I can tell you its a 650w Evga psu, not sure if that helps any.
EVGA has sold PSUs from great quality (e.g SuperNova G7) all the way to the complete crap (e.g W1, N1 series). So, this little info doesn't tell much.
EVGA usually puts the PSU label on the side, rather than on the top. So, if you open the PC's back panel, behind MoBo, can you see the label?
I honestly think I'm at the point where I might look at buying another pre-built. Andromeda Insights has good prices
For prebuilt, only brand that i can suggest, is StarForge,
link:
https://starforgesystems.com/
E.g Horizon III Elite at $1500,
specs:
https://starforgesystems.com/products/horizon-iii-elite
Now, as of what makes StarForge in general good, is that they are one of the very few prebuilt system sellers, who actually assemble the build properly, without minor or major issues.
GamersNexus is buying prebuilt PCs incognito and then making in-depth reviews of them, so that people know which prebuilt company to look for and which one to avoid like a plague.
Here is their YT playlist of prebuilt reviews:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsuVSmND84QuM2HKzG7ipbIbE_R5EnCLM
StarForge prebuilt has been on the spotlight 2 times now. 1st time there were some loose screw issues but 2nd time around, all was in order and build was one of the very few properly built.
Another thing that i like about StarForge is that they openly state what make/model PSU comes with the prebuilt PC. This is actually
very rare to see, since most prebuilt PC brands only list PSU's wattage. Sometimes even efficiency but that's it. This means that PSU is often the cheaped out component inside the prebuilt PC. Because when PSU is crap, no-one is going to openly state the make/model. But if PSU would be actually good, stating the make/model actually helps to sell the PC.
Prime example; random Asus prebuilt,
specs:
https://rog.asus.com/desktops/mid-tower/rog-strix-g13ch-series/spec/
If you look at PSU specs, all it says, is wattage and efficiency. Nothing more. If same info would be said about CPU or GPU, the listing would say;
CPU - Intel Core i7 (16 cores)
GPU - Nvidia (8GB VRAM)
Yet, there's in-depth info about CPU and GPU.
But with StarForge PC and the Horizon III Elite i linked, you can see on the tin, that the PSU it comes with, is MSI MAG A750GL PCI-E 5.
That PSU is Tier B unit.
PSU Tier list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...JWkc/edit?pli=1&gid=1973454078#gid=1973454078
While i'd like to see Tier A or A+ PSU in the prebuilt, it would jack up the overall price and only very few people are willing to pay money for great quality PSU (including yours truly). While most people love to cheap out on PSU.
But with PSUs, there is a catch:
Since PSU powers everything, it is
the most important component inside the PC.
Hence why NEVER cheap out on PSU! Also, never buy used PSU either.
MSI motherboards are by far the worst Ive ever has I had a intel MSI that was absolute trash audio drivers.
That depends on the specific audio codec used, rather than calling "all MSI MoBos have terrible audio".
E.g the two MSI MoBos i'm using, they both have Realtek ALC1150 audio codec and i can't say anything bad about audio on my MSI MoBos.
Though, the new MoBos we're going with, have Realtek ALC4082 audio codec. How that fares, i can tell in 3 months time, once we have new MoBos up and running.
And avoid Realtek® ALC897 Codec it's a crappy excuse of a audio codec.
If you pay peanuts - you will get monkeys. Simple as that.
ALC897 is used on the cheap, low end MoBos. Hence the poor sound quality.
OP's MoBo also has the ALC897 codec. So... probably the bane of all the issues.
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