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You can take it to to a nearby computer repair shop like, Micro Center or Geeksquad, where they can do it for you or you can buy an A6 9500 from Amazon for $37 to update the bios on your own

Actually, you might be right. That document I linked is labeled “Unique Features”. There’s another download down the page for the User Manual, which doesn’t mention Q-Flash Plus. I don’t know why they list Q-Flash Plus in the Unique Features manual under the download section of the X470 gaming 5...

Yes, Gigabyte X470 Aorus gaming 5 WiFi. It’s in the manual. There’s a section on Q-Flash Plus

I just did some research and I believe your motherboard supports Q-Flash Plus, which allows you to flash the BIOS without an installed CPU. Here are the instructions for using Q-Flash Plus from Gigabyte's manual: From GIGABYTE's website, download the latest compressed BIOS update file that...

Seems like a PSU issue if the whole system is shutting down. It might not be supplying the 1660 with enough power

Yes, check the pcie cables from the PSU to make sure they’re properly plugged into the RX 580. Also, make sure the RX 580 is in the first PCIE slot which is x16. As boju mentioned, an X470 needs to have its bios updated to support the 3600 and the update can’t be done without a compatible cpu...

Full System specs?

When you’re running the installation media hold shift+f10. At the command prompt type: cd x:\windows\system32\oobe. Once you’re in that directory type: msoobe. Follow the instructions on there and see if it’ll allow the installation to continue

It won’t harm anything if you don’t upgrade, but you might be missing out on bug fixes and performance improvements

By wiping the drive do you mean you deleted the volume and reformatted the drive before reinstalling Windows? Run PowerShell as admin and run “sfc /scannow” (no quotes). If it found any corruptions then run it again until it says that no corruptions were found. Reboot and run windows update to...

It’s the chipset drivers you might be looking for. It’s on AMD’s website under Support.

Yes, you’ll need to upgrade your motherboard to support DDR4 RAM and and a better generation processor if gaming/streaming is what you’re going for. If I were in your position, I’d upgrade my CPU to a Ryzen 2700 (~$186 on amazon). A good motherboard would be Asus prime B450M-A($78 on Amazon)...

Do you have an os installed yet?

You’re probably running the DCH drivers now and the Nvidia control panel needs to be installed through the windows store

How long have you left the overclocked tests running? Sometimes my overclocks seem stable when I run tests but during actual gaming they’re not