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I wanted a bit more than Dell could offer, so I built my latest from parts. The last build from 2013 was an MSI motherboard, i7-2600k, 32 GB RAM, 650 W PS, 4 TB SATAIII SSD. The new build is another MSI motherboard. This one has an i9-10850K, 64 GB RAM, 2 x 1 TB NVMe SSD, 850 W PS and a 360mm water cooler for the CPU. Plenty of horsepower. I put up a wide screen monitor that oddly caused the old i7 system to fail POST. I didn't understand the problem. Replaced the CPU with a cheap i5. Same problem. Put an old 1080P HDMI monitor on it...boots fine. Arrggg! The old BIOS has resolution limits. That even occurs through a 3rd party video card on the PCIe bus. That machine just has to live on a lower resolution monitor.