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The fact that is preforms a lot worse on pcie gen 3 computers which is most computers, sucks. Maybe it's worth it at 200ish dollars but good luck finding one at that price. If this card wasn't handicapped it in would he a great budget option, but it's worse than the Rx 570 a lot of the time in pcie gen 3 systems! But if I had to choose between a used Rx 570/580 and a new 6500 xt, I would probably choose the 6500 xt despite it's flaws unless the 570/580 was used lightly and I knew the previous owner, for the warranty and not being used by another person.

I would honestly be fine with this card if it didn't run like crap in pcie gen 3 systems. all they had to do was make it work in pcie 3 normally like every other gpu, weird how such a massive rich company with all these scientists can do something so horrifically cringly and destroy the performance of a gpu on pcie gen 3 systems. this card will even preform like crap on powerful newer systems like intel10th gen stuff that is pcie gen 3. im not mad at amd for re-releasing the rx 570 for the 100th time, because during this shortage iis is kinda appropriate to do that, im upset they made it preform like crap on most systems and gimped the pcie lanes and threw performance in the trash.

If they don't have any 1030 gddr5 cards in your area, look for other inexpensive cards. Such as the amd Rx 460 or amd Rx 560, or even a gtx 950/960. I would try and shoot for 4 gigabyte Rx 460 or Rx 560 if your on a low budget and need a gaming gpu, but there's 2 gigabyte versions as well. I would avoid anything older than 9th gen Nvidia or 400 series amd when gpu shopping, and try and get a 4 gigabit card, and only get a 2 gigabyte card if it's a good deal and the price difference is large. The 1030 gddr5 version is barley able to play new games at 720p lowest settings, and the ddr4 version is half the speed, your not going to have a good experience with new games, but it will run older games or indie games just fine if that's your thing. Probably not worth overclocking base clock beacause the vram speed bottleneck on the DDR4 version. Might be worth Trying to overclock the ddr4 memory on the card beacause the memory speed is the bottleneck, or at least one of the bottlenecks in the card.

I have a spare motherboard in storage like this for an older chipset(Skylake 6th gen). I just realized I don't have a socket cover on it. It's in a box and the box is in a bin I don't touch or move around. Just wondering how bad this is, assuming the pins are not bent and these is no physical damage, could this break the mobo? Could tiny particles of dust slowly getting into the socket brick it, even though the mobo is in antistatic bag, in a box, and the box is in a bin.

I do, but I use them to burn blank blue rays for archival, not to watch drm ridden store bought blue rays. To watch blue ray on PC you need to used paid software which may not work anymore or use "hacks" to watch a movie you paid for.

Only worth it if they are extremely cheap and not too old or used. New drives arn't that expensive. There was a sale on Newegg the other day, 4 terbyte drives for under 60 something dollars, I think it was WD red smr drives which are fine for cold storage.

Ok good beacause I replaced all the files I was moving when the power went out beacause I knew they were bad, it was a lot of stuff between all the drives but I remembered what I needed to replace.

But I'm more worried about the unrelated files on the discs, beacause I know with smr drives the drives rewrite existing data to write new data but I was using only cmr drives so I'm less worried, but still a little paranoid, like I said worst case I have backups but I don't want to have to pull my stuff off optical media unless I have to

I have thousands and thousands of files, it would be to time consuming to do that, and my other backups are on blue rays, so I would only pull a backup up if I find something wrong or corupted on my drive.

I had some power outages today while transferring files between my HDDs, obviously the files that were being written are Corrupted/incomplete because they never finished. But what about the files that were being read and the other unrelated files in the drive? Are they most likely ok? The drives in question are some 6 terbyte CMR ironwolf drives being used externally with an adapter through usb connected to my desktop PC, an an internal 8 terbyte CMR WD shuck. So none of the drives are smr which is good I guess. I have backups of everything but I would rather not have to use them and have peice of mind.

If you want a more neutral sound signature look into the Sennheiser HD 560s, an amp will help but you could start without an amp and use onboard, they arnt that hard to drive. A decent amp will cost 100 or more, I use the monolith liquid spark with my hd 560s I got it for under 100 "used very good", there's also the atom amp and the schit magni.

The 1050 ti is a fine card, is will struggle on newer games but still run them fine, and run older games flawlessly.

Yes, don't want to kill it with heat or anything, or wear the fans out having to overcompensate and always run at full speed.

What about the vram, I'm pretty sure that uses thermal pads normally, is is also recommended to repad/paste that?

I've never repasted a gpu before and I don't think I need to in the immediate future, but beacause shortages I may start holding onto stuff longer and upgrade less. How important is repasting your gpu after a couple years of intense load? And if you never repaste will the lifespan be significantly shorter beacause heat?, and could you just underclock the card and cool it better to make up for never repasting it, or is repasting mandatory to get 7-10+ years out of a card? And could you just take the paste off and use thermal pads in a pinch? I might do a dry run with an old 560 ti I have beacause I don't care if I break it, and I assume you need to make sure to put everything back exactly the way it was(and not screw up the thermal pads on the vram).