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I'd probably change the cooler as hyper 212 might not be enough for a 5800x, you could change the mobo for an ASUS B550-A as it has a better VRM (ATX, not the mATX model) and I think the price should be the same or similar

360 aio will be an overkill for 3600, you dont need that big of a cooler

it is interchangable but really not recommended as noctua's fans are considered the best fans, there is a reason why their air coolers are so good

Okay, thank you for help

The Ballistix I chose is 15 bucks more expensive than ADATA XPG Gammix D10 3200 CL16, but I've heard that those Crucials are on E-Die which is pretty good for overclocking so I guess it will work fine for underclocking and tightening the timings. Idk though if it's worth the $15 price difference

I'm going with an i5 10400F and I don't want to overspend on a mobo, and the only other ITX mobo in my budget would be ASRock B560M-ITX/ac which doesn't seem too good, has 1 less usb port (I'm using 4/5 rn so it wouldn't have any left besides the front panel ones), has wifi 5 (msi has 6 + there were some major problems with the wifi adapter on ASRock B460M-ITX/ac which has a similar if not the same adapter and I need wifi). I know it would unlock the ram but idk if it's worth the price, because I would most likely be required to buy an external wifi adapter and probably a usb hub.

Hi, will Crucial Ballistix 2x8GB 3600 CL16 (BL2K8G36C16U4B) work with MSI B460I GAMING EDGE WIFI? I'm aware I won't be able to run them at full speed so I want to downclock it and tighten the timings, but they're not listed in the mobo compatibility list, that's why I'm unsure. My guess is they will work but just want to know more opinions :P

Yeah I just rethought it and it's not an ultra killer deal etc, it's not a lot cheaper than last year (looking at ryzen 5) and I'd have to use the new cpu with a gtx 950 which wouldn't give me any performance boost at all. So I think I'm gonna hold on until the GPU prices get back to normal and then build a PC. Thanks for your help

I was thinking about that but I'm tempted by the good price on the i5. It's $145 for me and I feel like it's a nice bang for the buck. Additionally, I don't upgrade my PC frequently, I built my current one in 2015 and never changed anything tbh besides adding an SSD and changing a GPU now to GTX 950 because the R9 died :c

Oh and I was also considering ASRock B460M-ITX/AC but idk as it has only 4 usb ports, though I might choose it as it's half the price of the Z490. Idk if I wanna cheap out on mobo that much

Hi! I want to build an ITX PC and I'm stuck, should I go with i5 10400f and ASRock Z490M-ITX/AC or should i pay $30 more for R5 3600 and Gigabyte B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI? I'm using my pc mostly for gaming, right now I have GTX 950 but when the mining boom ends I want to get a 30 series rtx card

Okay, thank you so much for your help!

I disabled the C1E and made the PC more idle now. I guess C3 is enabled as it's the only column that has positive values. It appears that I had not had high performance mode selected in Windows before, so I enabled it. I ran 3DMark with these ThrottleStop settings. Here's the log 2021-03-08.txt Now the CPU was at constant boost clock so I think the High Performance mode helped

I don't think that should be the issue as my PSU is more than enough for this build and during a CPU test it was constant max clock. But I just thought that it's dropping frequency on the demo and GPU tests, so is it normal that it's spiking up and down during GPU tests? Because on the CPU test it ran at constant max clock, though I think it's still pretty weird that it's spiking up and down constantly instead of running at a lower stable clock for example. So am I just silly and yesterday overlooked the aspect of dropping clocks during GPU tests and not CPU ones, and is it normal for it to do so? But if it's normal then why did it run at max clock before overclocking the GPU?

Should it be set up like this? PS. It's not running now, idle atm. Will run it when you confirm that everything is set up correctly