Dambwithab

Not really, unless there's an absurd amount of malicious programs that are preloaded onto it there is a very very small chance that that could get past the sellers though. so if you're wondering if you have malware on a brand new laptop the answer is most likely no, if you want to have a safety blanket just download malwarebytes and run a scan, it's free so it shouldn't be too much of a hassle

yeah 1.35V is probably a safe thing to keep your chips at but for me I had a ryzen 5 2600 and a noctua NH-D15 which kept it cool enough to where I could overclock it to its maximum. I managed to get 4.3 Ghz but i had the voltage at 1.425, It still ran below 70 degrees under load too that's just the cooling power of the nh d15 i guess.

Thank you all for the replies!

my setup: Ryzen 5 2600 Noctua NH-D15 Cooler 32 GB ram 3200 mhz (4x 8 sticks) Gigabyte Aorus X470 Ultra gaming 1 nvme 500gb M.2 ssd 1 5500 rpm HDD gigabyte aorus rtx 2070 super (not shipped yet) My current psu is a corsair cx550m bronze unit Im worried that the 2070 wont be able to run on such a low psu but I went on a psu calculator and it all said itll be around 500 watts but I need some extra confirmation that it will be able to run at the minimum requirements.