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So I've been using a 2019 Asus ROG Strix SCAR III (G531) laptop for a while with 2 storages (it has 1 m.2 and 1 sata connector for storage). An Intel 670p 512GB m.2 SSD - For the system and programs. And a Seagate BarraCuda 2.5 4TB HDD - For archival and games. The latter of the two started to be insanely slow recently, so I've been thinking of upgrading to an SSD in that slot too. However since this laptop is quite limited in upgrades I'm left with two choices. 1. Replace the HDD with a regular 2.5 Sata SSD with similar capacity or 2. Replace the m.2 system drive with a bigger capacity m.2 and use that for games and whatnot, and buy a lower capacity sata ssd for the system. Pricewise it wouldn't be that different, whichever option I choose, but i'm still curious if I should go with the second option. Would my system tank in performance in any ways if I were to put the system on a slower SSD, while I game exclusively from an m.2 ssd? I haven't noticed a single thing when I went from a regular 2.5 sata ssd with 550MB/s writes to a 2000MB/s m.2 previously on a desktop pc, but I've never had an SSD for gaming exclusively either, so i'm more curious about that pushing my already mediocre at best i7-9750H to its limits.

Any tips on how to do that? Should I go with a wall adapter that shows the intake or is there a software alternative that even if its not 100% correct, but nearly right? Yeah, thats what I thought at first too. I mean, yeah it may save some power but taking away like 5-10W(which may even come from the fact that the 710 is passive cooled) is not really worth 30-40$ in my opinion. Thanks for the ideas though. Well I thought about swapping the 2600X for a 3400G before but I would need to pay some extra to essentially get a weaker cpu with an igpu. If that was the plan I could go the intel route which is usually way more efficient at lower clocks, not even considering the fact that single core speeds are also usually better there. Definitely will check out undervolting and since most of our servers only use a single thread anyways its not really a problem for now. The main reason of my switch would be the fact that the laptop used ddr3 sodimms compared to the desktops ddr4 sticks which are still upgradeable, and the desktop also has an m.2 ssd in it with 6TBs of HDD. Thanks for the ideas, really appreciate it.

Hi! As of right now I have a ~6 years old laptop used as a server machine for hosting a few gameservers(1-4 at most) and a webserver, but its not really anything great for anything other than its low power consumption. Little bit more than a year ago I built a new desktop setup which is at the moment unused, due to having a similar specd laptop. Recently I started thinking about making that old desktop build into a server since for the stuff I need it is still a lot more than enough. The laptop: Lenovo G505s AMD A10-5750M running on base clocks AMD Radeon™ 8570M 2 GB 2x4GB DDR3 - Running at 1600MHz The desktop: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X - with no oc, running on base 3.6GHz MSi GTX 1660Ti Ventus 6G G.Skill Aegis 2x8GB DDR4 - Running at 3000MHz My question is, how can I make it so that this setup wont consume this much power? Although its a significant leap in performance compared to my old laptop, only the 2600X eats around 2 times or even more based on various sites benchmarks, than the maximum draw of my laptops ~90W power brick. Is that data even true? I mean several site claims that it wont really go above 100W unless OCd and under heavy load, and some claim that it uses 100W+ even with no OC and base clocks under moderate load. Also since the 2600X doesnt have an igpu, I can't just pull out the graphics card, so i though about getting something like a gtx 710 or somehow making the machine boot up everything on its own if the system restarts and accessing it through RDP. Is this a route even worth going for, or I shouldn't really bother with it at all? Also if someone could give some tips on how should I make this setup a bit more energy efficient, I would be glad(I don't mind getting a little bit worse performance).

So I've put up with my router setup for quite some time after our ISP upgraded our network into a VDSL2. Before that, on the ADSL2+ variant I had a rather decent(or at least in my opinion it was) TP-Link WR941ND router taking care of literally every needs of mine but after that I was forced to switch to a ZTE Speedport Entry 2i which is literally a piece of junk. Can't limit the bandwidth of wifi, has a kind of limitation for download speeds(if I download anything from the internet at max speed, it just disconnects except if I do it through steam, then its fine.) and couldn't work out with portforwarding until recently. So my problem occured recently when I realized that my ISP(which is the only viable option where I live) has a kind of restricion on IPv6 and servers can't recognize my address and thus I'm unable to play online(for example in the new Forza Horizon 4). Other people suggested that I should get a router capable of having "Dual Stack" for IPv6 and so here I am asking for recommendations. Thanks for any tips! The router should have a decent control of WiFi bandwidth. It needs to support VoIP and IPTV(This is the main reason I can't use my old TP-Link). It needs to have Dual Stack support. It should be below, or around 100$ Also it would be a general plus, if it could handle optical cables later on, since my ISP is trying to upgrade its network everywhere and the place I live is on their list.