Paradine Sage

It's probably two to four years away from being really relevant. By then numerous technologies that are just leaving the lab now will be in flagship products and it will be perfectly possible to make a phone that is, essentially, nothing more than a solid, sealed, crystal block. Removing the need for wired charging is one step on the road to that end.

What kind of work and what do you mean by "general use"? I mean "work" can be everything from writing books to virtual reality graphics design. One you can do efficiently with the cheapest computer on the market, the other pretty much requires the bleeding edge.

Figuring out my cable management took a bit of trial and error, and questioning how much force I should apply to get the CPU to lock in the socket.

Except per that Phillip DeFranco tweet YouTube didn't remove the ad's from that Jimmy Kimmel piece. If Google's policy is to not allow videos of tragedies to be monetized then that is fine but it should actually be enforced across the board. Of course HBO/Comedy Central/etc. have their own sweetheart deals with YouTube and don't have to deal with everything that the normal content creators do.

So does anyone know if you can use both nanoSIM and eSIM simultaneously? In other words, does the Pixel 2 support dual SIM using Project Fi with the eSIM and a nanoSIM from another carrier? I mean the hardware is obviously there but no clue on the software. If you can dual SIM it then that's going to make this my new phone.

That is a RAM Disk.

It's still four cores at the moment but expect it to jump up within the next five years or so. The problem is that most legacy game engines are not designed for creating massively multi-threaded games. As games transition to newer engines that make programming a game that does scale with available cores much simpler, expect that to change and change rapidly. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if most of the next gen AAA games can scale to however many cores are available with noticeable performance benefits from doing so. Then you have the increasing use of AI and life like games, all of which favor more cores as opposed to just a higher clock speed.

Are you going to do anything with the CPU for a few days? Because you can just use regular tap water and a paper towel and be fine 99% of the time if you wait a few days for it to fully evaporate before you use it.

No, SSD's are no where near fast enough really to replace RAM. Even m.2 drives and the like.

Flip CPU Ratio Mode from Dynamic to Fixed and see if it passes stability testing. You could have an unstable OC and the board is downclocking to prevent a crash. Prime95, Aida64, and Realbench all stress systems in different ways and just because something is stable for one doesn't mean that it is stable for all of them.

IBM is still one of the biggest players in tech, they have just transitioned away from selling physical products to the general public (and even most end users in general).

Monitors I expect to last until I stop wanting to use them and/or IO has advanced enough that they are no longer supported. Keyboards and mice I expect ten years plus out of. Core components better survive at least three years heavily OCed and then continue to function at somewhere between that level and stock for another three to five years. AIO's I expect to last four years, although I give computers one change over when they get switched from being a primary to a secondary at the end of my three year upgrade cycle.

No. There are plenty of reasons to get more RAM but to make use of a RAM disk for a game really isn't one of them. Now if you already have the RAM then using a RAM Disk for whatever can make sense but just for gaming is not a reason to invest in more RAM for a RAM disk.

If you got X99 and actually push your storage then you might want to look at heatsinks for your m.2 drives, because those things really do push the point where they need some cooling at least. I would also switch out your fans for EK Vardar's. Better performance, even if you do loose the RGB's on the fans.

Look, there is pretty much exactly one way to make any profit as an independent system builder. Build made to order custom systems. Bulk buying of parts to build numerous copies of identical systems and then selling them without already having customers lined up is utterly dead end. What people will pay for is for someone to take their idea and budget, and then give them the system that they wanted in a state where all they have to do is, quite literally, plug it into the wall. Do that for one to three hundred dollars more than cost and you will have some customers assuming that you are good at what you do. Enough to live off of? No, almost certainly not. Somewhere between an order per week and an order per month? Very viable in many areas. But what this means is that you need to be able to make good custom loops with hard tubing (if not more exotic tubing and case types), know the capabilities of most hardware on the market so that you can meet the customers needs without having to spend lots of your time on research, know how to OC both the CPU and GPU to their highest rock solid 24/7 acceptable OC's, and know how to set up whatever software that the customer wants. For being able to to all of that, and using every trick to eck out a bit of extra profit, you will be able to get customers charging around two hundred dollars for your services (not having to spend days dialing in a rock solid OC and stress testing it or dealing with the hassle of parts testing and the like is worth around that much to a lot of people). This is the kind of thing that you can do as a side business if you work from home doing other stuff, and if you are truly skilled then you might (in ten years or so) become another Origin or Puget Systems but I wouldn't bet on that one.