I don't know if this is the right sub Reddit but here's my problem, one of the cooler screws has been stripped somehow and now I can't take it out. It's my old dell 5400 air

So I'm making a budget build that also is good enough to do 1440p, but I got this warning with this cpu and motherboard (I'm choosing this motherboard cause I found a good deal for one) if I built this would I be able to start it up and update bios? Or would it not work from the start and I'd need a different cpu to update the bios before I could put this one in?

I bought an 8TB Seagate Barracuda on Amazon, it showed up in sealed packaging, upon plugging the drive into the computer I get nothing, this happens for every sata port I use, however I get a different behavior when using a sata to usb adapter, but it just shows up blank in file explorer bc the drive hasn’t been initialized yet. I did previously have 2 HDD’s connected to my pc. They died bc I forgot to turn off my psu when removing them. Is it possible I could have also fried the connection on the mobo side as well? Or is it more likely that I got a dead drive from the factory?

I have an hp envy x360 with the i7 1250u linked to a thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure. It still has 1 unpopulated thunderbolt port and I wanted to know if I purchased a second eGPU enclosure and card if I could use it the same in tandem with the 1st one. Not like SLI, but I plan to passthrough one of the enclosures to a vm and have the other remain on my host system. I'm sick of nucleus Co op not working and I figure if I just create a nice hypervisor me and my friends will no issues.

Thanks in advance.

I dont thing this is normal but correct me if im wrong.

Looking to purchase either

Alienware R16 Gaming PC 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700F (16-Core, 54MB Cache, up to 5.2 GHz with Turbo Max 3.0) NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070 Ti, 12GB GDDR6X 16 GB: 2 x 8 GB, DDR5, 5600 MT/s 1 TB, M.2, PCIe NVMe, SSD 1000W Platinum Rated PSU, 240mm Liquid-Cooled CPU & Clear Side Panel

Priced: $2200 CAD

OR

CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (16 core / 32 threads @ 4.5 GHz - 5.7 GHz) GPU - XFX MERC 310 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB GDDR6 RAM - TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MHz SSD - Crucial P3 Plus 2TB Nvme SSD (Gen4 x 4 NVMe Up to 5000 MB/s ) Motherboard - Asus X670-P Wifi CPU cooler - Noctua NH-D15 PSU - Apevia 1000W 80+ Gold rated Case - Lian Li Lancool Mesh III

Priced: $2500 CAD

I always have had Nvidia except ATI which I really liked in 99.

Upgrading from RTX 2070 Super.

I am thinking DDR5 as opposed to last gen and will eventually upgrade to 64 GB as I run some VMs. No video editing, etc. - just gaming at 4K.

I have an RTX 2060 and want to upgrade, preferably from the RTX series, i have an i7 9700 as my CPU.

Any suggestions and the team is all ears!