Crunchy Dragon

This is probably the best budget option, although my 2070 Super struggles a bit to run standard Minecraft shaders at 60+ FPS consistently.
 
Even with shaders, I've always found Minecraft to be more CPU-heavy than anything else. SEUS PTGI is the only exception, I've never had shaders use 100% of my GPU before trying that one.

That's not uncommon for OEM motherboards, there can sometimes be XMP settings, but a lot of times there isn't (HP is pretty known for that). 
 
If you've looked around in the BIOS and haven't found it, I'd assume that it's just not there. I will point out that ASUS does put XMP settings in a weird spot, at least on their consumer boards, so maybe look for a menu labeled something like "overclocking mode" and see if XMP settings are in there, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's just not present. OEM boards generally speaking are very locked down. 

RTX 40-series isn't that bad on its own. The cards are legitimately good, they're just waaaay overpriced.
From what I remember, the 4070 and 4080 are the sweet spots, but I could be wrong. If someone reading this knows the actual models worth buying, do enlighten me 🙂
 
My take, as someone who recently upgraded from a GTX 1070 to a 2070 Super, is "if money isn't an issue, then buy 40-series if you want it. For us mortals, used 20 or 30-series will be much better value".
 
Graphics cards usually release on I want to say a 2-3 year cycle. We can hope for the next generation to be better, but we won't know until it happens.

Cheese

The only ones that come to mind are Silverstone's DS380 and CS381. I know there are others, but I'd question how easy it would be to acquire any of them. That being said, the DS380 and CS381 are ridiculously expensive.

If hot-swap is more of a want than a need, a Node 304 or Node 804 are far more practical and affordable.

Node 304. No hotswap, but do you really need that? How often do you plan on swapping drives?
 
 

On Windows 11 supported hardware, yes. 
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications?r=1

Welcome to the forums.
 
Please describe your problem more clearly. What does "screen goes funny" mean? What does "restarts itself but it doesn't" mean? What exactly happens?
 
Is the light you mention a hard drive activity light on your case, or something else?
 
You don't mention what type of cooler you are using for the CPU. What is it?
 
Do you really mean that every time this happens you remove whatever cooler you have, take the CPU out of the motherboard socket, put it back in, and then reinstall the cooler? 
 
Finally, in the future please make your thread titles more descriptive of the problem. Every week there's at least a dozen threads on these forums with titles that are just something like "help pls." If the title summarizes the nature of the problem, there is a better chance someone with relevant knowledge will notice it. 
 
 

Ever encounter a door that you can't open?

The "MasterKey" exists for a reason 🙂
 

What are you planning on streaming? Gameplay? Or just a webcam?
 
The GT 1030 isn't really ideal for gaming and lacks NVENC support making it a poor choice for a streaming PC. 
Those Armageddon power supplies are really bad, don't buy them. 

Actually, no, computers can be MORE random than humans. Humans are actually kinda bad at randomness.
 

Yeah, ultimately I think my biggest gripe with AI is how it lacks the human element.
 
No computer can ever be truly random or spontaneous in the way the human mind is.

Picked up this Maverick 88 Cruiser last night, $300 out the door, havent seen these new in a long time personally
 

The year so far has been better, considering it's the year of the flying squirrel!

Real ones know. The sauce will never die.

That's a ton of junk you have running in the background, try getting rid of some of that. Also windows caches stuff in memory so thats probably part of it as well.
 
Edit: windows caching is probably the main reason actually.

We should literally just rename this thread to "EVGA Fan Club"

I've done it before. My old laptop had 8GB soldered and a slot, with support for up to 32GB total. I just ran to Micro Center, grabbed an 8GB Crucial Ballistix off the shelf, and plopped it in. Worked fine.
 
Memory mixing isn't as huge a deal as people make it out to be.
Any modern motherboard will automatically adjust the speeds so that all the RAM works properly anyway, usually by defaulting to the slowest supported speed across all DIMMs(this holds true for desktops as well).

Since the Core 2 Duo era, laptops haven't been all that picky with soldered on memory. I've never encountered an issue mixing capacity, speed, timings, etc with slot/soldered. Nearly any RAM that fits will work. 

I haven't heard anything about newer AMD drivers having issues. You should be okay

I've done it before. My old laptop had 8GB soldered and a slot, with support for up to 32GB total. I just ran to Micro Center, grabbed an 8GB Crucial Ballistix off the shelf, and plopped it in. Worked fine.
 
Memory mixing isn't as huge a deal as people make it out to be.
Any modern motherboard will automatically adjust the speeds so that all the RAM works properly anyway, usually by defaulting to the slowest supported speed across all DIMMs(this holds true for desktops as well).

I kind of miss my X99 build, but it doesn't make sense for me to downgrade hahaha

We should literally just rename this thread to "EVGA Fan Club"

So I got a pretty solid deal on a 3090 FTW3, I also found a pair block and backplate on ebay for a decent price too, card arrived today, gotta say I'm impressed, this'll go lovely with the X299 dark, in the process of staying evga, I am considering maaaaaaybe going for an SR3 when I get my tax refund in April too 😜 

Real ones know. The sauce will never die.