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I want to test the system before adding the tubing. Is a watercooler heatsink enough to survive BIOS briefly on a 12900k?

Thanks a lot

Is it necessary to strip the old powder coat to bare metal before applying the primer? Or is some fine sanding enough?

I know when spray painting bare metal, it is best to use a self-etching primer, but what about a powder coated pc case? Paint is meant to stick to paint... can I thus skip using a primer?

I am adding acrylic armor to my motherboard. The armor will be wrapped with vinyl. Will doing such damage my mobo? I do not think vinyl is electrically conductive, but I just want to make sure.

The manufacturer website did specify that the case is steel, but it did not say whether its "galvanized" or not. I found a Toms hardware post https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/what-type-of-steel-are-pc-cases-made-of.3037830/ that says cases are made of SECC, which has the "electrogalvanized" keyword.

Yea feared so... it just strikes me odd that "galvanized steel" is the one thing the paint cannot be applied on.

I am considering https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079K5HCXV/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A34QFRZRNMACQD&psc=1 to repaint my pc case. The manual (https://www.rustoleum.com/~/media/DigitalEncyclopedia/Documents/RustoleumUSA/TDS/English/CBG/American Accents/AAC-20_American_Accents_2X_Ultra_Cover_Primer_Sprays_TDS.ashx), however, specifies that the product should not be used on galvanized steel. Are pc cases considered to be galvanized steel?

Solved... my pcie cable was loose lol. That was a close one. Thanks for the tips

My PC has served me well for the past year or so, but today it suddenly stopped giving HDMI signals. Things I've done to debug: 1: Plugging the same cable/monitor to a different PC, and everything was working 2: Plugging the HDMI cable to the onboard VGA port, and, to my surprise, the monitor still fails to detect signals 3: I am using a ASUS prime x470-pro mobo, and the VGA debug light is solid bright. I looked it up in the manual, and it says either the CPU or discrete GPU is faulty, which didn't really give any new info The lights/fans all start up fine. I am using a complete custom water-cooled system, which makes it troublesome to remove/replace any components. I am finding it really hard to believe that my onboard graphics and discrete GPU would fail simultaneously... Are there any simple explanations to this? How do I debug any further? Ryzen 9 3900x/rtx 2080/ Asus prime x470-pro/EVGA 1000W

I don't actually know what HBM is ?... Do you mind though explaining to me what HBM is and maybe how that's related to GDDR?

Why are the effective memory clock speeds of some cards 8 times the actual clock speeds? GDDR5 is only quad-pumped, so the effective clock speeds should only be 4 times the actual ones, right?

I have some other cables connected to the psu but not to the mobo How would I test a faulty pump? it still didn’t work without the pwm cables

I just finished my custom loop and went on to leak test my system. I unplugged the ssd, cpu, gpu cables and jumped the motherboard. However, when I switched on my psu (whose fans are spinning fine), nothing happens, not a single noise from my ek d5 pump. I powered the pump by connecting the pwm cable to the CPU_OPT header and the molex to a molex cable connected to the PERIF1 port of the psu. What could I have possible done wrong...?

So I wouldn't need a 7meters head even for a CPU GPU custom loop system (two waterblocks)?