Orion Spectre

Thank you very much, I'll be sure to do that when I get home.

I'm not at my house right now, I'm just spending my free time at high school on the forum. Sorry, I guess I should've mentioned that sooner, but thank you for helping.

That explains why I had to go back into the settings to make the wifi work again, but that first part, sharing wifi over ethernet, is what I was trying to do the whole time. Needless to say, I'm still yet to figure it out.

Honestly, I just connected both Ethernet ports, read some likely irrelevant guides, played around with the LAN settings, and gave up.

I have been trying for a while now to connect my father's old laptop (Dell Latitude, made in 2000, runs surprisingly quickly for it's age, possibly boots up faster than my desktop on occasion) that runs Windows XP to the internet trying two different methods: straight wireless connection to my home wifi and running an Ethernet cable through my desktop running Windows 10 that is connected to the internet. I have no idea what to do to make the Ethernet approach work (before you ask, the router isn't accessible to me, I can't plug it in there), but I do know why it won't connect wirelessly: incompatible security protocols. The router uses the WPA2 PSK protocol, but the laptop doesn't support it, only WPA and a few other outdated ones. Is there any way I can add the protocol with a flash drive or something? It may be old enough to smoke, but it's far from smoking. That is to say it's extremely healthy for its age, save for a red tinted screen on start up. TL;DR: Windows XP laptop from 2000 doesn't support WPA2 and I want it to.

I was present for it, but there was no salesman sweet talking, the guy was actually friendly and knew about computers, one of the few good best buy salesmen, I just didn't double check the box. And before you ask, yes I did try as much as I could to convince them to get the parts separately, but they had a best buy card, so no luck there. I think I'll start trying to search around for a better cpu, cooler too.

To clear it up, I didn't pay for a 580 and get a 560, the lower end model was picked by accident at checkout (the boxes looked identical), the system cost was around $500, and I think I recall the guy saying something like "one of them has a better graphics card," so for all I know, it could've been a 570 that we meant to get.

My parents got me an entry level gaming pc (CyberPowerPC gau1400) as a Christmas gift. However, one thing to note is instead of the RX 580 I was expecting, I got a 2gb 560. Now to be clear, I'm not unappreciative or angry in any way, it resulted in the system costing $100 less, and it's a huge upgrade from sharing a laptop with an APU. However, now that I have been given this system, I want to know how to improve it, first using Wattman, and hardware upgrades later. The only performance metric I can give accurately is that it can play War Thunder at 1080p, just shy of maximum settings, with a frame rate of around 30 during ground matches with occasional stutter, and 60-100 during air matches, depending on whether I'm looking at the sky or ground, averaging at around 75. I am content with these for now, though extra . The only other metric I can give is a Furmark score of (if memory serves correctly) 10000-12000, my best guess at an exact number is 11300. The hottest I've seen it run was about 76 C during a War Thunder benchmark, though it likely has gone higher during extended play sessions, judging by how hot my room gets, although to my knowledge, neither it nor the cpu (an FX 6300) have ever overheated or throttled. Anyway my point is this: for those of you who know how to use Wattman, would you recommend tweaking it, and by how much? And second question, what should my first hardware upgrade be?