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Yes if your other motherboard used Legacy Boot.

You either have CSM disabled or there is a PSU issue, is what I would think. Or maybe both.

When problems are non-explanatory, usually I call them a PSU issue. Your experience might be different. Try to underclock your CPU and see if that helps (maybe lower the load on the PSU).

Are there any live watchers here? Maybe they can tell us what exactly happened, maybe something in the vod?

I would buy an AMD card, but you do you. I do not like how Nvidia prices their shit nowadays. Getting the 7900XTX really depends on you using upscalers or not, if you need upscalers or frame generation along the line I would go for Nvidia. If we are talking raw performance, mostly, the 7900XTX is going to be better. Again, you do you, but as a Pascal GPU user I would never pay Nvidia because of their pricing, until of course it drops.

If you plan to upgrade later on I would suggest going AM5. Get any CPU falls into your budget. Get a motherboard which is from a reputable place and is a solid deal (offers quality, performance and has nice features you will likely use). The 5800X3D is a massive upgrade.

Skyrim has a lot of mods available for it, Bethesda is historically a very mod friendly company. As much as I would like to see mods on the Witcher, I do not think a lot of people will jump on to it due to the age of the game. Not saying there will be no mods, just saying that Skyrim is modded into oblivion. Even if the Witcher gets a load of mods it will not have Skyrim levels of them.

Are you connected to your integrated GPU? What is this platform you are on, that may help too. Does it just completely lock up?

How old is it and what is the position of the heatsink relative to the cpu?

Your temps look fine, the CPU is not overheating, and if it does those parts are designed from the ground-up to overclock themselves until they reach the 95C they stay at. The GPU temps look fine (core), I have never used a 3080 and did not really pay attention to memory temps on the GPUs, but that seems to be fine. They should be able to go up to 100C without too much degradation. I would look forward to reseting the BIOS and then adding in the settings once more if nothing changes.

I would personally love it, gamified travels, eh Luke?

Technically he did not reward anyone (well he would have done a better job not giving the person 24 hours of early access to the video). Honestly if I was desperate enough I would have taken a flight and found it afterwards if that was the case.

The webpage did not load for me, and secondly I never use Aliexpress for any products that are expected to do anything but sitting on my desk as a prop (have not done that either). I would suggest looking forward to buying it from eBay. They go for around 100 dollars on eBay, but if you are lucky enough maybe you can take one at a lower price if it has an auction option.

Do you have Corsair hardware by any chance: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/q2bhx5/event_id_10016distributedcom_causes_pc_to/

My pencils do that too, lol.