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  • Swap the 5700X for a 5600X and bump the 6500XT up to a 6600 (non-xt is fine). They won’t notice any difference with the CPU swap and that frees up the money to switch to a better GPU with 8gb vram which will keep them happy for much longer. I ran a 6600 for a while at 1440p and was impressed by it especially for how little I spent. Other than that, should do fine. Silicon Power has had reliability issues in the past, not sure if they got better. I ran an SP drive for a few years and didn’t have issues fwiw, but you may want to see if there’s anything in recent reviews about their ssds.


  • That seems like a pretty extreme measure for protection and I have so many questions… How often are you using wet hands with your mouse? Are the vents directly below the edge of the desk/table so that any liquid would drop off directly into the vents? Could you simply push the desktop back a little and not have the vents directly below the edge where liquids might fall? Do you have a cloth mousepad that would likely pick up any small amount of liquid that might come off your hand?





  • In that case, I’d be inclined to agree with Rimu about it being PSU related. I’d recommend carefully inspecting your 24 pin power cable and motherboard plug to see if any of the pins are damaged. Also, if you can, try and give each individual wire a little tug. Sometimes the pin isn’t locked in properly and when you plug the cable in, the individual pin will get pushed out.







  • Thankfully both boards support bios flashback so as long as OP prepares a USB drive ahead of time, they can update bios without a CPU.

    Also agreed on the X*70s. Besides the OCing stuff you’ll see more pcie lanes but it doesn’t sound like that’s much of a concern for OP. Personally, with the small price difference and similar capabilities, I’d go with the one I thought looked better lol. The average user probably won’t notice any difference between the two.


  • Option 1 would be the better way to go first imo. The 9400 was an ok CPU but those 9th gens are really starting to show their age. You’re also holding it back by only using a single stick of ram. Your RX580 can hold out a bit longer with a better CPU and faster memory in dual channel, but if you upgrade the GPU first you’ll still be seeing the same performance issues. If you do go with option 1, make sure you have the proper mounting kit for your heatsink. AM5 is very different from 1151.





  • I’ve seen a bunch of people recommend this and I’ve played around with it a bit since they initially added frame gen to Lossless Scaling. It never feels smooth. There’s always some stutter/jitter in the frames that makes it feel terrible, even when it’s “100+ fps”. Definitely feels worse than a native 60. Also worse than AMDs fluid motion frames option which does feel and look smoother. I leave it installed and come back from time to time to see if it’s improved but it’s just not something I’ve found to be enjoyable or an improvement to my gaming experience.