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I mean you can physically insert the card and the system will run and definitely get better framerates in some GPU bottlenecked scenarios but even in a game like CSGO your CPU is going to be an issue.

Never a good idea to daisy chain power to a GPU. Especially a power sucking one like the Vega. You're GPU is more than likely not getting enough juice.

Absotively Posilutely, that CPU is abysmal and you'll run into CPU related bottlenecks real fast if you try to game at a level the 570 is comfortable with. We're talking about a CPU that an 8th gen i3 almost doubles the performance of.

So I actually found something that runs full android except with a watch UI and has a SIM card slot. Reviews say it works to make calls and it has a massive (for a smarwatch) 900mah battery. Only thing I'm unsure of is longevity and how well it actually works. https://www.amazon.com/LEMFO-LEMX-Smart-Watch-Phone/dp/B07HVZYJ83/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=LEMFO+LEMX+Smart+Watch&qid=1556278162&s=electronics&sr=1-3

At the very least a few smartwatches can make calls and receive texts untethered. The Samsung Gear S3 Frontier is being marketed as one for example. Which features absolutely can't be used without a host phone?

Well now we are getting somewhere. What part of the smartwatch experience is incompatible with basic phone features from your experience? I need to make calls, respond to text messages (used voice dictation and a surprisingly accurate swipe feature on my old device to great affect), use GPS, and receive emails.

Hey, thanks for the input but it seems our ideas really don't match up I guess I can't just see it from your perspective. IMO replacing a phone with a smaller device that does exactly what a phone does minus some features I would rather not have is a lot more reasonable then asking my parents to set a parental lock on my phone.

That's... absolutely ridiculous.

You see, that's what I need something extremely limited but not something so limited that I can only received talk and text. Occasionally I do need to see that an email just came in while I'm out and about the job so I know to go fix something. Or if I'm going to a place I've never been can pop in the address on the GPS and be on my way. But without a web browser or other social media/multimedia features. So I want a smartphone without most of the features of a smartphone. Something connected but disconnected. And yes I've uninstalled Facebook i just scroll a forum instead that was just an example. I'm seeing an issue and am attempting to cut it off at the root.

Hey, hi, hello. I want to replace my fancy expensive smartphone with a less fancy and hopefully slightly less expensive smartwatch. The problem is... I don't know if it's even possible. Look, I understand the benefit to having a device in my pocket that can theoretically access the entire summation of human knowledge (and stupidity) at the flick of a finger. The ability to play thousands of high quality games on a handheld. And what all of this brings to the table. The problem is... It's tiring. It's stressful. It's annoying. It causes me to get into addictive loops where I mindlessly flick through Facebook instead of doing anything productive. So despite having it I don't need or really even want it. I've looked into getting a dumb flip phone but the problem with that is it's nearly impossible to be entirely disconnected from the internet in the modern age. Email is a primary form of communication for work, friends and family simply prefer to use things like FB messenger and Text to contact me, and GPS is something that I still am confused on how people lived without. What I need is something in between. What I need is something out of the way that doesn't really have all the features of a smartphone but at the same time gives me the basics of email, GPS, and Phone/Texts without all the bloat and complications. Enter the smartwatch. I've used a smartwatch extensively before and it was great but after about 2 years its battery would barely last 3-4 hours on a charge and I had to drop it. It also was incapable of functioning when disconnected from my phone which meant I just had an expensive phone accessory not a true stand-alone device. However, it's been nearly 4 years since then and it appears modern smartwatches solve nearly all of these problems. You can pick up a smartwatch with a 4G LTE modem that can make calls entirely on its own with no external device. Other positive points include the fact they either completely lack access to things like the internet and Facebook or do so in such a limited capacity it completely removes my issues with them... So is it possible to replace my phone? I've googled the question and got limited results. Found some reddit posts from 2 years ago that basically just say "not possible" but also see people wholesale saying "this will do what you want" and recommending a specific device. My main concern is battery life. My secondary concern is whether or not any smartwatch can truly function when disconnected from a phone. For example my old device couldn't even install apps on its own even though it had Wi-fi the app had to be pushed from the phone to the smartwatch over bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Do 4G smartwatches fix this? Sadly every professional review of every smartwatch I can find assumes you have a phone to supplement it and I have yet to see anyone attempting to use a smartwatch on it's own. So I'm turning to a wider forum (literally) to see if anyone here knows anything about this. What are my options? How well does it work? etc etc. TLDR: I want a smartwatch but don't know if I can use one w/o a phone and if I can how well it'll work.

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If you want to stress test run Prime95 for a while

2 Things 1. Did he actually set the RAM clock speed higher in the BIOS? It doesn't happen automagically if you want your RAM to run above the stock speed you need to go in and manually edit the speed to whatever your sticks are rated for 2. Is he on the latest BIOS revision? I had issues getting my RAM to run at full speed on a Ryzen 7 1700 B350 until I downloaded the latest available BIOS and then was able to set it no issue.

Edit: I completely misread the post. If you reset the BIOS and it's fine then the previous owner just had the fan curve set too aggressive. If you did a reset then there's no way there's an overclock still present and it still works so you're fine no damage done.

Windows task manager is reporting 4GB of hardware reserved memory though.... So something is reserving it unless it's just a glitch in Windows but it's too much of a coincidence that it's reporting the exact amount of RAM he's missing even after a re-image. I'm guessing there's a BIOS or MOBO issue happening somewhere.