Anus_McSphincter

Sounds like your asking a lot of the laptop to run that big of a display. See what the resolution and hz of the laptop screen is. Get a monitor with those numbers to be sure your not going to hurt your laptop or get poor performance.

Fresh install is the way to go... and set a stronger password.

What Mr. PC said.

I also think the threadripper is overkill. 3950X is plenty. use your CPU savings for a 2080TI intel graphics card.

I like EVGA PSUs. I think a 650 GQ would be more than enough, but also would leave room for future upgrades.

You can get the Sabrent Rocket 3.0 for much less at Newegg. Sabrent's the M.2 for me all the way.

I've heard the ASUS ROG routers are pretty good and WiFi6... backwards compatible. Pricey though.

I think the 2700X will throttle too. I also think the stock CPU cooler might let the CPU get warm enough during gaming to help that throttling.

For some reason, I had to enable XMP in my Gigabyte BIOS twice before it actually took. But it did. Otherwise, "what they said".

I personally would go for the 4000 series. I just got done with my first build 2 days ago. I'm running a Ryzen 5 3600, and when the 4000 series prices settle, I'll get a much better CPU and some more memory. I've read some very good thing about what to expect from the 4000 series.

lal12, The drive I want to install to is an empty 500GB M.2 drive formatted by windows so that it would show up in "My PC". I can find that "partition" on the page in two different spots and highlight it. The "select" button just doesnt do anything. The installer log would tell me why it didn't work? I'm 68 and very tech limited. What kind of things might it say? I ask this because if it is written in "tech speak", I probably wouldn't understand.

Any of the three is fine. Depends on how you want to do things. I'm using two 500GB M.2 boot drives and a 1TB M.2 for temp storage. I'm also running a 4TB HD as permanent storage... but that's me. You figure out the sizes you want, and prices you want, and just go for it. My reason for higher GB drives is for games.

Sharp bends baaaaad. Loops goooooood.

Noctua makes ,IMO, tthe best and most quiet fans out there. The 140MM fan for CPU coolers is I believe like $19.99, but it's the ugly tan and brown. They have the same in black, butit's a couple of $ more. Both on Newegg

I'm using a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master motherboard with three M.2 ports. I have two Sabrent PCIe 4.0 500GB M.2 and one Sabrent PCIe 4.0 1TB M.2 drives installed on the board. I have Windows 10 Home on one of the 500GB M.2 drives. I want to install Ubuntu Budgie on the other 500GB M.2 drive. I've got a good bootable flash drive with Ubuntu Budgie on it. Upon trying to install Ubuntu, everything was going fine until I got to where to choose how and where to install. The last option brings up something that looks kind of like G-Parted where all the drives and partitions are listed. I CAN find the 500GB M.2 drive where I want to install Ubuntu. There is a button there to push once I've made my selection. I highlight the proper drive and click on the button and nothing happens. At the bottom of that page there is ANOTHER list of the drives. I figured out how to list the drive I wanted, clicked the button and nothing. Again. I decided that maybe it was a bad installer, or maybe some glitch, so I made another bootable flash drive with Solus Budgie. Upon trying to install, I ran into the same exact problem. I think Ubuntu Budgie and Solus use the same installer. This makes me think that maybe I just don't know what I'm doing. I looked on the internet and on Youtube for dual booting to two M.2 drives on the same motherboard and came up empty. I know (and have known) that you can disable all the drives except the one you want to install on but all the examples I found were for drives not on the motherboard and easily disabled. My drives are pretty much buried under the CPU cooler and Graphics card, so I need to know how to make the selection on the installer page that wants me to select where I want to install. Either the installer isn't allowing to make this selection for some reason, or I'm just missing some step to make it happen. I'm kind of leaning towards "I'm a dummy that doesn't know how". Please help.