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My nephew is building a new PC, and one little detail is holding it up: the 6+2 PCIe connector bumps out too much and hits a small lip on the back plate So, the connector can't sit tight and flush nor lock-in

Does anyone know of good quality compatible cables that have a straight 8-pin connector or no long locking seam for the 6+2
One option would be to snip out the little bit that's holding up on that lip

I have a question Linux nerds here might answer.

I recently built my PC and I installed window to test it. I want to go Linux but when I tried to install it on another disk my gpu Fans didn't woke up until the card reached something like 80°C and I'm very uncomfortable with it.

It's a gigabyte 7800xt so drivers shouldn't be an issue since fedora have AMD drivers already installed but I can't figure where to go to lower the settings

So what parts do people suggest for an all AMD build for 1080p 120fps gaming?
I currently have a Ryzen 9 5900X and an RX 7700XT but I still get drops below 60fps in some games and I'm getting sick of it.

#PC#PCGaming#AMD

My PC Build is finally together, cables are managed and it's running!

Went with a green and brown color scheme to do something different from just black case and RGB fans.

Specs:
CPU:Ryzen 7900x
RAM: 64GB Corsair DDR5 5200MHz
Motherboard:Gigabyte 850
GPU:EVGA 3070
11TB of storage on various drives

I'm building my own gaming PC (a new experience for me), but because my budget is tight (and I'm impatient) I've been buying the parts a few at a time. I should now have everything I need except the graphics card, so in theory I could build the PC and use it without a GPU until I scrape enough money together for that ... but is that advisable? Is it a pain in the ass to add the graphics card later, or does it not make any big difference?