demonix00

You would have to use lightscribe media to be able to use the lightscribe features on the drive as they have special markings to perform the printing process. Technology connections did a video on this a while ago on this

That is because the hardware is going to be the same (unless they release a "pro" version that has slightly more power in both processing and graphics) regardless. PCs aren't all the same and game devs are at times lazy when it comes to porting from console to PC even though almost all consoles nowadays use x86/64 architecture.

You must be new here... This isn't new, they've been letting these scam "adverts" float around for ages.

^That TBH because I just checked my own account and found several unsuccessful sign in attempts from France (somehow from some using internet exploder), Germany, Russia and Indonesia all with incorrect password entered. Just move on and don't worry about it.

Update on this as I just found out that it does the same thing over HDMI when the laptop is powered off (this is when it's connected directly to the laptops HDMI port, not through thunderbolt) but once I press the power button it immediately turns the display on to show a no signal message and goes into standby (if it does) until the laptop boots into windows at which point it works as intended which is making my think that either something isn't being sent to the display to tell it to wake up fully or the display is just being picky (I'll have to do more testing on that side since I have a displayport capable device available). I've also watch the video from techyescity about hidden power settings, so I might go digging through that to see if the options that have been mentioned before were just being hidden.

From the looks of things, the seller just doesn't have a clue since they state that the card is compatible with an AGP 1.5v slot when the card is clearly PCIe.

Welcome to "can it run crysis".

Why Firefox? I abandoned that because it became a crappy mess that broke websites more often then not. Have they somehow fix all the crap that was making their browser a crappy mess?

They pretty much replaced your gen 4 SSD with a 5 year old (and very well used) gen 3 SSD and while I'm not certain that it happens it's likely that your system will only drop down to the drives supported specifications (which is why it's showing PCIe 3.0 x4 as current and supported in the transfer mode section).

I still wouldn't call read/write speeds in the 30s or lower to be fine even with spinning rust as they should be getting over 100MB/s read/write over SATA (maybe even over or close to 200). The OP needs to test with a USB3 external enclosure (and use the most current version of crystaldiskmark) to rule out PSU issues, so until then I'm calling what the WD rep said to be BS.

That's about all you'll get through a USB 2 connection. It ain't got crap to do with the power supply.

It's the enigma protector "DRM" not an anti-cheat.

I'd already tried that during the last batch of tests by setting the laptops internal display to 60Hz before plugging in the external display (which windows defaults to 60Hz) and still got the unpowered display treatment (also when I could get an image with another active source connected, I'm certain the internal display was set at 144Hz with the monitor defaulted to 60Hz). I think the only thing that really needs to be ruled out since I've gone through almost everything is with the monitor itself either by not using the displayport connection either by testing on the monitors HDMI port or on another display (I'm not going to use that monitors VGA port since that has its own issues that I'm not going be going into).

No as even SDIO can break stuff in the name of "driver updates".

At least I know if something goes whoopsie and I have to press the laptop into full gaming service I can at least have one external monitor connected unless I'm able to rule out the displayport connection on the monitor not playing nice with these more modern docks and dongles, and I won't be pulling the trigger on a new monitor at least until I have most of my Amazon monthly payments completed along with sorting out the mess that's my desk. So that means that it'll be a few weeks before I'll update this since nothing major will have happened until I get the new cables to rule out a funky monitor.