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Micron's not gonna fuck you bro.

Actually, I take it back. They just did.

Truth, but ad in that AI isn't even remotely close to being able to just pretend it might someday be profitable.

Fucking CPU interfaces. . . I may have killed my motherboard. The bed you lay the cpu on is made up of trillions of little, what look like springs that are made up of VERY FINE strands of metal. While test fitting the cpu, I BARELY touched this bed with the corner of the cpu and bent/crushed one of the springs. I tried to straighten it with a needle, but with no magnifying glass and robot steady hands, I could only, with an incalculable amount of luck, make it 'better', but not fix it. Maybe the CPU can work without that contact? I'm moving forward with the build HOPING against hope that I have it close enough and it works. That being said, I'm balls deep into swapping all the guts into my old case when I realize *pause for dramatic affect* my old PSU isn't big enough for the new GPU. I'm still sporting a 650 Watt psu. I need a minimum of 750. I'm going to get a 1000 watt tomorrow. At this point, I'm going to just get a new case as well as this turned into a 100% replacement. That way I can get it up and running parallel to my old one. Which I had already thought of doing when I thought "Nah, cause then I'll have to buy a new PSU as well".

Good luck. I hope everything works out and you're not stuck having to buy components in this insane AI price climb.

Cakedaddy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 04, 2026 4:59 pm Maybe the CPU can work without that contact?

Hopefully its just another ground pin that isn't necessary. Usually there are many more ground contacts and VCC pins than any other and if they're not making contact its not going to make a difference. But if its some data bus line, they you may be screwed.. Good luck!

BTW, what GPU did you end up getting?

ASRock RX 9070 XT Challenger

Lots of reports out there of companies cancelling orders from 2025 and raising prices on the items that were part of those orders. Isn't that illegal?

After putting off building it, and then putting off turning it on because I was afraid to short circuit everything and kill everything. . . I finally powered it up. It took about 27 minutes (or maybe about 15 seconds but it felt like forever) for the monitor to come to life and show the MSI splash screen. It booted into bios since I had an empty drive in it and I was able to checkout the CPU temps. Everything looked good, it saw the hard drive, etc. So I rebooted with the windows 11 USB in it and loaded it up. I'm typing this on the new PC.

So far so good. I'm hoping it stays good under load when temps go way up and things start expanding/contracting.

This is my first build in a really long time where LoL isn't the first thing I load! It will make it on here, but it's low priority.

Yay!

Congrats, I hope you get many years of gaming out of it.

Glad to hear everything went well. As long as you applied the thermal paste right and the heatsink is set well, you will be just fine on your temps.

BTW. a new season of LoL just started this week. I played 3 ranked and went 2-1. For some reason i always go back to this game.