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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from RAGNES7 in Where to Plug in the AMD Wraith Prism CPU cables on a X470 motherboard   
    Yeah, they use the same base connector but the one with 3 wires has one missing as seen here:

     
    One is 5v (usually used for fan RGB) and the other is 12v (Usually for RGB strips). 
     
     
     
    Also: 
    You bet, glad you got it taken care of! 
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from RAGNES7 in Where to Plug in the AMD Wraith Prism CPU cables on a X470 motherboard   
    Is this image I was using as the basis for my info incorrect for the Wraith Prism?

     
    If so, my bad, but this image has:
    1 x 4-Pin RGB
    1 x 9-Pin USB
    1 x 4-Pin PWM Fan
     
    No 3-Pin RGB as far as I know.
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from RAGNES7 in Where to Plug in the AMD Wraith Prism CPU cables on a X470 motherboard   
    Here's some links if your motherboard doesn't have an RGB header:
    Simple button-based RGB controller to stash inside the case: Simple Cooler Master RGB Controller
    RGB controller with a remote: Rainbow LED Controller W/ Remote (If you're going to use this one you may need this adapter and cable)
     
    Note that the 3 vs. 4 pin headers are different (Shown below)...do not mix these up! Here's an article on the difference for you.

     
    To check if your motherboard has an RGB header, look for this (I know you have a Gigabyte, but just in case others are curious):
    ASRock:

     
    Asus:

     
    Gigabyte:

     
    Intel:

     
    MSI:

     
    From what I've read (Never had the wraith prism cooler) it uses a 4-Pin connector and has a USB connector "powered by Cooler Master" so it may have an RGB controller built-in. If one of the cables you plugged in was this one:

     
    Then you don't need the RGB cable and can just download this software from Cooler Master and you should be good. If you plugged in the other cable (12v 4-Pin RGB on the right) then you can use your motherboard's RGB control which you can download here from Gigabyte. If you would rather go to the page and download it directly you can do that here in case they've released a new version.
     
    So, the TL:DR version of all this:
    1: Make sure you plug in the fan header and either the USB or RGB header (See Below*).

    2: Download either the motherboard RGB software here (Select "RGB Fusion"), or the Cooler Master software here depending on whether you used the RGB header or USB header respectively.
     
    Let me know if you have any questions.
     
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from Beerzerker in Where to Plug in the AMD Wraith Prism CPU cables on a X470 motherboard   
    Is this image I was using as the basis for my info incorrect for the Wraith Prism?

     
    If so, my bad, but this image has:
    1 x 4-Pin RGB
    1 x 9-Pin USB
    1 x 4-Pin PWM Fan
     
    No 3-Pin RGB as far as I know.
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from Beerzerker in Where to Plug in the AMD Wraith Prism CPU cables on a X470 motherboard   
    Here's some links if your motherboard doesn't have an RGB header:
    Simple button-based RGB controller to stash inside the case: Simple Cooler Master RGB Controller
    RGB controller with a remote: Rainbow LED Controller W/ Remote (If you're going to use this one you may need this adapter and cable)
     
    Note that the 3 vs. 4 pin headers are different (Shown below)...do not mix these up! Here's an article on the difference for you.

     
    To check if your motherboard has an RGB header, look for this (I know you have a Gigabyte, but just in case others are curious):
    ASRock:

     
    Asus:

     
    Gigabyte:

     
    Intel:

     
    MSI:

     
    From what I've read (Never had the wraith prism cooler) it uses a 4-Pin connector and has a USB connector "powered by Cooler Master" so it may have an RGB controller built-in. If one of the cables you plugged in was this one:

     
    Then you don't need the RGB cable and can just download this software from Cooler Master and you should be good. If you plugged in the other cable (12v 4-Pin RGB on the right) then you can use your motherboard's RGB control which you can download here from Gigabyte. If you would rather go to the page and download it directly you can do that here in case they've released a new version.
     
    So, the TL:DR version of all this:
    1: Make sure you plug in the fan header and either the USB or RGB header (See Below*).

    2: Download either the motherboard RGB software here (Select "RGB Fusion"), or the Cooler Master software here depending on whether you used the RGB header or USB header respectively.
     
    Let me know if you have any questions.
     
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from da na in Best Buy Ethical Dilemma...   
    Okay, so this is specifically for those who've had experience with the Best Buy returns process in a manner similar to this...I have a lot of experience with buying and returning things with them for work but this is a first...
     
    On the 9th of this month I started a return for my R7 5800X CPU because I sourced a R9 5950X from a local Micro Center, this went smoothly and I'm currently using it. I pulled up the return label on the Best Buy website, realized I was out of ink for my printer, ordered a cartridge on Amazon for next-day delivery, and closed things up for the night. The next day my ink arrived and I went to pull up the label and it wouldn't show it to me again no matter what I tried...the link to do so was just not there on the website like it usually is so I opened a support chat and within 15-20 minutes they had provided me with a new label (With a new tracking number) and I was printing it out...no problem, right? I thought so too and packed it up/shipped it out that day (May 10th). The following timeline is how things went from here (I may have contacted them a few more times but these were the important ones where they were giving me information):
     
    May 12th, 10:00am: Package arrives in Sheperdsville, KY at the Best Buy warehouse.

     
    May 15th: I realize the status on their orders page still shows they are waiting for my item, I open a chat with them again and they say it's likely no problem, they confirm this is normal.
     
    May 16th: No change in status, concerned, I open a chat again and insist that this usually updates as soon as they get the product and they say they will make a note to update the status.
     
    May 17th: Same status, I call this time and spend over an hour on the phone with them, they casually mention the tracking number at one point and crucially they say the old tracking number which worries me...they claim to change the tracking number in their system and say it should update soon.
     
    May 18th: Tracking number still hasn't updated on my orders page, I call again and spend well over an hour trying to figure out what is wrong, they say the old tracking number again and I correct them, then I elevate the issue to a supervisor. I go back and forth for a while and they confirm they have received the product, checked it, and will forward the request to issue a refund within 24 hours. They tell me that I will get an e-mail confirming within that 24 hour period.
     
    May 19th, 11:32am: I get an e-mail from them as shown below saying they have the product and have started the refund process...all done right? I thought so too!

     
    May 23rd, 12:25pm: I send a quick e-mail to them as a reply because I still haven't seen anything update and it's getting close to the end of the return period...

     
    May 23rd, 3:44pm: I receive this crazy e-mail as a reply stating that now I haven't gotten it because the box was empty when it arrived and they're sending me my empty box back...now at this point they had received the CPU 11 days prior, had checked the item several times, and had claimed that they had already issued the refund so I was very upset.

     
    May 23rd, 3:45pm: I immediately call Best Buy and spend an hour and a half getting to someone with the power to do anything at all and I speak to a very nice supervisor and she explains the situation. She says that the warehouse now says that the box is empty despite being way past this point in the process and then states the following:
    1: She would totally issue a refund if she could, but she can't.
    2: I will need to wait until tomorrow when the empty box arrives and file a claim with UPS if it is indeed my box to see any sort of refund, which would come from the insurance via UPS.
    3: She can do nothing further to help me.
    At this point she tries to "Have a nice day" me and I lose it...I had said nothing unkind or lost my temper during this conversation or any prior conversation but I felt that this wasn't an acceptable answer...I tell her that the only reason to shop at Best Buy instead of going and getting something used or ordering from some shady online site is specifically to avoid situations like this. Considering I'd been whatever the highest tier of member with Best Buy is for the better part of a decade without anything like this happening I told her I thought she should go ahead and fix this immediately since UPS is their contractor, not mine. At this point she (no joke) issues that refund she said she couldn't do earlier and I get an e-mail about it right away...the funds were in my account within a few hours.
     
    Now, I thought this was over, seriously I did, but the package arrived today (my "empty box") and I was surprised by what was inside. I opened the outer box (which was not the box I originally sent them) and inside was an R7 5800X box, I opened that box expecting nothing since the hole where you can see the CPU was empty but when I did I looked down and there was a CPU sitting there...now, whoever initially checked it in the warehouse put the CPU back in the plastic forcefully backwards which bent several of the corner pins and shoved all of the items inside the box into the bottom of it so it's been bouncing around in transit unprotected. I'm a relatively handy guy with a lot of PC repair experience so I take it to my workbench, pull out the iFixIt kit and my magnifier light, and carefully fix the edge pins so they all visually line up, it looks like none of the pins broke despite their best efforts.
     
    Now, the TL:DR is the following:
    I have my money back.
    I have a potentially working R7 5800X.
    I spent a good 8-10 hours over 11 days dealing with this return and am over it.
     

     
    Now, the reason I asked for input from people who've dealt with something like this is because I don't know if calling them and telling them the situation would
    A: Jeopardize my Returned Funds
    B: Consume Another Few Hours of My Time
    or
    C: Both
     
    Do I call them back and tell them I have this thing? Do I throw it on a shelf and forget about it? Can they do anything crazy like yank the money back when I call them and tell them I have this thing again despite trying my best to give it back? Am I obligated to do anything but throw it in the trash and never call them again? I'm way over this nonsense and don't particularly want to involve myself in this further. Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated!
     
    Edit: Added info, I wrapped the entire original package in tape to make sure it arrived (which is why I doubted the package was empty even if we weren't waaaay past the "make sure we have it" part of the return process) intact and I didn't put any info about what was in it on the outside so no one would be tempted to steal it.
     
    Also Edit: Thoughts of the community so far...
    Keep it, don't call them: 10.5
    Call them and continue this madness: 1.5
    (One person was 50/50 on it)
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    DanielNS84 reacted to Chem1calWaste in Looking for an odd SSD mount.   
    Wow, I think that you are right, that is a very similar one, thanks for the help 😄
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from Eighjan in Looking for an odd SSD mount.   
    Looks suspiciously like the Team Force SSD's stock bracket (as seen in a lot of their marketing and likely sent with that SSD to that builder) painted white, drilled, and combined with an anti-vibration screw kit from Lian Li (See Here) gone over with silver paint or they found custom screws/washers if they don't come with the case...might be that simple if they didn't just bend and drill their own metal...I have a very small workbench and not many tools and I've made similar stuff so it's definitely doable for a custom builder. Could have also been 3d printed.
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    DanielNS84 reacted to Ankh Tech in Best Buy Ethical Dilemma...   
    well, bent pins on cpus  could make them not work, but if you can carefully bend them back you really hit the ackpot this time
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from WhitetailAni in Best Buy Ethical Dilemma...   
    Oh snap, bunch of responses...thanks! Also yeah, upon further review it's difficult to find a story of this going well for anyone who kept trying in this case and ended up doing anything but wasting a lot of time (beyond all the original lost time). Seems like there's a consensus forming. If I were to call it would be tomorrow morning but it's not looking likely at this point unless someone thinks of a good reason to pursue it further. Thanks again!
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from WhitetailAni in Best Buy Ethical Dilemma...   
    This is the only system I have here without a full set of spare parts so it's not a bad idea...for my daughter's 9900k system I have an old 8086k, I have spare RAM and SSD's, etc...it would be nice to have a second AM4 CPU that I can build out at some point if I'm bored. I was thinking about upgrading my motherboard to a workstation model and if I did then I could potentially use this CPU in it...I'll have to put some thought into it.
     
    I definitely see your point here...normally I'd return it without a second thought but the amount of pain I've gone through already talking to them to explain the same things over and over make me hesitate big time. I'd consider dropping it off at a Best Buy if there was one within an hour of my new house but that's not the case so calling these villains is my only option if I wanna try to "do the right thing" here...if that even would be doing the right thing considering they sent it back lol.
     
    Thanks to you both, duly noted!
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    DanielNS84 reacted to Frugivore8894 in I'm just an ascending peasant in the PC community, but...   
    He has said he where’s a ESD strap in his ankle so that it’s easier to move his hands around on camera. 
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from SavageNeo in Swapped Motherboard from Z390 to X570 and the iGPU Settings Remained...   
    I've removed everything Intel related, drivers, store apps, etc...just didn't wanna start randomly hunting through the registry but I guess I have to at this point.
     
    Edit: Removed some stuff from the registry and it appears to be gone...thanks anyways guys!
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from jwwagner25 in Just got a new 5800X CPU/MB and I have questions...   
    Technically it's made it longer if you count the Windows 7 install I upgraded from since I didn't do a clean install and kept all my programs. Also, I have another PC that's made it longer but it's got ugly hardware in it lol...it's made it from a Pentium 3 until now but with less frequent hardware changes overall. It had (I think) the first version of Windows 10 when it came out of beta and it's made it until now and it has a 8th gen CPU in it...I believe it started it's life as a Windows 2000 system before I upgraded to the Core 2 Duo (I Skipped the pentium 4). I still remember upgrading it to have the "brand new" USB 3 ports in it lol. It may have even had an AGP port in it before I swapped it to the LGA 775 board with PCIE (I think it was a Asus P5Q Deluxe?) so it was running for a loooooong time before it even got Windows 10. I stuck with Windows 2000 for a long time and hated Vista enough to skip it and hop onto Windows 7 as an upgrade when it came out. Also...now that I think about it...I'm old lol.
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from leclod in How much memory do I need?   
    Chrome and Firefox use a ton of memory, especially if you use a lot of tabs...also, many applications hog memory but will free some up if needed by something else as they're just caching things they may need. It's hard to judge your needs based on numbers in task manager, it's usually better to calculate based on your regular usage using a list of things you know you run frequently.
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    DanielNS84 reacted to Hashim.Alhashimi in Cooler master ml240l v2 va id-cooling zoomflow 240x   
    Its super confusing as i see 😄 so im just going to stuck with CM and keep that extra money for an individual spend 😂
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    DanielNS84 reacted to SorryBella in Need Help on what to should i upgrade next to maximize my 3070 gpu..   
    Great, it should be a drop in replacement. Update your motherboard BIOS and get yourself something like 5600x.
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from TudorF in need help deciding CPU   
    Depends on what you do! For gaming the 5600x is DEFINITELY worth it...for productivity the 3700x is just fine and it can do some gaming as well. Remember that if you don't need anything crazy that you can go with a B550 board (If you're okay with only the GPU slot and primary M.2 being PCIE 4.0 then there's few reasons to go with an x570) and upgrade to as high as a 5950x which will definitely be good for at least a few generations. You can go used (locally you can generally find used parts pretty cheap) and save even more money. There are retailers that sell 5600x's at MSRP like Micro Center (If you don't have one nearby you can find one online using NowInStock, I find stuff using their Telegram channel notifications where you can get early info when things come into stock at B&H, Best Buy, Amazon, Etc...there's a slight delay with text and e-mail though so Discord and Telegram are the best bet) and you should remember that a 5600x also comes with a good cooler so that saves money too (just saw you mentioned that, good call lol). You can find B550's on Newegg Business or Newegg for under $100 that seem okay (Like this/this or this/this) or if you want a board with more features like Wi-Fi/Bluetooth they're still cheap (Like this/this for $125) and you have plenty of expandability later on. Intel's socket 1200 is all done for sure but within the next generation it will be socket AM5 time to give us DDR5 and PCIE 5.0 so you may be stuck regardless. You will have more headroom regardless since you can get HEDT level performance out of the AMD chips on the high-end but it's unlikely you'll be moving generations with this board no matter what since both companies are going to be making big changes soon. In any case, hope you find what you need!
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from jwwagner25 in Just got a new 5800X CPU/MB and I have questions...   
    Thanks! Also, that's good to hear...also, both of you should know I've been running this same install of Windows 10 since it was released...I installed it onto my i5-2500 system with 2 x 4GB DDR3 1066 and a 250GB HDD using an iGPU for work. I repaired PC's for a living at the time so reinstalling Windows was essentially "giving up" so transitioning this install to new hardware configurations was something I felt I had to at least try lol. Since then I've swapped every component several times and cloned this installation from the 250GB HDD to a 1TB HDD, a 120GB SSD, 250GB SSD, 512GB SSD, 1TB SSD, 1TB NVMe SSD, and finally to the 2TB 980 Pro it's on now so it's seen a lot since I installed it. In any case...I'm attached now so I can't bail on it lol!
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from alpineweasel in Questions After Converting Boot Drive to GPT   
    Generally that blinking cursor means it's attempting to boot, the fact that it does that for a bit on a HDD is not surprising...you'd definitely be better off grabbing a cheap 500GB SSD and cloning the drive over for booting as that will make the system worlds faster. I've seen them on sale for $50-60 and 1TB models for $100-150 for a decent one. I looked and your board doesn't support M.2 drives so SATA is the only option but still a lot better. 
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from alpineweasel in Questions After Converting Boot Drive to GPT   
    As posted above, this is normal. UEFI links the BIOS to the OS in a way that MBR does not which is why you can boot directly into UEFI from within Windows 10 as opposed to having to tap F2/Del/Whatever to get into it. Part of the information shared between them is what it's booting to, in this case it's the Windows Boot Manager.
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from benjikind in Should I move my OS on my SATA SSD to M.2 SSD?   
    Quick note, I did this a while back (When I swapped to my new system, Intel 3rd-Gen to Intel 9th-Gen so it was a big leap) and it took a bit to find the right tool to move the data over (assuming a reinstall would be inconvenient). There's a program called "BackUpper" that I believe is made by Aomei that worked perfectly for me...even swapped it from MBR to GPT and everything booted right up. It's got a 1-click "move to new SSD" function that took care of everything. I think there's a trial for it available but not 100% sure.
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from TahoeDust in LTT 3DMark Thread   
    Hate you! I swear if you make me buy more stuff for my PC I'm gonna be angry.
     
    But yeah, I'll see what I can do...Maybe I'll flash that Galax BIOS to my FE that's floating around to raise my power level.
     
    Edit: Or...I just realized I can push this CPU to 5.3Ghz at higher voltages but it's not Prime95+AVX stable so I backed down but I bet I can get through a 3DMark...give me a little bit.
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from Luisa in 2x500GB or 1x1TB nvme Samsung - 970 Evo   
    Meh, I decided I'd just make a video on it. I have terrible Internet and messed up the bitrate so it skips around in a few parts but it gets the idea across.
     
     
    Yes I made a clickbait thumbnail, don't judge me.
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    DanielNS84 got a reaction from Luisa in 2x500GB or 1x1TB nvme Samsung - 970 Evo   
    Agreed if that's the only drive you'll be getting (unless you get 3 of the 500GB models), if you plan on getting enough to combine a few but still boot to a single drive then that route seems advantageous.
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