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just a "dumb" question, is it really usage or allocation ? because the second doesn't mean it's really used, and a LOT of people are confused with that point.

well, you have 2 possibilities. the inductor die by itself (this can happen if borderline spec, and so) and pray everything behind/after it doesn't die... (and i don't believe it... specially what is connected at her output.) the second is evrything behind and after it died too... but first, you have to track on what it's connected, desoldering it, and see at least, if the converter behind it still provide normal voltage (not 0V or 12V) R68 mean 680 nano henry, for her value. then, you mostly have to guess how many amps could go trhu it, depending on what is the load.

that's it. but to complete the answer, there's no real 128 bit ddr4 stick. one module is 64 bit whatever single or dual rank. i didn't say dual rank is not better, i say it has little to no influence. depending of what you do

256 bit can only be with quad channel configuration, nothing else. ranks have nothing to deal with channel configuration. ranks organisation have little to no influence in performance. as far i know, "cheap" quad channel is only possible with threadripper.

i can't tell for sure in general. but thermal throttling will seriously impact sequential read/write, by a factor of 10/20... so, it become slow as a "classic" hard drive. but, in the other hand, access time and random read/write are still better, even in thermal throttling situation. sooo, maybe you can feel it in game when big files are loaded. operating temperature has always meaning for ambient temperature range. but i agree, it's not always clear. and sometimes, you don't easily get this information. for the exemple, i tried to find it for my seasonic focus gx650 and found nothing... nothing on the box or in booklet. you have to go on their website to get it. and it's 0-50°C. and i can assure you, when you load a psu, even 80+ gold, some internal parts can go over 50°C.

this is a misinterpretation of this temperature range, operating temperature is not the controller temperature himself. this mean, it can operate upto 70°C ambient temperature. the controller himself probably have a max junction temperature around 150°C. 96°C is not critical for the controller, but it lead for sure to thermal throttling.

oh, far more nice

amazon sellers are incredibly expensive for those stuff. the same kit (3600 CL16) cost 69.59£ directly from crucial. at the price from amazon, if you add around 10£ more, you can get the 32 GB kit.

phew... this price... as the main question is answered, i can only advice you to buy your kit directly from crucial, i think you'll be surprised.

ahem... if you peak at 750W for the gpu only, on let's say, half loaded 750W psu... but nvidia did not say 750 is a mandatory minimal. they also say less can be fine depending of the whole setup. that's on their website.

yep, but it was an I5 with less cores, no hyperthreding, and a lower TDP, and others little differences like die/ihs thickness. 10th gen run hotter, and this cannot really be considered abnormal. you got 8 cores, hyperthreding, and far higher TDP. and considering 10th gen is again a skylake refreshing... it's more hard to get power efficency.

it is, but intel decided to not keep compatibilty. so you need to change the motherboard, or... if you like modding, there's unofficial ways to run 9th gen on z170/270 chipset. but it require bios and cpu modding. not so easy for everyone. but if you're lucky, maybe someone already has modded bios for your motherboard model if i remember, the cpu modding is not too hard, it consist of covering some pin with adhesive tape. but anyway, considering all of this is dead platform, i think you better put that money on more recent hardware...

a very hot guy. fermi was the geforce 4xx series gpu codename. the 480 was notorious to have the ability to cook your eggs, and boiling your cofee at the same time

Hi, i don't really understand that point, as you can manually set the max framerate the gpu has to render in nvidia control panel. at least, you won't waste more watts than necessary to achieve 144 fps. from my point of view, this is a nice feature. let's say... if you like to play at 60 fps in full hd, and if you lock the max framerate, the 3080 will run very very very cool in a lot of games.

no, just forget, i didn't see the second page but anyway, don't worry for the psu itself. they are short circuit protected. that's why you just get very briefly light blink and shut down. that's the short circuit protection doing his perfect job.