DiabeticSeizures

The only difference I see is in RGB fans,since they are not particulary bright you can go for XT.
But installation is pain in the ass for AMD socket,though cooling performance I get on my 3900X is very good.
 

The Platinum has RGB fans, the Pro XT doesn't.  And I think there is a difference in the pump design as well, but don't ask me what it is.

First let it dry out for a few days. Then plug it in and turn it on. If it works great! If not start troubleshooting each piece of hardware until you determine what is fried and what isn't.

No doubt, but a 3700X is better value if you wanted to save some cash

It sounds fine, but make sure to maybe unplug your normal hard drive with all of your personal info.
And don't put any personal info on the dark web hard drive.
 
 

All-core boost is 3.7ghz.
 
In windows environment, you have so many background tasks that rarely are you ever at only one core.
 
My 8700k stock is supposed to be 4.7, max single core boost, but only ever hangs around it's all core boost of 4.3.
 
Normal

Yes.

I guess not enough people had phones...

Apple: Announching Apple Gaming. you pay us for games
 
customer: what has changed?
 
Apple: now you pay us each month instead of everytime you want something
 
customer:....... gimme

I would just buy an old used Optiplex, and slap a 1050 into it. they come with i5s and 8 gigs of ram. The storage might be something to turn away from. Maybe upgrade that too.
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-OptiPlex-790-SFF-Computer-Win-10-Pro-240GB-SSD-I5-2400-8GB-Wifi/132929684089?hash=item1ef33a0279:g:6nMAAOSwqjhcSvyI
https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GTX-1050-TI-4GT/dp/B01N2W8MJ9
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-3-5-Inch-ST2000DM006/dp/B01IEKG402/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1548951807&sr=1-2&keywords=barracuda+2tb
 
Something like this maybe? It comes with an SSD.

The power cables will be fine, and the gpu takes motherboard power.
 
but yea, the psu might be a problem.
 

Can you get into BIOS or do you not get any video at all?  Does your motherboard have a display for troubleshooting codes?

Nice, Linus will be proud of you!

And..... it... worked? 
 
I had an old GTX 960 that I had replaced because it started developing lines and glitches even when sitting on the desktop. (Not OCed at all) It was still.... "working" per se, but definitely not usable. Then I kept it in my "computer cord bin" for... 4 years? So yesterday I decided I wanted to see if I could fix it. Wasn't doing me any good sitting in the cord bin. 
 
Now, I'm not ignorant when it comes to electronics. I've done my fair share of soldering, even surface mount parts. I looked over the entire board with a fine tooth comb and didn't notice any blown parts, no smoke, no markings whatsoever. It just looked normal. No cracked solder joints even. 
 
So I took the heatsink off, and took the mini heatsink off the small parts. Then I had to scrape off the plastic "washers" under the heatsink screws cause they were stuck to the board. I removed the plastic fan connector (literally just carefully pry it off.) The only remaining plastic on the board was the  6 pin power connector, and that stayed on. 
 
Then, I found a crappy toaster oven that was left in my apartment by the last tennants, stuck my oven thermometer in it. I tuned the temperature to as close to 385 F as I could. (It was probably closer to 380), and stuck the card on some tin foil balls on a pie pan. Then I started a timer for 8 minutes. At about 5 minutes, I started smelling "weird stuff", but I left it in there for the full 8 minutes. Then I pulled the card out and let it cool naturally (still in the pie pan). 
 
Then... since I destroyed the blower cover a long time ago trying to make it quiet, I strapped a 120mm fan to the heatsink with zip ties and it works great. Also I literally just plugged the 4 pin 120mm fan into the header on the GPU, even though the pin pitch is slightly different (they bend easily enough, and since you already took the plastic piece off, there's more room to plug it in) and it freaking works. Afterburner detects the fan and fan speed, and there are no artifacts in heaven, AND the thing barely heats up at all. 
 
I mean, the card takes up like 3 PCIe slots now cause the fan is big but hey, it works! 
 
So if you've got a "slightly dead" gpu, you should totally try this as well. 

If it works, don't screw with it.

Yes.

Mining needs to die and stay dead.

Very true. I tried to overclock my ryzen CPU, but never got it to work. It was stuck at 2.2ghz and it never changed until I changed the CPU ratio to auto.
 
(But I do have the x soooooo...)

I do mostly agree with this statement.
 
Furthermore, getting an X chip guarantees that clock speed at normal voltage.
I've heard about non X chips not being able to be pushed up that much without some extra voltage. Making them run a little hotter & consume some more power.

It doesn't sound like GeForce now, it seems like an overheating issue. If it stops running well after a while and restarting helps it for a bit, then you might need to try something to help the cooling.

It looked like the original Razer Blackwidow. It's very nice. But get the v2. It's much better.

"If less is more, think how much more would be!"
- Peter Griffin

Sorry for the wrong file type. I made it a png.
(i was tired ok...)

Don't mind me, I'm just here for the blue charts and pics

"Begone with that succ machine my dude, it can create static electricity and damage the mobo."
...or something along the lines of that.