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Cake day: October 5th, 2023

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  • You’re wasting your time. A CPU heatsink is NOT optional. You should just stop any troubleshooting at this point… Until you have a heatsink installed the problem will persist. It takes very little time for a CPU to hit its thermal limits and the motherboard shuts the PC down to protect it. You’re unlikely to cause any damage turning it on without a heatsink thanks to the built in safeguards, but I can guarantee the PC will not stay on long enough to really do anything with it. No BIOS configuration, no OS install, nothing.










  • 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?