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It can “handle it” alright, but keep in mind that the 9900K was the top dog CPU … *checks notes* … 6 years ago, and as such it is pretty thoroughly outclassed by the best AMD and Intel have to offer today. What does this mean to you? Well, if you’re trying to push high refresh rates on some of...

Wow, not even a pretense of objectivity …

Like @stuff and nonesense stated, make sure that your bios is up to date. Then you should be able to run the CPU you posted in the amazon link.

Your GPU is probably set so that the fans don’t kick in until it hits 50 degrees. If you are playing at 1080p low and are being CPU limited (see my first post) then your GPU is doing very little work, isn’t getting very hot, and as such, the fans almost never turn on. Your fans not turning...

Like @Jabberwocky79 said, I think it’s actually HP. Microsoft loves overcomplicating simple things (nobody asked for widows recall) and can’t seem to release a significant Windows update without breaking something, but otherwise I think they’re fine. Sure Apple is expensive and everything is...

This seems to be a textbook example of being CPU limited. Let me explain. Symptoms of being CPU limited: Your frame rate drops significantly and becomes choppy when there are many players/NPCs/objects on the screen Raising/lowering graphical settings makes little to no difference That's...

10 years ago was more like 1 TB per platter. In 2018 I remember the biggest WD Gold drive you could buy was 12 TB. Seven years later, they now sell 26 TB. At the exact same rate of density increase per year, it’ll take them around 13 years to hit 100 TB, which is in the late 2030’s. That’s...

Well, MSFS is very heavy on the CPU & GPU (I know from personal experience) so it’s hard to go overboard, even at 1080p. You’ll want to go beyond the usual 1080p class cards (RTX 4060) and jump to something like a RTX 4070. It has the rendering power and VRAM to ensure a good experience. Oh...

The XX60 series has been a 1080p-class card for at least the last decade. They can be used at 1440p, but they aren’t intended for it. When the 2060 super came out, everyone said to skip the 2070 for 1440p and buy the 2060 super instead. The same thing happened with the 3060 Ti. Problem is...

I also say that the power supply is the most likely culprit

Go with the RTX 4070. It has 12 GB of VRAM vs 10 GB for the 3080 It has a 200 watt TGP vs 320 watts for the 3080, so more power efficient. It supports Frame Generation

Which is why people have been using drives with flashable firmware and makemkv to rip blu ray and UHD disks so that instead of having locked discs that may not be supported in the future, you can instead have a collection of unlocked video files stored on a hard drive that will always be...

Nvidia makes the RTX 4060 (the printed circuit board with its accompanying processor die, memory, etc) , and then other manufacturers (Zotac, MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte, etc) install a cooler on it, tweak the boost clocks a bit, and then sell it under their own brand name. Regardless of the reseller...

I have a 1 Gigabit wired ethernet connection going straight to my TV and streaming quality is still significantly worse than for a physical blu ray or UHD. The issue is that the streaming services don’t make the effort to create high-enough bitrate versions of their media to take full advantage...

The 4060 would in some ways be even better (improved encoders, more power efficient, etc).