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Radeon RX 580 Thermal Paste Change

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As a conclusion of 2020, I decided I finally need to update my home PC, with a shiny new Ryzen 7 3700x. However, it seems I picked, the wrong moment as far as buying a video card is concerned. Video card prices are insane and things are not getting much better going into the first few months of 2021. A screenshot of price grabbing site in Bulgaria on 7th March is showing RX 580 8GB selling for the astronomical 1099 BGN (~505 EUR). We can thank the crypto mining craze for that situation. Buying a second-hand video card seems a totally valid choice as long as you can live, with having a 4GB video memory. By the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021 Ethereum DAG increased over 4GB, which makes all 4GB video cards no more suitable for Ethereum mining, so actually, the second-hand market is full of used RX 570/580 video cards pushed out of the mining business. I was able to find second-hand Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4GB SKU#11265-09 for 170 BGN (~85EUR) in very good condition and origin
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Top “Must-Do” things on Windows 10 fresh installation

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Setting up a Windows 10 PC for me or as a favor to someone I know happens from time to time. When I am doing this I tend to be a bit picky and methodical and at least put some effort into making sure things work the way I like it. This is a list, of the things I usually find often get overlooked by novice users, that are venturing into setting up PC, themselves. Table of contents 1. Install or Update Hardware Vendor Drivers 2. Install Windows Updates 3. Disable Windows Ad Content 4. Clean up pre-installed apps you do not need 5. Clean up temporary garbage from the disk 6. Setup Folder View in File Explorer 7. Backup your PC Conclusion 1. Install or Update Hardware Vendor Drivers Microsoft made sure, that Windows 10 installs and starts flawlessly on most PCs, without much need for additional driver installation. Usually, things like Network, Audio, and Integrated Graphics would work 'out of the box'. For the most part, the Windows-provided drivers might do just fi
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