BraveCowardlyPancake

I live in the Philippines in an air conditioned room. Is a closed-loop water cooler that necessary?

Would a heat sink be better than an AIO cooler though?

what's a good cooler for high-end ryzen tho?

Thanks! Is the Ryzen 7 3800x worth it or should I just grab a 3700x?

Here is my newly built rig: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (stock cooler) MSi B450 Tomahawk MAX G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3200 2x8GB Intel 660p 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD Inno3D GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Thermaltake 650W 80+ White Non-modular Vikings Shield VKS-30 Mid-Tower What would be an AMD-based upgrade path in the future for this? (CPU only; I prefer Nvidia GPU drivers more)

Nvm I decided to live with it. It still has usable 2.0 front ports and I only ever use 1 front usb port at a time. but thanks.

what does the front 3.0 port look like in Device Manager?

My motherboard is a B450 Tomahawk Max, and the cable is properly connected to the header.

I recently built my new PC and it works great, but I noticed that the front USB 3.0 port won't recognize my External Drive (connected via its USB 3.0 cable) or even charge my phone, which works in the rear 3.0 ports and the neighboring 2.0 ports. How do I fix this?

Well, Gamers Nexus did a comparison between Third-Party RX 5700 XT Models. The best choices there overall was the Gigabyte Windforce model and Sapphire Pulse Model. You really can't go wrong with their thermals, and the Gigabyte one is the cheapest on Amazon at $399. Not all reviews for the RX 5700 series are good though, there are still the occasional poorly functioning drivers.

well, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a couple of reviews of what is the maximum it can run for a GPU without bottlenecking, and that would be the RTX 2070. Anything higher and consider getting a 3600. The RX 5700/5700 XT would work well if not better unless you like raytracing. So basically any GPU not better than the RTX 2070/RX 5700 XT can be handled well by a Ryzen 5 2600.

In that case I'm gonna replace my MK235 mouse with a better wireless mouse in a few months. Still keeping the keyboard though.

Anyone else here listening to Nirvana's MTV Unplugged Album?

Remember what Linus said though: It doesn't make you a better gamer. It just lets you have more fun.

you wouldn't want a 700-dollar Graphics Card shipping with bent fans.