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Alright fair point maybe "95%" wasn't totally accurate but the 3090ti/4080s are a bit cheaper on the used market and do get you pretty close. It's worth looking into if the budget isn't unlimited and you want 4k gaming.

Also worth bringing up: what display do you have or are you planning to run?

I'd say this ticks all the 'top of the line' checkboxes today. Not sure what it'll look like in 2-3mo. I think you could save $50 and get an air cooler since I don't think you can OC the 7800x3d on that board. I have two of the RM1000x and they are my favorite power supply I've used by far. Watch out for a sale and depending on how hard you wanna push the 4090 you could probably drop down to an 850w and undervolt the card but that would only save a small amount. I daily a 7800x3d with a 3090 FTW. Personally the 4090 doesn't seem impressive enough to drop another $1800 so soon to upgrade so maybe consider a 3090ti or 4080. Top of the line looks shiny but you could easily spend less and have like 95% the same experience.

Do you have any 3rd party software installed to overclock or otherwise control the fans? My understanding of the "0db" (0 rpm) feature is that it needs to meet certain criteria (temp, load, power usage etc) otherwise the minimum fan speed is sometimes around 30-40%

I've seen this mentioned elsewhere and it does seem like a fairly straightforward solution. I will consider this as a more permanent option when I am back at my house but for now I am limited to software

I am using NordVPN Meshnet to RDP into my server and also to access network shares while away from home. It works great for what I need it for but the transfer speeds via SMB are kinda slow - around 10-12MB/s peak. Previously I used the free version of Teamviewer which also has the ability to transfer files between computers and with that I was getting 30-40MB/s. I prefer the seamlessness of Meshnet and for that reason I've been living with the lower speed but I'm wondering if there's a better way. Oddly, through Meshnet if I route my web traffic to the server PC I see around 300-400mbit on speedtest.net which would put it inline with what I was getting through Teamviewer. Setup: Server: Windows 11 Pro 5900x + 64GB RAM + RTX 3050 1tb Sabrent Gen3 NVMe for boot, 2x 1tb 980 Pro (raid 0) for temporary storage, 12tb Seagate Ironwolf NAS drive for bulk storage 2.5g wired connection: speedtest.net ~2300mbit up/down Client 1: M2 Macbook Air Wireless connection: speedtest.net 300mbit up, 700mbit down Client 2: Windows 11 Gaming PC 10600k + 32GB RAM + 3060ti 1tb Sabrent Gen3 NVMe for boot 1g wired connection: speedtest.net 900mbit up/down Goals: Retain the ability to RDP into my server PC Retain the ability to map network drives from my server through the VPN on my PC and Mac Increase transfer speed to hopefully >500mbit? Avoid routing all my web/other traffic on the client PCs while connected to Meshnet/VPN unless I choose to for some reason Bonus: add the ability to RDP into other PCs on my home network while connected to Meshnet/VPN I've tried the "incoming connection" setup through Windows and while I was able to "connect" I wasn't able to RDP into my server or use the internet at all. Are there any other solutions that are relatively easy to set up, secure, and also fast?

I ended up ordering a 3060ti because the 3050 doesn't have enough juice 4k upscale on the "4" quality setting for Video Super Resolution.

Nothing wrong with the RX580 as long as it works The RX560 from this server PC was from my buddy's first gaming PC several years ago.

ehh, the 3050 was $255 USD at the local Best Buy and the 3060 was $285 ish (after taxes for both) I know the gaming perf is considerably better on the 3060 but honestly this PC is on Plex duty and I wanted something with HDMI 2.1 for 4k 120hz for game streaming from my main rig. I only went Nvidia since I like their video upscaler feature. Finished pic if anyone is interested: (I attached it to the post below because HEIC is lame) And yes, I'm going to cut holes and put fans in the back

Welp I get idiot of the year award. The BIOS update fixed it. I was on F33 from March 2021 and F37b from March 2023 booted right up with the 3050. Sucks that I returned the 3060 Thanks for all the help!

oh, my mistake I have an X570 Aorus Ultra motherboard not the Gaming 5 (I had one of those a few years ago)

Gen in terms of CPU? I've been running the 5900x in this board for 2 years or so. I do plan to update the bios in a sec just to see. If you mean PCIe it supports up to 4.0. I've tried switching the PCIe gen between 3.0 and 4.0 with no luck. Default was 'auto' which worked with the 16x 4.0 4x4 Asus NVMe card.

Yeah I thought it was drivers at first as well but I'm getting no output even before booting into Windows. I've done DDU in safe mode a few times with no luck.

EVGA 100-GD-0600-V1 Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07W5WZCTR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1