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I'm looking to build a small/portable system that can be used to recover hard drives and other forms of media on site. I want to use hot swap bays for drives to avoid issues with USB/eSATA. I'm sometime backing up multiple drives in a row, so external bays are strongly preferred. I did some...

Also, with the increased width that's common of the current generation of GPU's, there's a very narrow selection of water-cooled gpu's that will fit and still be able to get on a side panel.

I chose an NCASE M1 for my late 2020 build. I'm likely not your core audience, but since you're asking for feedback, I thought I'd chip in. There are a few things that would have prevented me from being interested in this build. Functional: -Larger volume. At ~19L, this stops being...

Kick the surge protector and see if that resets the PC. Then try plugging it in directly to the wall. Eventually, you should be able to replicate the problem pretty well. Sans a spinning hard drive, I can't think of a major risk to being somewhat vigorous to intentionally trigger the reset. Be...

Now my bet is the outlet or power cable. Do you have a uninterruptible power supply? Have you swapped power cables (the one that plugs into the wall)?

Ah, misunderstood that you were powering your SSD from the 2nd psu. Have you tried emailing add2psu and asking if it can run without the 12v? Or, as an alternate solution, are you willing to power down the system with a physical switch every time?

Some other thoughts to try and persuade you to stick with the 5600x. ^-^ What peripherals do you have? Are there any that could use updating? What kinds of games do you play? There's a few ways the price difference between the two CPUs could go a long way into transforming your gaming...

1) I have no personal experience with the T1, but I did a little searching. Most builds that I saw in 3-slot mode with high end hardware had an AIO and ran on the warmer side with a little undervolting. Didn't spend a lot of time searching, but it looks promising. I'd check what air coolers are...

Maybe a sata power splitter to a sata to molex adapter?

Can you replicate the the problem with the case sides open? Look and see what moves as you turn the case. Try jiggling various cords. Look for a bad cable with an internal short. -External power -Power extension -Reset cable -Power cable Unplug the reset cable. Use a different power switch, or...

Positive pressure = Most/All fans are intaking cool air into the case and hot air leaks out through mesh. Negative pressure = Most/All fans are exhausting hot our out of the case and cool air leaks in through the mesh. Neutral/balanced pressure = Intake and exhaust are roughly balanced. Cooling...

There's lots of ways to tweak your cooling. You could build air channels to help separate the two components. You could go positive or negative pressure in your case. A lot of this depends on workload, how much heat you actually need to clear from your case and your ambient temperatures. I'd...

Diminishing returns will likely bite you here. For a pure gaming rig, you’re better off getting the the 5600x and saving the extra cash. Depending on your setup, you may not even notice a difference in gaming on a 3300x vs a 5600x. (You’ll quickly see the difference in benchmarks, but without...

How much of a gap is there once the fans are installed? I wouldn’t think it could make a big difference in gpu thermals. If you’re willing to test it would be interesting to see how much difference a few mm makes. Personally I’d try both intake and exhaust and see what thermals look like. I’d...

I'm looking to get 2x32 ECC vlp udimms. While I think I'm understanding everything in the thread, I'm having trouble taking that knowledge and searching for results. Anyone got a good primer on how to use international sales sites to search for ram? Any recommended sites or searches to look for...