That_Dutch_Guy

I like your spirit, but your not going to be able to pull this off. In other to make this work, not only do you need a different USB daughter board, that fits in your laptop, you will also have to replace the USB controller. USB 3.0 controllers have more pins than a 2.0 controller (3.0 has more data lanes) and the hardware upstream from the controller was never designed for the throughput of 3.0. So even if you could make it work (the effort required is not worth it), you probably still won't get full 3.0 speeds. What you could do is sacrifice WifFi and get a mini PCIe to USB 3.0 board.

Yes, I don't do much ABS printing, but the seller threw them in as an apology after the first was DOA. EDIT: It was likely DOA due to shipping damage, it arrived in pretty rough condition

Wanhao Duplicator 4 I use it for all kinds of DIY projects

Not a chance, I had a laptop with a pentium T4400 and it wouldn't let me upgrade from win7 to win10 because of it. I only got it to upgrade by going to a Core 2 Duo P8700

No, motherboards for 8th and 9th gen only support ddr4. As far as swapping over the boot drive, Windows has gotten pretty good at tolerating that stuff, you might have to uninstall some drivers, but it should work.

Under that red shield are the VRMs that power the cpu, so you will definitely need a new motherboard and the chance of the cpu surviving is pretty slim. Sorry dude, that sucks. On the upside, the RAM might still be okay.

While the 1060 outperforms the 980m by quite a margin, the CPU is barely any better and an SSD for a boot drive is a very nice to have, so I would say that overall the Gigabyte is a better value. But if whatever you are planning to do with the laptop is rather graphics intensive, then the Clevo (I must say, I have never heard of that brand) might still be the better option for you.

Start with the bare minimum (no gpu, single stick of ram, no drives) and see if it'll POST then. If it does, you can start adding components back in and see where it craps out. If not, disconnect everything from the PSU and short the 'power supply on' pin to ground on the 24 pin connector (look up a picture for reference). If the PSU turns on and it can power some fans, then it is probably good. If not, you need a new power supply. You could verify this by borrowing a PSU from a different system (possibly from a friend) and see if your system turns on then.

Just because they don't recommended in certain situations, is not a reason to block their users from doing it anyway "even on their lowest end boards"

And yet, asrock themselves say pretty much the same thing on their page right above the table with BIOS versions

First of, P4.70 is newer than P3.40 so you don't have to downgrade. Second, why do you want to update your BIOS? Unless you are having issues, it's not recommended to do it.

Compared to something middle of the road, nothing dramatic, slightly less ripple and noise, more robustness and perhaps fanless mode (if the old one didn't have it already). Assuming your quality of the power coming into your house is good (no power surges, brown outs or other sorts of funny stuff), there really isn't a point in going with the best of best for a standard rig. Not saying that it's fine to go with cheaper than cheap, but middle-of-the-road is fine in 99% of the cases.

It can take a very long time for something shown off at CES or a show alike to actually come to market, so I definitely wouldn't wait for that. Besides that, it's the same as every other product, there's always something new and better around the corner and you could wait your entire life playing the waiting game.

You could, but it's not ideal

The ground connection in your outlet, or something connected to that.