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Hey, maybe even Noctua cooler with white heatsink cover would do the job for you? https://noctua.at/en/products/accessories/heatsink-covers

What I meant by "Noctuas are more suited" - I consider the DRs to be more of an "overkill" for 5600x than Noctuas, nothing else Yep, for example NH-D15 costs around 50% more than DR Pro 4 here (even though they are roughly equal elsewhere)

Hey, I bought R5 5600x with MSI B550 Gaming Edge mobo, I am currently in NZXT S340 Elite case from last build, which will probably change in some time. I plan on overclocking and I like my PC silent so I am looking for aftermarket cooler as I don't consider the Wraith adequate (and my old Cooler is being sold with 6600k). The problem is that there is somewhat limited offer of coolers on our market, I can get: Dark Rock 4 - 79$ Dark Rock Pro 4 - 90$ Noctua NH-U12S - 90$ Noctua NH-U9S - 90$ Dark Rock Slim - 70$ (but unavailable at this time) and I cannot really go below that - there is a gap down to roughly 50$ with mostly silly RGB/older CPU coolers which I would like to avoid. Considering the prices and the fact that I have 4 RAM sticks (effectively disqualifying Dark Rock 4) I tend to go for the Dark Rock Pro 4 even though I believe I can just leave the cooler to run on lowest possible RPM even when torture testing the CPU.. Noctuas would be more suited for my CPU, but considering the same price I don't see any benefit of those coolers. Am I missing something or does my reasoning make sense? Thanks!

Budget: unlimited "within reason" (prices differ too much in my country from US/CAN anyways) Workloads that it will be used for: mainly gaming, quite a heavy multitasker Hey guys, I have just got back to computer building territory with an intention to update my desktop. My current system: CPU: Intel i5 6600k, OC to 4.7Ghz with Scythe Kotetsu (cooler) Mobo: Asus Z-170A RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengance 3000GHz, CL 15 GPU: nVidia 1070, EVGA FTW edition Storage: some Samsung SSDs, NVME m.2 as boot drive (I will definitely not change those) PSU: EVGA 750 G2 The most demanding thing I do is gaming - anything else will be covered by the gaming requirements. I plan to go 1440p, keeping the GPU and PSU. 1st in line is my CPU (6600k) with GPU (1070) following when some RTX 30xx/Radeon 6xxx are available. I have been mostly following the news lately, so I have pretty clear idea how I would like to proceed, I would however love to hear some other opinions and have questions regardless. As mentioned, I plan to buy a Ryzen 5600x first (I was able to place a reservation for the first arriving batch, wohoo!), as it is (most) reasonable for "just" gaming in my opinion and is finally a good enough upgrade from my 6600k. I do not think that the Intel will bring enough to surpass 5600x "too much" with Rocket Lake. Would you agree with both my statements? Saving more or less 40$ while waiting for the 5600 is not an important factor for me for various reasons. With R5 a new motherboard is needed. Here I am quite lost as a "casual enthusiast". I saw some GN/Buldzoid videos about it, but there are frankly just too many options. From what I've seen I would probably want to stay within 180$ US price point, as those MB have everything I need, but I am willing to go above it. Should I look to higher end B550 MB with R5 5600x? Should I look to X570? (I don't see any benefit of PCIe 4.0 for me at the moment) Any remarks here will be welcomed. I think I should consider the "BIOS flash" option a must since no board currently on the market will support Ryzen 5000 out of the box. Or I need to find somebody with compatible Ryzen to update the BIOS for me.. I plan on buying a new cooler as well - most likely some higher end air cooler. Looking at Be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4. Noctua NH-D15 is unfortunately another 40% over Dark Rock Pro. I don't see the need to go for water cooling - only price comparable is Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 and even that is more expensive and I don't think it will provide too much over the Dark Rock. Is the Dark Rock reasonable? I plan on keeping 16GB of the RAM for the moment - I know it is not ideal, but I can wait for some time too let YT figure out what configuration works the best. Thanks in advance for ANY remarks! P.S. I only hope Intel does not have anything fancy up their sleeve for Q1 of 2021..

That's my plan, thought it was a name for both wired/wireless solution.. thanks for the note though!

Ok, I looked into the Mesh Ubiquti solution and it seems to be the best, thanks for the help!

should have emphasized - I need one router at the junction of wired connections, which is in the attic and the signal is not strong enough to reach the ground floor.. Yep, basically the roaming was what I am afraid of and have problems with at the moment. The AP refuses to work from time to time, so hard restarts are necessary.. How are the Ubiquti connected? I looked into them a bit and I'm not sure I understand it correctly. There will be one router (used also for wired network) that will be broadcasting the WiFi and the Ubiquti APs will repeat the signal from it, internally managing the transition between the APs? Did I get it right?

Two floor house, around 150m2 (=1600 square feet) per floor.I don't want them to spend money where it is not needed, but they can purchase decent router, there is no problem there.

Hey, I need to get a new WiFi setup to my parent's house. As I don't live with them and distance trouble-shooting is not my favorite thing to do, I need something easy to install and maintain. I have an old router and one extender connected to it, but I can't make it work reliably and both would probably use an upgrade. The house has wired network. So, I would like to have a WiFi router at the junction (functioning also as an access point) with wires leading to the rest of the house and two additional access points (probably better wired?). Should I look into Mesh network or is it not worth it? Will any router & access point work or is there any "bundle" for easier maintenance? Thanks!

Will look into it tomorrow (2AM here). thanks a lot!

yes, I did - when I first tried the overclock..

yes, the problems of 1/2/4 sticks were exactly same once overclocked

EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2, one GTX 1070 in system, several drives and fans - nothing out of ordinary

I did, with same problems present. The highest overclock that worked was at 2300MHz.

So, I tried the dimms one by one, even in a pair and then in full setup. All dimms are working fine, when not overclocked. I didn't see any issue there, the computer booted from turned off to welcome screen of Windows in about 15 seconds. Problem started when I tried the XMP profile: the boot took all of sudden about 1:15 - about 50 sec of black monitor, then it continued normally - the MB screen (Asus, For accessing BIOS press..) and Windows. On MB error LEDs were shortly on one by one during the 50 sec part - all of them, DRAM/CPU/VGA/BOOT, shined for +- 5 sec then the next one.. What I find really strange is that when XMP was turned on the BIOS was extremely laggy - hard to navigate by mouse, after pressing a F* key it took several seconds to change the screen, the animations were not working.. These problems occurred in any number of dimms installed.