Salomon Smeke

Primal feels like it has no story. None of the characters have much motivation. Its still fun. But definitely absolutely not for the story.

Ah. This is a valid concern. If Quad-Core is a hard requirement then its a hard requirement.That parts list has a 4400 pentium, which is dual core I believe so no dice there. I really do believe the used market is your friend here. the i3 in swordsman247's post is technically 2 core, but the 4 logical cores might work out. You definitely should do more research with your specific game.

Hm. Well. I won't comment on those particular games as I do not have experience with them. But my gut feeling here is that your graphics card (GPU) is severely underpowered. Especially when stacked up with that beefy a CPU. I also don't see the advantage in a K series CPU with a non-overclocking board. I would say you should start by removing that CPU from your list... it seems to be an outlier. As a direct answer to your question: no, your cpu is not a bottleneck here. also, have you checked out PcPartPicker? It is a very good resource.

I think there is some stigma here that I would like to try and clear. Unfortunately, CPUS are compicated enough (as in the industry) that statements like yours just are too blanket and don't work out. some pentiums are great for entry level gaming! some AMD chips are absolutely terrible. The above parts list looks quite solid.

Greetings, If I understand you correctly. Your concern is which of two orientations to place the fan in: hub "in" or hub "out". I would not concern myself with longevity in this situation, rather with airflow. Linus has an explanation on case fans here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc9c8LFY1bg It is a great explanation on how fans work in general, and will introduce you to the concepts of positive and negative case pressure, as well as airflow direction. TL:DW -> your fans can push or pull air. your case should have non-turbulent (conflicting, weird) airflow. Generally coming in through one end and coming out the other. Then, you can concern yourself with HOW MUCH air comes in our out. This comes down to positive and negative pressure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8EN3K-eaVA Cheers and good luck.

Hello! Well. I have some thoughts on your options, but first a comment: Would you consider a chromebook for mobility and a desktop for solid works? There is a fairly good explanation on why this is a good idea here: I realise you're not going for a "gaming" laptop. but i feel this still applies. As for your choices, If your focus is not gaming... always vote with battery life. The notebook experience is really contingent on being able to have it not plugged in. I would go for the cheaper XPS 13, and get yourself a few beers with the extra. Cheers.

Hm. I am sure the members here will show you some good ideas, better than what I can come up with. So ill leave that to somebody else. However: Have you seen the scrapyard wars series? It might be more beneficial to you (in that price range) to build something out of parts sourced from used shoppes etc. You can certainly get more bang for your buck.

It should be fine in terms of TSA. However, you might need to pay import duties, I am unclear when it comes to european import duties.

Well. The how-to-geek option above is great. But just to give you some alternatives on file obfuscating which aren't a direct answer to your question but might help your overarching quest: You can partition a drive and unassign a drive letter to a partition. You can use 7-zip or similar utility with a low compression preset to quickly password protect folders. You can place the files on a usb that you plug in. You can have an alternate account on your computer own the files, and make it so you need an admin password to modify them. <- overly complicated. You can simply make it a "hidden" folder and disable "show hidden folders".

Aside from all the objections listed here, have you considered just attaching some small heatsinks with thermal tape? Raspberry pi ones might do you. There are some kits available with basically all you need to install them.

Ok. Opting for: U2414H. Sacrificing my 16:9 but it seems like a great panel and i found it for 200 usd. Wish it wasn't matte, but hey... at that price? Ill take it. Thank you very much to ARikozuM for the guidance. I will buy it in 20 minutes unless I get anyone yelling at me to not do it because theres some better alternative.

The suggestions above seem on the nose. In particular the windows clean install. Given that a windows upgrade caused this problem, I would expect some sort of operating system corruption or other driver garbage. A clean install would definitely be in order before throwing a pc in the trash

I understand. No need for higher refresh rates, I am happy with 60hz. Thank you for your help. Ill leave this open for a few hour just in case there are any other options or arguments, and then ill go buy myself an ultrasharp.

Im glad Dell Ultrasharps are a good choice, I have been leaning toward one. I appreciate the PCPP link, however I am hesitant. Do I really not need to concern myself with specifics? As long as a monitor matches my ask list it should be fine? How do I know which here is the best choice?

Greetings, I am new to the forums (hello!) and I would love it if you all could help me find a monitor for my computer. I have been using an old glossy 24' dell monitor that bleeds, has no colour, and generally sucks. I would like a new one. 23-24' 1920*1200 as bezel-less as possible. Relatively low latency. Glossy (preferred) or semi-matte. I could deal with 1920*1080, but I really like 16:10. Budget? Huh? Whats that? (I joke. I would like to spend in the sweet-spot here. Im fine with spending 400USD if that means my monitor is SO MUCH BETTER than a 200 dll one. Otherwise, 200USD would be my target). I did some research, but monitors almost seem like one of those things were two different products with identical listed specs could be completely different. So I am hoping the LTT forums (which Linus keeps talking up, ha) could be of some help. Thank you for your time, Salomon