AI, right up until it figures out how lazy and easy humans are and it will program games like in the old days; slow, hitches/glitches, need more power.
You could have a grounding issue, as mentioned above, get an electrician, A real one.
You will need to get access to the electric room from your landlord if they find a grounding problem.
Don't know where you live but around here it will cost you $$$.$$.
I'm running a 3700x, 6800xt, 32Gb 3600 ram, 970 evo, at native 4k 60hrz, works great and will keep it until it must be replaced. Came from a 1090t. Only problem is I start to watch the eye candy and not the game.
I'm going with yes they are, you can buy an adapter to go IDE to SATA and S to I; so same chip set as far as where the sparks are going; not 2 chip sets on the same mobo. Cost about $20.
I could be wrong, but IDE is slow, so sata to ide would slow the drive transfer, ide to sata would give you...
Pcb revision, they are multilayer, do take up space, give me more, faster, better, keep the blinking lights; I have plenty of stripper lights I can plug in to the wall.
So are you saying the LEDs, circuits, the engineering, manufacturing, programming, etc, all free?
Passing the savings, if they didn't have rgb to begin with it wouldn't be a price factor.