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Then your answer is "Most 300-series motherboards support Ryzen 5000". Even my Biostar A320M-H.

Check the BIOS update page for the motherboard in question. AMD did not force all 300 series boards to support it, but most if not all non-OEM boards did get support through a BIOS update.

Spend some time reading about memory timings. If you haven't optimized those already, you should be able to unlock higher speeds through that process.

Both are fine as long as the part numbers match.

plug the cpu fan into another fan header to check.

Try to find a second hand AM4 mobo / CPU / ram combo. Even a Ryzen 3 1200 will perform as good as the 3570, and have a lot of usable lifespan left. They can be available quite cheaply as well.

Your CPU is going to have higher performance. It just won't likely result in higher FPS in some games.

A fresh install of Windows 11 Pro should work just fine,

Check if this is true before doing anything. Many wireless mice use two batteries in parrellel, to provide 1.5 V at a higher capacity. You'll definitely want to do some reading on electronics before attempting this. Agreed with others that the real answer here is rechargeable AA cells.

Passmark PerformanceTest is also a good option. Not sure if the free version compares against other PC's, but worth looking into.

What CPU & motherboard?

The vocal few do not represent the bulk of a community.

Sounds like it's tripping on thermal protection of some sort. More detail would be appreciated. Here's a good troubleshooting guide:

Yes, by having missing pins on the CPU it will cause the system to not even spin the fans, or to spin the fans at high speed with no POST.

What exactly is your machine not able to do currently? Is there some workload that it's not performing well with? If you're gaming on it, then monitor specs, and target games help as well.

Usually the fastest way is to phsycially install the drives into the target machine, then copying the files into the storage pool. Any other way is going to be bottlenecked by the network speed or worse.

The standard for M.2 is available from https://pcisig.com/

Talk to their support team.

The point of PL1 is to take advantage of the thermal mass of the cooler, so I'd suggest leaving PL1 & 2 at the default and reducing tau to prevent excessive thermal throttling. It would be good to increase PL1 (long power limit) to the max sustainable power your CPU can achieve within your "comfortable" temperature limit. Keep in mind that working the GPU will increase the air temp in the case, causing the CPU temp to increase typically, as well.

You could return the short power limit to stock value and tune the power limit time window to match the coolers thermal mass. Intel default is typically 21 seconds, but motherboards are allowed to choose their own value. Most coolers won't sustain 180 W, which is why that tuning value exists.

There is no benefit to "matching brands". Keep in mind, NVIDIA does not make CPU's at all.

XMP doesn't guarantee your CPU can handle it, as it's technically an OC. CPU: Motherboard: Memory Part Number & Rev:

Agreed. I was going with the Windows CPU report as the most trustworthy information, as that's unlikely to change if it is indeed an N3700.

Both have competitive offerings for workstations. What exactly are you planning to do with the workstation?

The Pentium N3700 is BGA1170, and is not socketed. There is absolutely no chance this is going to work in LGA1150, even if you got an interposer. The N3700 is a Braswell chip, completely different from Haswell or Broadwell. On the case of your friends PC... The N3700 CPU is soldered to the motherboard, and isn't able to be changed without specialised tools. I would recommend a fresh install of the OS and an inspection of the temperatures. If they happen to be Linux - Braswell has a sleep state bug that will cause random crashes at idle. There are fixes for this if you search online.