My quest to DIY a gaming console

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I hate computer journalists.  Most of them spend their time cranking out articles with bold headlines and nothingburger contents.  It's just a scam.  Today there is an article in PC World authored by their "dealpost team."  The headline says you can get nine months of Game Pass Ultimate for $75.  When you read the article, it's only $75 for a three-month code, but you can stack three of them at that price.  The problem is that $75 for three months is more than the current price of Game Pass Ultimate.  Some money is definitely changing hands there.

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Boru

[Angrboda]

Whoah. Somebody offered me $50 for the mostly dead X870 board. I'll take it.

[Angrboda]

Practicing inserting and removing an AM5 CPU. The hardest part has been removing the processor. But today I figured out a fairly foolproof method of doing so. And in working on figuring out how to insert the CPU, I realized something important. I've been inserting the CPU with my fingers towards the left and right sides of the board. Because the VRM heatsinks are on the left, it meant that the side of my palm, which grips the CPU on the motherboard's left side, was being hindered from lowering by those heatsinks. If I turn my approach 90 degrees counter-clockwise, that doesn't happen and my path to the socket is far less obstructed. That's an important discovery.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Practicing inserting and removing an AM5 CPU.  The hardest part has been removing the processor.  But today I figured out a fairly foolproof method of doing so.  And in working on figuring out how to insert the CPU, I realized something important.  I've been inserting the CPU with my fingers towards the left and right sides of the board.  Because the VRM heatsinks are on the left, it meant that the side of my palm, which grips the CPU on the motherboard's left side, was being hindered from lowering by those heatsinks.  If I turn my approach 90 degrees counter-clockwise, that doesn't happen and my path to the socket is far less obstructed.  That's an important discovery.

I’ve found that tweaking the modality torque propounder solves most issues.

Boru