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Yeah, sometimes TIM application and/or mounting isn't perfect. So remounting and applying new may help.

As mentioned since there is no mentioning of this on the F63c BIOS I don't think that will be necesarry. But if you want to be absolutely safe then go from F3 to F32 to F40 to F63c. Again F63c unless Gigabyte made a mistake on their download page, should install fine without F30 but who knows. Maybe they forgot to mention it.

How about the Phanteks P600S? You can take off front and top panels (secured with magnets for easy removal and putting back together. Easy to work with, great airflow and big enough for your rads. EDIT: Last pic got stretched ...I dunno why...

Turn off XMP and see if it still happens. Unstable memory OC can cause seemingly random reboot.

Ok so lets get your chipset driver confusion out of the way first. Motherboard vendors may include motherboard specific things in the chipset drivers on their website and also their own version label scheme. Generally the AMD chipset driver is more up to date than motherboard vendor version but I usually recommend to first install the latest from your motherboard vendor support page and then go to AMD and update it to have the latest one and keep updating from there. With that out of the way, lets get on with your BIOS upgrade. This is something that is best done on a day with good stable weather to reduce the chance of power outage during the upgrade procedure. You download the BIOS files which are contained in a zip file. You extract them to a temporary folder on your hard drive (desktop for convenience). Then you copy the file called B45MDS3H.63c (for the latest version) to a usb stick. Make sure the USB stick is inserted in the rear IO. I don't think you need to install F32 and F40 in order to install F63c BIOS. If you look at the support page there is no mentioning of that. Download and install your latest chipset driver from Gigabyte Reboot and enter BIOS (you can use this command in CMD to do that automatically, just search for cmd in your start menu). shutdown /r /t 0 /fw Find the update feature in your BIOS with your old CPU still installed, enter it and locate the USB stick and file within to begine the upgrade process. Cross your fingers and hope it goes well. It usually does. When update is complete there should be a message saying so. Click ok or whetever and you can shut your PC down, clear the CMOS (should already be cleared from the upgrade but better to do it I think) and install the new CPU. If you wish you can test the new BIOS before installing the new CPU.

You are correct, however. Remember that alot of all of the B450 if you use two nvme drives they may take away 8 lanes from your x16 down to PCIe 3.0 8x. I'm not sure if that will make a difference but I think it may limit it a tiny bit. After all gen 3 x8 is the same as gen2 x16 I think.

If you get a B550 you will have PCIe gen 4. That's not gonna influence your current graphics card or your drives. But since you're shopping for a board, who knows what the future will bring right? With that out of the way. B450 Tomahawk had the best VRM of the B450's if I remember correctly so I would go for that if you go for B450. As for the B550 chipset boards I think you just need to pick out which suits your needs in terms of connectivity and features. SATA ports, Wifi, USB etc and go for the cheapest one that serve those needs. But wait and see if the experts recommends you something in particular.

Your sister is being selfish wanting all the money to herself.

Well lets get a few things out of the way. First, Icue is a buggy mess. Sometimes it works and sometimes it dont. I stopped using it alltogether. To light up your RAM it needs to connect with your motherboard software by the means of plugins and sometimes that doesn't work to great. You can try to enter Icue software when this happens and disable plugins, then wait a bit and reenable them. You can perhaps try OpenRGB and see if that works better. Ryzen Master, heh. I don't know what's gotten into it as of late but I experienced that too with my 5800X. Current status is takes forever to initialize. Then if I let Windows close it due to it not responding and launching it again, works fine. I had your issue too though, earlier. Fixed it by reinstalling a couple of times I think. Also check for update button only appears to make a white small box appear on my screen at random places for a little while. Again, is just bad coding but neither application is required for the computer to function. As for temperature. Ryzen 7 5800 both X and X3D are hot running chips. I suspect X3D even more so due to 3D cache. I have undervolted my X by 100mV and I dropped 7-8°C on air just by doing that. So if reseating doesn't help maybe you wanna give that a shot? Regardless, your temps do not seem dangerous (85°C is within spec).

If you go with 4 sticks you may have trouble running them at 3200 without loosening timings.

Rather bug in the Nvidia driver or something. Check the solution in that thread.

@Eigenvektor Yeah, I think what OP means he had a separate partition on his boot drive dedicated to certain files. OP, if that's the case. You can delete the partition in question and expand the partition containing your OS if there are no other partitions between the two. If there are any partitions between them maybe they too can be removed but they may be system partitions but please provide the screenshot Eigenvektor asked to properly advice you.

Sounds like this.

Well copying from one drive to another will still be limited by chipset latency. Look. If there was a tangible difference, I wouldn't put my CPU lane and chipset lane in RAID 0 because my M2_1 has the same latency as my M.2_2. Yes, sure.

There will literally be zero difference. And yes, I did read your whole sentence. You can put whichever drive where you want and install OS wherever. Hell even pop in a SATA SSD while you're at it and install OS there. Still wont notice a difference. Unless you're a file copying enthusiast...

They're kinda implying that Linus builds computers for them though.

It doesn't matter. You will not notice the difference either way.

It will still work with PCIe 3.0 bandwith. In most cases this will not matter.

Nope Only thing you can do really is buy a better PC. Your display may have better pixel response even if refreshrate is the same.

When Discord is open it drops Vram speed, is that what you're saying? Or is it in voice chat etc? Does not appear to happen on my 6900xt when it is open, so it does not appear to be how Discord is meant to behave. Maybe it's a Nvidia thing if more users experience this?

Clean install is always better anyway.

Minecraft? It cant be helped. Game was never much opitmized and it never will be.

Well... I had to do the clean install after I tried to upgrade because my start menu didn't work.

If you cant access BIOS then you need to clear cmos....

Fair enough lets try this then. Open cmd as admin then run these commands diskpart list disk See it now?