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I'd put my money on VRM throttling. This board can't handle a 9900k.

Have you tried playing a 5.1 source? I'm pretty sure all streaming audio is stereo (2.0).

Any memory intensive single thread bound load benefits from faster memory. This includes most of the Adobe suite, games, or mathematical workloads. The difference between 2666Mhz and 3200Mhz is around 3-4%, due to fewer wasted clock cycles. For casual gaming, who cares, but 3-4% is not an insignificant gain if your work or research depended on it.

It's not ideal for airflow, but it's not catastrophic or anything like that.

Resetting back to 60Hz would be a good start.

3200Mhz has measurable real world gains for Coffee Lake over 2666Mhz. Anything beyond 3200Mhz is pointless. I haven't read the Reddit thread, but what I question is why you would disclose to Intel what frequency memory you used.

You stop overclocking when you reach your performance target, or run out of thermal headroom, or hit a voltage limit. That said, 5.1ghz at 1.2v is a golden sample of golden samples, so most likely the voltage reading is off or you are not stress testing correctly.

How do you expect us to give recommendations if we know nothing about "what she needs"? You have given no details about what the input files (format, megapixels, bit depth), workflow or intended output. The processing power that I typically require for image processing will be a couple of orders of magnitude greater than someone who just needs to casually adjust a few sliders before uploading to Instagram. I am guessing that your fiance requires something in between, but I have no idea where she is on that range.

Do you have an general idea of how an auction works? Whoever bids the highest wins the right and obligation to purchase the item at the bid price. eBay uses timed auctions (meaning that bidding ends at a specified time) with a proxy bidding system. Proxy bidding allows you to enter your maximum bid without necessarily having to pay your maximum. For example, you decide that you want to pay $75 maximum for a used AIO, and the current bid on the item is $20. The minimum increment is $1. You can enter a $75 bid, and there will be one of three outcomes: The current high bidder's maximum bid was actually $20. Your new bid of $21 is now the high bid. The current high bidder's maximum bid was between $21 and $74. Your new high bid will be the previous maximum, plus one increment. The current high bidder's maximum bid is $75 or higher. The bid is now $76, and you will not become the high bidder. Once you are the high bidder, someone else can do the same to you. However, due to how the proxy bidding system works, no one else knows what your maximum number is, and you don't need to necessarily be there at the end of the auction to win the item.

There are scams on eBay, but these two are not. They are used with missing parts. And they are not "listed" for $20. That's just where the bidding is at.

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/monitor/#r=384002160&D=75000,240000 Good luck driving this with anything less than 2x 2080ti's though.

TN panels aren't bad because they are inherently inaccurate. Any display can be calibrated to a certain standard (albeit with less contrast, brightness and bit depth if they are far from the standard to begin with). What makes TN panels unsuitable is the limited viewing angles, and the colors changing as you move away from dead center. What type of footage are you editing? If it's 4k, then you need a 4k display to accurately preview your output. If you are doing 1080p, or primarily working on still images, then 1080p or 1440p will be acceptable on a budget.

If you read the manual of your X470 board, you'll see that the supported speeds for 4 DIMMs or dual rank sticks is lower than 2 DIMMs and single rank sticks. This behavior is normal for Zen and Zen+. Note the huge drop in official spec between 2 sticks and 4 sticks:

Hardware comes with the case. Unless you bought the case second hard, it will be in a bag or box somewhere. What case is it?

The rate that heat rises is so slow compared to even the lowest CFM fans that it is negligible. For an air cooled solution, using the front top as an exhaust will result in worse thermals because the fresh air from the front will be exhausted before reaching the CPU cooler.

Integrated graphics uses system RAM as VRAM and you can set the amount reserved for VRAM in BIOS.

When you select a source, the source resolution will be displayed on the upper right corner. If you can't tell, then why does it matter?

Not necessarily. We should be talking about case ventilation rather than CPU cooler capacity. If the case is thermally insulated (poor airflow) from the rest of the room, then more heat will stay trapped inside. If the interior temperature of a case is cooler with the same workload compared to another case, then that requires more heat to be exhausted into the environment, warming up the room.

GPU is dying. Unfortunately, you don't have an iGPU on that AMD chip, so you'll need to swap in another graphics card.

CPUs are always bottlenecked by RAM, which is why they have cache. But to answer your actual question, you should get 16GB of 3200Mhz if you are primarily gaming.

Well, lesson learned to be sure. In the future, if you need to access your private network from the Internet, don't forward ports. Instead, run a VPN using your router or a server, and connect to that instead. For now, close any open ports, and change all your saved passwords and start using a password manager. Edit: also change your router login ASAP. 10.0.0.1:8090 is likely the web interface of your router.

How did someone access your private network? VNC is not the primary security flaw here if that happened.

Are you connecting through PPPoE? If so, you need to enter your credentials in your Asus router in order to connect after you enable bridge mode on the ISP modem.

You should be using bridge mode instead of DMZ.

You're talking about creating an AI assistant from scratch? It's not happening without a large team of engineers, developers, stacks of hardware and about a billion dollars in seed money.