Crunchy Dragon

This depends much on where you come from. I take your main platform so far has been Discord. This style is more common in traditional forums.

5.2GHz all-core overclocked W3495X scores 128,391 points in Cinebench R23:
 

 
https://hwbot.org/submission/5209423_safedisk_cinebench___r23_multi_core_with_benchmate_xeon_w9_3495x_128391_cb

Some benchmarks from Puget Systems (w7-3455 24 Core, w7-3465X 28 Core, w9-3495X 56 Core):
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/intel-xeon-w-3400-content-creation-preview/

$350 is a pretty insane amount of money for a motherboard. 
What are you using the computer for? 
Have you bought the 7700 and the 3080 already?
What headers do you need? 
What else are you hooking up to the board? 

Not likely. It's hard(for me, at least) to conceive a reason for such a thing to exist, outside of it being an interesting gimmick.
 
If you need portable computing, that's literally why laptops were invented.
I mean, this thing exists, but that's probably the closest you're gonna get, and even then, it's not exactly portable...
 

Windows simply cannot handle this move it's way too much even safe mode will crash.

Nvidia mindshare at work.
 
DOES IT HAVE an i5 Nvidia in it BRO?
 
 

Faster clock speeds and more threads, especially with just 4 cores, can make a lot of things better.
 
I don't think an SSD + HDD will be faster or slower than the current fusion drive, but more storage is never a bad thing.

agreed.....I was thinking the user possibly cranked up the eye candy which is great for many games but in Apex it is gonna hurt performance and is often the reason for stutter.
Plus in any BR games the need for fast and fluid movement is top priority. Shadows and lighting effects can have a serious impact on gameplay but the system specs he has should be fine to run the game.

+1 on pihole if you need it to be network wide. But do be noted outside of the network you should also setup parental control especially mobile devices, or you could just easily circumvent it via running on mobile data.

It's been a while since I built a pi-hole box out of a Raspberry Pi, but I don't recall it being super difficult. There are also plenty of tutorials available online that make it a fairly streamlined process.

You're (mostly) correct. Asetek holds AIO patents and is an OEM for various other brands. This means that these brands either buy something off the shelf, or they specify what they want and Asetek designs something to suit their needs. Consequently there will be various products of varying quality and performance. If a brand wants a 'cost optimized' product that's exactly what they'll get.
 
Of course, there are manufacturers less interested in patents, often in areas of the world where patents are harder to enforce, and those will produce whatever they want, with whatever quality. The basic components of an AIO have been manufactured for other industries for decades. When you buy a Coolmoon AIO from Aliexpress, don't expect Asetek to be involved.

that's great then i have imporant files that i want to keep but also need to do a system reset, thanks for replying so fast.

If you're just doing the one built into Windows, then yeah. Your files will go into a Windows.old folder, and you can access them from there.

If you're just doing the one built into Windows, then yeah. Your files will go into a Windows.old folder, and you can access them from there.

I tend to like Corsair or NZXT coolers personally, but most AIOs are basically the same.

Any of those coolers you listed would be good options. Typically liquid coolers produce less noise than air coolers.
 
All it really comes down to is if you want air or liquid cooling. NH-D15 is one of the more quiet and better performing air coolers, I'd also throw the bequiet! Dark Rock Pro series in that ring.

I tend to like Corsair or NZXT coolers personally, but most AIOs are basically the same.

No, don't. Get a better, higher wattage PSU (at least 650W is recommended for the GPU, better get 750W for good measure, not that much more expensive and will last longer through more upgrades considering everything is on an upward power trend these days)

Even if you can undervolt, why go to that length just to keep a bad PSU. The GPU alone can peak in the 350W range. Barely leaving 82W anything for everything else on the 12V rail(CPU, for one thing). Assuming you undervolt it, you'd still be quite close to the limit. It might be fine just booting and doing a few tasks, but anything really demanding could just end up shutting the whole PC down to due lack of power and possibly(low chance) damage your other parts because of it or even overheat that poor PSU from being pinned near max all the time.
 
 
 
 

Amazon has a neat sale on Crucial P3 drives at the moment. The other sizes are marked down a little bit as well, but the 1TB has the largest price decrease.
 
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-PCIe-NAND-NVMe-3500MB/dp/B0B25LZGGW/

It's probably fine to run non-ECC memory in it. I've done it before on an HP server board.
The real key is to not mix ECC and non-ECC memory.
 
That said, if the board doesn't support non-ECC memory for some reason, you won't be hurting anything by trying non-ECC memory. At most, the board will fail to boot and throw a memory error POST code at you until you install ECC memory.
 
TL;DR, if you have both types of RAM, try them both for science 😄

If the board just supports ECC, it should work with ECC and non-ECC, but it can depend on the board. Which one do you have?

Agreed.
Molex to 8 pin can work, but it's still the same issue of using a weird adapter. In either case, I wouldn't recommend running it daily with such an adapter.
 
Another option, if your budget and case allow for it, is upgrading your PSU.

Given that your CPU + GPU are above the minimum system requirements, you can probably run that game.
https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/scum/17438
 
Word of advice: Ensure your thread title contains a summary of the situation. For example, instead of "help" say "Can I run SCUM game on this hardware?"
 
If everyone titled their threads as "Help" nobody is able to find anything, and thus the perfect person to answer your query may never get a chance to see it. 🙂 

Okay... Maybe I've overestimated the reach of markdown from "Developers" to "Tech People"... My bad...

It's really fucking sweet though, makes it dead easy to format what you write without ever having to faff about clicking options and whatnot