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I could be nine for all you know... 

I would suggest to benchmark performance, rather than looking at a guestimate of TDP.

Could’ve at least made a DP one too! 
 
But still, why?

I'd love to help, but I am a Sorcerer, not a Wizard.
They are totally different.
Sorry mate.
In all seriousness though I'll hopefully get back if I find anything.

I would ditch the soundcard if possible, modern boards have good onboard audio, except if you want hi quality studio headphones.

Who knew facebook gaming was a thing

If you are going for a ~24 inch display I'd personally go for 1080 144hz.
Once you get to 27 inch though the pixel density starts to make 1080p look a little less appealing.

Liked others have said-
Unless you need the 8 cores, 3600 is a great value (The "x" variant is pretty meh, stick with the normal one). I think 6 should be enough for streaming CS:GO as I don't think it isn't a very threaded workload. More cores shouldn't increase performance really, but it doesn't hurt. I'd use save that extra $100 unless you really think he needs 8 cores.
The gtx 1650 is a poor value, don't buy it. You should either spend the extra money saved from the cpu to get a gtx 1660 or 1660ti, or save a some money and get an rx570.
Ram speed on Ryzen is very important. Go for 3200 or 3600 preferably. 

If your PSU only has a single PCI-E cable, chances are this PSU won't be happy about running a GTX980.

Cloudflare DNS works too at 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1
It is supposedly a little faster than Google's, and is good if you don't want Google to control another aspect of your life.
 

Cheaper than an Apple stand and comes with a computer inside of it........ ?

Thought I posted this reply already guess not.
Let me start again.
 
I have the same card, and am having a very similar issue, like the last picture looks exactly like mine. Though, I don't have RGB ram.
I've cycled through pure R G and B and found that the red and green LEDs are fine, but the blue one is extremely dim/not on.
I am hoping it is software issues, because I was pretty sure my blue led just died or something, but its seems a little coincidental we both have the same issue.
Then again, blue is one of the most colors to set a PC to, it could just have worn out on both of our cards. What color did you have the card set to before the issues?
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2950x? Thinking too small.
2990wx is where it's at!

I9 9900k

In a move that should surprise literally no one at this point, facebook as decided to patent ads being created using facebook user photos without their consent
 
source contains a registration wall, but the full article is quoted below to you dont have to
 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/04/09/facebook-plans-pass-photographs-advertisers-make-users-stars/
 
 
Did you post a photo of you holding a <beer brand>? well guess what you might find yourself the star of a <beer brand> ad.
 
i feel like this is a gross mismanagement of peoples photos and hope to hell that if they decide to implement it that it is deemed a breach of privacy since if you dont have your privacy settings on the right option, your face and <product> could be out there for literally millions of people to see. Post a cheeky picture with a condom wrapper on the bedside table that you forgot to clear off? guess what you're the new face of Trojan.

So all you need is someones phone, a digital copy of their finger print, and a 3D printer.
 
It still seems easier to take the phone and finger with some bolt cutters...

When the world faces the decision of migrate to Edge or stay on Chrome and us Firefox users are just here like:
 

I saw that, even still. I feel like the survey should of been. "What will you ask the person buying your phone for? Then what do you think you will actually get?"

Then why is this news?

so, in other words
 
"We only release what we need to in order to barely win"
 
or
 
"We're a monopoly in the high end" 
 
or
 
"eat dick consumers" 

In theory the 12v 1.5A will charge a battery faster, because it can provide up to 18 watts to your device. The 5v 2A charger can only give 10 watts.
 
However, the device (phone or whatever) must either be capable of working directly with 12v, or must support Quick Charge or USB Power delivery or some other method of signaling the charger to raise the voltage from the default of 5v to 9v or 12v.
By default, the charger will output 5v - the phone or whatever you have normally "talks" to the charger and tells the charger it's safe to raise the voltage from 5v up to 12v.  If your phone does not support Quick Charge or an alternative method, then the fancy charger will only provide 5v at 1.5A , so less than 5v at 2A.
 
Also, it's debatable if it's a good idea to shove so much power into a battery very fast. Yes, you may push 18w into the battery and charge it fast, but the batteries may heat up a lot and at the end of the charging process, the batteries may hold let's say 90% of the maximum capacity. If you charge them slower, at only 10 watts, it will take longer to charge them but the batteries will be cooler and they may charge up to 98-100% of their rated capacity...
 
Charging with just 5v can also be more efficient... for example using 5v to charge a 3.7v..4.2v battery may be done with 97% efficiency ... but converting 12v to 3.7v..4.2v may be only 92-95% efficient ... so if you charge from a power bank or some solar power installation or some source where it's critical to be as efficient as possible, it may make more sense to use the 5v only charger.

shoutout to my crappy acrylic side panel for not breaking lol

Chromium cancer is spreading... Thank god for firefox
On a more serious note, there should be an invistigation done by FTC into practices with browsers, chrome stays the "fastest" kinda in a shady way

Try booting into safe mode once, and then restarting.
If it still gives you issues after that, I would get any data off the hard drive you need and do a system refresh.