dirkjently

Finally getting around to building a new computer. Looking at the x570 boards it looks like they would be overkill for my needs so figured a 450 or 470 board would do me. Already have an RX470 for my graphics card (only thing i'm keeping from my old pc). Looking to spend about $1100 - $1400 AUD on the rest of the box (dont need mouse or keyboard) Was looking at AMD RYZEN R5 3600 MSI B450M Mortar AM4 mATX Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz DDR4 Desktop RAM - Black Western Digital 500GB WD Black SN750 NVMe M.2 SSD Not to sure on the rest of the parts yet mainly using the computer for gaming, multitasking and a bit of photo/video editing, I was looking at the build guide in the forum however it hasn't been updated for ryzen 3 yet, It seems to favor some of the asrock boards over MSI, however I've seen more positive things about the bios flashback on MSI compared to other brands and I don't have any other cpu. (coming from intel) Any recommendations?

If it nearly kills you building it you could call the carCass. I have always thought some of those things look like cryochambers lying on their side. Could reference futurama and call it Space Pilot 3000

Oh I could, it would take a bit of time to pull apart the computer and go through all of the sticks to work out which one is bad, and there are other things i could do to improve my computer. However, I want to start over with a fresh build in a month or so anyway and that that wasn't really the point of this topic. Surely i'm not the only one that puts up with a bad system just because.

At the moment I've been going through a love-hate relationship with my computers and internet, partly because I really should upgrade, but I've been putting up with things as I can't quite decide what i want and partly because I'm too lazy to troubleshoot and fix the issues properly and partly I'm too stubborn to admit that my computer would be better off in a junkyard. Now it has me curious. What sort of terrible technology are other people still willingly using on a daily basis? (Cheap and nasty or things designed as low spec don't count) My Surface Pro was fantastic... until the battery died, now it instant powers off when ever the power cable is bumped. So I use my Core i7... (920), for a 10 year old cpu, it aint bad... except one of the ram sticks is dodgy and the whole computer freezes up if I put too much load on the memory. Sometimes I don't notice, websites can look like they are frozen as they load, between the wireless network randomly disconnecting and "quality" australian dsl internet, i'm lucky to get 9 Mbps on a good day.

Hi. I'm also new I think

Does anyone know if there Is anything on the market that can measure sound volumes (in dB) over time? I inherited quite a nice old stereo amp/pre-amp system that my dad and a family friend built however recently i swear it is louder for the first 10 min of it turning on and then goes quieter once it has warmed up. I want to try and measure it but most things that I have found that can measure decibels only do it for a short period of time so its really hard to tell if the volume change is subjective based on what i'm listening to, if the volume is slowly changing as the system warms up or if something is overheating and limiting the output. I even thought I might need to build something, but most kits i have found look at recording the sound content not the volume in decibels and i don't know enough software wise to write a program to run on a raspberry pi or arduino and make sure that the recording device isn't sound leveling the recording.