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The system is almost the same over here as I recognize a lot of things in your description.

Well, in this area from Europe auto-renewal plans are not common but I know that the UK is an exception to that. I always got the idea that the rest of Europe was not a fan of auto-renewal plans either, but is that right? Or is this different in countries like Finland?

Like you said, it's already implemented for Germany. Thas because in Germany there are laws to protect consumers from too much auto renewal plans. In the Netherlands, auto renewal plans are not blocked by law like in Germany and are a little bit more common. Still, it's its keeps being a typically North American thing to just offer auto-renewal plans. To take myself as a europian example: I own one auto-renewal plan and that is the newspaper. I have the option to take a year-long subscription on my health insurance or pay the whole year upfront and get a discount. I pay the whole year up-front so even my health insurance is not an auto-renewal plan. Note: I am a student still living at home so other basic auto-renewal plans like the internet connection are paid by my parents, but the whole household has about 5 auto-renewal plans, just the basic stuff (electricity, water, newspaper, car insurance, internet + TV + telephone)

Adding a debit card to your bank account here has some major drawbacks. In the Netherlands, you have some consumer rights in the banking system. One of them is that because the bank owns the whole system and is responsible for its security, they are also partially responsible if your money gets stolen. Actually, the bank has to prove that it's not their fault. When you connect Paypal or a Debit Card to your bank account you wave those consumer rights goodbye, because the bank does not control the whole system anymore. So I do not want to connect a Debit Card or Paypal to my bank account because of major drawbacks. And I do not want to have a Credit Card because it has an even larger drawback, it's harder to get a loan for a house. I am not like "meh don't feel like a Credit Card, let me go whine here", these are valid reasons why the current system does not work for me. In a comment above you said that the best option is to complain to PayPal. But Paypal is not asking anything out of the ordinary. Paypal just wants a guarantee that in a year there will be money to pay the renewal from. So it's very weird to complain about that. But to get this clear, I am NOT requesting Floatplane Club to implement Ideal. I was asking Floatplane Club for a Paypal payment for a year that does NOT renew itself. Because then Paypal does not require a Credit Card for the transaction. I have explained the problems I am dealing with. Some people do not understand why I just don't get a Debit or Credit card. Well, I explained the drawbacks and that is not a route I want to go for understandable reasons. I am just not able to pay with the current system and I have to wait for the new version of Floatplane Club to see what new Payment methods are implemented. My fear is that the new methods will be Credit Card payments, wich means I still won't be able to pay. What I do not understand is why it seems so hard to copy the current subscription through Paypal and just remove the renewal part. Making it the users own responsibility to renew it. Because then Paypal does only require enough funds on the wallet to pay at the given time making a Credit Card not needed. And yes I can live without Floatplane Club, but I like the idea of it and the point of this request is, that is looked easy to me to make a small change, making the system more accessible. But I am fearing that everyone, including the admin that responded to my request, got the wrong message. The admin said that new payment systems came in the new version of Float Plane Club. But I was not asking about a new system, I was asking for a third PayPal option :/.

You can indeed pay with the bank card everywhere, I mean everywhere. I have not used cash for over a year now.... I have implemented Ideal in a website myself. It sounds complicated but in the end, after one and a half hour of work, it was up and running. Weird that all the Europian web shops I know support Ideal when it's only Dutch, something I did not know.

Exactly the same card. GPU coolers cannot be swapped as easily as CPU coolers. You have to find exactly the same GPU or even exactly the same card, but in this case a dead one of course.

Its an older GPU, so compatibility can be an issue. My advice would be to buy a donor card that has died but still has a good cooler and swap the cooler from the broken card to your own. Should not cost too much because the card is already quite old.

Is he running overclocked? Yes --> Turn off the overclock and test again. Are the temps normal? No --> check if the loop is functioning properly. (Are all fans running) A simple way to check if the pump is running --> if the water block is hot but the pipes and radiator stay cool, the water is not flowing properly and the pump could be the problem.

Good that it is fixed now.

When a Laptop is designed, all components that have to deliver power are made so that the GPU en CPU of choice get enough power. So as long you did not change the GPU or the power supply of your laptop, there should not be any physical limit. There are two things that can limit the usage of your GPU: 1. A software limit probably caused by the BIOS, OS, a driver or energy saving software. 2. Some part of the hardware failed. Let's not freak out and go for possibility number one first. These are some good steps to follow. 1. Did you personally change anything in the BIOS lately? If so --> check if all the BIOS settings are still correct. If not --> no need to go into the BIOS. 2. Next step, check if there are no ASUS or windows power settings activated that are trying to save power. 3. Next step, reinstall the NVIDIA drivers. -----entering the "we are out of ideas area" ------------------- 4. Next step, reinstall all drivers, in case any of them (like chipset) is doing weird stuff (this is a long shot). -----entering the "last resort" area-------------------------------- 5. This is a step you only want to take if you can't think of anything else: Reinstall Windows. A lot of people are complaining of bad GPU utilization after the creators update from Windows 10. So if you have the creators update installed, that might be a fix. But it is a lot of work and a crazy long shot, I hope someone has another solution because you do not want to go there. But I saw a youtube video on Science Studio where he had the same problems on his desktop and reinstalling the OS fixed it. It's not that a fresh install of Windows breaks stuff, it can just be lots of work and if you do not backup properly, the files you did not backup are lost (save games, local email). If none of the software solutions work, there might be something broken with your hardware. But that is very weird, usually, when computer components die, they die. It's on or off, or at least they are showing instability. In this case, the performance is low but the laptop works stable and that does not sound like hardware failure.

It won't accept the first payment because it needs a credit card to do a renewal payment. It just says: Please fill in your credit card information, wich I do not have. So the road ends there :/.

There are a few assumptions here. Usually, NVDIVIA laptops with Intel CPU are being able to use the build in GPU of the CPU and the dedicated GPU. So question number one is: Is it actually using the 970M GPU or is it still using the dedicated one. The other assumption is that it is the power limit that is causing the GPU. Yes, it is a plausible explanation but how are you so certain? What I do know is that if you are running Windows 10 and have installed the latest Creators update, the OS might be the problem. Several Youtube channels and even a friend of mine complain of terrible GPU utilization after the Creators update was installed. Sadly I cannot say "yes this is your problem" and the only way I have seen people fix that problem is by reinstalling the OS, not something that is a quick fix. I hope I helped a bit.

The country I live in is The Netherlands. I am actually not aware of how many Europian countries use the "Ideal" system, but I know that the Europian web shops I use support it and even China's Aliexpress. Banks in the Netherlands must offer the Ideal system and may not charge for it. For payments outside the EU, I use Paypal. Not a problem because Paypal actually supports transferring money with the Ideal system to your Paypal wallet. The only reason I have a problem now is that Paypal requires a connection with your bank, credit card or debit card when you have an automatically renewing payment. I do not want to connect my Paypal to my bank because of losing some rights that consumers have when money is stolen from their account. I can't take a credit or debit card because this will make it harder to loan money for a house and that is just by the card. Therefore I asked if they could make a nonrenewal year long subscription option. Because if I have to do it manually Paypal won't require a linked credit card, debit card or bank account.

I know it was a joke , but the concept of blackmail always makes me mad. People who do that are just incredible mean.

Indeed, I was hoping they would create a subscription with Paypal that does not renew automatically. Because, I do not know if its clear, a nonrenewal Paypal link would solve the problem, so another payment system is not needed at all.