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Amazon will say if it's shipped and/or sold by Amazon. You can usually find it on the right side of the page next to the add to cart and buy now buttons.

 
Amazon is generally quite good with helping if you receive the wrong item, if the item isn't as described, or if the item is damaged. I've ordered hundreds of items from Amazon and they've always been helpful when there were issues with an item. Sometimes you do need to contact their support to get assistance, but usually you can do stuff through their system without interacting with a person.
 
Ebay is a bit more risky, though they also heavily side with the buyer in 99.9% of situations, even when the buyer is in the wrong. If something seems too good to be true, it's probably a scam. Watch out for sellers with poor ratings or very few ratings. I usually look through a seller's ratings before buying anything from them, that way I can see if people have issues with inaccurate descriptions, wrong items being shipped, etc... Don't be afraid to contact the seller to ask additional questions so you make sure you know what you're getting.

why not just grab the AOC 2460GX? or whatever the 24,5 inch model is called. 
 
also im pretty sure its not like adaptive sync. 

"I plan to buy a Deepcoop captain 240ex.
I'm afraid that the pump might leak and fry either my GPU or CPU."
 
Assuming you get a good unit, you needn't worry about that. However you may always strike some bad luck and get yourself a defective model - in which case anything could fail (including possibility of coolant leak, either due to loose or cracked fittings). 
 
"is the life span of an AIO more than 4 or 5 years?"
 
Again, depends on whether you get yourself a good or bad unit. A good unit will easily last you 5 years, most AIOs pumps (which is the component most likely to fail) are rated to last 10-15 years actually. Warranty on the complete unit differs from model to model as you would know.
 
And chances are, you will get a good unit - because there are things like quality control & checks that ensure you do. Typically, defective models are few & far between (unless the product itself is particularly defective design). You'd have to be pretty unlucky to get one of those.
 
I don't know about the 240ex in particular though. Personally I've been running with a Corsair H80i for the past 4 years, still going strong.

Thank you so much. ❤️

you might need to change it to cl16 to bump up the speed, i personally like even timings better anyway, it's a ryzen thing.
 
For example it might run 16 16 16 36 ddr3000, but wont do it on 15 15 15 35, and i'd take ddr3000 cl16 over ddr 2666 cl15 any day.

Yep, If you can do 3.9 but not 4.0 or 4.1, then just go for tighter memory timings, if stable ,it'll be margin of error similar.
When your legitimately GPU bound,... +100Mhz on x4-8 cores can be such small gains, depending on the games you play.
I don't think you'd see CPU driven differences between a 1700 (around 3.9Ghz OR 4.1Ghz) until you used a 1080ti/2080 or higher....
 

It depends on the silicon lottery. How good the CPU you buy is. It varies from chip to chip and is uncontrollable beyond a certain point. Some CPUs can hit higher frequencies easily but others will require lots of extra voltage. You can hit 3.9 pretty easily and some chips will go to 4.2 but its your luck. The difference between 3.9 and 4.0 in performance benchmarks and real life scenarios is very very small. Just watch the temperature of the CPU as well.

Getting a 1700 up to 4.1 is possible, but not very likely to get there at 1.35 volts.  My 1700x gets to 4.1 and 1.425 volts.  Runs like 98% stable.  I usually keep mine around 3.9GHz at 1.35 volts though just to be nicer to the VRMs on my mobo. 

your internet speed will have no effect on what your computer will and wont detect, the cable will work fine. and honestly if sub 5mbps speeds stopped cat6 from working, my 50kbps internet would cause nothing to work, but because all cables are is literally just some wires that are basically the same between types, just with some slight changes, it wont matter because the cable will work, also you dont need the cat6 cables unless you will have a link to that machine that will make use of the extra bandwidth.
also, do not shake internet cables or internet cats get angrie

Okay, I own a TridentZ RGB kit myself. 
1. IF you really want to get it read below (i know for myself cause it looks fantastic)
First things first, are you planning to go for AMD or Intel, if intel you do not have to worry.
IF AMD do not install the G.Skill and Asus Aura software together and please please please update bios to the latest one. For me I did that and my TridentZ's are still working fine and the SPD's are not corrupted.

Yes,.. but with "more tasks" being spread to multiple cores,.. not just sticking to one or two cores of usage... it WILL slowdown between 4.0-4.3Ghz
The more you load its multiple CPU's,.. the Turbo drops a step,.. but with only a light load,.. Goes Further Up.
 

That's one way to look at it. It boosts when the extra performance can be used and doesn't to save power when it's unnecessary. 

the Turbo boost is turned on while under a larger load than the os and a few applications are running. meaning that while gaming or transcoding etc. it will clock at 4.3 ghz. I wouldn't bother to overclock this cpu. no need to go into bios and switch things around!

I doubt the B360 board have (MCE) Multicore enhancement (AllCoresTurboMAX)
So your likely going to have 4.3Ghz at 1-2Cores being used a lot but without much load on the other cores,.. but with 6x Cores in use it will be 4.0Ghz Max across them all.
Quickly Youtube search "What is Turbo boost"

Then search i5 8400 & B360 vs z370, MCE is given on Z boards,.. but likely not B-Boards.
 
DONT TOUCH BCLK TO OVERCLOCK MODERN CPU'S
It will up the frequencies of your PCIE slot past 100Mhz,.. your USB ports can die in due time,.. many other factors arise for the WORSE.
Stick to Multipliers (K CPU's) when Overclocking.

The 8600 is locked so you can't raise the multiplier to oc. 
The 8600 runs at 3.1ghz at load but can turbo up to 4.3ghz when needed and if temps aren't too high. It's automatic, is similar to an adaptive oc, and enabled by default.
 

Oh thank you for the convenient video