ExalyThor

That's silly of me lmao. I was not paying attention.

There are external optical drives which are be powered by usb only. Also one motherboard usb 2.0 connector supplies 1 amp of current, at 5v that's 10w, more than enough to power an optical drive.

No. I was hoping for an optical drive which would simply have a cable like this for data and power, instead of the regular sata power and data cables:

The reason I want such an optical drive is to have less cables, with none coming from the PSU, not to do it just for the sake of doing it.

Does such a thing exist? I am building an AM4 system and I'll use m.2 exclusively for storage. I would like to give up on SATA connectors altogether, so I am curious if there are any internal 5.25" optical drives which have only one connector to the motherboard for power and data, that being the USB 2.0 header.

Yours aren't great either...

What do you mean it has scaling issues? Displaying 1080p or 4k content on a 1440p monitor? (I always look to play games at native res)

"what games you play?, what's your system?, yada, yada, yada" in the latest and greatest games my newly purchased 5700xt can only do 60fps at 1080p high settings (Dying Light 2, A Plague Tale Requiem etc). I like playing older games (2015-2018) and in those I either get to choose a 120+ fps experience at 1080p or a 80-100 fps experience at 1440p. I would like the 1440p route for older games more but I sacrifice on the new games front so 1080p feels like the wiser (and cheaper) choice. I need your subjective opinions on this.

I found a 1080ti strix listed for $96. Seller claims he used it 2 years for mining, another 2 for 3d rendering, and now it has a weird clock speed behaviour. Gpu frequency fluctuates by 700mhz in games, in blender is fine though. Power limiting fixes this issue (possibly because it can't clock that high). What could it be? Would a bios flash solve this issue? Getting a 1080ti for $96 would be an incredible deal.

I started having this problem about a week ago. Depending on the content showed on the display, my display would get dimmer or brighter. I don't have the option to disable it in the power plan, I tried commands to disable it in cmd (running as admin), disabled all power saving features in the intel graphics settings, laptop runs in high performance mode (through shortcuts using it's specific keys). Literally everything. I must mention that this adaptive brightness works alongside the manual brightness I set. It limits min/max brightness available depending on what is displayed.

Really wish their hopes crumble by December.

ETH hasn't been profitable since summer if you take into account energy costs.

I won't sugarcoat it. Where the fuck are the thousands of gpus hoarded by miners in the last 2 years? Mining stopped being profitable in summer. The merge happened in september. It's november and I still don't see hundreds of gpus selling for pocket change. I don't see the hundreds of gpus selling at all.

Sounds crazy, but just take an old toothbrush and go to the sink. Brush the board with dish wash. You can even clean an lga socket with the toothbrush. The lga pins are more rigid than people give them credit. After you're done blow the board with an air compressor to get rid of all the water. Let it dry for at least a few hours. Your board is now as clean as new.

the 13700k is basically a 12900k