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Almost certainly not. They had spotty 3000 support with many boards requiring a one way bios flash. I doubt they'd be able to stretch it to 5000 series

16GB is more than enough for most games, with some exceptions. Upgrading to 32 will not help performance at all since the game wouldn't be using any more of the ram. As for a "bottleneck", you'll always be limited by many things at different levels in your PC. Faster ram will help performance...

Yes. CV650 specifically is the only DC-DC unit in the CV lineup, the rest are group regulated. It's still a double forward topology, which isn't the best, but won't affect longevity.

it's ips glow. I don't see why you would test for that unless you were noticing issues in normal use, as it is present in all IPS panels, just at different levels (and factories test them to make sure it's not too much).

That will work fine

Yes, pcie x16 has been standard for graphics cards for years now.

Whether you wait is completely up to you. You'll need to decide whether the money saved (or performance per dollar gained) is worth waiting a couple weeks to a month. I don't usually advise those placeholder GPUs, but if you really can't wait, then sure, go for it. 3700X + 3070 should do fine on...

You should have made a new thread instead of tagging along on this old one. But I'll answer. 72C is perfectly fine for a GPU. The case isnt the greatest for airflow, but its definitely not the worst, especially among prebuilts. And having the glass hot to the touch, or hot air coming out...

pretty much just one is RGB. Though one may be a different IC from the other. It doesnt show the subtimings for the Trident Z kit for me, so I wouldn't know what IC it uses. The Ripjaws kit is definitely Hynix DJR, and I suspect the Trident Z is DJR or Rev E, based on pricing. If you dont care...

Yes, you will need something with an AM4 CPU socket, and preferably a B450, X470, X570, or B550 chipset. Wattage is irrelevant to choosing board for the most part. And basically any B450, X470, X570, or B550 board will have at least one m.2 slot, which will fit that SSD. Another thing to...

Asked and answered. Though, I guess the answer is outdated, since its almost the end of the month and theres no sign of it. So, really, no idea.

Drive link isn't public. Though generally the tests don't say much about "what's wrong" other than something is wrong. Test 5 and 6 tend to catch the most errors in my experience. You can sorta judge whats wrong in an overclock by the pattern of the errors (one or two rare errors every once in a...

Yeah, I'm not too sure on this one, sorry. Though I will say that I have this happen to me on my own cooler (though the fan on my cooler is much quieter), where on idle or opening some programs it just ramps up a little out of nowhere. As for the behavior during shutdown, I wouldn't worry too...

Almost all pastes are within a very small margin, unless you overclock. There are actually articles testing lots of different thermal pastes. Here's an example: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-comparison,5108-9.html Basically just get the paste that is the cheapest/ships the...

So it ramps up occasionally on idle to this extent? I'd check temps and load level during those spikes.