SirWendall

Fortunately, I lucked up back then and traded my OG Xbox One for a EVGA 1070. Super lucky since they had just dropped then. 🙂

Overclocking my old EVGA 970 SC GPU. Great results but the card couldn't handle it and a chip popped on it.

Asus Laptop has 6c/12t while the Lenovo has 8c/16t. More power in the Lenovo as far as doing 3D design. Both have 16GB of RAM, which is decent. I don't know how much multitasking you'd be doing. I'd say Lenovo imo.

It's all explained in detail on the overview page and in the FAQ:
 
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/xbox-game-pass-for-pc/cfq7ttc0kgq8?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
 
So PC only, you need Game Pass Ultimate to use it on both.

It'll run at x16 speed. Any GPU really. If there's nothing wrong with the slot. Also, the card market is really marked up. I'd say if you're not afraid of looking on eBay then go that route. Obviously, make sure the seller is reputable and all that good stuff. Or even try getting into Newegg Shuffle to get notified if they pick you to buy a GPU.   

The next gen Ryzen CPUs will be coming out soon with the DDR5 platform. Also, the 5XXX series CPUs are gonna be getting price cuts as well.

The next gen Ryzen CPUs will be coming out soon with the DDR5 platform. Also, the 5XXX series CPUs are gonna be getting price cuts as well.

That driver is from September. It's a Kepler card, so it's no longer supported by newer drivers. 

I'd say so as well. Also, the GPU lost support for drivers

The market has already cut pricing on the 5XXX series CPUs. Pricing is only going to get lower if you can wait to upgrade.

You can always get an adapter cable. I'm assuming you'd need USB C to Display port?

Theoretically you should just need a USB-C to USB-C cable. The display just lists USB-C as an input type but isn't specific about it being USB-C DP-Alt mode. The Laptop has a Thunderbolt port so 99% of the time that'll also do USB-C DP-Alt mode. 

Wow thank you for the fast reply! And no sadly, I'm thinking about buying a new psu to see if it is the problem but I wanna see what others say just in case the psu isnt the problem aha. However I think it could be the psu but I am not an expert.

And it's even better value to get a gaming laptop currently, what a weird world.

Its almost like getting a pre-built with the GPU you want is the better route to go. In some cases.

Remove all the drivers with DDU and reinstall them. Remove any overclocks (get it back to stock configuration).

That worked, though I didn't really need the DDU since I wasnt experiencing anything that bad with it that I was warned by in the descriptions of it, though thank you.

I'd say go with Intel just for the fact that they are the budget CPUs now. On the other hand, I recommend AMD, but Intel isn't bad considering you'll save $$$ and can put it towards other parts of your build. While also getting about the same FPS.

Can you give us more context?
 
If I were to guess its Memory Read, Memory Write, I/O Read, I/O Write where MEM is shortened to M.

I'd say go with Intel just for the fact that they are the budget CPUs now. On the other hand, I recommend AMD, but Intel isn't bad considering you'll save $$$ and can put it towards other parts of your build. While also getting about the same FPS.

To be fair, this will depend on the game. BF2042 isn't out yet, so we don't know how CPU or GPU bound it is. It could be very CPU bound and a 5600X could give a 20% improvement, or it could be as optimized as Doom Eternal and you can get like a 3-5% improvement. Either way, wait until the game is out, or at least until black friday. You might be able to score a 5600X for cheap, or you can do a full platform upgrade and go to either Alder Lake or Ryzen 6000, since both are rumored to launch around the end of the year.

Make sure you put the right screws back in each hole. Just match up the layout of screws to the layout of the PCB on the board and you'll be fine 🙂

That worked! Thanks so much!

Get a GPU that can have the latest drivers. I had a 660Ti for awhile and it ran well but with driver support ending you may not be able to play future games going forward.

You could sell it. Now is basically the best time for that. Unless you think the GPU market is going to get even worse. Perhaps we've only reached the 5th level of GPU Hell, so I guess we could go deeper and your 460 might go for $2000, but I think things are going to improve compared to now.