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Zotac 1070ti AMP Extreme is $380 on amazon on sale right now
 

hp spectre has all the requirements that you have. look at those 

no you didn't, aparently, they only have 4 cores max. sorry about that

yes (no special requirements), just unscrew the m.2 drive, put the m.2 drive in, put the screw in, and you are done as it is now a drive that you can use : )

Can you go to the bios and check the CPU temp?

^^^ Be aware if you can't see it in the BIOS or OS off the old drive, some mobos just disable the M.2 ports by default so no need to freak out. Should be simple to just enable it in the BIOS.

Haha That’s a good problem to have my friend

I'd remove the fluid and flush the loop sounds like the bottle of fluid may have gotten contaminates in it and had growth occur since it was not a new bottle and recapped from before.

It's possible that the motherboard is rejecting the windows install because of potential driver conflicts.

if it works, it works, its only the asethetics if you want to make it look cleaner by plugging them all closer together. If you plugged them in and everything is working, it's fine. Unless it's on the inside. That's a different story

If it does, you might want to check and see if there's a BIOS update for your mobo, Ryzen is still a new architecture and you might be behind on some updates that could fix it
 

go with the i7, don't buy another motherboard, it'll save money and intel has better single threaded preformance, which is good in games.

looks good, and won't have memory bandwidth problem because of that dual channel memory :). Getting a hard drive down the road might be a nessesity as 120gb won't be enough to store more than 2 AAA games, unless of course you aren't using this for games, but it will be filled up easily from daily usage in most cases. You can easily get a 1tb hdd for about 50$