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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.

Z-library was a massive pirate repository for ebooks.

It is not compatible with Linux and IIRC the dev does not know how to port it.

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.

Maybe, maybe not... The dev could just be busy with life right now. The last build was released early September and the last commit was just over 3 months ago so IDK, I suppose we'll see. I also love InnerTune and would love to see it continue to grow.

I've been using this on and off for a while, since v1.3 in September (and swapping with InnerTune which seems to now be abandoned..) but I have a few glaring issues with it as a daily driver.

Downloads are a mess. Tap download and it may or may not download. The download notification frequently becomes persistent for some reason, even if the downloads have finished and you kill/restart the app. Restarting my phone will get rid of it. Accessing auto cached songs is hit and miss if you don't have internet which completely defeats the point of it. Also there's no download management so whatever you download is now what you have saved unless you delete the library and start over...

The library page is ass. There's no breakdowns by song or artist or album or any other category. You have favorites, followed, most played, and downloaded along with a bunch of playlists under that and finally a recently added list. If I want to shuffle my library I go to downloaded (because I download everything) and just tap a song which will start playing but take the UI ~10 seconds to catch up while, I'm assuming, it builds the playlist.

When I connect to a bluetooth device and my screen turns off I immediately lose the bluetooth connection. Turn the screen back on, reconnect, start playing the music again and it works fine after that. This only happens with SimpMusic. Occasionally have had issues connecting to bluetooth and the app says it's playing via bluetooth but when you change the volume it says it's playing via phone while no audio is coming out anywhere. This is usually paired with a "something unexpected happened" error message and app restart (have had this issue loop before for hours, phone restart fixed it).

The music player notification stops working regularly and just won't come back until I restart the phone.

Intense lag after listening for a while.

No dislike button to help avoid songs.

And maybe my last complaint which is relatively minor to the other things, but under some categories, like new releases, it will show the art, the name of the album/single and then say "Album" instead of the artist which probably annoys me more than it should and may be a result of the other issues adding up.

No, my last complaint is the copying of Spotify's horrible UI, but somehow it's even worse.

On the upside, sponsorblock works well, my YTM playlists are all accessible, even ones I forgot existed from the GPM days, and the app does work for the most part. Long listening sessions work better than Innertune or Vimusic did. Hoping to see this continue to be worked on and improved, it still has a long way to go though.

Got curious and looked it up. 2x64GB DDR5 kits exist though it looks like they're all ECC (probably a good thing in OPs use case). The cheapest kits, which are 4800Mhz CL40 sticks, start around $500 after tax.

Like the others said, double check your connections. It's easy to accidentally not plug something in all the way. Also, an extra preinstalled standoff wouldn't be out of the question and I have had that happen, would be worth checking out as well. You didn't mention what power supply you are using. New/used? Older used? Can you test the power supply on another computer to help rule that out?

Ryzen 1700 doesn't have integrated graphics.

I had GFiber for a bit and had no issues with torrenting via private trackers and no VPN.

Score, congrats!