Zando_

I do need to ask. How is ventilation in that room? Because from what I can see currently there is some older acer machine there with presumably lower end and decently efficient hardware.
 
A gaming desktop will output many times the amount of heat and a small space like that can be heated up in no time what so ever.

Oh whoops, should work now thank you

A 2060 super or 3060 would be a decent option if you want nvidia, if you want an amd card then a 6600 xt/6650 xt can be a good option as well.

I misread what was posted, I thought they had said garbage instead of garage.

My bad, my F'up. 😬

What do you think putting it in the garage is...
 
^^^ pretty much this if it sat for a while, as corrosion would be a concern if the water was just sitting in it till it evaporated. 

If you're able to snag a proper UPS, should solve that. They're usually a surge protector as well as the battery bit so you can do a safe shutdown instead of just cutting power instantly. 

Thanks for the info. In the old days like 2010's, theres a lot more people tuning their PC, good to know its kind of irrelevant for gaming purpose nowadays

Yeah you are right they might not be willing to help me with this. I need to know where the three pins from power supplier goes in mother board. Because i cant find the cable that goes between power supplier and motherboard i will just make one myself

Always best to explain what you need fully, so people can decide if they can/are willing to help you solve that. As it is nobody knows what you want aside from someone with X laptop. Do you need them to run some tests for you, measure something, etc?

If you're able to snag a proper UPS, should solve that. They're usually a surge protector as well as the battery bit so you can do a safe shutdown instead of just cutting power instantly. 

If you're able to snag a proper UPS, should solve that. They're usually a surge protector as well as the battery bit so you can do a safe shutdown instead of just cutting power instantly. 

So regardless of a "surge" happening when the power cuts or not, wouldn't you still be screwed? If the power cuts while you're writing your test, regardless of surge or not, you will be risking not able to complete your exam. 
 
Perhaps you should look at getting a UPS for your system.

Hopefully. You always want your CPU ahead of the GPU, when the CPU chokes that's when you get stuttering/frame drops. 
Faster RAM does help in games. You'll hit diminishing returns above a certain speed, I haven't dived into DDR5 benchmarks to see if it starts hitting a wall before or after 6000Mhz. If it isn't outrageously expensive vs something like 5600Mhz, I'd go for it. 
Nope. Unless you're going for benchmarking scores, manual OCing on modern platforms isn't needed, and will usually cause more trouble than it's worth. 

Yep it's horrible, someone threw condiments at a wall and decided to make a motherboard out of it. At least good ole Fractal still makes proper cases with solid side panels, so you don't have to look at it once it's done .

The improvement is minimal, especially because the 5600X has only a single CCX, so there's no interconnect with other cores that depends on memory speed. I'd go as far to say that you wouldn't be able to tell a difference in a blind taste test.
 
As @Zando_ said, if you are also doing a capacity upgrade at the same time, then it could be worth it, but that'll only really matter if you are using up your current RAM capacity.

If you can run them with only PCIe 4.0 x4, and get a taller case so you can fit one GPU in the very bottom slot, the ASRock B650 LiveMixer could work: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B650 LiveMixer/Specification.us.asp#Specification. It has 3 4.0 x16 hardware slots, top is x16 from CPU, 2nd is x4 from CPU, 3rd is x4 from chipset. 

6600 is better by a fair margin for gaming. Neither card will be much good with ray tracing on. If you do any non-gaming stuff that benefits from CUDA, of course the 2060 will be better there.
 
You can't overclock either card in a meaningful way. Modern cards don't have the overclock headroom old ones did. I don't know why your plan is to overclock one and not the other. 
 
 

Or, you just like the special effects and are into pyrotechnics and want to blow up a cheap system you're willing to sacrifice. 😂
 
/s

What do you think putting it in the garage is...
 
^^^ pretty much this if it sat for a while, as corrosion would be a concern if the water was just sitting in it till it evaporated. 

I used to run my old laptop without a battery just fine, also tested my new laptop without one, as it drains the battery under heavy load

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 😜 

XMP is pretty standard on all consumer RAM, I haven't mucked with ECC stuff so IDK there. Any kit will run at the basic JEDEC spec or around there (different motherboards will decide on different speeds) if you just don't enable the XMP profile in the BIOS.

Tired so this is going to be quite the rambly post. My TFX PSU arrived, literally the cheapest unit I could find with an 8-pin EPS (an old 300W 80+ Bronze Silverstone unit), so I got to mostly finish a project I've been meaning to do for a while:
 

 
X99 Micro 2 with an i7 6950X, cooled by an NH-L12S with a 92mm fan zip tied to the underside as a cheapskate's L12 Ghost Edition, 80mm intake and exhaust, WX-2100 for video out. Has the 256GB 960 Evo you can see there, and a 120GB TC Sunbow SSD in the 3.5" slot that's under the ODD because I had it lying around. It's using a 2x 2.5" to 3.5" adapter from IcyDock so I can add a 2nd 2.5" drive later if I want. ODD is a Lite-On unit I got back when I was looking for drives to rip CDs, according to some chart assembled by audiophiles it was like 1% more accurate than most other drives or something at ripping music from CDs, and I wanted to turn the albums I own into FLACs for my iPod Classic. Can't find my low profile PCIe bracket for the WX 2100 so that's currently held in with a ziptie, I have a new bracket on the way as they're only ~$7 shipped.
 

 
From the outside, aside from the 2 small nubs from the zip ties holding in the exhaust fan, it just looks like a worn old Vista PC (Chassis is a Dell Inspiron 530S from 2007). That front I/O works too, the front panel header for power button/LEDs are a single block, but use the same pinout as the standard split ones normal cases use, so no issues there. The USB and audio are just normal connectors. Seems basically inaudible so far too, which is rather nice.
 
And RAM because it's EVGA branded and therefore magically better than any other 4x4GB kit of 2800Mhz DDR4. I'm not sure why they sold RAM, it seems to only be early DDR4 (as I haven't seen a more modern speed kit), and I think there were some DDR3 kits as well.
 

 
I still have my 1000W G3 so I'll get... probably my X79 board (an EVGA Dark with a 4930K) up and running again, as my X58 board is XL-ATX and my main rig has stolen the Corsair 750D I got for that purpose. If I end up having the time/energy I need to do a CPU swap on my Mac Pro 1,1 as well. That's also Intel HEDT, an old set of LGA... 771 Xeons I believe. Currently a pair of dual cores, I have a set of quad cores to swap in, so it'll be at 8c/8t, 32GB RAM, and an HD 4870 512MB, not bad for a machine from 2006. EFI flashed to a 2,1 so it will run El Capitan which is mostly usable still, though I should see how running Linux or Windows on it goes.

Tired so this is going to be quite the rambly post. My TFX PSU arrived, literally the cheapest unit I could find with an 8-pin EPS (an old 300W 80+ Bronze Silverstone unit), so I got to mostly finish a project I've been meaning to do for a while:
 

 
X99 Micro 2 with an i7 6950X, cooled by an NH-L12S with a 92mm fan zip tied to the underside as a cheapskate's L12 Ghost Edition, 80mm intake and exhaust, WX-2100 for video out. Has the 256GB 960 Evo you can see there, and a 120GB TC Sunbow SSD in the 3.5" slot that's under the ODD because I had it lying around. It's using a 2x 2.5" to 3.5" adapter from IcyDock so I can add a 2nd 2.5" drive later if I want. ODD is a Lite-On unit I got back when I was looking for drives to rip CDs, according to some chart assembled by audiophiles it was like 1% more accurate than most other drives or something at ripping music from CDs, and I wanted to turn the albums I own into FLACs for my iPod Classic. Can't find my low profile PCIe bracket for the WX 2100 so that's currently held in with a ziptie, I have a new bracket on the way as they're only ~$7 shipped.
 

 
From the outside, aside from the 2 small nubs from the zip ties holding in the exhaust fan, it just looks like a worn old Vista PC (Chassis is a Dell Inspiron 530S from 2007). That front I/O works too, the front panel header for power button/LEDs are a single block, but use the same pinout as the standard split ones normal cases use, so no issues there. The USB and audio are just normal connectors. Seems basically inaudible so far too, which is rather nice.
 
And RAM because it's EVGA branded and therefore magically better than any other 4x4GB kit of 2800Mhz DDR4. I'm not sure why they sold RAM, it seems to only be early DDR4 (as I haven't seen a more modern speed kit), and I think there were some DDR3 kits as well.
 

 
I still have my 1000W G3 so I'll get... probably my X79 board (an EVGA Dark with a 4930K) up and running again, as my X58 board is XL-ATX and my main rig has stolen the Corsair 750D I got for that purpose. If I end up having the time/energy I need to do a CPU swap on my Mac Pro 1,1 as well. That's also Intel HEDT, an old set of LGA... 771 Xeons I believe. Currently a pair of dual cores, I have a set of quad cores to swap in, so it'll be at 8c/8t, 32GB RAM, and an HD 4870 512MB, not bad for a machine from 2006. EFI flashed to a 2,1 so it will run El Capitan which is mostly usable still, though I should see how running Linux or Windows on it goes.