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When it comes to spending I'm pretty good EXCEPT when it comes to computer parts..
 
Today  I got a power supply for my old Dell dimension  4550  and it didn't fit so I decided I  would build a retro computer
 
 
Mind you I just spent less them a grand on a laptop.
 
I think I need help
 
Who else has a pc spending problem?

It might seem obvious, but how about retracing your steps? You might come across a loose connection on the way, if it's a hardware issue.

That cooler isn't up to it, try an Arctic Freezer 33 eSport ONE or BeQuiet DarkRock 4

But if you're not going to be utilizing the 850W version, there's not much use. In contrast, if you are going to be going utilizing the 850W version, it's the appropriate option.

Next on Avram Piltch's Hardware 
 
Just buy it: Why the Core i9 9900K is worth every penny 
 
When your whole life flashes before your eyes, how much of it do you want to not have 16 turbo threads? 

I suppose, it is £10 more than the blues version, but I am playing CSGO a lot more nowadays so the reds would be more appropriate in theory.
That is, if I can even find them in-stock on Amazon!

I'm neutral on RGB personally, I don't mind if it's not present on my hardware, but it's nice to have to change up the flavor of my hardware. I particularly like that with RGB, I'm able to change up colors of my hardware without paying another penny, one day I can have my whole setup purple, another day I can have it all white if I wanted to, it's the diversity in RGB that makes it great.
 
I like RGB when it's:
• Complimenting my hardware - such as RGB fans that shine light into the inside of my PC
• Little bits that give my hardware flavor - such as the small RGB 'G' logo on my Logitech G502 RGB
 
Where I have a problem with RGB is when:
• People spend more on RGB so much that they skimp on PC performance
• When it's overdone and not in unity to the point it looks like a disco rave

Zotac are a less-known graphics card manufacturer, so they can't charge as higher as the big guy.
 
At least, this is what I see from a marketing standpoint.

it depends. The 2070 equals the 1080 but the 2070 has ray-tracing. Wait until the RTX benchmarks from the 2070 are out and judge by yourself

yeah to me I dunno ltt has kinda gotten uninteresting lol

You can burn out on anything. It's just human nature and is completely normal. 

Chrome has better battery life than Edge, and also has better performance than Edge.
 
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The included cooler should be fine as long as you’re not killing the CPU. Couldn’t hurt to spend $15 on a CM hyper T2 though. As for the board, you can never go wrong with ASUS imo. Almost all boards only have 3 PCIe 16x slots, and usually one of them is 8x speed. In order to get 4 you’d have to go with LGA2011/2066 or threadripper

Well I have a PC and use a Xbox Controller for Rocket League. Have you ever tried to play Rocket League with a keyboard? Noob.
 

How dare he use his computer the way he likes, rather than the way you like. The nerve.

I'm neutral on RGB personally, I don't mind if it's not present on my hardware, but it's nice to have to change up the flavor of my hardware. I particularly like that with RGB, I'm able to change up colors of my hardware without paying another penny, one day I can have my whole setup purple, another day I can have it all white if I wanted to, it's the diversity in RGB that makes it great.
 
I like RGB when it's:
• Complimenting my hardware - such as RGB fans that shine light into the inside of my PC
• Little bits that give my hardware flavor - such as the small RGB 'G' logo on my Logitech G502 RGB
 
Where I have a problem with RGB is when:
• People spend more on RGB so much that they skimp on PC performance
• When it's overdone and not in unity to the point it looks like a disco rave

Oh wow, that's so concise. Thanks so much for this! Yeah, I'm probably going to get a Kill-a-watt for the sake of my sanity, this is interesting stuff, especially my brother whose PC isn't even in its final form yet.
Thank you so much for the help!

At the end of the day, if we run the numbers I proposed, we get this:
 
You: (100 W / 0.80[1]) x (0.3[2] x 24 hours/day) x (30 days/month) x (0.12 $/kWh[3]) x (0.001 kWh/Wh) = $3.24 per month
Brother: (70 W[4] / 0.80[5]) x (15 hours/day) x (30 days/month) x (0.12 $/kWh) x (0.001 kWh/Wh) = $4.73 per month
 
*1: this is the efficiency of your PSU at that load, from here: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-cx750m-psu,4799-5.html
*2: you said you use it 30% of the day, I'm assuming every day
*3: this is a total guess for your power cost.  It could be much lower or much higher, you will have to figure that out.
*4: This is a guess at his power consumption.  Again, get a kill-a-watt (or something better) to make sure
*5: This is a guess at his efficiency at that level from here (very rough as this isn't even the right model): https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/psu/101983-quiet-pure-power-10-600w/?page=5
 
Again, I must stress this is very rough, but provided you can at least fill in the true cost of your power, it should be accurate to within +/- 20% I'd say which is probably close enough.  If you really wanted to be precise, you'd have to figure out how much of the time you spend off, at idle, and under load, and you'd have to factor in your monitor(s), etc. - here I'm just putting the whole system load through the PSU even though that's not quite fair[6] but again, it's rough.  Alternatively, as mentioned, just get a Kill-A-Watt.  That will track your power over a long period of time and remove any need to do math.  Just keep in mind that while they are the go-to, they can sometimes be quite inaccurate.  I hope this can help
 
*6: what I estimated was wall power and thus shouldn't be done this way (divided by efficiency) but I'm estimating using idle figures, which is inherently going to underestimate the average monthly load, so I figure I can counter that somewhat by overestimating in this manner

It looks like one of those cheap 'GTX 1050' cards that has been flashed and was originally a GTX 660 or something, but that's probably my over-securely angel on my shoulder speaking.

Whenever I'm skeptical about a seller I ask them if they could send me a picture of the product with a common random object in a strange place (e.g "put a fork on the left side of the product and a pencil on the right")
It's just something I would try.

At idle there wouldn't be much difference. Pascal is fairly decent at clocking itself low when it's idle. Under load maybe 30W difference.

But, I wouldn't bother going from a 1060 6GB to a 1070.

I don't think the idle would change much.  A little, but not enough to really matter.  Under load you could see 50 W more I'd think, maybe no even that much.  Depends on the card, how you OC it, etc.

The key factor missing here is how much power the rest of your house consumes (or just the total, we can work it out from that) so you can get a proportion of your PC to the total, or alternatively, the price of your electricity per kWh, so we know what your PC actually costs to run.

Get a Kill-a-Watt. You will be able to see total usage in KWH and current draw. 
Better yet- get smart plugs 
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079Q5W22B/
They give you draw, usage history in nice graphics, all of that in addition to being able to control the plugs and schedule them. I use them for my window ac units. 
 
With the smart plug, you will be able to quantify your total usage. 
Compare with your bill. Find out how much you pay. I used ot pay .08 a Kwh but now now I pay .105, which is a huge increase they did silently at some point. =(
Help them identify devices that use a lot of power. A good led light will use 5w-8w while an incandescent equivalent will use 60-100w. That adds up over a ton of bulbs! I'm a brightly lit person in a small house, but I cut my usage in almost half for the winter months by switching to LED. 
Even little things. a 100w device on 24 hours a day is about $7.56 a month at my rate. For this reason, I like to think not of total KWH used but average draw. This allows me to cut out the things in my mind I have little control over- electric stove, etc and makes it easier to quantify how much something contributes to your bill easily. I use about 600KWh a month in the winter months, which means my average power draw is about 833 watts. By cutting out a constant 100w for that, or if 12 hours a day 50w, I'm lowering my usage by 12% or 6%. 
The reason I look at winter months is I have gas heat and my electric bill stays constant, where my bill fluctuates in the summer depending on how hot it is. And how much I use ac. Spent a lot of time in the 90s this year, higher bills and the smart plugs helped me predict that. 

You've massively overestimated the CPU, and probably underestimated the rest of the system almost to a point where it balances out, but I think the figure is still high.  My system with an OC 4770k and an R9 Fury and two monitors, which I'm counting, pulls about 150 W from the wall at idle.  Yours should be a fair bit less.  Also remember that your components have to go through the inefficiency of the PSU, so if they consume 100 W, it might draw 120 W from the wall to power them.