Snipergod87

I don't know about certifications, but job experience means more than certifications when hiring, hopefully your part time job will be in the tech field.

Probably wouldn't work for a varity of reason's, but the first one would be the bios/uefi would notice a unrecognized operating system and just stop right there

i probably wouldn't recommend going higher than a 750 ot 750 ti really, hardware in there is over 10 years old

You do realize you can run a 9700k on a Z370 board. If the key is tied to your MS account then you are fine. system should boot normally but you will need some different drivers to be installed.

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most the socket can take is an i7-3770, but will take 2nd gen and 3rd gen processors like the i5-2400

Check the writing on the cable. 1.4 vs 2.0 only matters @ 4k as 1.4 will do 4k @ 30hz and 2.0 is capable of 4k @ 60

Well if any modern motherboard that has a PCI slot revision 3.0 not 2.2 as 3.0 was introduced in 2004 (as far as I am aware is backwards compatible). Motherboard depends on the platform, Ryzen or Intel, but you can still find PCI slots, especially on boards designed for business (Corporate stable models) Heres a list of boards with Intel 8th and 9th gen support with PCI slots, all of which will be 3.0 no doubt. If you are going intel and want overclocking I would suggest the ASRock Z370 Pro4. I have much older model of that board thats has been running 24/7 for 6 years.

I agree on the removal of the liquid cooler, a 2400G isnt a very hot chip, and as with ryzen processors you can only get a few hundred Mhz out of them with normal cooling, liquid cooling wont help. They are pretty close to running at their max frequency out of the box.

I do not since I do not use them personally, but many others here do.

Sounds like normal wear, the mouses movements are wearing down the pad little by little over time, only real solution is to replace the pad. I don't use a mousepad, and my desk is quite a lot smoother where I primarily use my mouse, to the point where it is quite a bit more reflective or has a polished look.

Either way you are still running in dual channel, there is no performance increase You would need threadripper or intel's HEDT platform to see any small % increase by moving to quad channel ram.

As others stated you cant daisy chain off 1 cable. 1 SATA port on motherboard = 1 drive connected.

RAM with battery backups are a thing, but only in the enterprise space.

Before you make any permanent changes, try unplugging your HDD and seeing if your computer boots. If it boots normally than disk 0 the 1TB drive can be wiped, if it doesnt you need to remove the old HDD and reinstall windows. When you already have windows installed on another drive for some stupid reason Windows decides to put the boot loader amoung other important recovery stuff on a drive separate from your primary disk.

If its only recording on motion it will last quite awhile

Data should still be there but I wouldnt know how to access it, when a drive is paired with Optane it greats a pool of storage, you remove part of that pool you end up where you are now.

Its a completely different protocol a simple cable won't do it, you will need someone to design and program a circuit board to convert the signals than pass that to a USB controller. Unless someone makes an off the shelf part you are out of luck.

You can right click on that svchost process and see what processes are running inside of it.

Also most GPU's in laptops are soldered, if they arent they are MXM modules which are rather expensive and probably will not work with the existing cooling system

Pretty poorly in benchmarks especially considering that is an ancient G3 What you basically have there are 2x 2.8Ghz Pentium 4's, basically worthless. Also you expansion is limited to PCIX which is NOT PCI-Express, but basically 2x PCI slots combined. The cheapest NUC you can find would run circles around that.

maybe @jonnyGURU Can offer some input, I think this is beyond most of our forum members knowledge.

Intel is working on pushing mobo manufacturers to allow PCI-Express bifurication on future motherboards to allow for use with their new Optane drives which are Optane + QLC flash, but needs PCI-Express Bifurication to work as they have to report as to seperate drives. Bifurication allows for multiple devices on a single connector, otherwise it is one device per connector.

dual GPU off a single M.2 slot wont work, the slot would need to support PCI-Express Bifurication which at this point no consumer boards do, only server. Only thing that would work is dual GPU's on a single card.

Possibly depending on the rest of the system. and what 250w psu