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Usually it will be turning off the QoS service. But it could your router is prioritizing one connection over the other as its been set to. Another factor could be one of you has Gigabit Ethernet, the other not.

You would be best getting an external as the voltages might be different

Check if your CPU is on recall. See if you can bootup a Linux live USB to test your RAM. Its also possible you have a dodgy Windows install. Download media tool and make another bootusb.

Any USB to SATA cable will do.

Likely little to do with the cards drivers and more to do with background tasks and temps. Also check you are using hardware acceleration in your browser.

Restart it a few times and mash the f8 key to get into the windows troubleshoot menu. Select "command prompt" and do a checkdisk scan and an SFC /scannow to repair disk and windows.

Quicker way is to use a secure erase program. But you can go onto disk management and do a full format.

Best going for a gold 750watt than bronze 850watt. You also want to check what your power draw is going to be, and pick accordingly. No point going for a massive PSU unnecessarily. Also check it will fit your case.

Intel has been getting away with too much to fight off competition these past few years. Things were bound to go catastrophic eventually. Like previous CPU bugs, the extend is unknown as of yet. But this one is going to be costly as no "code" is going to fix it. Not saying all these bios...

Yes, but the low performance and risk is not worth it. What you want is a "dynamic disk" in disk management. But you are essentially merging a high speed drive with a lower speed drive, for a lop speed dynamic drive and added hassle.

To be fair. Your best upgrade will be going to an i7 CPU instead of upgrading your GPU. Your board is a bit dated for newer cards and you will not see much performance. You can OC your current card though. But your hardware is nearing its limit.

You have three options, dualboot Windows 10, Virtual Machines Windows 10 or run WINE. Some games will only work if you dualboot

Stay away from Intel's, they are a bit dubious, and we don't know what their recalls will be like. Helios are decent, I have two different models, but the quality was good. Get the Ryzen model though.

Could be a dodgy controller on the drive. Check if it has firmware updates. As for recovery. If it can be read via USB then you can stick it on a working computer and use a Linux distro like Backtrack on it.

Yes. But I have rarely had to replace the laptop fan or heat pipes in many different devices. They do not "wear and tear" unless clients are blocking the airways, or using them in dust filled rooms or stabbing them (don't ask). Just remember model number AND part number are important. The...