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Hello, I'm planning to upgrade my rig once gpu prices fall to an acceptable range, mainly buying an RTX 3070 or perhaps a future 4070 if prices take a while to go down. This made me wonder if my pc will face any bottleneck which would force me to upgrade any other parts, mainly thinking that the motherboard may need to be changed for a newer model and the psu for a 650 W Gold, though I'm not sure. Also, maybe I might get an improvemnt from buying higher hz ram? TL;DR: I want to buy an RTX 3070, should I upgrade anything else? Budget (including currency): $1500 Country: Chile Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Oculus Quest 2 Vr (Beat saber and half life Alyx); Yakuza Like a Dragon, Dark Soulse Remastered and Dark Souls 3. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Motherboard: ASRock B450M/ac PSU: EVGA 600 BR (100-BR-0600-K1) (600 W) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X [100-100000065BOX] RAM: 2x Crucial CT8G4DFS8266 (1 x 8GB | DIMM DDR4-2666) GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS OC; Planning to buy an RTX 3070 Monitor: Ozone DSP27 IPS (144 hz 2560x1440) Storage: 1x 700GB hdd, 1x 1TB NVME SSD, 2x 240GB SATA SSD

Thank you very much, after placing windows media tool inside the usb, putting windows inside the usb drive and formatting the hard disk through diskpart and the clean command I finally managed to install windows in gpt. Now I can update my drivers and use windows store. I guess my computer just dind't recognize the sd card as a boot drive or something. Anyways, thanks for the help.

Yeah, I could but it’s cheaper to buy the adapter, also it gives another use for my sd card as a usb. Also, are you sure it’s not possible to use a sd card as a boot deive? I’ve checked a few forums and with my limited search I’ve found no issue with it, still thanks for your time and help.

Alright, thank you, though I'm gonna try tommorrow, I need to buy a sd to usb adapter now to try this because I don't have any usb on hand.

So, this is a little of a long story. 5 months ago I decided to buy a new SSD, a Kingston A400 240GB SATA3 2.5"/7mm SSD, for my notebook, an HP pavillion Sleekbook 15-105la. Everything went well with the instalation, except the fact that if I turn off the legacy boost mode, uefi doesn't work. Since then, I haven't been able to get any windows update installed correctly and the windows shop also doesn't work. Right now the ssd is installed as a mbr and I suppose I need to change it to gpt, so I tried to make a uefi usb-stick through rufus, with the help of this post https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-windows-10-usb-bootable-media-uefi-support#uefi_media_rufus and a windows iso from microsoft media creation tool, into my 32gb storage Sd. The problem is, whenever I try to boost the pc through the usb, I get the message checking media [Fail]. I've made sure to deactivate secure boost and to press F9 to boost the installation through the usb. I tried to boost the pc through my old hard drive by connecting it through usb, but it instantly sends me to system diagnostic and tries to repair itself. Now, I want to abstain myself from opening my notebook and reinstalling the old hard drive, also, I don't care about the data in my ssd, if needed I will format it. Thanks for the help!