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CPU and RAM wise, you're all set as far as I can see. We'll talk more about Cyberpunk 2077, as it seems to be way more demanding than A.C. Valhalla. With the RTX 2060, you'll probably be able to play the games with medium to high graphics in HD right around 60 FPS. Just don't expect to enable real time ray tracing. Unless they are able to have a fine granularity in the way you enable ray tracing in the game. That would be the smart way to go about it, but I just don't think it's worth the effort for the developer. So, if you like ray tracing and really want to enable it, you might need to upgrade your video card, for Cyberpunk 2077 that is. But wait for actual game benchmarks to come out before making an actual choice. Be smart about it, as I'm just going on the small amount of information that have leaked so far about the game. You can always keep a good video card and upgrade the Motherboard/CPU/RAM at a later time, when you become CPU bottleneck. I don't know how long you'll be able to go with your current CPU, as the new generation of consoles will drastically change the way games have been programmed so far (more core and more threads). So, if you don't need any upgrades, keep on amassing your money for a future upgrade. If you need an upgrade for one of the games you mentioned, it will "just" be a video card, which you'll be able to keep for a while if you choose it wisely. It's still not clear to me if you are having issues with your system or not. As a last note, I'm trying to help you make a decision, but not telling you what to do. Your reality is yours and yours only. I don't know all the specifics of it. So, feel free to ask any questions you might have, if any, and I'll do my best to answer them. The more direct and precise the questions, the better the answers will be.

You can setup your compiler to adhere to certain C++ standards, which won't require any runtime libraries. But as some have pointed out, you will get much closer to pure C, but use classes and certain functions that are C++ specific.

Your are mixing two different animals here. The 5700XT is an x16 card, opposed to the 5600xt that is x8. Who said something about the whole gen4 bandwith? The 5600XT will work on PCIe gen3, but it will loose some performance in some games. I can't remember who bothered to actually test this, but I do remember a couple of channels, YouTube channels, being disappointed by the 5600XT performances at launch and retesting it on a gen4 system, slot, and getting better, or expected I should say, results. This comes from the fact that the 5600XT uses an x8 link, not a x16 link. So, the gen4 speed helps here, but we're years away from saturation of the bus. Especially since it's only x8, not even x16. Hope I clarified my statement. You have the right to not agree. And the performance gain might not justify the upgrade necessary to take full advantage of the card. But there's a gain to be made.

Hi There, Lenovo has done strange things in the past. So, is the 1060 an upgrade or was it from the original Lenovo build? As Lenovo likes to run whitelists into their BIOS to prevent you from doing your own thing, or at least they used to do that. So, I would budget for a Motherboard upgrade, but try to move the motherboard into an appropriately sized case first. As for the power supply, it all depends on your rails and it's efficiency. But, if it's a good one and has a strong 12VDC rail, you should have more than enough power (as a reminder, power = voltage x current). Almost everybody tends to forget that the 5600XT is actually a PCIe gen4 x8 card. So, in order to take full advantage of that little card, you actually need an AMD system with gen4 support. As for Windows, I won't get into the nitty gritty bits of how it does it's bindings. But, usually, you can move a licence by calling their support and telling them that you had a hardware failure or something like that. And they'll let you move your licence. I've done it multiple times and never had any issues. But you will have to call them up.

First time I'm hearing about it. Never happened to us. We've been using, on average, 50 of these a year for the past three year. So, we have about 150 units in the field. No failures. Pretty reliable unit, don't you think? Anyway, the first rule is to never buy something you don't trust. So, of you don't trust this unit and have a single source, a source that you trust I would assume, that says it will 100% fail, why would you buy it? I know I wouldn't.

For the price point, it's one of the best we've used. I just told you we never had a return caused by one of these units so far. What more do you want? Yes, it's a good unit.

Hi There, We've used countless of these in industrial applications without any issues. They run 24/7 in harsh environments. So, when we start using less reliable parts, we know right away. That's not one of them. Hope it helps!

Hi There, Well, you just answered your question. Either way you go, Ryzen or 10th gen Intel, you will need a Motherboard. Since you're not comfortable overclocking your memory or manually tuning it, you will have to get a new set. Otherwise, you will probably get into compatibility issues, it won't just be a question of speed. I totally overlooked that in my first post, sorry about that. I'm going to get off topic here, but why are you looking to upgrade? If it's just for gaming, that CPU should be more than adequate. If you're having issues running games, I would start trouble shooting issues first. I'm currently running an old i7-4770K, non overclocked, with an EVGA 1070 Superclocked which is overclocked (on top of the factory overclock), 8GB of ram running XMP profile (no idea as far as speed and timing goes). The CPU is cooled by a Fractal Design Celsius S36 AIO, so it can properly boost and not throttle under any circumstances. The case, a Corsair Obsidian 450D, is full of fans and running tuned profiles. But the point is, this is a really old system and I don't have any issues running any games at this point in time. So, why would you? Unless you have underlying issues that needs to be addressed. So, before spending money on new components that might not even solve what you want to solve, you might want to put a little more efforts into this. But, if you just want to be on the bleeding edge of things, which I can totally understand, this is totally different.

Hi There, Can you please clarify your CPU upgrade path intention, please? Also, can you list your actual memory manufacturer and model number? True, to take full advantage of last gen Ryzen, you should use 3200MHz memory. But it will run on slower ram. Same is true for Intel. 10th gen lists 2999MHz as a max frequency, but 2666MHZ on certain SKUs. But this is max frequency. So, I would guess 2400MHz is still supported, but not optimal (you have to read the fine prints). Another approach would be to try to overclock your current memory. Not ideal, but could be done. That would be my approach, but I know not everyone is comfortable doing this.

As Minibois said, it always depends. New or used? Do you already have a power supply that can power the RX 570 or you will need to upgrade it? Do you need a video card right away or you can wait for a discount somewhere or for the current situation to stabilize? Brand loyalty? But yes, the is an excellent cheap choice.

Hi There, Please, don't just look at the bit rate ability of your audio device. There are two reasons why you might want to go with a different DAC than the integrated one on your motherboard. First is sound quality. Depending on the quality of the components selected buy the manufacturer and the way they are integrated together, you will have different sound signature. Certain person like different sound signature. So, selecting a sound signature that fits your liking comes with experience. But also, usually speaking, external DACs are easier to design to reject noise, which means their floor noise is usually lower than their internal counterpart. Second is the ability to push current in order to drive efficiently bigger, or harder to drive, headphones. Integrated DACs will generally be low power versions. As add-on DACs will have high quality drivers that will allow you to push the necessary current to drive higher quality headphones without them falling apart, in the sound department. They will be able to keep a tight bass, as an example, when driven with a proper amount of current without any distortion, as opposed to a loosy, distorted bass when there's not enough current. Just as an example, my audio setup on my PC is an internal Asus Essence STX II with Bose Companion 3. The Bose system is only used to control the volume level and plug the headphone (I'm only using the pod). As for my headphones, I'm using a lot of different ones, depending on what I'm listening to of what I'm doing, but here's a short list: Sennheiser momentum (original, first version, over-ear); Sennheiser IE60 Sennheiser IE800 Audio-Technica ATH-ESW9 Shure SE535 There you go. I just hope I made it simple enough for you to have a basic understanding.

As many have pointed out, I would troubleshoot the hardware with a simpler setup. Because, as of now, we have simply no clue as to where to problem comes from. I think I saw Linus using a single socket motherboard. So, I would make a single CPU, single GPU setup work first. Then add up to four video cards in the setup. then swap the CPU. Then swap the RAM. Then validate the remainder of the video cards. If everything works until that point, well, you should only be left with three possibilities: 1. The dual socket motherboard is defective. 2. The software doesn't fully support your hardware, which doesn't help much. 3. You are facing a hardware compatibility issue, also doesn't help much. Are you still using the Beta BIOS from your PCIe hot swap video? if so, could you try switching to a release BIOS just to make sure some of your issues aren't coming from that BIOS (if that is indeed a Beta BIOS)?