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Yes, they still are. Drivers will be updated by Windows Update on your first startup. Windows 10 licensing is done digitally - they generate an ID for your HW configuration and then you should be able to do whatever you want unless you change any critical part of your PC - like a CPU or motherboard. If you use a Microsoft account, the it's even easier, the license will be bound to your account and upon sign in, Windows should activate. You can also choose to do a fresh install when you're updating your PC. You should be able to do a fresh install anytime, but I can't tell you if it works - I've never tried it. Technically, Microsoft would want you to use Reset or Refresh functions introduced in Windows 8 instead of a fresh install, but I think that it should work.

Go for 500W and pick a good high quality PSU. It will serve you well and you will be able to use it with your next PC. Never skim on a PSU. For reference, look at this PSU tier list here on LTT forum.

You can still update to Windows 10 for free and you won't lose any program that are also compatible with Windows 10. If you have properly activated Windows 7, just run Media Creation Tool and use Update this machine. If you have a Windows 10 installation media, you can just insert it, double-click setup and it will update your Windows and keep all the settings, apps and files. (I updated a machine from Windows 7 just yesterday, so yes, it still works, even without activating assistive technologies) I don't know about the Windows 8 update wizard, but technically you should be able to at least keep your files. Steam library can be "imported" back to Steam, but I wouldn't do it, because you won't have all the registry modifications on your new Windows install.

Everything about this seems very random. What's your PSU?

Something like this?

That's not a bug, it's a feature! Although, I have to admit that I also don't like it and disabled the accent color on my title bars

It definitely needs better (read compatible) cooling - I don't think that you would want to use the PC and hold the heatsink in place by hand You can find supported chips by looking at Hardware Maintenance Manuals (HMM) for ThinkCentre M58/M58p (types 6239, 6302, 7244, 7355, 7373, 7628, 7639, 9960, 6138, 6209, 7188, 7347, 7358, 7484, 7635, 9965) - just find FRU lists (overall) in table of contents and note the chips or find the chips and then verify with the HMM. With this strategy, you can also find a cooler, just look for a FRU in HMM and search the web for the FRU. FRU stands for field replacement unit - it's a unique identifier of the Lenovo part and almost every part has one.

The CPU doesn't seem to be compatible with your board. Board comes from the ThinkCentre M58 that shipped with these processor families: Intel® Pentium® Dual Core Intel Core 2 Duo Intel Core 2 Quad Intel Celeron® Dual Core Intel Celeron® That means that BIOS will support these chips. Plus the chipset seems to be consumer oriented, so I doubt that any Xeon would be supported. P.S.: I hope that you at least used some thermal paste.

It's recommended to have the gaming library on a HDD solely because of the game sizes - if you have enough money to buy a big SSD, then go for it and store everything there. I would be going for a mixed approach, as Steam allows you to install games wherever - have your most played games on an SSD and those you play less on the HDD. Although, for prolonging your SSD's lifespan you should not be filling it to its maximum capacity (especially zero over-provisioning SSDs). Also, you can have pricier NVMe drive for an OS and cheaper but bigger SATA SSD for games and then HDD for data/less important games... possibilities are endless.

You need to give us more information. What games and what exactly initiated this, what are the symptoms. SFC and DISM /ScanHealth and /CheckHealth are looking specifically at the integrity of system files. System files are files that are required for Windows to function. Many DLLs are added when you install new software and if those are missing, SFC or DISM won't be showing any errors.

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No, that's too much money, anything faster than 3200 is not that beneficial. RIght now the pricing is inflated due to the low supply and I can confirm that Ripjaws V are fine with Ryzen as I use them in my build - and I'm on first gen Ryzen 7 1700.

I was just in the middle of writing it. Better practice would be to give an id to the div element, because it appears in the message only once. Also make the name of the class/id unique - HTML e-mails might use common element ids/classes like "warning", so try to use something like "warning-outsideDDL" or use inline styling on the div element and then you don't need the style element that affects the whole e-mail.

This is a good thing. There used to be problems caused by non-standard characters in the filepath. Do you remember this? I had my own set of problems with another app. For example, I use Windows 10 on my laptop that was upgraded from Windows 8 and it shipped with Windows 8 RTM version, so name of my account folder was my full name with a space and some problematic characters (I'm European). I coudln't figure out why CodeBlocks can't run or debug my programs and it turned out out that CodeBlocks passes path to the executables as a command to Cygwin (a set of Linux tools for Windows, in this case Linux command line interface). And since my account name contained a space, the path in the command wasnþt interpreted correctly, because you have to enclose paths with a space into quotes for the Linux command to work properly - space acts as a delimiter in commands. I was troubleshooting this for a long time and when I moved my project out of the account folder everything worked. I'm glad that Microsoft fixed the account names, even if I'll have to reinstall Windows or create a new account and delete the old one.

Every Windows install has a built-in hidden elevated administrator account. You can use it to manage the permissions, since that account can always take ownership as any other account in the Administrators user group. You need to enable the Administrator account, switch to it, manage permissions, switch back to your account and disable the Administrator account. You can use this guide to enable and disable the Administrator account: https://www.ghacks.net/2014/11/12/how-to-enable-the-hidden-windows-10-administrator-account/ DO NOT password protect the built-in Administrator account! If you forget that password, recovery is possible, but it's harder and more time consuming. Just don't forget to diasble the account when you're done. If you need a guide for taking ownership, tag me in a reply. Just remember to leave the permissions for SYSTEM, otherwise you won't be able to use the files.

What is unusual in that photo? Except the soldered audio front panel connector and cable connected coin cell battery? If it's the 4 pin connector at the left top corner, that's CPU power. And that's also a standardised connector (P4 cable). Just use one half of an EPS 8-pin (or 4+4-pin) connector from the power supply. On most of the newer PSUs it's 4+4, so you can disassemble the connector to make two 4-pin 12V (P4) CPU power connectors.

As the others said, just make sure that you update your OS and all apps that can display webpages. Intel released a CPU microcode update that is distributed via a BIOS update that is currently causing random reboots (mainly on Haswell and Broadwell, but also confirmed on newer chips), so stay tuned for the next BIOS update from your motherboard vendor. If there already is a BIOS update (with a Spectre (1&2) and Meltdown patch) for your motherboard, don't install it, wait for the other one (read release notes to make sure that the next update contains the newer patch that is not released at the time of writing this).

Check orientation on the CPU power connector - I managed to plug it the other way (yes, it is possible) when doing my first build. Also the ATX 24pin connector sometimes isn't plugged in all the way...

Maybe go for the M.2 SSD? 960 Evo M.2 is ~100$ more than that 850 Evo, but it's also much faster - if you can find it for cheaper than on Newegg, it's a good choice, but for just 50$ more than 850 Evo, you can have Toshiba OCZ RD400 with still much better performance than the 850 Evo, but not as good as 960 Evo. The only concern with M.2 SSDs is heat, so there should be some airflow where they're installed. Prices I found on Newegg: 850 Evo: 139.99$ 960 Evo M.2: 245.35$ OCZ RD400: 197.66$ If you don't want to spend more moeny, you can pick cheaper memory, it doesn't matter how fast it is on Intel systems.

Aside from getting a better PSU, you should also replace the thermal paste on your GPU, temperature should be lower, but probably not by much, it also depends on your airflow. And buy a new CPU cooler, there's not a universe where Intel stock cooler (or AMD pre-Wraith cooler) is quiet. Also don't forget to clean your system regularly

You might want to add this: https://www.androidcentral.com/google-pixel-2-xl-screen-burn

This is a great answer, very well written. This Wikipedia page about General purpose computing on GPUs is talking more about why it's a newish thing, what kind of data can be processed on GPUs and why. I decided to post it as my answer would be very similar.