For a LATEST and most MODERN capital ship in lore and technically game wise too, the Polaris is massively under tiered in terms of weapons in comparison to other military and even non-combat focused vessels.
Polaris loadout as of now from Erkul stands at ; - 1x Remote missile launcher - 1x S4 Quad - 1x S5 Quad - 3x S5 Dual
Now lets compare it to other capitals ; Idris M specifically - 1x S7 Dual - 6x S5 Dual
BMM (cargo/freight ship btw, not even classified as military ) - 2x S8 - 1x S6 Dual - 2x S5 Quad - 4x Point defence turret (unknown size)
However there are also plenty of much smaller ships that almost have the same capabilities as Polaris ;

• The A2 Crusader, a bomber / gunship, has 8 size 5 weapons (not to mention the other turrets and bombs).
• The Odyssey, a civilian ship dedicated to exploration, has 3 turrets in 2 x S5 configuration.
• The Nautilus, a minelayer designed to operate with the support of a fleet, has 2 x S7 turrets at the front.
• The Taurus, a civilian cargo ship, has 4 x S5 (managed by the pilot)
• The Galaxy, a non-combat civilian ship, has 3 turrets in 2 x S5 configuration
• Reclaimer, an autonomous salvage vessel with 2 x S5s
• the 600i, a luxury 'exploration' vessel, carries 3 x S5
• The Corsair, a medium exploration/piracy ship, has 4 x S5...
• The Starfarer Gemini, a logistics/fuel ship, takes 2 x S5...

( this list is taken from @Promettheuss in spectrum <3 ty for the list )
TL:DR Polaris is seriously lacking in terms of firepower if you remove the torpedo and we all know those torpedoes won’t be effective since they could easily be targetted. CIG wants to promote multi crew gameplay but what is the point when 4 solo corsair that is designed for exploration easily out DPS a MILITARY CLASSED CAPITAL fully manned.
Yes there are plenty of posts on spectrum highlighting this issue but im just posting for awareness.

**What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.**

i will be gaming. mostly just fortnite, apex, sims 4, overwatch, valorant, and poppys playtime

**What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?**

$1000, i can go a little over though

**When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.**

plan on buying in a a few days

**What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc\)**

everything, this will be my first build. i do not have access to an ethernet port though

**Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?**

will be purchasing in midwest north america with access to microcenter

**If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.**

not reusing anything

**Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?**

nope

**Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)**

don't think so. though i would like it (the keyboard & pc itself) to be pretty quiet if possible so i don't annoy my roommates

**Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?**

i would like a white theme! doesn't have to be all-white since i prioritize performance over aesthetics. if at least the tower case would be white though that would be nice!

**Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?**

nope

Ethernet has landline 1900s phones two pairs wires reserved in the spec sheet its 8 or so wires when crimping the ends uses like two with one for ground and one seemingly empty and then has two for phone and some unused, with old 10/100 baseT coax with terminating ends exactly like optical or coax 90s cable TV with optical fiber 99% of the way just your block has coax to the rest which uses the 'same'DOCSIS data over cable standards as fibre optic.. just slightly worse latency and bandwidth is calculated by latency things like wifi lan has like 11 channels or 15 channels of frequency which optical calls wavelengths of light. A 2015 or around there linus tech tips video of him going to a swedish lan party called dreamhack had a bunch of multiple redundant 8Terabit or was it bytes of fibre optic internet they explained with light having 7 colors but having 8terabytes of bandwidth with different wavelengths of light called frequencys or a better term for optics is known as LASER ARRAYS of light at fixed frequencys that often plugs into the PC via ethernet cables or whatever for a gamer lan party or home/residential or small businesses at realistically within budget of anything with enough users to require that bandwidth or 'web hosting or web servers' you dont need to be an undersea cable or international link with 200terabits plus for an internet exchange to your main CBD or the fastest like the netherlands IX...
So the problem im trying to solve is, here in australia we got our undersea cables done wrong they kept breaking and we didnt have a navy or defense force securing our countrys communications to prevent war crimes and keep us connected to the global banking systems or whatever.. and then when our biggest telcos cable or fibre all had dialup speeds for around 2 weeks in the early years 2000s to force us to pay other countrys to connect to their links and be ' end of the line' maybe paywalled or proxied off the internet randsomewared to connect to and borrow bandwidth from other countries satellites and other countries undersea link cables which truly were indestructible to any cruise liner ships anchors whatever being flexible giant steel braided cables big as a CAR when australia finally paid to lay small sections of that stuff to link up to others and not pay randsome to internet butt bandits or have private businesses and multi nationals run their own links and ignore the public our lack of a defense force actually let somalian pirates literally somehow pick up and walk off with our expensive undersea car sized cables filled with a few arms thick of hair thin fibre optics which is cheapest clear resin enamels plastics about $3 not sure if USD per kilometer and resembles modern glass/glazing. How does anybody steal that stuff without people noticing like you cant just load it onto a truck and drive away? or a boat? if only satellites and some sort of defense organization existed to prevent us from being impersonated or whatever.. So now in australia ANYTHING with words like gigabit costs a fortune for a mainboard or switch or ethernet hub.. but the ancient 1900s 10/100 telephone land line wires of ethernet 10/100 clock in at a whopping 13 or so mhz sometimes 27.. and 60 or more mhz for like gigabits and whatever it increases shockingly fast with each mhz clock cycle as its units of work over time in nano seconds or zeptoseconds you see billionths of a second nano second RAM and PC with windows realtime kernel actually uses like ryzen hardware negative latency faster than reality freely syncing with any device in the universe and fixed mhz frequency bus can drive like 50 to 100 or thousands of GPU's and HDDs and monitors or whatever from the one modern multicore PC or whatever.. 90s AMD business server still holds world records for most connected devices though it had stackable CPUs opteron and would have used infinity cache type stuff probably software 3dnow and evolving game worlds tech of 80s and 90s AMD gaming evolved advertising.
So in australia anything gigabits costs hundreds of dollars for a switch router some thousands for lots of ports.. but its the shittiest weakest bandwidth ever with mhz and performance miles short of a raspberry pie or whatever. I had to pay a fortune for a mainboard with 10gigabit LAN port and everytime i got a high speed LAN port its been broken or missing so some pricks can sell ebay routers or switches for thousands here.. not knowing why its so expensive is youre paying fortunes for any real bandwidth because australia has to pay literal somalian pirates for their internet connections or privately owned businesses like telstra for access to their private links and glares at countries like new zealand and hawaii for being super technologically superior.. a cheap USB ethernet adaptor costs under 10 bucks on ebay or whatever and is maybe gigabit and your switches and routers 90% of the time you want the cheapest UNMANAGED switch possible. Yet the mainboard i recently purchased ASUS pro art creator x670E i recall had an issue with some asshats trying to steal pathetic measly 40gigabit USB4 chips from all the boards at the computer store to sell on EBay as other junk, when anything in the universe with an M.2 ULTRA slot does 40gigabits since PCI express 3.0/4.0 as PCI express 3.0 SSD drives famously use a specific I/O controller chip which gives them 38gigabits of the ultra M.2 slots 40gigabits of bandwidth. But for a couple years when AMD had pci express 4.0 and better than M.2 ultra intel was playing catch up on PCI express 3.0 and still had regular m.2 in all their boards until AMD was ready for pci express 5.0 my friend on intel bought the same NVME drives and complained they had corruption errors or issues i later learned his board wasnt fast enough and he was maybe trying to use the samsung magician RAM disk and enable NVME features and functions intel maybe did not yet support.
So.. why is USB 4 so many years late and why is it so dang expensive when terabits of ethernet or anything optical is like the cheapest stuff ever and comes with every internet connection since the 90s at the lowest cheapest mhz and 1900s land line wire telephones ever, remember digital isnt a physical thing and everythings literally analog with a sensor or multimeter whatever mathematically translating it to a graph or algebra equation mapping it into different values digitally +10 -10 whatever using microphones or camera sensor whatever. the gigabits tax and uhh LAN port taxes for dumb gay australians being literally see it via satellite outerspace levels dumb and gay astrogaylian should not apply to the cheapest of raspberry pie free 3d print or laser CNC yourself something computery like risc V for the cheapest of USB flash drives or memory cards etc.
I get intel pretends to have invented court ordered USB to probe their hardware after it was proven to have used other peoples code and chips by the chip makers and them selling computers with keyboard and mouse hardwired in so you bought a whole new computer when a key broke on the keyboard couldnt replace them.. and every other device had USB but theirs didnt free open standard and it kinda being the only way to connect any device in the universe and freely sync with it (mics/phones whatever).
why is 1900s phone tech ethernet so dang expensive to go from 20mhz ranges to 80 or whatever mhz ranges or use something very similar to 90s optical audio SPDIF output or anything remotely like a laser in australia? and who would be dumb and gay enough to be so financially retarded as to think that USB 4 was expensive or special as to steal it? am i... missing something?
also before you complain, but ethernets not the same as USB you cant power over ethernet or use your houses electrical wires as ethernet. You also cant use ethernet for monitors or displays, and its not like you can extend HDMI range limit of a about 10 to 15 meters by swapping its ethernet wires with optical ones for it to maintain its HDMI 0 latency spec or type C USB 0 latency spec. USB lets you connect heaps of devices you cant do that with an internet or ethernet for things like keyboard and mice or monitors or whatever. I understand what you mean power over ethernet or PPOE standards suck theres no way those are a thing. using devices over the internet and not the intranet who does that? thats so dumb. remote administration, theres no such thing youre mistaking malware or rootkits im sure. you cant connect a heap of devices up or entire computers to a ethernet port thats the dumbest gayest thing i've ever heard in my entire life! My gaydar is going off and it looks like the wifi symbol.
when trying to use anything ethernet with lame awful bandwidth thats limited, on my AMD board where the website images show AMD ethernet lists as marvel yukon controller i cannot use as its maybe broken there no light on the back, in devices managers advanced tab you can see the send receive or transmit buffer sizes and countless other ethernet settings are MISSING or a blank space. and are limited to 128 on send and 256 on receive up to 4096 or whatever max. But low latency 128 or 256 is maybe best but not all are an option and most networking features on the intel LAN adapters are missing countless advanced ethernet properties and settings because they're fake and lousy and the worst latency ever and they literally seem to swap your windows kernel out with something not realtime so you cannot ever hope to record or playback audio or video or anything close to a video game in hopes of slowly selling it back to you. Linux distros did this too its the dumbest thing ever that to hear or record or playback or play games you must patch in a realtime kernel for free to game like its the 80s and 90s or DOS or whatever. most 90s PCs were CAS 1 or lower nanoseconds. DDR 3 1600mhz depending the maker might be CAS1-4 latency. How can we verify our kernels are correct? and our ethernet and I/O bandwidth is correct? the youtube video about linus tech tips dream hack lan party of gamers in sweden was edited and reuploaded by illiterate asshat buttpirates maybe from somalia or the ones randsoming us some of their internet connections as a proxy piggy back on the international links as we dont have a defense force or army or whatever and dont know what war crimes are or why they are or what the heck a bank is and sure as shit dont know the cost of anything cheap USB or LAN. The dreamhack linus video falsely shows as 6TERABIT. they wanna steal 2TERABITS of EVERY optical or ethernet devices which isnt the government doing it if they wanna see whats in your computer they can document their reasons of why which is what a warrant is they dont need one if they believe a crime is occuring and literally take the computer by law to inspect it then give it back when nothings wrong they leave you a claim ticket and have you document it at the nearest policing station or whatever fill out forms sign 'they are taking my PC and i can get it back when it wasnt used for crimes." when australia doesnt technically have an internet and doesnt technically have RAID arrays which is required to use USB or SSD or NVME or storage tech with no moving parts and multicore a 2TB SSD is twice as fast and often has 2x 1TB wafer chips in there figure it out the IO controller chip supports many and you can buy the cheapest USB sticks with like 16terabytes of storage space i just see a $extend folder or uhh file format header thingy in the partition in my mainboard bios on that particular drive and using any cheap SSD or USB devices makes linux cry about the partition managers cant write or read extending past the storage limit. it doesnt take a genius to figure out what dumb gay fags the whole internet is.

For context, I post cool teams that I made using some underplayed path or tactic, and on the last one, Unorthodox Gameplay 3 : Monarchnesis, a fellow user u/Alexandergus (COME, SAY HI TO EVERYONE) asked me to build a team with not only Anamnesis, but Berserker Helion as well... And as the title says : ASK AND THOU SHALL RECEIVE
Sidenote: If there's too much text for your liking, dear reader, feel free to skip to the summary part down bellow ;)
So, with that out of the way, let's get to strats!

Occultist

I took inspiration on a setup that ShuffleFM (Darkest Dungeon youtuber,twitch streamer and really good reference) showcased on one of his teams. The concept is that you have a Virtuoso Jester using Encore on Occultist, which proceeds to Chaotic Offering on his bonus turn, generating an Unlimited Power Token(UP). After that, when the regular Occ turn rolls in, he gets the second UP because of the turn start effect, which he originally used to nuke someone with Warlock's Burning Stars turn 1; on my case is to perform Aspirant Anamnesis and open the first turn with a really strong cleave, I also run Burning Stars as an option for larger enemies like size 2s or bosses.

Jester

As for the Jester, since I'm basing my entire schtick on Encore, I'm also running Solo and Finale. That's because you can actually use the dazed in your favor and the cooldowns sync. EG: Encore turn 1 > gets dazed and pushed to last turn 2 action order > Solo > Forward 3> gets Speed token and Jester, specially Virtuoso is really fast > goes first on turn 3 > uses Finale > Back 3 and dazed >If encounter's still going, Encore and Repeat. I topped him with Inspiring Tune for Stress heal (literally the best in the game) and Razor's Wit for poke.

Helion

Now let's talk about Helion. She likes the cleave since it helps her kill rank 4 in 1 turn with Iron Swan, specially ordained and modified enemies like elite and sturdy, not only that but as she's Berserk and is at Rank 1, I run Bleed Out as a strong option after I dealed with the backline; Bleed Out doesn't even have a cooldown, it "just" grants you winded tokens, which means you can spam it to stack monstrous bleeds. I just did act 3 and had 18 bleeds on the last phase for 5 turns (I crited). Another synergy is that after you cast Burning Stars at a chonky target, it gets combo; Bleed Out on Berserker on a combo tarket has 63% BLEED PIERCING. It's basically guaranteed (unless you're using this on Warlord, this bastard has 100 base... He's a VERY good reason to not go overboard on bleeds; not only that but if your whole team wants to bleed someone, you'll end up fighting for the same trinkets). For the rest of her kit, I had Toe to Toe for Taunt, Rooted and movement, Adrenaline Rush for heals and Bloodlust for really long fights and as an alternative to remove Winded tokens that isn't dependent on Adrenaline Rush's health threshold AND grants 30% more damage against bleeding targets. With Jester Encore, you can mix a ton of good sequences, specially in later stages of the fight, granting Helion bonus actions, for example stacking Bleed Out faster, or clearing winded with Bloodlust/ Adrenaline Rush/Toe to Toe+ and then hitting again with Bleed Out.

Plague Doctor

And to stitch the team together, I chose Plague Doctor as the Rank 4 hero, but not any Plague Doctor; Physician. I managed to weld together Physician, Anamnesis and Bleed Out and it's ...GOOD? The thing with Physician is that, except for Magnesium Rain that has a cooldown of 3 turns, she doesn't have a damaging skill to use. Instead, her supportive capabilities are enhanced, and they're great with this team because she provides much needed utility with crowd control, corpse clearing, heals and offensive tokens.
Usefulness Utility listed bellow!

• Turn 1 she can use Emboldening Vapors on Occ to boost Anamnesis and Burning Stars, not only that but on this path this skill grants 2 Strenght Tokens instead of 1, with a cooldown of 1 turn or 0 when upgraded.
  
  • She can blind and daze the two backrow enemies wit Blinding Gas+ to delay their actions long enough so Helion and Occ can make quick work of Rank 4 before the target does something WHILE Rank 3 is Blinded!
  • Magnesium Rain is good for chip damage, dodge clearing and corpse removal(therefore, Bleed Out setup)
  • Heals are as great as ever!
  • Even Ounce of Prevention gets an honorable mention for better handling heavy DOT enemy comps and diseases, like creature dens and the Sprawl; and at this path even grants Stress Damage RES
  But one of the reasons I really liked Phys here is because the team can make full use of her Disorienting Blast, which not only has +20% Stun Piercing on upgrade with combo, but grants Vulnerable as well. A problem I had is that some key heavy hitting skills from the rest of the cast are heavelly reliant on position, like Leper's Chop hitting Ranks 1 and 2, PBS hitting 1, Pistol Shot not hitting 1; so it was kinda like a gamble most of the time. But Finale and Burning Stars hit ALL ranks REALLY HARD ; which means that it doesn't really matter where the enemy ends up, it's going to get CLAPPED. Helion also makes good use of it in later stages of the fight, where your Magnesium Rain is on cooldown and the enemy is standing at rank 2, where rank 1 is a corpse and rank 3 and 4 are cleared. You can try to fish it and grant vulnerable at the same time; it's good!
  

Maps

For regions, try to prioritize the Shroud, for the bleed trinkets for Helion and Ocultist and other trinkets for the Jester, like Seamen's Boots and Compass.
Defensive trinkets on Helion aren't bad either, since she's gonna eat 80% of the hits thrown at her, so Tangle isn't a bad choice. Burning Stars ignores Block and Blinding Gas can help by "dodging" some heavy hitting moves.
Sprawl can be okay because of burn trinkets that can up the usefulness of Mag. Rain and speedy trinkets for Jester
Foetor is the lowest priority map to go, literally no one wants blight buffing trinkets and you even risk getting your heroes sick; I'd go if the map mission grants a good reward but that's about it.

Lair Boss matchups

• You can wreck Levi, specially with a bit of scaling since Bleed Out+ gives good damage with 6 points of bleed; the hand has 24 hp and the bleed by itself deals 18. Burning Stars is a Nuke as well as Finale. BTW he has a trophy that DOUBLES BLEED CAUSED. Just saying
  
• Dababy can be dealt with by Helion using Toe to Toe to lock her on Rank 1, which halts the hungering shenanigans from others behind her; try to get Holy Water to get rid of hunger tokens on Helly so you can Toe to Toe again. Other than that just play as normal with the Encore > Chaotic Offering > Emboldening Vapors > Burning Stars setup, use D. Blast as well to try and get Dababy out of Rank 1.
  
• Librarian is okay, try to have a few throwable items on Jester to spend his dodge tokens and try to Encore > Solo > Finale him. Helion can eat the Blinds thanks to Toe to Toe.
  
• The General is the one I worry the most, he has a huge healthpool and only takes 1 action per turn, which makes DOT tick slowly and gives him plenty of time to stall and disrupt you with his stress inducing attacks, Waking Dead and, if you don't deal with the root, Nightmare. I'd avoid fighting him if my team didn't scale enough and I'd bring Cause of Death+ to speed things up.
  

Pets

They are pretty flexible on this team. I like the Rabbit here since everyone has trouble tanking hits, so the bonus HP goes a long way if you get it rolling(HMMM FLAPJACKS). Some good optins are: - The Tick to get the blood for guaranteed crit tokens and huge damage and bleeds - The Owl helps the debuffs from PD to stick and can provide good flow of Combat Items - The Pliskin can be good since the team is squishy and can use more sustain between fights - The Slime if you like running over debris and don't want to deal with negative tokens - This last one is highly experimental and I still have to test it, but it got to my attention that Larval Carrion Eater can be good as a Crit token Generator, specially since Anamnesis cleaves the whole party. On turn 2 you'd have only 1 UP at your turn which means you can either heal or Sac Stab something. If you have Stab+, you can use it on a corpse, kill it, generate another UP, heal 30%, gain a Block Token and a Crit token for next round, and on that round you'll have 3 UPs at your disposal to spend. This translates to 2 Anamnesis / Burning Stars casted on sequence, since you would spend 2 on this turn, and you would generate another one at the beginning of your next turn. Try this at your own courage and peril (and tell me the results later!)

Summary of the team:

Rank 4: Physician Plague Doctor
Emboldening Vapors Disorienting Blast Battlefield Medicine Blinding Gas* Magnesium Rain*
You can swap these with: Indiscriminate Science+ (heals without limited uses, good for Act 5), Ounce of Prevention for DOTS and disease prevention, Cause of Death+ if you want to nuke some large target that has a ton of bleed stacked into it, after Jester's Finale, you can use since he moves you into rank 3
Rank 3: Virtuoso Jester
Encore Solo Finale Inspiring Tune Razor's Wit
Rank 2: Aspirant Ocultist
Chaotic Offering Anamnesis Burning Stars Sacrificial Stab* Wyrd Reconstruction*
You can swap one of these with Binding Shadows if you're worried about shuffles, on Aspirant it moves you Forward 1 and can generate you a stack of UP
Rank 1 : Berserker* Helion
Iron Swan Toe to Toe Bleed Out Adrenaline Rush Bloodlust*
You can swap Bloodlust with: Raucous Revelry for a heal not dependant on limited uses, stress heal, and on upgrade, DBR Wicked Hack for better damage at rank 2 Breakthrough for Shuffles
As for the * on Berserker, is just that maybe it's a good idea changing the path depending on which act boss you're going against; the ones that came to mind are act 2 and 3. Vs act 2, Bleed Out gets absolutely no value so there's no reason to run Berserker, I'd recomend changing to Ravager for easier management of the lungs. You can also change to Carcass to better deal with high damage since apart from this path she doesn't generate blocks; I had her take every inn item I could buy to give her a better chance at survivability against the Focused Fault, but even then I got a few Deathblow checks; would recommend either running Cause of Death on PD with Berserker, or changing to Carcass to tank with Yawp. I'd also recommend not running Bloodlust if you're running Cause of Death on PD, since it clears all DOT for instant damage, making your turn go to waste, in this case just use Toe to Toe+ to get rid of Winded.
phew... this took a WHILE. Feel free to ask any questions about the team and tell me if you'd want some help with a specific path you'd like to play. ASK AND THOU SHALL RECEIVE
Heheh, have a good one! PS: I'm going straight to bed, but I'll try to answer you guys tomorrow. Good night!

Hi this is my first reddit post to please bare with me. Thankyou!
These are my current PC specs
Z790 Tomahawk Wifi Mobo
Intel I9 13900k
Paired with a Dark Rock 4 by be quiet fan
Geforce RTX 2080 Super
I believe a 850 W PSU
32 GB Ram
3 SSDs
Issues Im facing,
I have had several games constantly crash after however much time of playing or instantly. These games include but are not limited to Fortnite(sometimes bluescreens and normal crashes), R6(sometimes blue screen and normal crashes), GTAV, Borderlands 2, Sims 4, Rust, and COD. Now for games that don't crash are Valheim, Minecraft, Rocket League, Dying Light, and Borderlands 3.
My CPU I believe is the issue as this happened when I built my new PC. My old ryzen 7 and mobo went to the gutter as they fried. So I built the PC I have now and the ram and GPU are the same. The I9 will get to 100C on stress test while only getting a score of 12500ish Marks. It will get all three errors depending on what settings I am using but the main one that will show up no matter what my settings are changed to is the Thermal Throttling.
What Ive done,
I just fixed my cooling being set as a watercooler for some reason so I changed it to a tower cooler. I have tried every game fix I have found on google so I don't believe it has to do with the games themselves but my hardware instead but I'm not 100% as everyone knows things can always be finicky, but I doubt that many games would have issues related to themselves and not hardware. I have tried many different settings in my Intel ETU. I ran memtest several times and had no ram issues as well. I am willing to try anything at this point as the crashing of games has gotten to be very obnoxious and out right have me stop playing some of them.
Please help me in anyway, I can try anything and will add more pictures or information as needed ( not sure really whats needed as this is my first post). Thankyou for your help!
https://imgur.com/a/g4X9AQs
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4ecjk2w0mwoo9aq/dump.zip/file
UPDATE:
on cinebench r23 I tested it and got 33189 points instead of what I was getting on Intel ETU. Still doesn't change my overheating issue though.

I've installed the mobo, the CPU, the CPU cooler, the ram.... now I'm at the PSU and panel buttons and I just have no idea where to plug each component. I suck
PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor	$339.00 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler	Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler	$35.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Gigabyte B650 GAMING X AX V2 ATX AM5 Motherboard	$184.99 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory	$112.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Western Digital Black SN850X 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	$156.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	Zotac GAMING Trinity GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB Video Card	$779.99 @ Newegg
Case	Montech AIR 903 MAX ATX Mid Tower Case	$75.00 @ Amazon
Power Supply	MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$89.99 @ Newegg
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 11 Home Retail - USB 64-bit	$138.99 @ Newegg
Case Fan	ARCTIC P12 Max 81.04 CFM 120 mm Fans 5-Pack	$35.99 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1949.83
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-05-14 22:01 EDT-0400

[Minor enemy spoilers for Zero Hour - Destiny 2 ahead]
So I was working on playing through Zero Hour now that it's launched, and every time i've gotten to the tower plaza and engage the Brig, I wind up having a full blown graphics driver crash as a result. It's not an immediate crash either, it takes about 2-5 minutes to kick into a full blown crash.
Rig details (Pretty sure this a graphical setting or quirk in the mission, but covering bases)
Windows 10 Pro - Ver 22H2, build 19045.4291
Ryzen 9 7900X
64gb DDR5-6000 mhz ram (clocked as such)
Power color Radeon RX-7900XTX Red Devil Edition - Display Driver - 24.4.1
The game is running on a secondary Samsung 970 pro nvme and not a harddrive (over 25% of its drive space is free).
Game is running at Ultra/Max settings at 4k and has been for about 300 hours over the last few weeks.
I'm mainly curious if anyone else has been experiencing this problem at that point in the mission or if it's just me. I've been able to replicate it at that specific area twice. What's also curious is that even when not in a voice channel, Discord also shuts off during the display driver crash. I am unsure if this is related or not, but it does leave destiny stuck in a hung state that requires me to kill it from the Task manager.

I'm building a gaming PC for the first time. This is what I have so far. I had some help from buildapc. I decided to switch the PSU from what I had originally. Does it still work with the rest of the components? Thoughts, advice, and opinions? Also, I need help deciding on a good monitor. Some of the games are shooter, competitive, and adventure-type on PC.
I originally had "Be quiet! Straight Power 12 1000 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply". I switch to MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
[PCPartPicker Part List](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/fsWqn6)
**CPU** [AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor]
**CPU Cooler** [Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler]
**Motherboard** [Gigabyte B650 AORUS ELITE AX ATX AM5 Motherboard]
**Memory** [G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory]
**Storage** [Western Digital Black SN850X 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive]
**Video Card** [Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB Video Card]
**Case** [NZXT H9 Flow ATX Mid Tower Case]
**Power Supply** [MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply]
**Operating System** [Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM - DVD 64-bit]

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

Just gaming, games like fallout 4, cyberpunk, GTA, battlefield, etc

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

500 to 650 USD

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

Probably in a few weeks

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

I just need a suggestion for a good office keyboard, something not expensive but also not junk, emphasis on not jank since the last one I owned wouldn't register clicks half the time
Also the monitor isn't necessary, I have a screen currently and can easily buy one locally

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

Libya, specifically benghazi.

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

I'm not sure what reusing implies here but I'm gonna assume it means using old parts, the only PC part I have rn is a mouse so that's the only one I'll reuse.

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

Probably down the line yeah, but as far as I know I won't be overclocking right away

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

SSD HAS to be 500 gb or up, and I preferably want either a 2060, 5700xt or a 6600 GPU and a 5 3600 CPU

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

I don't care about the case as long as its sturdy

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

Nah, I have my own "means" of getting a copy

Extra info or particulars:

(Repost because forgot pics.)
Which heroes to spam to climb from low MMR?
I'm mostly playing unranked and my Winrate sits at 50.11% (see pics). I'm pretty new to Dota with around 300-400 games (50 ranked games) that i Played. I want to climb out of herald/guardian. Right now im spamming clinkz and PA. I understand their power spikes and which items to buy, i can get a lot of Kills and push T1 and T2 towers solo almost, but after that i fall off. I feel like I don't contribute much in lategame teamfights. I can burst someone down very fast but after that i die instantly because the enemy put wards and dusts everywhere.
With PA my Winrate sits at 40%. Sometimes i can snowball hard and kill 2-4 people in a fight and push towers and sometimes i die instantly (probably enemy countered me).
So my question: should i be able to climb MMR with these heroes or is it better to Learn other ones? I'm experimenting with some tankier heroes like bristleback and CK and i found good success with them because the enemy just can't kill me and my team can push easier BUT im also more reliant on the team which is probably not ideal given I'm in low rank and everyone does what they want. Maybe that's better than get many kills?
Pics: total games, recent games clinkz, recent games PA, recent games all. Don't want to post my steam account but i can send screenshots if needed.

Just made the specs for my pc, any upgrades for a 2.5k budget? (This is around 1.9k already but I want 2 monitors too)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Gigabyte AORUS WATERFORCE X II 360 72 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 GAMING X AX ATX AM5 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory
Storage: Kingston NV2 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: Asus DUAL OC GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB Video Card
Case: Corsair iCUE LINK 6500X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: be quiet! Dark Power 13 850 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

**What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.**

Gaming (Elden Ring, FFVII remake, Helldrivers 2, Fallout 4, Death Stranding) and 3d modeling (zbrush, blender, maya), and 4k+ illustrations in photoshop

**What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?**

$1800 USD

**When do you plan on building/buying the PC?

August

**What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc\)**

Tower, CPU, GPU, Cooling, Ram, SSD, PSU, motherboard

**Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?**

Mexico

**If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.**

A BenQ BL2420PT monitor

**Will you be overclocking?

No

**Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)**

1tb+ of storage, 32gb ram

**Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?**

ATX, Mid or Full tower, and a black color for all the components

**Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?**

A Windows 11 copy, but it can be separated from the budget

This build is from 2 years ago. It still runs well. I'm thinking about upgrading the ram or swapping out the cooler to water cooled maybe. What are good bang for the buck upgrades I can get for less than maybe $400
PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor	$202.00 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler	-
Motherboard	MSI MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard	-
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	$82.98 @ Newegg
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	$149.99 @ Best Buy
Video Card	Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB Video Card	$999.99 @ Amazon
Case	Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case	$104.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	be quiet! Straight Power 11 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$168.48 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Noctua F12 PWM chromax.black.swap 54.97 CFM 120 mm Fan	$24.75 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Noctua F12 PWM chromax.black.swap 54.97 CFM 120 mm Fan	$24.75 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Noctua F12 PWM chromax.black.swap 54.97 CFM 120 mm Fan	$24.75 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Noctua F12 PWM chromax.black.swap 54.97 CFM 120 mm Fan	$24.75 @ Amazon
Monitor	Asus TUF Gaming VG34VQL1B 34.0" 3440 x 1440 165 Hz Curved Monitor	$369.99 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$2177.42
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-05-14 21:03 EDT-0400

Rep
Rep 2

Have

Steam Keys

• 12 is Better Than 6
• A New Beginning - Final Cut
• ALICE VR
• Amnesia Fortnight 2012
• Amnesia Fortnight 2014
• Batman - The Enemy Within Shadows Mode DLC
• Batman - The Telltale Series Shadows Mode DLC
• Beyond the Wire
• Book of Demons
• Devil and the Fairy VR
• Duckpocalypse
• Endzone: A World Apart
• Escape Goat 2
• Fort Triumph
• Gift of Parthax
• Hack 'n' Slash
• Hiveswap Friendsim
• INSOMNIA: The Ark
• Iron Danger
• Neo Cab
• Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
• RAD
• Remnants of Naezith
• Shadows: Awakening
• SimpleRockets 2
• Swag and Sorcery
• SwingStar VR
• The Suicide of Rachel Foster
• The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia
• The Walking Dead - 400 Days DLC
• The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries
• The Walking Dead: Season Two
• Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation
• Tomb Raider V: Chronicles
• Tomb Raider VI: The Angel of Darkness
• Tomb Raider: Legend
• Tomb Raider: Underworld
• Tropico 3: Absolute Power DLC
• Tropico 4: Collector's Bundle
• Tropico 6 - El Prez Edition
• Tropico Reloaded
• Unexplored
• Wanba Warriors

Want

• PayPal USD
• Cuphead
• Jenny LeClue - Detectivu
• Tangle Tower
• Untitled Goose Game
• Multiplayer Games
• Open to game offers and will look through lists

I built my current PC over a decade ago and am much overdue for an upgrade. I mostly am looking to play video games, and all I really do otherwise is browse and chat with friends on Discord. Not looking for anything fancy, just something that should run whatever game I want for the next 5 years or so. Is this good? The case and monitors will be scavenged from my old build, so I don't need those. Any advice is welcome. TIA!
PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 4.5 GHz 8-Core Processor	$379.99
CPU Cooler	Deepcool AK500 DIGITAL 68.99 CFM CPU Cooler	$69.99
Motherboard	MSI PRO B650-P WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard	$0.00
Memory	G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL32 Memory	$0.00
Storage	Crucial M500 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$67.99
Video Card	Zotac Twin Edge GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB Video Card	$599.99
Case	Antec Three Hundred Two ATX Mid Tower Case	-
Power Supply	MSI MPG A850G PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$119.99
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 11 Home OEM - DVD 64-bit	$109.99 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1347.94
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-05-14 20:44 EDT-0400

This is mostly for Microsoft Flight Simulator, but I also work as a software developer and sometimes run Docker containers and virtual machines. I was tempted to go with the 7950X3D, but aside from gaming, I don't feel overly limited by my current 9900K so that's probably not needed.
I could go with the 850 W version of the power supply and save ~$50, but I'm not sure if I'm better off doing that or having more breathing room. According to PCPartPicker, my estimated wattage is 634 W.
PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor	$339.00 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler	Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler	$35.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard	$259.99 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Flare X5 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory	$199.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	$318.35 @ Newegg
Video Card	Asus ROG STRIX GAMING OC GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 16 GB Video Card	$1249.99 @ Best Buy
Case	Fractal Design Torrent ATX Mid Tower Case	$189.99 @ B&H
Power Supply	Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 TT Premium 1200 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$156.49 @ B&H
Monitor	Asus ROG Strix XG27ACS 27.0" 2560 x 1440 180 Hz Monitor	$299.00 @ Amazon
Monitor	Asus ROG Strix XG27ACS 27.0" 2560 x 1440 180 Hz Monitor	$299.00 @ Amazon
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total	$3347.70
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-05-14 20:47 EDT-0400

I've done some research and come up with this! Will be used for gaming and streaming! Suggestions!?
PCPartPicker Part List](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Z73YGP)

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor	£328.98 @ Amazon UK
CPU Cooler	Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler	£39.00 @ Computer Orbit
Motherboard	Gigabyte B650 GAMING X AX V2 ATX AM5 Motherboard	£149.00 @ Computer Orbit
Memory	G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL32 Memory	£112.00 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Silicon Power UD90 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	£103.99 @ Amazon UK
Video Card	PowerColor Fighter OC Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB Video Card	£538.00 @ MoreCoCo
Case	Phanteks XT PRO ULTRA ATX Mid Tower Case	£66.95 @ AWD-IT
Power Supply	MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£84.99 @ Ebuyer
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£1422.91
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-05-15 01:37 BST+0100

After a TON of edits, I think I have the final list. This PC will be primarily for gaming, but occasionally school and work. Any edits or recommendations or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. :)
[PCPartPicker Part List](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8L77bL)
TypeItemPrice
:----:----:----
**CPU** [Intel Core i7-14700K 3.4 GHz 20-Core Processor](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/BmWJ7P/intel-core-i7-14700k-34-ghz-20-core-processor-bx8071514700k) $399.99 @ Amazon
**CPU Cooler** [Deepcool GAMMAXX AG400 ARGB 75.89 CFM CPU Cooler](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/6KWzK8/deepcool-ag400-argb-7589-cfm-cpu-cooler-r-ag400-whanmc-g-2) $29.99 @ Amazon
**Motherboard** [MSI PRO Z790-A MAX WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/CsvD4D/msi-pro-z790-a-max-wifi-atx-lga1700-motherboard-pro-z790-a-max-wifi) $239.99 @ Amazon
**Memory** [Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/QTLFf7/corsair-vengeance-rgb-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr5-6000-cl36-memory-cmh32gx5m2d6000c36w) $127.99 @ Amazon
**Storage** [Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/f3cRsY/samsung-980-pro-2-tb-m2-2280-nvme-solid-state-drive-mz-v8p2t0bam) $169.99 @ Amazon
**Storage** [Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/f3cRsY/samsung-980-pro-2-tb-m2-2280-nvme-solid-state-drive-mz-v8p2t0bam) $169.99 @ Amazon
**Video Card** [Gigabyte AERO OC GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB Video Card](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/hbDQzy/gigabyte-aero-oc-geforce-rtx-4070-super-12-gb-video-card-gv-n407saero-oc-12gd) $679.99 @ Amazon
**Case** [NZXT H6 Flow RGB ATX Mid Tower Case](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kfRwrH/nzxt-h6-flow-rgb-atx-mid-tower-case-cc-h61fw-r1) $132.99 @ B&H
**Power Supply** [Corsair RM850 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9KGbt6/corsair-rm850-850-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-cp-9020232-na) $124.99 @ Amazon
**Operating System** [Microsoft Windows 11 Home Retail - Download 64-bit](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/7ZpzK8/microsoft-windows-11-home-retail-download-64-bit-kw9-00664) $138.99 @ Newegg
*Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts*
**Total** **$2214.90**
Generated by [PCPartPicker](https://pcpartpicker.com) 2024-05-14 20:28 EDT-0400

hello, im finally building my first pc. im trying to save as much money as i can but i also want to secure myself now so i dont have to upgrade anytime soon. imma be using it for school and coding, but thats easy to navigate a build for. so mainly im trying to get some advice for an optimal gaming experience. ive decided i for sure want 1440. i wanna be able to play AAA games comfortably, no sports games but some fps games here and there.
right now im on the rocks for my gpu. ive seen recommendations for the 4070ti, 6800xt, and the 7800xt. ill take whatever advice u have for any part of my build. mostly looking to improve/hopefully save unnecessary spending on my build👍
(case and monitor were chosen quickly. still gonna get back to those. ill take advice on those too if u have any)
PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 4.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	-
CPU Cooler	Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler	-
Motherboard	MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard	$169.99 @ MSI
Memory	Silicon Power Value Gaming 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory	-
Video Card	Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB Video Card	-
Case	Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case	-
Power Supply	Corsair RM750e (2023) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	-
Monitor	Acer VG271U M3bmiipx 27.0" 2560 x 1440 180 Hz Monitor	-
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$169.99
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-05-14 20:19 EDT-0400