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Proton is the Linux that Valve uses, developed/made even?
 
You sure you're not trying to launch a Linux/Steam deck version of the game? Cause that's what the game seem to try and do, launch a Linux version, can't find it so it complains.

The original HX units were 80+ standard and were from like 2006 or something. 520w and 620w. The HX1000 was part of a different series that came a few years later.
 
Type 3 cables for the old HX1000. The motherboard and CPU cables are fixed but the PCIe and peripheral connectors should be compatible with both the type 3 & type 4 cables.

UPDATE:
so i went back to the store today and the guy refunded my gift card and then said i could choose something else and he would do the best deal on it he could. so i chose myself out a Corsair K63 with Cherry Red switches, Retail price of $179 and he sold it to me for $120 (AUD)  so i got a way better keyboard for an extra $17.

You can as I said above just manually over clocking it 
It will take some time and effort but at the end you will most likely notice a performance uplift 
Either way if the 2700 is way less expensive than the 3600 go for it 

Worth the effort of upgrading or to just sit and wait.
Forget it.

kinda wanted to just go through the Radeon software but i suppose im going to have to. thanks

I had a XP 2800 and a Radeon 9250 in mine and the included 220 watt PSU was stable but ran hot and only lasted a few months.  I upgraded to a 300 watt unit and it ran 24/7 for years as a DVR with a WinTV card.

I had almost a identical setup with a Shuttle bare bones for my first HTPC and you're probably pretty close on your calculation but because the Flex ATX PSUs have such horrible cooling I would go with a 300 watt unit.

*inhales*
 

You're in luck.
A DTX measures 200x244mm
I shoehorned a MicroATX in, which is 244x244mm.
 
That proves a DTX board would fit. Here's the photo:
 

This is the bottom of my spare SG13 - I stupidly got the solid front one which has no airflow. Anyway, an ITX mobo will fill a square at the bottom of the pic, and stops short of where the 4 holes at the top are which is for mounting a 2.5" drive. If you use a longer than ITX board then you'll probably encroach into that. There's nothing else in that area apart from the front cables coming in.

Would certainly help if you read the post...

Would certainly help if you read the post...

You should be fine with Vermintide worst case you need to lower some settings, but the frame rate will be very consistent.

the 8570 is the strongest out of them
 
tho 10 bucks for a 710, that's great

HD 8570 > R5 240 > GT 710 > HD 8490

I have the same keyboard, and I was typing up an essay after 3 days of no use and the F key died (the switch). I could still press it, but the switch made no connection to the pc. Only had it for 1 month. I ordered on Amazon from Corsair, so what should I do? 

oh, cuck missed that line. 
 
might still be a CPU bottleneck. where do you encounter the Low FPS? if it is when the world is loading anything then you might run into an HDD bottleneck, but it is quite rare to do so. 
 
keep an eye on HDD usage to see if it goes high in terms of response time and if it is busy. other than that i can only suggest looking at CPU benchmarks to confirm the numbers you are seeing. 
 
(sorry i dont have the time right now to look up CPU benchmarks)

1) I think this is an interesting topic and I totally would have reported my results had it not worked.  I couldn't Google much information on an adaptor like this at all, so even a failure would be contributing to the available information.  Maybe someone will have a similar question and find this thread via Google and it'll help them out.
 
2) I ordered something on eBay on a whim for twelve bucks, waited seven weeks, jammed SODIMMs into them, then jammed them into a motherboard and pressed power.  There's no 'boasting on how an expert I am', just reporting my results.

I started a thread about this some seven weeks ago, after finding SODIMM to DIMM adaptors on eBay for less than $5 each.  I asked if anyone had any info and I was met with some pretty stupid responses.  Actually, let's go over some of those responses shall we?
 
"They don't." -MagnesiumPC
 
He really supplied firm backing for his opinion here.
 
"lmao that's not even a DDR3-style desktop connector. Looks a LOT more like regular DDR lmao lmaoooooo" -tmcclelland455
 
This guy doesn't seem to actually know what DDR3 looks like, but whatever.
 
The general concensus I received was that this was snake oil.  It would never work.  It's fake.  The photos are fake.  Don't bother.  I Googled a LOT and could not find a lot of information on them at ALL.  So I'll explain my use case.  I have 2x4GB of DDR3 SODIMM memory sitting in a package that was pulled from a laptop two years ago.  The laptop was upgraded to 2x8GB.  I was rebuilding my server and I could have spent about $50 to get 8GB of DDR for my server or I could pay $12.19 CAD with free shipping and I could use these SODIMM sticks in a desktop board.  I would save money AND recycle existing memory that was otherwise unused.  I liked this even though people thought it was bullshit.  So, about 7 weeks later they have arrived.  Free shipping from eBay from China tends not to be fast.  You get what you pay for...
 
Here are the SODIMMS in the DIMM adaptors that will 100% totally not work:

 
 
 
And here they are installed in an old Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 motherboard.  There is enough room that these adaptors will fit in all four slots without getting in the way of each other, not that that matters because they will never work.  If you're curious, there's an i5 2300 under that cooler.  It's a shame though, because this machine will surely not POST in this configuration.

 
 
Here is the computer failing to POST.  Ignore all this 'BIOS' you see, and the report on the CPU and the 8GB of detected RAM.  It's just confused and THINKS it POSTed with all memory detected.  It totally didn't POST.

 
 
Since it didn't POST, this is absolutely is not CPU-Z reporting on the specific model of the RAM which matches the RAM from the photo.  What actually happened was the SODIMM adaptors blew up my TV via the HDMI cable and somehow this is how the pixels got stuck.  Crazy, right?

 
 
 
In conclusion, yes, you can TOTALLY run laptop SODIMM memory via a very cheap adaptor in a desktop build.  Also, some people on tech forums have no idea what they are talking about but are sure something will not work just because they never heard of it and it sounds silly to them.  Frankly, SODIMM has less pins but some of the pins on DDR3 DIMMs are only used for ECC, some are 'N/C' or 'No Connection' and serve no purpose, and others are redundant and the SODIMM adaptor just has less redundant connections.  If you think about it, this makes PERFECT sense.  There are desktop boards with low powered mobile CPUs on them but have full DIMM memory slots.  There are also motherboards with desktop CPU slots but have SODIMM memory slots (A lot of ITX boards for example). So there's no real argument that they wouldn't work, excluding manufacturing defect, other than the belief in voodoo or evil spirits that control weather your computer works or not.

After 10 runs in Intel Burn Test:
This is with 2 120mm fans on the Gammaxx 400 in a case with pretty poor airflow.

ive got a Gammaxx 400 on my W3680 @3.99ghz and its working great. really only hits 70c when its being properly stressed and that's a cheap air cooler so a good quality air cooler should keep you quite low in the temps with your OC

Maybe you should install arch then, you can install as light a desktop as you want or just X
RetroArch will eventually have a PS2 core.  PCSX2 is OK, the code just wouldn't work in a core.  They'll probably end up using purei.org, but that's still being worked on.

it works perfectly thankyou for that extra information.
i couldnt get it to work at first but it turns out i had just missed the really obvious 'TURN ON' button
with all multipliers set to 30 i got a Cinebench score of 867 putting it ahead of an i7 4770k which i am quite happy with

The X5660 is a locked CPU.  The multiplier is not adjustable.
 
The Core i7-980X, Core i7-990X, Xeon W3680 and Xeon W3690 are the ones with an unlocked multiplier and unlocked TDP / TDC turbo power limits.  Those four are all going to overclock pretty much the same.  Advantage goes to the W3680 because they can be found the cheapest ($75) on Ebay, etc.