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https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/ AV-TEST has done a lot of testing for us. Check their results and keep an eye on their "Top Rated" for Windows 10. You can click on a specific Anti-Virus and go deeper into it's performance, protection and usability.

Honestly, RAM is RAM. Both linked have same CAS Latency. If they have the same speeds, size and form factor, you'll be fine. Choose whichever one screams value.

The CPU (more specifically, the built-in MCC) can reference up to 128GB of Memory, yes. Any more than that and your CPU would pretend it's not there.

It sounds like you need more data to identify what's happening. I would run perfmon and run a custom data collector set for 24-48 hours. Ticking the box "Event trace data" would be beneficial. Look into Performance Monitor and all of the logging data it can do, it's extremely useful.

I don't have best buy where I am from, so cannot say. Any hardware/electronic store should have multimeters. I got my power supply testers off eBay.

Yes, you can rectify that. Take off the cpu fan and heat sink. Use some isopropyl alcohol and clean wipe your cpu and the bottom of your heat sink Reapply fresh thermal paste onto cpu and install heatsink securely. You might not have reapplied thermal paste in 7 years, but when you've gone to...

Are your fans connected to the psu or directly to motherboard headers? Do you have a multimeter or power supply tester available? Silly question, but you applied thermal paste after replacing your cpu, right? You said you went back to your old cpu and removed the new ssd. Does your system post...

Try another USB port, can the device communicate? If it can, you may have a faulty USB port. Try another device in it. If that also fails, a USB loopback plug can confirm whether it is faulty. If no USB ports work, enter BIOS and check their interface status, perhaps it has been disabled as a...