TheGoatGuy

If they were off the shelf parts, it would be a good deal, but prebuilds from Dell come with proprietary parts and the 3060 Ti is recommended to have a 600W PSU, not 500. And don’t forget their poor customer support.

If you can buy a 1660S, I would. You could sell it when you want to upgrade since used, budget parts tend to be fairly popular. But this just what I would do.

Dang, I figured. I will contact EVGA tomorrow about RMA-ing the card. Thank you for the help!!

Sounds good. Is there anyway I can test to see if that's the issue on my own or no? (obviously without breaking the warranty.)

This last weekend, I built my first computer and after I had been overclocking my graphics card (new EVGA 1660 Super), I noticed a ticking/clicking noise that sounded like a clock (listen to attached file). I started Heaven Benchmark to see what would happen, but as the fans ramped up the noise went away. I decided to just keep an eye on it (or ear lol), but I noticed it again today. My first guess at the source was either the PSU (fan or possibly capacitors) or the PC fans, but I did some testing/troubleshooting to try to figure it out. Troubleshooting Steps: Disconnected all fans and the noise persisted (I reconnected them for the rest of the steps) Ran Heaven and noticed that the sound went away when my PC was being pushed Adjusted GPU fan speeds while at idle and found that (all % are approximate): at ≈30% fan speed and higher, the noise was nonexistent between around 10-30%, the noise stayed at about the same volume and frequency below about 10% it slowed a little and got a bit quieter I am almost 100% sure that it is the GPU making the noise, and it is very likely the fans as nothing was being changed about the GPU itself, just the speeds (however I could very well be wrong). I just bought it new from Microcenter (at a store, not online) last week, and I could definitely reach out to EVGA to possibly RMA the card or see if I could fix it myself. Funnily enough, the clock-like ticking ticks about once per second which actually made me think someone hid a clock in my room at first lol. What is causing the noise? Is it potentially dangerous? Could it get worse over time? If anything, it is quite annoying so it is not something I can "just deal with". Thanks in advance for any help! PC Ticking at Idle.m4a (The attached .m4a file is the sound of the computer ticking. The noise is a little quiet against the white noise from the fans, so you may need to turn up your volume a bit.)

A 450w PSU is recommended for a 1660S. I have a 1660S and it tends to use around 125-130W at max load (99% on Heaven Benchmark, overclocked.) Brand might make a difference, but I would recommend you get at least a 450W power supply.

IMO Nvidia/AMD should work with Ebay, Craigslist, etc. to add a price limit to $X over MSRP. So for example, I couldn’t buy a 3070 and sell it for $700.

The Corsair Vengence LPX sticks are very low profile (34mm), and in Amazon reviews I read, people had no issues with RAM that was 8-10mm taller. You should have no problems. Hope this helps!

Maybe I’ll make Tux cookie next

It was pretty much the same until XP where they moved away from the dissolving look, and with Windows 8 it changed to the current blue one

Idk the cookie recipe as I didn’t make them, but the colors and white frosting is just milk, powdered sugar, and a tiny bit of vanilla. The black part is decorating frosting from the store.

It’s not great but hey, it’s a cookie lol

Check out the PSU Tier List. Anything in the C Tier or higher will be good. Unless you really need the extra storage, I would recommend a 500GB SSD for about the same price. Later on down the line you can buy a HDD for bulk storage when you need it. It’s already been said, but the AMD stock cooler is very good. (Maybe some light overclocking if you want to).

For the HDD, I would use the Seagate Barracuda 2TB. It costs $10 more but obviously it’s double the storage which will be helpful if she’s doing photo editing and wants to store a bunch of stuff. (And has 28,000+ Amazon reviews). You also might want to get a Ryzen 5 3600 instead. It’s a newer (now last gen but still very good) processor for only $30 more. It would also be ideal to go for a B550 board for longer life in case of upgrades in the future. Everything else looks to to me, however I’m not an expert so make of that what you will.

You can try to reach out to the company and see if they list an actual PSU manufacturer, you also could swap it out with a different one when you buy it if needed.