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+1 for these.
 
Also a glasses wearer and I've had no issues with the Void Elites.

I've always liked Corsair Void Elites myself with my glasses. Soft cloth material for the ear cup. Would wear them for 3-5hrs a day on average for work calls and never had an issue with ear pain/pressure from my glasses.
 
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XF2TGFX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I watched Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull for the first time this week. As somebody who is very much an "original trilogy" person with regards to Indiana Jones and thinks The Last Crusade was a good ending for the franchise, I wasn't particularly hopeful or excited for Crystal Skull.
 
Overall, it wasn't terrible. I like that they made the Soviets the bad guys, it was a nice change of pace from the Nazis. Casting and acting was pretty solid. I had forgotten that Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf was in this movie, and he did a pretty good job. John Hurt was a name I wasn't expecting to see, but his performance was also stellar. Lady Galadriel playing a Ukranian was definitely an experience. As far as the franchise overall goes, I think it was the second best way to end it.
 
If you didn't like the ending for Last Crusade, I think Crystal Skull will probably give you more of what you're looking for.

The concerns I would have is that the components would be fully exposed to the environment and could become damaged from items being dropped on them, as well as the whole thing being pulled off the desk/table it's sitting on and becoming damaged...Since the whole thing isn't effectively one assembly, you don't have all the weight sitting in one place, so it's easily for individual items to be knocked around.
 
Even something like an air cooler sticking up could be enough to get a hold of, and pull it off the surface it's sitting on. Additionally, some of the passively cooled components won't have any real directed cooling around them, so they will either overheat, or simply run much better than normal. 

No it's not necessary.
Plug the power supply into a grounded outlet, even if it's not installed into the case. Once it's plugged into the mains, the exterior of the case becomes grounded so if you touch the metal of the power supply with your fingers, you'll be discharged of static electricity.
So from time to time, after you move around and before grabbing components, touch some metal on the power supply for a couple seconds to ground/discharge yourself.
If you screw the psu to the case, the whole metal of the case becomes grounded, so it's even easier to discharge yourself by touching any unpainted metal bit of the case. But, it's much easier to install the power supply later in the process .. first install cpu, cooler and ram on motherboard, m.2 ssd if you use any, then put motherboard on case (use standoffs only where needed), put io shield if it's not  pre-fixed to motherboard, screw motherboard inside...  and so on..
 
Hold components by the edges or by plastic parts, heatsinks - don't touch exposed pins or chips with your fingers and you'll be fine.
You get charged with static electricity if you're wearing the wrong clothes, if you rub your socks made with some types of fibers on the carpet, if you wear wool or other clothes that cause static electricity to build up, if the air is too dry in your room ...
 
Ideally you should build the computer on a surface that doesn't conduct electricity - a wood desk, some cardboard box, a plastic cover on a desk, glass etc
 

Yeah this.  A 6700xt would be about $350 new and that would be a monumental upgrade over the 580.  A fully OC'd 2600 could probably support it fine at 1440p, but if it can't, then you could pop in a 5600 for another $130.  At 4k, the 2600 is definitely fast enough.
 
To get that 2600 going as fast as possible, a big air cooler would do the trick for under $40. 4.2GHz at 1.4125 volts should be able to get it going fast enough for the 6700xt.  Even if you do end up upgrading your CPU, you'd be able to carry the cooler over to 5600.
 
 
PCPartPicker Part List
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($35.90 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: MSI MECH 2X OC Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card  ($349.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $515.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-02-02 19:54 EST-0500
 
I'd get the GPU and the cooler first, then determine if you need a new CPU.  If you do, selling the 2600 for ~$50 would put you under your $500 target.
 
If your CPU is good with the cooler and the OC, the GPU and cooler would have you under $400.
 

I never upgrade operating systems quickly. I'll give it a few years to mature and then maybe consider leaving 10. I ran Windows 7 until my hardware literally didn't support it anymore, and that was the sole reason I upgraded to 10.

This is the USB-C AC power port. However, after reading your comment I checked out the spec ant realized that what I thought was only the dock connector is actually a dock connector and along side it a USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 port. One of the monitors has a USB-C plug, tried that, worked immediately. This means an extra cable, but it works!
The TB3 plug did the trick.
 
Thanks 🙂

I still love my Wii. Play games on it at least once a week which, funnily enough, is more often than I game on my PC.

CPU and GPU are probably the most "in need" of an upgrade, but it really depends.
 
Are you having performance issues? Are you planning to play other more demanding games and you're not sure your current PC will be up to the task? What's driving you to upgrade your PC?

CPU and GPU are probably the most "in need" of an upgrade, but it really depends.
 
Are you having performance issues? Are you planning to play other more demanding games and you're not sure your current PC will be up to the task? What's driving you to upgrade your PC?

If it's an Intel Alder Lake/Raptor Lake CPU being used, Windows 11. 
 
Otherwise, up to you on which one to pick from. 

I just grabbed a Bekant from Ikea and called it a day. I'd like just a bit more surface area, but it's sufficient for me.
 
Context is I have two 27" monitors, one keyboard, one mouse, sometimes a laptop, and a salt lamp on my desk.

If the question is "Which is a more fun/'useful' console to own in 2023?" you can make a case the Wii U is better.
 
If the question is "Which was a more fun console to own during their own respective eras?" then it's the original Wii by miles.
 
Your post neglects that the original Wii could/can run the whole Gamecube library, which the Wii U can't without homebrew. 
 
The Wii U was not a bad console per se but Nintendo utterly failed to make the case for it in their marketing, and not enough games utilized its unique features. 

I updated to W11 on purpose, prefer most of the UI changes. The right click menu is a lil goofy but NanaZip (a version of 7zip) puts the 7zip menu in the normal spot and that's 99% of my right click usage, so it's quite nice. And task manager is dark mode now, which means I don't flashbang myself opening it on a 27" 4K panel (with the brightness up because otherwise games are too dark) in the middle of the night. That alone makes the few small quirks worth it. Overall though, W11 is just W10 with a nicer aesthetic. 
Get HOTASAS so you can play Star Citizen too .
The most hilarious bit about this is that if you use Adobe stuff, Intel's own mainstream chips clap the HEDT stuff due to QuickSync. It is weird Intel never put an iGPU bit on the HEDT chips just for that, no need for display output itself purely QuickSync acceleration. Given accelerators are the name of the game on their new server stuff, I wonder if they will implement something like that for the rumored HEDT/WS hardware.
Pretty much. X299 was competitive with Zen/Zen+ TRs in a lot of stuff, but Zen 2 was basically unbeatable. Also yeah mainstream stuff has gotten nutty for CPU performance. I get a flat 25k or so in CB R32 at 4.5Ghz allcore w/2400Mhz RAM, a friend pushed his 13900K to 6GHz on 4 cores, quite fast still on the rest, pulled a flat 40,000 with a 324W mainstream chip. Even stock (pulling 253W) it absolutely trounces.

This would also explain why Ryzen has ECC support, even on the consumer socket.
 
Probably either needs a BIOS update or TPM to be enabled in BIOS. Either way, Microsoft isn't bothering me with pressure to update and I'm fine keeping it that way. My greatest worry is that I'll accidentally update my OS when installing other random system updates 😄
I really don't want to think about how much more power efficient my MacBook Pro with a 9750H is compared to my 7820X. Sure it has fewer cores and a worse cooling solution, but I have little doubt in my mind that with some good cooling, this mobile Core i7 could wipe the floor with my LGA 2066 behemoth.
 
Yup. DCS: World is a game I've been thinking about getting into a little bit, and while that game is CPU-heavy, it needs cores. More importantly, it needs fast storage and a lot of RAM. This was the main driving force behind me getting a boost in both departments(5820K to 7820X, 16GB to 64GB RAM). Now I just need to eat the cost of head tracking and a HOTAS....
 
The games I've played the most in the past 6 months are CS:GO and Minecraft, neither of which really require a ton of power. Counter Strike runs perfectly fine at 1080p75, my biggest issue is load times in that regard. Minecraft, though horribly optimized, has no trouble running at 75 FPS the entire time and I really don't mind the decrease I take when I throw on a shaderpack for screenshots.
 
Having more CPU cores available was my main concern for when I get into some heavier tasks and if I ever need to edit videos again for any reason, it would make the rendering go a little bit faster.

I remember when WD made 10 and 15,000 RPM hard drives.
 
Be interesting to see a combo of the two.

This would also explain why Ryzen has ECC support, even on the consumer socket.
 
Probably either needs a BIOS update or TPM to be enabled in BIOS. Either way, Microsoft isn't bothering me with pressure to update and I'm fine keeping it that way. My greatest worry is that I'll accidentally update my OS when installing other random system updates 😄
I really don't want to think about how much more power efficient my MacBook Pro with a 9750H is compared to my 7820X. Sure it has fewer cores and a worse cooling solution, but I have little doubt in my mind that with some good cooling, this mobile Core i7 could wipe the floor with my LGA 2066 behemoth.
 
Yup. DCS: World is a game I've been thinking about getting into a little bit, and while that game is CPU-heavy, it needs cores. More importantly, it needs fast storage and a lot of RAM. This was the main driving force behind me getting a boost in both departments(5820K to 7820X, 16GB to 64GB RAM). Now I just need to eat the cost of head tracking and a HOTAS....
 
The games I've played the most in the past 6 months are CS:GO and Minecraft, neither of which really require a ton of power. Counter Strike runs perfectly fine at 1080p75, my biggest issue is load times in that regard. Minecraft, though horribly optimized, has no trouble running at 75 FPS the entire time and I really don't mind the decrease I take when I throw on a shaderpack for screenshots.
 
Having more CPU cores available was my main concern for when I get into some heavier tasks and if I ever need to edit videos again for any reason, it would make the rendering go a little bit faster.

^^ same here. I don’t really do anything that needs fast cores, they’d be neat but not required. At this point I just game, and I only shoot for 60fps which is incredibly easy. Fallout 76 is the only title I have that even requires much of an overclock, purely due to being functionally single-threaded and having a lot going on (fallout 4 is fine despite being nearly the same engine). For any other tasks I can just do the ole “throw cores at it”. 
Yeeep. I’ve been eyeing an i3 12100 setup to use over the summer, due to the sheer amount of heat my 7980XE dumps into my lounge. My killawatt broke, but going off other people’s numbers it’s probably somewhere around 400W. 
Should be. You have a FTW-K IIRC, don’t see why my Dark would be fine with W11 and the FTW wouldn’t. 
+1 for this worry. I want actually attainable HEDT, not “server lite” workstation type stuff. Not sure why both AMD and Intel abandoned that sector, I guess the private folks buying HEDT themselves weren’t profitable enough vs large companies that can slurp up nauseatingly expensive machines with ease. Must be, as AMD promised support for sTRX4 and then killed it off after one generation of CPUs, TR community doesn’t seem large enough to raise enough of a row over that. I imagine if they had done the same with AM4 there’d be an incredible outcry. 

WD only made 10K RPM drives called the Raptor and later on Velociraptor, both of them uses standard SATA. Seagate was the one that made 15K RPM drives called the Cheetah. Back then it ran on the SCSI interface and these days it runs on SAS, which is the successor to SCSI.

I remember when WD made 10 and 15,000 RPM hard drives.
 
Be interesting to see a combo of the two.

I remember when WD made 10 and 15,000 RPM hard drives.
 
Be interesting to see a combo of the two.

Yeah, this was more or less my concern.

This is the first I'm hearing of this news.
 
Hopefully they expand into the enthusiast space a little bit instead of 56-core chips that us mortals will never be able to obtain while they're modern.

I'd have to be running the latest BIOS to know for sure, and I can't be bothered to update that just yet.
 
I wasn't into PCs much growing up, but I got on the HEDT train when I discovered Linus Tech Tips just in time for the 5960X to be the best CPU on the market. A lot of the older LTT videos surrounding X99 were instrumental to how I approached the PC world, even now. HEDT hardware will always look cooler than regular consumer stuff.
 
I love that my motherboard has two EPS connectors and a supplementary PCIe power for when the slots themselves need that extra boost. Little stuff like that really tickles my nerd brain in a way few things do.