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For your write-rarely purposes, it's not going to matter, and 5400 vs 7200 RPM probably won't matter either. (And I've seen reports that some of the WD drives actually spin faster than advertised; I don't know if that particular Blue is one of them.) Left to myself, from those two, I'd...

USB-C is the connector system spec that defines the connector and cabling requirements. it's up to a Rev 2.2, according to wiki, but I'd be gobsmacked if you would be able to find any rev labeling on <fill in any device here>. USB-C doesn't mandate that the cabling be capable of anything...

What I question is where you get that 51% number from. It must be a scenario specific to something that you are doing, because it doesn't match up with any reviews or benchmarks that I've seen anywhere else. In any case I'm not interested in arguing with you. You make one post bashing...

I'd try a couple things: one, pull the added "silver" sticks and re-run memtest just to make sure your original kit is stable. Two, pull the original gold sticks from one machine, put in all 4 sticks of the new silver, and run memtest. I suspect it's the mix, possibly along with the...

You have B and D channels dual-ranked, but A and C not. While this configuration ought to work in theory, I don't know how well it will do in practice. In addition to memtest to make sure you don't have a bad stick, I'd maybe try turning off XMP (or DOCP or whatever Asus calls it) and see if...

As I've said elsewhere, you can't look at CL numbers in isolation without also considering the memory clock. Higher clocked memory necessarily has larger CL numbers because the clock tick is shorter. CL numbers are in clock ticks, so the actual delay has to consider the tick duration as well...

Could you briefly summarize? I loathe having to sit though all the video blather.

No, this is false, or at best misleading. The 5800X3D is not half the speed, single thread, of a 13900K, unless you're looking at some very specific benchmark that favors the Intel CPU. They are much closer. One site (techpowerup) concludes that the 5800X3D is about 7% slower single thread...

Single thread on the 5800X3D is hardly "poo". It's marginally slower than a 5800X, when you exclude cache effects, because the clock is a little lower. I personally don't consider a few percentage points, that you can't detect unless you're watching the fps meter, to be a big deal. Whether...

Antenna design depends mostly on the wavelength (frequency), and has little or nothing to do with the encoding. So the answer is no, they don't grow obsolete - unless an entirely new frequency band is opened for wifi, and the chances of that happening are slim.

I have several Asrock boards, including an X470 Taichi Ultimate, and a number of B450 Pro4's. I have no complaints about the hardware. The BIOS can be obscure in some places, but nothing worse IMO than gigabyte or the others, just different. I can't comment on bundled software because I never...

Keep in mind that 3200CL16 and 3600CL18 are exactly the same CAS latency; you can't compare timing numbers in a vacuum, you need to apply the transfer rate as well, because timing numbers are in clock ticks. A 3600 (1800MHz) tick is faster / doesn't last as long as a 3200 (1600MHz) clock tick...

Same transfer rate? because if not, the numbers aren't comparable. GIven same transfer rate, I'm not sure it would matter unless there's some reason to believe that one is much more tunable than the other. The actual timing difference is a fraction of a nanosecond.

Or a 2x16 setup with dual ranked DIMM's. I'm 99.9% sure that they were demonstrating the benefits of dual ranking, not some intrinsic benefit of 4 sticks. 4x8 is guaranteed dual rank, while these days 2x16 is not; and Zen 3 is the first Ryzen with a controller that can reliably run 4 sticks...

The point would seem to be to cater to the vast majority of desktop users who want an AM5 CPU, and aside from that, only need a GPU slot, an m.2 slot or maybe two, and maybe a SATA port or two. I would have done all but one or two of my builds on A320 or A520 except that A320 was crap, and...

I have to admit I'm puzzled by the emphasis on boot times. Who cares? Don't shut your machines down, sleep them. Deep sleep / hibernate doesn't (shoudn't) take much more power than power-off, if any more. I reboot the "office" laptop maybe once every couple months when there's an OS update...

You can't ask for "best" without indicating what metric is most important. There's no such thing as a part that is fastest in all measurements, cheapest, and most reliable, all at the same time. For my workload the best PCIe 3.0 SSD is probably the Samsung 970 Pro. Best as in cheapest per...

At the moment, I see 1 TB 980 pro 1 TB 970 pro 128 GB PM843 256 GB 860 evo 3x 1 TB Crucial MX500 2x 500GB Crucial MX500 480 GB Crucial BX500 250 GB Toshiba RD400 500 GB Mushkin Raw 1 TB SK Hynix P31 1 TB HP EX920 1 TB EX900 Pro (a Biwin unit) 240 GB Team L5 Lite 3D 2x 480 GB Team L5 Lite 3D 128...

You won't be going AM5 then, as it's DDR5 only. Or were you just saying that you are sticking with 32GB memory?

Subjectively, for most users, SSD's are a commodity item just like soap -- as long as you buy an established and/or well-reviewed brand, it's unlikely that you will notice any difference among drives. So, the question is what does she do with the computer? Users who do a LOT of writing, or who...

Most ATX power supplies have an intake fan on bottom or top, and most cases seem to encourage fan on the bottom. Exhaust will generally be out the back. No idea what rack PSU's do; maybe the assumption is that the case air is already hot and the PSU wants outside cool air?

3200CL16 is exactly the same CAS latency as 3600CL18, 10 nanoseconds. CL is listed in clock ticks, and faster transfer rates have higher clocks / shorter clock ticks. The formula is (1000/(MTs / 2)) * CL gives CAS latency in nanoseconds. MTs is the transfer rate in MT/s, universally...

It appears that running 4 sticks of DDR5 is very problematic for current memory controllers, so I'd say no. If you were to do anything along those lines, it would be buy 2 new sticks and sell the old, probably for a loss.

If you're going to run at 2.5gbit, I'd probably pick the Realtek. If you are running at the traditional 1gbit, either should work. I have zero problems with my 225V (3rd rev), however the rest of my LAN is 1gbit. The 225V at 2.5gbit may still be seeing some throughput consistency issues...

What video capabilities do you need out of the second box? HD 6450's are cheap and work perfectly well for desktop and 1080p youtube video, even if they are older than dirt. Dunno how they'd do at higher resolutions. I see low profile RX550's out there which are rather better if you need...

Your best value is to leave it alone. There are certainly situations where NVMe subjectively beats SATA in real life: moving multi-gigabyte files around, for instance. Boot times might be a second or so faster, maybe. Game loading times for very large games might be a little better...

The paste used on the stock Wraith coolers is known to turn into glue over time. As others have posted, your best bet is to warm it up, and then be patient. I've had to unlock the CPU and remove it on the cooler, to make it easier to get a very fine blade into one corner to encourage the...

And you can't rely on it, because the BIOS options can change with updates. Maybe not so much for the Z790, as 13th gen the end of the line for that chipset. I have an Asrock X470 and the current BIOS settings and layout are very different from what's in the 4 year old manual.

Notwithstanding all the hate on the RX 6400, that might be an option if OP doesn't have a video card. It's significantly better than a 1030 for $140-ish (US). Significantly worse than a used RX 580, of course, but one can't always find the latter.

What graphics card are you going to pair the CPU with? none of them have integrated graphics. Assuming that you have decided on a GPU, I'd probably go along with the rest and vote for the 5600.

Unless there's an airflow restriction, such as a radiator or a crappy closed-off front panel design, yes, an airflow-optimized fan is probably preferred. Keep in mind that there's relatively little difference between a static pressure optimized and an airflow optimized fan. These are...

Airflow optimized is probably the better choice. The rear grille doesn't impede the airflow to any noticeable extent; it's not like trying to push air through a dense radiator.

That's going to be a problem when there's 16 GB of ram in the computer, and you still need lots of room for game engine code, framebuffers, game logic data, etc etc. VRAM adds another 8 GB or so, but a lot of that is needed for GPU processing, and it's no help when you are dealing with sounds...

Caches it where? You mentioned 24 and 40 gigabyte files, that's not going to work with a typical 16GB RAM desktop. Even caching an entire 4+ gig phrase file might be an issue, given everything else that a game engine might want/need to keep in memory. Caching stuff you won't need is a waste...

Multiple things. Often it's CPU setup and processing time swamping out transfer time. Very frequently, the I/O is random, not sequential; worse, the random I/O is often issued sequentially, so queue depths are very small. NVMe drives aren't all that much better than SATA drives at handling a...

Before you revert, have you tried a plugs-out, battery-out CMOS reset? Try that, install the new CPU without booting the old one, and see if anything happens.

Have you tried updating your X370 board's BIOS? MSI B450 Pro Carbon if you can find one at a good price; MSI B450 Tomahawk; Asrock B450/450M Pro4; Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite are all decent enough B450's. I suspect you might have a better chance of finding the Asrock Pro4 at a good price, they...

The bit that caught my eye was: Are you having performance issues with hunt showdown? because if you aren't seeing issues, I'm not sure why you would want to upgrade...

Since I'm not interested in spending 51 minutes of my life listening to someone talking, anyone care to summarize?

Get the cheap stuff. A 4% memory speed difference probably translates to under 0.5% of system performance difference, if even that. You'd need a direly cache-busting program to see a real overall difference.