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Long-term storage has achieved yet another milestone. As you know, tape drives provide an incredible amount of storage capacity for a relatively cheap price. And this is another leap. Source: https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/16/ibm-and-fujifilm-580tb-tape-capacity-record/

That is weird, but totally possible. Even though you may have solved the problem for now, it's a good idea that you make sure that the hardware side of things won't cause any issues in the future. Re-checking is a good idea. Also, if you don't have an exhaust fan, get one.

Yes, that'd work. Check if the plastic cover is still on there, lots of people forget to remove it! Apply a pea sized amount in the middle, make sure you fasten the cooler evenly on all four sides, see if there's any excess paste that flows out. If there's any, wipe it with a tissue or a towel cloth and you're set.

Did you apply too much thermal paste? Or did you forget to remove the plastic covering of the base of your cooler?

Actually I've also had one of these, lasted my dad over 10 years. Mostly because he worked in well-lit offices so it won't use the battery at all for long periods of time! And after it died I actually got the panel out of the calculator shell and used it for a science experiment in school!

He wasn't asking about a bottleneck with this^ setup. It's with a new GPU. Also, Skylines will work on it, no problem. It's when the city size starts getting bigger that it can start dropping frames and it will be really noticable & really annoying!

Windows, phone screens, and a bunch of other stuff, as stated in the article.

You can play AAA titles in low to medium settings, not sure about City Skylines since it is a CPU intensive game and can tax yours pretty easily. Consider getting AMD? LIke an old 2600 or 3600 if it's available in the second hand market there.

You don't need to worry about "damaging" your components, there won't be any. You just won't get the fps you need since the GPU is so old.

Try getting new drivers? or changing the PCI slot it is siting?

A "real" upgrade would be getting a 3400G, but it'll depend on pricing and availability. I'd suggest rather not getting the 2400G in the first place since you're using a GPU to begin with. There won't be too much of a performance improvement.

I suggest you look out for old 2060 Supers. That way you can still get reasonable performance gain without changing anything else. I think a 4th Gen i5 would definitely bottleneck a 3060Ti and above. I don't know exactly by how much. Safe bet is to get a high end card from last gen, there are 1080Tis in the wild, get one and be happy!

The 3600 is the better value overall among the two you mentioned. Get that with a B450 MoBo, a 3000MHz ram kit and wait for a 3060Ti or a lower end card to come in stock. If you only get the CPU & ram combo and use it with the 1060, there will be a slight increase in framerates, but not much to make a difference, certainly not much to drive the AAA games at medium to high settings at 60fps at 1080p. And yes, regardless of whether you choose to go Intel or AMD, you'll have to get new RAM. and no, the 3600 will not bottleneck a 3060Ti.

No risk. Just make sure that the screw is the same proportions and you're good.

Fair enough lol I was just excited since I've never imagined something like this!