Jumping in here cuz that 9850X3D is such an amazing chip, congrats! Honestly, for long-term peace of mind, you should totally look at phase-change mat...

Just saw this thread and honestly, the Z97 days really were way simpler. No worrying about BIOS flashbacks or massive power draws like we do now. In m...

> I dont want to mess up the install and have bubbles everywhere because that would drive me crazy... I feel your pain on the bubble thing. Years a...

I went through this exact struggle last year when I upgraded my lab setup. I tried an OLED but the text clarity for my spreadsheets was just... not it...

@Reply #1 - good point! But honestly, i'd be careful about thermals. I grabbed a gen 5 drive last month and it throttled like crazy cuz my case airflo...

Solid advice 👍

Totally agree with Bubblebyte here. From what I've seen over the years with AMD chips, the memory controller is usually the bottleneck for these APUs....

Just found this thread and honestly I was so stressed about the DIY side of things. Ive never even looked inside a console before and I almost went to...

Tbh, X670E is overkill. I've seen MSI MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI boot faster than ASUS, but ASRock B650E Steel Legend Wi-Fi has better features for the pr...

For your situation, I would suggest the Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD. I actually put one in my old laptop last month and I'm...