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Hi, thanks for your help. That is reassuring. I do use my Desktop alot for games and work, so I'd expect it to get battered but as you say, even with this amount of usage, I'll be going strong for a while. Thanks again.

I have a 250GB 970 EVO NVMe SSD as my boot drive in my desktop, that I installed late 2018. Over the last 6 months, using CrystalDiskInfo, I noticed that this drive has very high total reads and total writes. Even stranger is that the total writes is significantly greater than the total reads. It is beginning to concern me. I have a friend with the same drive (but in a larger capacity) who stats are much more reasonable. My thoughts are that this is probably due to the page file. The drive is used as a boot drive, and only stores the OS and my applications. I have run VMs in the past on this machine, but no longer do. Windows optimises this SSD once a week. Firstly, is this normal or has anyone else experienced it? Is there a known cause and how can I prevent it? Any tips for looking at my SSD better? Stats ~6 months ago: Total reads - 9680GB Total writes - 13620GB Stats now: Total reads - 13850GB Total writes - 20370GB PC specs: Ryzen 5 2600X 16GB DDR4 3000MHz Asus PRIME x470 GTX 970 250GB Samsung 970 EVO 1TB WD Blue Let me know if anymore details are needed. Thanks in advance

Depends exactly what you want to do with it really. I've had a Ryzen 5 2600 for about 18 months and it has been awesome. It wasn't too expensive, 6 cores/12 threads and it pretty amazing for everything I throw at it - games or other loads. Intel tends to be slightly ahead in gaming from what I remember but it wasn't a large difference nowadays and really wasn't worth the added cost at the time I upgraded. But I would definitely recommend Ryzen from my own personal experience.

Might be irrelevant now but did you make sure to change the source on the Monitor to the relevant input. Not all monitors switch automatically.

Luke said on the WAN show that it will happen after CES sometime. Not sure exactly when. If I am not mistaken, he also said he will host videos on occasion and will be on WAN show most of the time (AFAIK). As for whether he is hosting this video, no clue but it would be awesome if he did host it.

You won't get far with that budget unfortunately. I know there are dual socket motherboards and cheap dual or quad Xeons on eBay, but factoring in PSU, RAM, a rack mount case and disks, you won't get far. I think you would be pretty far stretched to get a complete system for less than $150 and I highly doubt it would be better in performance.

With a small budget, maybe consider buying used? You may be able to get bang for your buck - unsure of what the local market is like around you.

Yeah, then go for it. I think this is the same one as my Brother has and he is pretty happy with it.

As long as you have the outputs from your GPU to go to the monitor, then sure. I tend to want to have two of the same monitors or at least two of the resolution but if you are doing basic work, any secondary monitor is beneficial.

I get your point but say I am watching a longer video such as Scrapyard wars (The main reason I actually bought FPC besides wanting to help LinusMediaGroup out), I may be able to save a lot of time playing it at 1.5x. I doubt there is much demand for such a feature, but could be an update for the future for when/if more creators use it.

Firstly, not sure if this is the correct place for FPC suggestions, so move or delete if necessary. Any chance we could get playback speed for the videos on FPC. I tend to watch YT videos at 1.25x up to 2x speed, just to save time (except for some specific videos like WAN Show which I watch at 1x speed). I don't know if this would be a highly sort after feature, but is one part of the YT player that I like. Thanks

Reviews don't really need 60fps, the subject is only moving a little and most of the time the camera is stationary, so there is very little movement. It would take much more space up on the servers and probably make it more of a pain to edit. I am sure if they wanted to, they could easily publish at 60fps, but few would notice the difference, so what is the point. The same reason they don't publish in 8k, nobody has an 8k monitor and few, anyone, is running 4 x 4k multimonitor setup.

If it is going to be short term - either a short test or limited running over a couple of days - then sure, but not as any sort of permanent solution.

Do you have a Desktop? If not, may be a better investment than a gaming laptop, unless you travel alot or have some reason to be doing alot of gaming on the move.

I am sure there is some way to do this but surely if the hardware is different in the two machines, everytime you switch it is going to mess stuff up. Schools and other institutions do stuff like what you are suggesting but it involves the use of a server and much technical shizzle nizzle. I would just set up a cloud storage solution and sync your files automatically and then just install the apps you need on both machines. Also, why in the hell are you purchasing a a Razer Blade and a Dell XPS 13 2 in 1, just get a single Laptop that suits all of your needs?