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This is going to create interesting situations, with people buying a game in a cheap region and selling it with a profit to someone in a more expensive region.

That would indeed be a good way to verify that the GPU, SSD, RAM and PSU work. If the system runs stable with the old motherboard and CPU, either the new CPU, the new motherboard or the AMD-related drivers are to blame.

The MSI logo on my GPU has RGB ... but I unplugged the RGB connector to turn it off without the need for software (which they don't have for Linux anyway). My soundcard has RGB too, but I turned that off. Not that it matters, I chose to use a windowless case anyway just to avoid having to deal with the light from motherboard LEDs etc.

Does it freeze, crash to desktop, bluescreen or does the PC suddenly reboot? Seeing as you have done a full fresh install and the problem persists in more than 1 game, it is most likely either a hardware problem or a driver issue. How many sticks of RAM do you have? If it's 4, try removing 2 of them and see if the crashes still occur. If they do, try the other 2 sticks. If it still crashes then, try the sticks one at a time. If it's 2, remove one and try, then try with the other one.

Hey cousin, let's go bowling! IV had its charms. In a lot of ways it was actually better than V. NPC reactions to you, how they react to injuries in combat (melee as well as gunfights), physics (flying through the windshield, ragdoll when jumping out of a speeding car etc). You know, the small details. Sadly, those details do matter a lot. Going from IV to V, you really notice that they cut some serious corners in V.

I really hope that's a typo or an autocorrect thing. Linus is known for doing crazy things with hardware, but that would take it to a whole new level. There are plenty of SODIMM to DIMM adapters, but I'm not aware of any that do it the other way. SODIMM is typically used only in machines that don't have enough room for DIMM sticks to begin with, so there's no reason for any company to even consider making an adapter like that.

It would be a nice option for those of us that clear our cookies often. Not an issue for me anymore though, as mentioned in one of the other threads about this I already set up a filtering rule. I've been thinking about this some more, and I'd suggest setting the system up to only send a mail if the forum doesn't find a cookie AND the login happens from an IP address that the user hasn't used before. That way we only get notified if something weird happens.

It may be a good idea to clean the entire drive during the installation. Windows 7 and Windows 10 often create hidden partitions, and you may end up with several of those if you just tell the PC to do a clean install on the large one that currently houses the Win7 install. Just go through the setup procedure, and you will eventually be greeted with a window that lets you select the partition you want to install on. You'll most likely see the main Windows 7 partition, a boot partition, perhaps even a recovery partition. Maybe some others as well, kinda hard to tell without knowing the entire laptop's history. Delete all partitions and then select the empty disc. Windows setup will automatically create the partitions you need and start the installation. .

People always see my underwear whenever I forget to put on my pants before going outside. You're going to tell me that you never have that problem?

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Google gives you results based on your interests. If they know you're a techie, whenever you enter a query they'll look for more tech-related results and show those first. Duckduckgo doesn't do any of that personalizing, so the results you get there are based purely on how many hits that site gets. Due to the existence of actual floatplanes, Floatplane the video platform simply isn't big enough to rank anywhere near the top 1000 results for that particular search term. That's what you get when you name your service after an existing vehicle instead of coming up with an original name for it.

This is probably not a security breach or a privacy issue at all. Most likely someone with a very similar name/address signed up for these sites and accidentally entered your address instead of theirs, either due to a typo or the person not really knowing their actual address. Happens more often than you'd think. I see you mentioned reminders for car services. Send that dealership a mail back to inform them that the customer who gave them that address actually gave them the wrong one. Perhaps add to the mail that you're getting lots of mails from sites/services (don't mention which ones, as that would be an actual breach of privacy), probably due to the same person handing out the wrong info everywhere. They'll happily contact that customer by phone, as having the correct address is important to them too.

Don't forget "Apple"

You mean diet water?

I draw the line at printing. I have a friend who manually writes down things I may want to reply to, and sends them to me by carrier pigeon. I then write my replies and send them back so that he can type them and submit them under my name. I want none of that new-fangled computer font stuff on my papers. And don't get me started on those strips with holes that you have to tear off the sides of the pages. (Yeah, Capt C is a real weirdo. Best regards, the friend)

Ruelle is seriously underrated. I was letting YT do its thing in the background last year and one of her songs started playing. I bought the "Up in Flames" and "Madness" EPs later the same day. ------ Anyway :

This masterpiece from the late great Ray Jessel

3 fans should be enough for that. I have no experience with that particular setup, but I doubt it runs hotter than mine (5930K @ 4.5 and an MSI 1080Ti). You can always keep the original fans and then later mount them in the top when you feel like experimenting a bit. You'll most likely conclude that the 2-3°C drop in temps isn't worth the extra noise though.

They don't remove the copy that's already on your own HDDs, but you can't download a new one from their server anymore.

Looking at that motherboard, I'd say that your only option is to replace the current NVMe drive with a larger one. If you really want to add an SSD, it'll have to be a regular SATA one.

The stock fans are actually pretty good, moving enough air at lower speeds (which they'll do most of the time if you connect them to the motherboard and set up your BIOS to have a proper fan curve) If you really want to replace them, I can only recommend getting 2 intake fans (preferably 140mm) and a single 120mm exhaust at the rear. You're going to have to stick some crazy hardware in that case to need more airflow than what that setup provides. Between the choices you've mentioned, I'd lean towards Chromax fans with halos. When you eventually get tired of RGB, you'll still have some excellent fans that you can use throughout several builds. In my own Define C I took out the stock front fan and replaced it with two of Fractal Designs' 140mm fans (that I removed from a brand new Define R5). They seem to be aging well too, no rattles yet. I don't expect them to last as long as the Noctuas in my R5, but they'll probably still outlive the hardware they're currently cooling.

Same with digital purchases. I started legalizing my Limewired collection a decade or so ago, using 7digital almost exclusively at first. If I now go to my library there, I can't even re-download about 10% of my songs because the licenses expired. Luckily I have a good amount of backups, so I don't have to worry about this too much. I too switched to just buying the CDs and ripping them. I'll only buy digital if there's no other reasonable option.

sigh ... That's from this very thread.

If it's IP-based, VPNs will make that interesting to enforce. With a friend's permission you can just tunnel into his/her network and share the subscription anyway.