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System Name | Rainbow Sparkles (Power efficient, <350W gaming load) |
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Processor | Ryzen R7 5800x3D (Undervolted, 4.45GHz all core) |
Motherboard | Asus x570-F (BIOS Modded) |
Cooling | Alphacool Apex UV - Alphacool Eisblock XPX Aurora + EK Quantum ARGB 3090 w/ active backplate |
Memory | 2x32GB DDR4 3600 Corsair Vengeance RGB @3866 C18-22-22-22-42 TRFC704 (1.4V Hynix MJR - SoC 1.15V) |
Video Card(s) | Galax RTX 3090 SG 24GB: Underclocked to 1700Mhz 0.750v (375W down to 250W)) |
Storage | 2TB WD SN850 NVME + 1TB Sasmsung 970 Pro NVME + 1TB Intel 6000P NVME USB 3.2 |
Display(s) | Phillips 32 32M1N5800A (4k144), LG 32" (4K60) | Gigabyte G32QC (2k165) | Phillips 328m6fjrmb (2K144) |
Case | Fractal Design R6 |
Audio Device(s) | Logitech G560 | Corsair Void pro RGB |Blue Yeti mic |
Power Supply | Fractal Ion+ 2 860W (Platinum) (This thing is God-tier. Silent and TINY) |
Mouse | Logitech G Pro wireless + Steelseries Prisma XL |
Keyboard | Razer Huntsman TE ( Sexy white keycaps) |
VR HMD | Oculus Rift S + Quest 2 |
Software | Windows 11 pro x64 (Yes, it's genuinely a good OS) OpenRGB - ditch the branded bloatware! |
Benchmark Scores | Nyooom. |
Nah it's bundled installers in *some* of their products, they stopped doing it for new ones but never removed it from the old downloadsLike @Mussels asked? It will install Norton Security if you don't uncheck it when installing updates from inside Gigabyte software. Otherwise Patriot RGB is not automatically installed anymore (or ever was a option to begin with). At least, it hasn't happened to me. I'm starting to think this that is actually a windows update thing that is being blamed on Gigabyte because its installed on other none-gigabyte before.
This particular board is likely free of the crapware
If you install the software direct for a motherboard you get the crapware, but if you let the aorus software (do they call it app center now?) and let it download them you dont get them
Feel free to install the software for my gigabyte monitor to verify i'm not making it up, but be warned it conflicted with asus aura and erased the SPD values on one of my vengeance RGB sticks
All the mobo companies made deals to get the RGB ram compatibility working and had to bundle the third party software with theirs to make them compatible, but when it all went to shit with corrupting SPD values and causing BSOD's they backtracked and pretended it never happened
This is the example of it that had me worried when i posted:
G32QC Gaming Monitor Support | Monitor - GIGABYTE Global
and the required OSD sidekick (Note that you MUST use this version, its specific to each display and not a universal software)
There is just one exe for sidekick and no mention of the extra softwares at all
Someone on reddit had the same experience:
OSD sidekick includes RGB fusion, which includes the third party RGB software - and when you're not expecting it and have conflicting software, things go bad
RGB Fusion 2.0 just installed itself along with the "OSD sidekick" for my new monitor (G27Q) Am I screwed? : gigabyte (reddit.com)
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