MGE Dawn

I plan to... it's just that I'm short enough on cash until my employer decides to start scheduling me for my usual number of hours again that I can really only pay my rent and keep the utilities turned on. Same reason why I haven't picked up my monitors, TBH...

So nothing. Just pointing out something you seemed to have forgotten about whilst agreeing with you

Not just those, they also slap a really annoying watermark on your screen that you can only get rid of by activating Windows

Mortino is right; this IS confusing to me...

MSI Tomahawk, 8GB (2x4GB kit) PATRIOT Viper DDR4-3000. Haven't tried manual tuning for a lack of knowing what I'm doing

Recently finished assembling my new system, and one of the first things I tried to do was enable my RAM's XMP boost... only to find that doing so causes the system to refuse to post, which forces me to clear the CMOS and try again. Luckily, the board I'm using has 2 XMP profiles you can enable; one at the maximum rated clock for your memory modules (in my case, 3000), and another at a clock approximately halfway between that point and the default speed (in my case, 2667). The latter works fine, and is what I'm currently using. The former does not, though. Is this a common issue? If so, how can I resolve it?

In short, he's only operating at 30% efficiency when taking a dump, eh?

What's this? 2 updates in as many days? Yeah, so my GPU and M.2 SSD finally showed up (no thanks to FedEx on that one; they'd been sitting in a dispatch warehouse less than 50 miles from my front door for a good 2 days when I received my PSU, and it took another day and a half just for them to get it BACK on a truck), which I promptly installed. Pics attached, as always. I've installed Win10 Pro on it, although I won't be able to customize anything until my next paycheck when I can pony up the $200 it costs for a legit license. At that point, I'll also be ordering the HDD and running the usual set of benchmarks so we can see what this puppy can do... however, as a teaser, I'll go ahead and include the Cinebench scores for, in the words of a close friend of mine, "shits and giggles." This is it, folks! We be on the home stretch! *Monitors also on the to-do list. The new setup calls for 2 of 'em, because this desk can't fit 3! **PC has been moved from the location shown... it was really only there during initial setup, which came in handy for the sheer number of times the CMOS had to be cleared from me screwing something up ***Aaaannnnnd I almost forgot this. Sorry it took me all night to remember! It's worth noting that it DID have far higher scores at first... until I realized that the 4.0 GHz overclock I had originally managed to dial in wasn't actually stable, thanks to a nice little blue screen about half an hour into the Prime95 torture test. Looks like 3.75 GHz is the highest I'm gonna be able to go, even WITH bumping the voltages accordingly