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I'd say tape, because it can leave the glue behind which is a PITA.

Yeah I was a bit paranoid YEARS ago when I got my 120GB 840 EVO at launch (it was new tech to me and I spent all of my money on it so I wanted to preserve it for as long as possible), but now... Fuck man, I couldn't even TELL you how many OS installs my 120GB and especially 250GB 840 EVOs have seen. It has to be in the hundreds by now.

Yeah I was a bit paranoid YEARS ago when I got my 120GB 840 EVO at launch (it was new tech to me and I spent all of my money on it so I wanted to preserve it for as long as possible), but now... Fuck man, I couldn't even TELL you how many OS installs my 120GB and especially 250GB 840 EVOs have seen. It has to be in the hundreds by now.

With plenty of headroom to spare, yes.

I feel like even Java Minecraft might be a bit of a stretch for it just because of how oddly GPU-hungry it has become in semi-recent times, though Bedrock would still work flawlessly on it. If you intend to do anything more than that though you will need to throw a dedicated card in and probably upgrade your RAM to at least 16GB.
 
You can get GT1030's on eBay now for around $30 bucks which isn't bad so long as you get the GDDR5 variant. Unfortunately there aren't many LP cards to choose from, and all the ones worth half a damn (namely the 1050Ti and 1650) cost entirely too much.

I feel like even Java Minecraft might be a bit of a stretch for it just because of how oddly GPU-hungry it has become in semi-recent times, though Bedrock would still work flawlessly on it. If you intend to do anything more than that though you will need to throw a dedicated card in and probably upgrade your RAM to at least 16GB.
 
You can get GT1030's on eBay now for around $30 bucks which isn't bad so long as you get the GDDR5 variant. Unfortunately there aren't many LP cards to choose from, and all the ones worth half a damn (namely the 1050Ti and 1650) cost entirely too much.

Oh you know it buddy. At least this one is allegedly Zen 1, not that those cores would be very pleasant in a shitty clocked dual core anyways.

Oh you know it buddy. At least this one is allegedly Zen 1, not that those cores would be very pleasant in a shitty clocked dual core anyways.

Considering the fact that it has a dual-core Athlon 3050U, not really. I'd much rather have my IdeaPad that has a 1315U but only 8GB of non-upgradable RAM that I got for somewhere in the mid $300's.
 
What I lose to never having enough RAM I gain by having a very competent CPU.

Considering the fact that it has a dual-core Athlon 3050U, not really. I'd much rather have my IdeaPad that has a 1315U but only 8GB of non-upgradable RAM that I got for somewhere in the mid $300's.
 
What I lose to never having enough RAM I gain by having a very competent CPU.

yes, quality doesnt change, time it takes to produce the same result will.

As far as I'm aware this is not possible at all with the default file browsers that we've had since at minimum Windows 7 (and probably earlier, that's just the earliest I can remember).

LTT never sent me a notification that anyone replied which is great, but for what it's worth my PSU isn't anything special, just a lil EVGA GM750. And we also have to remember that every board will do different junk with the BIOS. Thankfully my board was actually reasonable by default; I believe at stock clocks it was doing about 1.23v and I was able to add on a couple hundo MHz (keeping the PC at 4.6GHz at full load and bringing the EC up to 4.0GHz) and take the voltage down to 1.2v at peak.

You'd love my Strix 2080. Granted I did buy it used, but the fans have a light tick to them (mainly at lower RPMs) and lately when they hit 0dB mode sometimes there's one that just doesn't actually turn off... And it's not the same fan every time... So that's cool.

You'd love my Strix 2080. Granted I did buy it used, but the fans have a light tick to them (mainly at lower RPMs) and lately when they hit 0dB mode sometimes there's one that just doesn't actually turn off... And it's not the same fan every time... So that's cool.

I'll throw a bone in for InfiniteCables. For CAT6 solid-core plenum stuff IC is a couple dollarydoos cheaper, though they only seem to offer it in 1,000ft rolls whereas Monoprice does 500 and 1,000.
 
Feels like hearsay recommended them over Monoprice because of the absolutely insane amount of SlimRun ethernet cables I have now (only 16 of them).

Honestly, the lil G203 is a fantastic mouse and they can be found for dirt cheap. I picked two up (one for a secondary PC, one to replace my G Pro Wireless with a flaky side button), and even though I absolutely despise wired mice I love the idiots. They're pretty light, and the fact that the cable is just a plain ol' rubber dealio means there isn't that godawful braided shit weighing it down and catching on shit.

Depending how her particular laptop's vendor decided to configure the TDP limit, it's very likely hitting that. My laptop with a 1315U was limited to 15 watts and would only go about that far on the performance cores and would stick to a measly 900MHz on the efficiency cores. I ended up getting ThrottleStop and now it'll suck down 30-35w under sustained loads and typically stays around 3.4-3.9GHz on the PC and 2.5-3.1GHz on the EC.

Like October yeah. Time flies though and you may as well get used to 11 ahead of the death date.

The OP's idle really isn't all that great. With my monitor, speakers, PC, Precision 3420, and M1 Mac Mini (which is folding) my wall power draw is 170. If I take the monitor out of the equation we're looking at 115-120. I somewhat aggressively undervolted everything, actually gained performance, and got my system-only draw to go from just over 100 down to the mid 80s at idle.

$14 to get from Canada to Texas isn't horrible all things considered. I'm sure commercial/discounted rates in Canuckistan are higher in general just due to their dollar being weaker than what we're accustomed to here in the states (not to mention CA to US fuckery), and they probably don't get hella discounted rates since they're not a shipping "powerhouse" as something like Newegg.
 
Be glad you're not paying consumer shipping prices. If you had a small 8x6x6 box weighing about a pound, $14 would get you from Dallas to Denver with UPS. To get from Dallas to Vancouver, paying consumer prices with the same package and using the cheapest shipping option with just over a week anticipated time, you're looking at just under $40.
 
I've worked somewhere that's a UPS Alliance partner for 3 years now so I know my way around shipping reasonably well lol

Like October yeah. Time flies though and you may as well get used to 11 ahead of the death date.

I'm pretty sure your board supports windows 11. Just make sure you have fTPM and Secure Boot enabled in the bios and you should be good to go.
If your bios version is F62 or higher it should be enabled by default.

You wouldn't have to upgrade the BIOS to run Windows 11. BIOS updates generally don't have any impact on the system running an OS correctly or not.

At this point you might as well use Windows 11 since the death date for 10 is steadily approaching.