, since most everyone who runs UserBenchmark is running moderate to high overclocks everywhere. At stock speeds, 1070 vs 3050 is pretty much a toss up, but the 1070 scores higher on UserBenchmark because Pascal could be overclocked more effectively than anything that came after it, and most people who ran Pascal did overclock.

Farsight allows for longer render distances: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/farsight-fabric

CTR also has a QD socket, which is the other reason I wanted one Mine has never had issues feeding, only extracting. As far as ammo, I typically buy from True Shot, PSA, and Lucky Gunner.

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Looks exactly like my first AR-15, mine was a $600 rifle from PSA. Solid place to start. Mine is kitted out with a 1x red dot sight, a sling, and a light. I also swapped the Magpul MOE stock for the Magpul CTR stock, which has a friction lock to prevent the wobble that the MOE stock has. My new rifle will live as more of a general purpose rifle, so that's getting a 1x prism optic with a magnifier. The mission dictates the gear, never forget that. I buy Magpul PMAGs for $8-9 a pop, and keep a pretty steady stockpile of PMC X-Tac 5.56 M193 to keep them fed. For ammo, I would probably say buy whatever's cheap, but use discretion. Worth mentioning that my PSA rifle doesn't love steel cased ammo, and I've found 1 out of every 100 steel case rounds will fail to extract. Never had an issue with brass .223 or 5.56, though.

First AR build is "done". No good pictures right now, but all it needs is the grey stock and a threaded bolt catch pin. Otherwise, it'll shoot.

I'm not sure such a list exists. I hear B5 is a company to avoid for furniture(stocks, grips, foregrips) though. My approach has been to pick a price range I'm willing to hit for an accessory and go from there.

Especially in a new case, if the standoffs didn't come preinstalled, they may take some effort to get installed the first time.

Assuming the scuffs are just cosmetic, they shouldn't have much impact on device longevity. I don't think it's a terrible idea to buy a newer model 3DS, just because it'll be more recent and the battery will probably be healthier, but I don't know how much it'll matter with something that old. Personally, I would probably save the $50 and put it towards the new model further down the road.

It's possible your motherboard BIOS doesn't support the 4000-series Ryzen CPUs. What's your power supply like? It looks like there's a cable outside the case that runs inside, and then there's an adapter to connect to the 24pin ATX header? Are you able to test the system outside the case with a standard ATX power supply, plugged directly into the motherboard? This seems like a dumb question, but is the monitor plugged in and powered on?

Do you have any debug LEDs on the motherboard?

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You do need to port forward the VPN server, which is what allows you to connect outside the network. The benefit is that you open a different port for the VPN server, not 3389 for RDP.

It requires a bit of technical know-how, but it's not too bad if you can find a decent guide.

You're close, but you should start with the GPU drivers, not the BIOS or firmware. I would do the classic, run DDU to thoroughly clean out your drivers and install a slightly older driver version and see if the problem persists. https://www.wagnardsoft.com/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu- That's not really a thing. PCIe is backwards compatible, so PCIe 4.0 cards will run in PCIe 3.0 motherboards, just with less bandwidth. If the card needs more power than the PSU can supply, it'll run until it draws too much power, at which point the overcurrent protection in your power supply will kick in, and shut down the whole system in an instant to prevent damaging components.

You present a risk by opening the port in the first place. RDP is an encrypted protocol, but you can allow unwelcome traffic by opening 3389 in your network firewall. The most secure option is use of a VPN, there are a couple that let you self-host a VPN server and install a client on other devices, so your VPN connection will take you inside your home network, from which you can access all your network resources and do what you need to do. I've used SoftEther VPN for this in the past, but there are other options. OpenVPN is another popular choice. Port forwarding is essentially opening a port in the firewall. The port being open is what allows traffic to come and go through the firewall, via that port. RDP is awesome, but there are much better options for remote gaming. I would look into a cloud service like GeForce Now for your games, and keep RDP around for accessing files and media, but still run it through a VPN.

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Not likely. Your CPU is the limiting factor here, that's typically the culprit if you're playing at high refresh rates and not reaching them. You could try turning down the framerate cap to have a more smooth experience, but outside of hardware upgrades, there's not a lot you really can do.

Competitive shooters and especially esports tend to be more CPU-heavy than GPU-heavy. It's more likely that your performance is being held back by your CPU rather than your GPU. What games are you playing, what settings, resolution, and refresh rate are you playing at, and what framerates are you getting?