Recent content by Flayed

You have the sentence that starts with "Even in this state" repeated.

You can build a very nice gaming PC for 2.5k sans monitor

One foundry to rule them all

Brexit hurt the transport and logistics industry, so I'm not surprised.

If it only crashes during stress tests it might be alright for gaming and general usage.

You could use putty instead of pads https://www.thermal-grizzly.com/en/tg-putty/s-tg-p-b-030

One thing is certain it will be much faster than your old i7-870 with a 2GB Radeon GPU system.

RMA the CPU

My motherboard (Asrock X670E Steel Legend) has 4 NVMe that I think will work at full speed with all of them filled. Only one is PCIe 5, although I don't see that as an issue. It takes a while to install a large game onto a SATA SSD, which can be annoying if you're eager to play right away.

Have a look at this, I think your CPU is around 15 to 20% slower than a Ryzen 5600 https://www.techspot.com/review/2825-older-ryzen-cpu-fast-modern-gpu/

If I read it right and this will be your first build don't forget to mitigate any static discharge. You could use a wristband or do what I do which is touch a large radiator before handling components.

A new video card with 16GB of vram for gaming at 4k. A 9070xt or 5070 ti or wait for the 5070 super.

I need one of these to play a Slayer tape I found in the back of a cupboard

Steam summer sale an event which my bank balance dreads lol

Having read through the list of what you have tried I agree with Lutfij it is time to try a new or known good PSU