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If all you got is a HDD, then your friend is clueless about computers. That system looks fine other than lack of SSDs.

Do they? I've not heard people say they're bad. Toshiba are no more or less reliable than any of the other major drive manufacturers.
 
You hear it about Seagate, but that's based on some seriously flawed "reliability" data that was released quite a long time ago.
 
EDIT: Though if you have important files, you should be backing them up. Ideally keeping copies in physically different locations

Make sure it's actually 3060 Ti and not 3060 with 8GB Vram. 😆
 
 

Do you have a task that needs VRAM more than a fast GPU? The 3060 Ti is faster than the 3060, unless whatever you're doing absolutely must have over 8GB VRAM, it should be better.

3060 Ti is about 30% faster than 3060, don't be fooled by the amount of VRAM.
So, go with 3060 Ti, assuming that you're gaming.

I've always felt that Teamgroup was solidly in the middle of the pack WRT their other offerings. Never had any issues, but never found them the best either.

I guess but in a more convoluted way. Like Netlimiter just installs on Windows and runs on start up. You can set the default rule to "Ask" so that any time a new process tries to access the web it detects it, you get a pop up and you can choose whether you want to allow it or block it. It's super user friendly

?? Who told you this? I have GTX 780s still kicking, 9 year old cards. And an HD4870, a 14 year old card. That's in a Mac Pro, the original Nvidia GT 6300 (IIRC that's the model) from 2006 - so 16 years old - is still kicking but just doesn't support newer graphics APIs so I replaced it. 
Wait for 3rd party benches to see how the cards perform + if there's any major launch issues.

Ah yep I have that too. That was the time where you could be expected to have quad SLI and I guess 4x75W going through the whole board is a bit much 😄

Hey, the 5820K is only getting cheaper and cheaper. Realistically, it wouldn't cost that much to grab roughly 100 off Ebay and other sources.

Peace of mind. I can slap in as many PCIe cards as I want and not worry about power draw. I assume the FTW K has it as EVGA loves supporting 4-Way SLI whenever possible, so they assume people buying their boards will probably slap in a bunch of hungry cards. They do have a pretty beefy Folding @ Home team as well I believe, so that's another reason to keep it even with the death of SLI.
Someone did something similar here ages ago, I need to go back and find that post at some point. Breakdown of like 100+ X58 chips and which ended up having the best bins. The takeaway I got was that 45nm golden bins were golden, but overall the usual X56xx Xeons had the best chance of a pretty good bin.
 
Also, got that new (to me) Dark up and running, all seems fine so far. Shipper left a 500GB XPG ATOM30 SSD in there by mistake, but they said I could keep it so yay free SSD 😃
 

My Gigabyte X99-UD4 uses Molex for PCIe power as well. My X99-SLI didn't have any supplemental power from what I remember. My X299 FTW-K thankfully uses a 6 pin PCIe, on top of having two 8 pin EPS connectors.
 
I really love having a connector for supplemental PCIe power. I don't know why, it just tickles my nerd brain.
I could get dangerously far into that as a hobby. Perhaps even to a point where I have a pile of 5820Ks, with stats for every single one based on how well I did in the silicon lottery.
 
Random tangent:
One of the best instances of winning the silicon lottery I've ever seen was one of my buddies, who ran a 4790K at 5Ghz 1.4 or 1.45v on an air cooler with no lapping or delidding. Think he eventually sold that for something stupid to a hobbyist overclocker.

Nope! You can just pop the new CPU in and it should boot right up and work without issue. 

I did like this:
Turned PC off
Installed new Radeon GPU
Turned PC on
Run safe mode
Open DDU - select Nvidia and click ok
Run safe mode
Open DDU - select AMD and click ok
Enter windows normally, install AMD driver
Restart PC, install BIOS AMD GPU driver update and restart again.

My system with a X5670 @ 4.32GHz pulled 335W while running Cinebench R15. I tested that back in 2018 so I don't remember what voltage I used, I guess around 1.35v
My board has a single 8-pin EPS.
 
(Sorry for the dust and cat hair)

Yep. Those GPUs of mine never broke 76C, which is a good margin below the 83C or so where they'd start dropping clocks. Sure a higher airflow case might have let them run at... 66C instead of 76C, a full 10C drop, but if that drop is inside in a safe range to begin with (both for hardware and not impacting performance) it's not really useful for anything. A lot of folks overly focus on temps for their own sake with 0 consideration of whether they actually matter to the hardware at all. 

Yeah this.  Adding a couple extra fans can do plenty, too. People are quick on the draw about non-mesh fronts, but while yes airflow is sub-optimal on solid panel cases, it isn't nonexistent.  And systems don't need wind tunnels to work, they'll just be a little warmer which is totally fine.  how many consoles run for a decade plus while cooking themselves at 100c their entire lifespan with zero airlfow?  There is usually enough side ventilation to get the necessary amount of air in so that it's not dead air.  Hot air is still getting out, and cold air is still getting in, just a little slower.

That worked. Mistake 1 on my part: Not RTFMing. Oops.

According to the manual, looks like you need to go into the OSD settings on the monitor itself -> Game -> Refresh Rate and either turn FreeSync on or set the actual 144Hz preset specifically. They recommend using a DisplayPort cable shorter than 1.5m. 
That just means it's a quality cable that won't have issues when running the max DisplayPort supports, shouldn't have any issues with lower resolutions. 

There is zero reason to do this.

You will gain nothing moving to Win11...but if you were to force it, it'll run about on par with win10

In my experience I had a X99 classified and a x99 micro from EVGA with the same 1660v3 at one point and whether you have that second connector or not doesn't seem to matter, at least on the 280mm aio I had. Hit thermal and voltage limits long before it came into play. Got the same clocks basically. 

My Rampage V has 8+4. Always only ran just the 8pin even at 280+W.

MSI X99 XPower and GodLike Gaming has those IIRC. I have one and two of the latter. Also you can also use 1660v3 and 1680v3 CPU as those actually can OC! I would also know that as mine are.

Always has been 😄. My full size X58 board from 2009 uses dual 8-pin EPS. As does my X79 Dark and X99 Classified. And my ASUS and MSI X58 boards back when I had those. It's only on mATX boards that they dropped the 2nd EPS. My X58 Micro had only one EPS, as does the X99 micro2. ASUS Gene boards look to be single EPS as well, seems it's just an mATX board thing.