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You might also consider using a hard drive instead of an SSD. A 500gb drive is only about $50. If it dies then you know to look somewhere else. The PSU could be the culprit or the drive interface on the motherboard. If it lives then you know that the SSDs simply wore out. They do not last as...

There are some minimal Linnux OS's that need only a few megabytes of RAM. It would be command driven with no mouse or graphical user interface. Sadly Windows 10 is bloatware that needs a lot of RAM. You could also use DOS 6.2 if you can find it. It only needs 612k of ram. No graphical user...

Whenever you clock at 4-5 GHZ the voltage should be kept low as possible. Switching at that frequency at voltages over one volt can generate a lot of heat in the CPU. Overclocking is really not a good idea unless you have a lot of spending money to replace CPUs and even whole motherboards.

You may have a problem with Windows or your hardware and drivers. Try booting up a Linux OS and see if that fixes your USB problem. If it does then you may have virus on Windows. If it still fails then you have a hardware problem, maybe motherboard.

A car battery will provide plenty of filtering for noise, but would be better for a laptop running on 12volts because a desktop would need an AC inverter. Bear in mind that at 110 volts a computer may draw an amp of current but at 12 volts it will take 10amps. A one amp charger will not be...

An I7 with 6gb of ram should still have life in it. If you have the install disk for Vista or the restore disks you can go back to a factory install. It should boot much faster that way. You could also go to Linux because it will run fast with your CPU. Mint or Zorin are good. You could...

Your bios may not allow you to install it. Even if it does the drivers available for a newer machine will be windows 10 not vista or xp. You could tr.y using a virtual machine in linux to run vista.

Gilmore girls? Who cares? That is four episodes that are not getting viewed much. What about Androids? Apple computers? Is Netflix crazy?