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Budget (including currency): 600 € Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Plex, NAS and maybe the occasional minecraft server. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Hello everyone, I have a ASUS Prime A320m-k and a Ryzen 3 1200 (with cooler) lying around and want to put them to good use. But I'm not too sure about the case. Is it better to get a cheap case with few HDD slots and a few high capacity drives? Or should I get a case with a lot of slots (like a Fractal Node 804?) and go for more mid capacity drives? I don't want the case to be too big, because I don't have a lot of space at home, but I also can't get an itx case, because my motherboard is mATX. Also: is it better to get a graphics card for video encoding, if yes would a GT710 be sufficient or should I get something that supports the NVENC encoder? And about the OS: I have zero expierence with linux, would it be better to just use windows or maybe something like freeNAS?

This did actually work! I posted after letting it sit and removing the pcie extension cable (although i doubt the pcie cable was part of the problem). I swapped to the new cpu after and now encountered the same problem again. I'm gonna let it sit overnight and try tommorow. Thanks for the help!

Today i tried upgrading my CPU from a R5 3600 to a R9 5900X. After swapping my pc booted up, but I didn't get it to post. On the Q-LEDs the VGA (white) and boot (white) LEDs are static and I get the Error Code "02" which, according to the manual, means "ap initialization before microcode loading". My Motherboard is a ASUS ROG Strix X570 E-Gaming. I have already tried: clearing CMOS, downgrading BIOS, re-upgrading BIOS, re-seating CPU, swapping to the old CPU (same error now). Full Specs: CPU: R5 3600 (/R9 5900X) Mobo: ASUS ROG Strix X570 E-Gaming RAM: 4x8 (32GB) at 3600 GPU: MSI RTX 2080 Super Gaming x Trio Power Supply: BeQuiet 750W Straight Power11 80+ Gold Cooling is Custom Water cooling for CPU and GPU 1x M.2 nvme ssd 3x hdds

Well, according to PayPal's latest statement no personal data was stolen and neither did third party's access the affected accounts "at any point in time". So concluding from that they must somehow have done through a valid merchant (or maybe it was just a bug, who knows)

[Update 25th February] The problem has been resolved and everyone got their money back. But PayPal won't talk about why or how this happened. But thankfully, according to PayPal, no personal data was stolen and neither did any third partys access the affected accounts. [Original Post 24th February] German news site "Caschys Blog" reports that several Paypal users in Germany are receiving notifications, that they just paid 1.712,96€ (1.859,15 USD) to "TARGET T-2132" via Google Pay. What's really weird is that only German users seem to be affected by this scam and everyone is being charged the exact same amount. Apparently this isn't the first time something like this happened. Paypal also issued a statement, saying that: One user also states, that he already got his money back. Something similar actually happened to a friend of mine back in August 2019. He was charged like 800€ by the shopping centre "KaDeWe" in Berlin over his PayPal account "via Google Pay", even though he didn't even set up Google Pay, didn't buy anything and has never been to Berlin his entire life. He did get his money back, but it was a bit of a hassle. It appears really weird that something like this still happens, even though PayPal know about it. Source: Original: https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/zahlreiche-kunden-betroffen-unberechtigte-abbuchung-von-paypal-ueber-google-pay/ Update with PayPal statement: https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/paypal-gibt-in-causa-unberechtigte-google-pay-abbuchungen-ein-erstes-statement-ab/

Power Supply arrived today. The issue still persists. Even crashed while only pulling 75W. I honestly don't have the time and nerves to deal with this issue anymore. I'll just return it and hope that Navi is finished product.

It's the "Thermaltake Smart RGB 700W"

A 700W Thermaltake with two PCIe Connectors and RGB

Well, I just ordered a new power supply, I'll keep you guys updated.

It's connected with one power cable. The power supply only has one. Guess I'll have to try a new one. EDIT: But I really don't think that Power Draw is the issue, because the drivers also crashed on me while typing this very thread.

Could you elaborate on that? I don't quite understand what you mean.

So I recently bought a refurbished RX Vega 56 Red Dragon. Using it seemed to be no problem, as long as the game isn't too demanding. I had absolutely no problems while playing Minecraft (even with shaders), Gmod or Cities Skylines for extended Periods of time. But when playing Battlefield either the game or the graphics driver crashes, same in Destiny 2. In Rise of the Tomb Raider I get bluescreens with either 0x0000000A or 0x0000013 and in GTA V the game crashed. I've never had so many crashed with my old card (RX 480 8GB) and it appears, that I'm not the only one (though I couldn't find any solutions on Google). I already tried: Reinstalling the drivers Reinstalling Windows Reinstalling the games Rolling back to 19.3.3. drivers. But nothing worked so far. Specs: Intel Core i5-4590 24GB DDR3 (2x8 + 2x4) Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 Power Coler RX Vega 56 Red Dragon 530W Thermaltake Power supply (No, Power Draw isn't the issue ) <- Probably the Issue 512GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2 SSD And some Hard Drives.

A Russian news site is kind of a weird source about a story that is well... essentially against Russia.

Overwatch is actually rated 16+ in germany

Of course it's bad for the consumer, but not every publisher/developer does this with their DLC and maybe we should just boycott those that do. Dude, there are points of no return when in addictions. Did you sleep in school? You can't just overcome an addiction by simply pulling yourself together. How are people supposed to get of a system designed to keep them addicted und pull money of their pockets without help from a third party?

I get your point, but that doesn't mean that every DLC is automatically bad. MTX are imo still worse than DLC and Lootboxes by far the worst.

Deluxe Albums yes. Directors cuts are often included in the home release, but sometimes the make another version 2 years after home release, just like with Watchmen or Blade Runner. And merch is very often overpriced at very limited stocks for very limited time.

Ever heard of deluxe albums from your favourite artist or a directors cut of your favourite film? Watchmen had 7 different versions released. The make you pay extra for extra stuff. They also sell a lot of merch.

Why DLC's? They're just little expansions. Look at Witcher 3, they gave away a lot of free DLC. Microtransaction are what should also be bannes tho.

Or maybe they just can't help help themselves because they got addicted. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_gambling

Well it also (kind of) works with Rainbow Six Siege, but it won't really work in singleplayer games.

It already was controversial before BF2, EA just gave the last bit for it to explode

German Newspaper "Welt am Sonntag" released an article about a (yet unreleased) study from the university Hamburg, that finds that few players are responsible for most of the lootbox money made, which is characteristic for gambling markets. The German National Media Agency (Landesmedienstalten) is considering a ban of lootboxes with a possible fine for publishers of such games. The possible fine is because of a ban of purchase appeals targetes towards Kids and Teens. A decision is to be made in march. I personally think, that this is the right way to go and that Lootboxes will disappear again. Even though publishers have to find different ways for monetizing their products, I'd rather pay 80€ or 90€ for a game like Witcher 3 than 60€ for a game like Battlefront 2. Source: https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article173165689/Lootboxen-Wie-Computerspiele-suechtig-und-schliesslich-arm-machen.html

What you wrote does neither add up with your source nor with the source of your source. What you described here is Activision's System (which is also referenced to in your source) and not EA's which only are EOMM and DDA. Maybe pay attention to your sources next time.

Ummm I wanted to try this out but I dind't work....