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Yes.

20-pin is the bad one (20th pin is DP_PWR and supplies 3.3V 500mA for stuff like active adapters to use). VESA certified cables should only be 19 pin, the exception being: DP official specification says on page 147 [2]: As both of those cables you linked (which are quite overpriced) claim to be VESA certified, so neither should have a 20th pin.

Intel isn't that far ahead though. AMD is in general a much better value and choice.

What screen?

Wouldn't touch Acer with a 10' pole, unless you're a fan of incredibly cheap and shitty quality plastic being used for literally everything. (Wouldn't surprise me if they've started using plastic screws...) Gateway still makes computers? Dell is probably the only laptop manufacturer that I can recommend.

I wouldn't recommend HP or Lenovo. Both have general poor quality and poor support. Lenovo used to be a good option, but they've been getting worse over the years, and some stuff they do is pretty shitty. (Tried charging me like $80 to send me a copy of the factory image for my Yoga 710-15IKB and claimed it can't be downloaded, even though they have downloads for it. Those downloads can only be used once per serial number though, and I had used it a few months prior but lost the files. Also, that same laptop is physically falling apart after only about three years because Lenovo's product design is crap. They thought using glue to attach a maybe 2cm square of metal for the hinge to the back panel of the LCD without any actual fasteners was a good idea...) Check out some of Dell's G3, G5, and G7 lines. They've got some solid stuff there. Solidly built, reasonably priced, powerful,

Last I checked, Dell still provides it out in the open for anyone to download. No serial number or anything needed. Haven't looked at any others.

The screenshot also says the warranty has 3 days remaining. Perhaps they got the monitor used? They're probably just stalling so the warranty expires instead of having to do anything. Honestly, this doesn't surprise me. I haven't had a good interaction with Lenovo's support in the past. Last time I had to contact them they tried to charge me $80 for the recovery media for my laptop, and claimed it was impossible for me to download it from them. (Even though I had downloaded it from them months before but lost the files, and their shitty system only lets you download it once per serial number). After the additional quality issues with my Yoga 710-15IKB (Biggest issue so far is the hinge disconnected from the LCD's back panel because they used glue to hold it on instead of an actual fastener... Not even super glue can fix it), I don't think I'll be considering or recommending Lenovo in the future.

Components will only depreciate in value. Stock could go either way. (And with how its been going for the past year or two, that'd be up)

Gotta invest it all in AMD. Get rich quick

The page file is generally used as a sort of overflow for your RAM, that way if you fill up all your RAM, there's still a place for your system to store data, although it will be significantly slower than your system's actual RAM. It's also used for storing the data of applications that Windows thinks you aren't currently using, like that English paper you've had sitting open in Word that you haven't touched for the past 6 hours. That's why sometimes applications take a couple seconds to come back up if they've been sitting for a while; because they were moved to the page file instead of sitting in RAM. Disabling the page file does have the risk of applications crashing if you run out of RAM instead of overflowing into the page file, so I'd recommend keeping a page file of at least 4GB available on one of your drives. SSDs will be much faster than HDDs for this, however it'll also mean quite a bit more writing for the SSD, and some extra space being eaten up. I personally keep an 8GB page file on one of my smaller less important SSDs, just in case I manage to use all 32GB of RAM I currently have installed.

You can always go to System Properties -> Advanced -> Settings (under Performance) -> Advanced -> Change (under Virtual memory), uncheck "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives", then manually set all the drives to no paging file. Restart Windows and it'll only use your system RAM from now on, no more using your HDD or SSD.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-archive-javase8-2177648.html Make sure you get Java SE Runtime Environment. The versions are ordered from newest (top) to oldest (bottom) on that page.

Have you tried going to appdata/roaming and deleting .minecraft, then reinstalling? Did you update Java by chance? If not, give that a try. If you did, try going back to an older version. (I'd suggest using Java 8 )

Depending on the area, you'd be surprised how well you can get by with only $50k/year. Don't forget that you can change your major in college. Sure you might spend a little more time there, but if you find you don't like what you started off with, it's always an option. You might consider asking on https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/. You might also want to look around a bit on https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin to see if there's any useful info on there. Lots of people who work in IT on those subreddits. It'll depend on the company for what specifically is required for a SysAdmin job, and don't expect to get right into a SysAdmin position right out of college. You'll probably have to start out fairly low then work your way up. Gotta gain experience and build your resume for a while in addition to a degree before most places will even consider you.

Advanced math? Generally no. As for certifications, things such as CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, IT Fundamentals+, and Microsoft Office are good to have. Even better if you get higher level certifications like Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). It'll depend a bit on what specifically you want to focus on, since IT is fairly broad. (Servers, tech support, networking, systems management, etc...) There are degree programs available for IT (Information Technology) and Information Systems. You could also go for something such as Computer Science, although that's a bit more programmer oriented. Cyber Security could be a good option too.

Did you uninstall your Nvidia drivers with DDU? (https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html) DDU will make sure that the driver is completely uninstalled, that way there aren't any issues when you go install AMD's drivers. If you didn't use it, try that, then reinstall AMD's drivers and try again.

Ryan_Vicker's advice is solid. Alternatively, if you've got a Samsung SSD, Samsung offers migration software (and many other SSD manufacturers either offer their own software or software from a company they partnered with) that you can use to clone your drive. Western Digital tends to have Acronis software you can use as long as a WD drive is installed in the system. I think Adata or another company also offers Acronis software too.

Consider this: Every big YouTuber was once small. Even PewDiePie had less than 100 subscribers at one point. YouTube would have to be beyond brain dead to just go around deleting every channel that doesn't bring in money. I'd imagine that if anything, they'll just use that to go after the people that create non-advertiser-friendly content. If they can't run ads on your videos, they can't make money off them, and that means you're just eating up bandwidth and storage, aka you're an expense.

AMD likely gets the codes extremely cheap from the publisher, so don't feel too bad about it. They're either paid for by advance or at time of purchase. Microcenter sold me my motherbaord (ASUS Strix Z370-G Wifi AC, MSRP $185) for like $65 on accident when I tried getting the price marked down because it dropped between the time I ordered it online and when I went to pick it up. I guess they forgot a 1 or something. Great day for me. Probably not so great for the manager that rang me up, if it was even noticed afterwards.

The "80+ Gold rating" is a power efficiency tier. While generally a higher efficiency power supply will be more reliable or higher quality, there are also some pretty bad units with high efficiencies. There are also some pretty solid units with lower efficiencies. By efficiency, it means if the system is consuming 100W itself, but the power supply efficiency is only 80%, it'll be drawing approx 125W (100 / 0.80) from the wall, whereas if it was 90%, it'd only draw approx 111W (100 / 0.90) from the wall. Higher efficiency = less wasted power. Less wasted power = less heat and lower electrical bill. View the PSU Tier list here: This is a giant list of most power supplies ranked by their reliability, build quality, features, etc... The higher the tier the better. I wouldn't recommend anything of D tier or lower. (Which unfortunately my current PSU falls under D tier, though for reasons I don't entirely agree with.)

If you're wanting this for gaming, SLI is dead (and so is crossfire). More often than not you'll end up with bugs, worse performance, or no change in performance from using SLI compared to a single GPU. Very few games still properly support it. I'll always suggest getting a single more powerful card over multiple weaker cards.

As long as it's not on carpet, and it has a dust filter. Otherwise I'd opt for facing up into the case (if the case supports it), that way you're not filling your PSU with dust or choking off its air supply.

According to the national electric code, two prong outlets are allowed in homes as long as they're working. I can't see a reason for them to come through and replace it with a two prong if previously three prong though.

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