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If I'm not mistaken it was a 50% markup on the original price of $1400. Not the $1200 it currently is. *For the one Linus bought.

You might've had PC building lessons in your IT classes but no-one that I know and myself included never had those lessons. In IT lessons in secondary schools kids learn about office applications and very basic things about computers themselves, they never even go near the insides of an actual computer in class. College it becomes a little different. Depending on the course you'll have a class that features PC component / building lessons but for the majority of IT courses you wont, and I'd hope that someone doing IT in colleges would know at the very least basic PC building knowledge.

It depends, what are the temps? Is it stable? Will it be under 100% load 24/7? It will most probably be fine as long as it's stable and your cooling is good enough.

What are your system specs? I had an issue where it would microstutter on my old CPU but after I upgraded and did a little OC the game started running flawlessly.

Take a look at event viewer to see if there's anything there first. it could show up with something that isn't linked to the OC. What software are you using to play music and what other programs do you have open? Has it ever crashed like that before you did the OC?

My i5-8600k @5ghz and 1080 does fine for most titles at 1440p 144hz. For some games you'll have to drop settings a little to stay at 144+fps but you shouldn't have a problem running the majority of games at 1440p 144hz. A 4k monitor with 1 1080 is a little out of the question though, before I got my 1440p 144hz monitor I had a 4k 60hz one and some games were fine, but others really struggled. if you're not looking at upgrading your GPU soon, I'd go with a 144hz+ 1440p monitor.

It's nigh on impossible to prove that something has been overclocked as long as you don't completely overdo it and fry the components. While it may (technically) void it, they'll still accept the warranty return aslong as the damage was not caused by the OC. Some motherboards have a default option that sets all of the CPUs cores to the max boost clock speeds if your cooling is good enough.

My non-delided i5-8600k with a 240mm AIO OCs to 5ghz absolutely fine. Stop talking shite.

Overclocking doesn't void the warranty of a CPU if you don't go completely overboard on voltage and end up frying the CPU. You can still RMA OC'd CPUs / GPUs if they stop working just fine under warranty.

If you're talking about control panel, it's still there in Windows 10. Just used less often because it's kinda hidden compared to what it used to be and that there isn't really much of a need to use it over the settings menu.

I swapped to 144hz a year ago and mostly play League myself too, I notice a massive difference in performance and smoothness even when going from an OC'd 60hz monitor at 80hz to 144hz. I think it could also depend on how good you are at League though, where at the higher ranks it's way easier to notice the little things like when a skillshot is being thrown on a 144hz monitor but other than that it just adds a general smoothness to the game / Windows in general.

Yes, all monitors have a refresh rate. You only really need to worry about the external monitors refresh rate. The laptops built in screen should run native without any issues to what other monitors you're running as long as you don't duplicate the screens. Then it'll run at whatever the slower refresh rate is.

They'll have the same image quality, one is literally just a larger screen. Buy whatever one you'd prefer.

@cpugeek21 For 60hz 1920x1200 go for a HDMI, when using anything higher than that or anything with a high refresh rate I'd personally only use DP. At home I have 3 monitors, 2 1080p ones I'm driving through HDMI / DVI and my 1440p 144hz that I'm driving with a DP cable.

If you can, throw a small SSD for a boot drive in there and you'll probably have a performance increase and the decreases that come from the future will be minimal until your hardware actually starts dying.