ChuckMaurice

Really the only things you can do to a 5800x3D involve RAM, which is past diminishing returns after 3200MHz/3600MHz, so I'd stick with that, and cooling. The longer you can sustain its maximum 4.45GHz (iirc) the better, but that's not an easy feat.
 
The heat soak latency of the chip is going to be the limit without removing layers like delidding, so giving it a massive air cooler isn't going to do much over a sufficient one unless you're drastically lowering ambient temperature.
 
5800x3D is really set and forget, it doesn't have the somewhat useful features the 7000x3D has like PBO2, but even then that's mostly just testing the silicon lottery. You'll find people messing around with undervolting and thinking they're getting a benefit but realize that they're simply causing the CPU to throttle like crazy. Can find plenty of threads here of people complaining about low cinebench scores with a 5800x3D and its almost always because they were trying to undervolt it.

Ok thanks, set and forget works for me. I bought the 5800X3D as a nice stand-in upgrade from my 3600X, not to tinker too much or chase cinebench scores anyway.
 
I think I will keep things as they were before, 5800X3D untouched + Kraken X52, with a full cleanup and new paste, and return the EK AIO. I thought it would be significantly better and silent, but if not, I'll keep my money for a new cooling solution when the Kraken dies. Mythological pun unintended.

Thank you both. After I change coolers I'm gonna try my luck at PBO2 to undervolt it and see if I get better results. I'm not quite confident enough to try delidding it (it's quite expensive for me still) but I'll keep that in mind.

DDR5 RAM doesn't provide an advantage for gaming on Intel 12th gen, plus you already have 32GB of DDR4 which would save you a significant part of your budget. So I'd recommend getting a Z690 or B660 motherboard that is DDR4-compatible and keep your current RAM.
 
For music production I'm not sure your current RAM is your bottleneck, after all people have been producing music without DDR5 for a while. IF DDR5 does indeed provide a significant edge, I would wait for AMD Ryzen 7000 or Intel 13th gen CPUs to really have something that needs DDR5 and will be more powerful for gaming. They are just around the corner

You could go Linux and heavily reduce the space taken by the OS. An Ubuntu install should take less than 10 GB on itself. Web development is easier on Linux as, well, it's what is used to host websites. You can easily deploy local servers with a single command line. Plus it's a essential skill to learn for developpers in general.
 
Other than that, I recommend getting the biggest SSD you can afford, and maybe don't bother with an USB flash drive as it's way less durable than a proper SSD.
I guess you want a 2.5" SATA SSD to replace your laptop's HDD? (correct me if I'm wrong).
They're the cheapest ones as they are progressively replaced by M.2 NVMe and there hasn't been new models for a while.

If you use Authy it'll automatically restore your accounts if you provide the password

To use DLSS you have to have a compatible game, run it at the native resolution of your monitor (say 1440p), then tell DLSS to render the game at a lower resolution and use DLSS's AI-trained algorithms to improve it at your desired resolution. You can't, let say, run the game at a non-native resolution then apply DLSS.
 
On the most well-trained algorithms and ideal conditions, DLSS will indeed do wonders and have great antialiasing.
 
Using it at 1080p means the games would have to render 720p or lower and try to improve it. This is not ideal because:
1) 720p->1080p is harder to do than 1080p->1440p (around the same increment in pixel count from both, but less pixels to work with at 720p)
2) algorithms are trained for 1080p or higher rendering
3) the RTX 3060Ti is very much capable of rendering most games at 1080p/high framerates without DLSS
 

Motorola

Lenovo acquired Motorola Mobility in 2014

Contrary to what is recommended in the above comments, Lubuntu is not the most ideal option for low-end systems. It boots and stops slowly and the desktop UI is quite sluggish.
 
The best three systems for low-end desktops are:
antiX
Alpine Linux
Void Linux
 
I will explain why Void Linux + XFCE + glibc is the best option of the three. Let's say you're using Alpine Linux. Your system will boot faster than anything else out there. Login will also be fast and exit too, and the UI will be very responsive. And you will be able to turn it into a usable desktop. It's not much work. But what you probably won't be able to solve is the screen tearing on Intel CPU + Nvidia Optimus laptops. I couldn't solve it and I'm an advanced user.
 
Then you have antiX and this is good as long as you're not going to hook up a TV to your laptop and stuff like that. I don't think IceWM and Fluxbox are good at that.
 
Void Linux + XFCE + glibc is the best Linux out there for low end systems. It starts and stops surprisingly fast (significantly faster than Lubuntu). But most importantly, XFCE is surprisingly responsive on Void, even on 12-year-old laptops that cost $500 back then. The package manager is fast even on very old HDD's.
 
It is said that Void + XFCE is for advanced users, but it is not. It was completely installed in literally 4 minutes, although I must say that I have experience with Arch Linux and these types of systems. But I can't imagine anyone not getting this installed in half an hour even if you don't know anything about Linux.
 
It is extremely fast, it has responsive UI on old systems, more stable than Solus, opening file manager (thunar) photos (viewnior/feh) pdfs (evince) is faster than on some high end systems sold now. The only thing I miss in Void is the browser performance from Solus and Clear Linux, but overall the performance in apps is fine on Void.
 
You learn to work with it in about an hour. Perhaps most irritating of all, the audio didn't seem to work by default and pavucontrol was not present, but completely resolved in a few minutes:
https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/media/alsa.html
https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/media/pulseaudio.html
xbps-install pavucontrol Void Linux is best for old hardware that still has HDD and stuff like that. It's that simple.
The iso I used to install it completely in 4 minutes can be found here: https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/live/current/void-live-x86_64-20210930-xfce.iso

Well the Dell XPS 13 is much more reliable. I've had the 15" model for more than a year and it had never caused me problems, so the 13" should be similar and last a long time. I has it flaws but I think it's one of the best high-end laptops around. Also it's more of a 12" in size because of the Infinity Edge display (short bezels)

So sorry. Corrected

To clarify, if an i7 Haswell is ok for gaming without o.c. I'm gonna see if I can sell my current rig to buy a Ryzen one. If I CAN'T sell it at a good price, I'm gonna go with an i7-4790+GTX 1070 in my current rig. But I'd prefere starting fresh to remove those small issues I currently have.

Yup, i5 will bottleneck a GTX 1070 in 1080p, in certain games. Already today (meaning, you would have more fps with an i7).
 
Right now for any kind of Gaming, that is above Mid-range:
You simply get an i7. Period. Ignore the i5 exists. You do NOT get an i5. At all as a Gamer.
Untill Ryzen 5 launcher, only the non-K i5 were okay, while the i5 7600k was already useless (same price as i7 7700 non-K, but weaker).
 
If you can't spend 300 bucks on an i7 7700(k), you get a Ryzen 5 1600 6-Core. MUCH more futureproof, and either same speed as i5 in games, or faster. in Craysis 3 for example, an i5 bottlenecks a GTX 1070 quite hard: 
 
at 3:04 onwards. With an i5, it's simply impossible to keep at least 60,0 fps in Crysis 3 at all times. 
And Witcher 3 in Novingrad and other dense cities, can use up my i7 6700k @ 4.4 ghz at nearly 100% on all 8 Threads.
 
 
TL;DR: Either get an i7 7700, or a Ryzen 5 1600.
If both are too expensive, Ryzen 5 1500x > Ryzen 5 1400.
If you can't afford that, you should not consider a GTX 1070 at all.
 
 
Little Bonus tests: 
An overclocked i5 Haswell + fast 2400 Mhz Ram is bottlenecking a RX 480, which is a 199 dollar card.
 
 
Keep in Mind, you will upgrade your GPU 1-2 additional times in the Lifespan of your CPU.
If your CPU bottllenecks your GPU today, it will only bottleneck harder and harder in the future, when a much stronger GPU comes in.

The 980Ti seems really great and I could get a used one around 300€ in France from what I've seen, but the 1070 has a much better power efficiency, and that's a important point for me (an used 1070 is only 50€ more if I get a good deal, but that would justify the power efficiency difference that is around 60-70% better)

I also think the 1070 may have other features (Fast sync) that would come handy.

I honestly hate that noise of someone typing loudly, especially when you could here it over Skype/Discord. That's why I prefer Chiclet ones since the shorter press distance + less noise make them excellent when you're deep into your typing (also useful for gaming too). Though I can see someone coming up with Chiclet keys that you mechanical switches that are also silent too.

4 is an unlucky number in China.

There's this thing called write caching used by both MacOS and Linux. Basically, the OS creates a "list" of stuff to write on the drive and completes these write tasks later on (sometimes when you click eject).
Windows disabled this thing and writes whatever it has to write directly to the drive, skipping the cache for those drives recognized as removable, while using the write cache for those non removable.
 
In the end, what happens is that on MacOS and Linux you fuck up the data that needs to be (or is being) written on the drive when you "unsafely" unplug the drive.

The game has a demo on Steam. Just give it a shot if you think it might interest you.

Another option, get a case with swappable HDD brakets, put in a mini itx with onboard CPU and enough sata ports. Then you have a win 10 pc, with storage and if needed some virtualization options. 
 
Thats what I plan for when I swap the media computer. I can post a link to the case later. Gotta run now *waves*

tbh i wouldnt risk it. plenty of apps exist to make windows 10 like windows 7. I personally use Start ++ its a great app for 3 bucks. 

My brother just received his new Dell Inspiron Gaming, and I was tasked with cleaning the OS and reformat if necessary, something I usually do on new computers because of the ton of bloatware included. This time, I actually thinks that's the first time I don't have to do the later option: the only bloatware Dell included is this pesky McAffee antivirus (and of course W10-included bloatware from the store). Kudos Dell, you passed the reformat test.
 
Bonus point: idiotic stickers were really easy to remove with no mark, even the Intel one.
Also great laptop, the only thing sub-optimal are the screen and the touchpad, but the chassis, build quality and components are great and it's awesome for a sub-1000$ laptop.

Maybe I just had too wide of a definition for bloatware and didn't gave Dell models the benefit of the doubt  
Anyway that's one more reason for me to replace my Macbook with the new XPS. Soon, Dell, soon...

Ouch much... I hate McAffee anti virus. In order to have the program uninstalled (if need be) you need the damn product key that you used to activate it in the first place... Silly idea as far as I'm concerned haha 

Glad I didn't activate it then. McAffee for me is synonym of "Uninstall me now!" 

Glad I didn't activate it then. McAffee for me is synonym of "Uninstall me now!"