u/insomnia64

Yes

I had cards and secure notes and they all migrated without any intervention required

I did the same thing. I read a comment from reddit years ago after I did my build that summed it up for me

Watercooling's not for people with large budgets. It's for people with no budgets

Bitwit made a video about a Microcenter on launch day. Maybe the interest will be less for a 6800 but I wouldn't count on it.

Is this it?

Buildzoid covered this yesterday Timstamped link

TL;DW: There's no way other than buying RAM with chips that are only available in a certain configuration such as Samsung B die

I agree. Both look accessible with a GPU installed unless yours is over two slots wide, then you'd have to remove the GPU to install the lower M.2.

I see no reason you'd need to change it. Note that some of the 3070s are quite long and will fit as long as you remove the top HDD caddy. Some are only a two fan design and would fit with the caddy. Just check the one you're purchasing.

My understanding of this is it depends on if the Windows 7 key you upgraded was OEM or retail. If it was retail you can move it.

No, I'd say 20mm is safe. There isn't likely to be airflow around that part of the card that it relies on for cooling

It would work, just limited to PCI-e gen 2.

I'm not certain from the spec sheet but I think that even if you did get a PCI-e adapter for it if you'd force the two gen 3 slots into 8x mode which would run your GPU at 8x.

Personally I'd just install it into the M.2 slot.

Page 15 of your manual, at the bottom

PCI_E4 will be unavailable when an M.2 SSD is installed in the M2_2 slot

The M.2 slot uses 4 PCI-E lanes of which your CPU has a finite number. If you populate the second M.2 then you can no longer use all the PCI-E lanes. The result is the bottom 16x slot (which only runs in 4x mode) will be disabled.

Assuming your only PCI-E card is your GPU (and you've installed it correctly in the top PCI-E slot, you're fine.

Probably best off buying 2x 16gb sticks and removing your current ones. This leaves you space if you want to buy two more for 64gb (since you said "at least" I'm assuming you might have the requirement for more in the future).

You could leave the 2x 4gb in at the same time and have 40gb total but all the sticks would run at the speed of the slowest ones which would be 2400mhz based on your current sticks. Maybe your workload favours memory capacity more than speed in which case this wouldn't be a problem.

Yes it has two M.2 slots as can be seen on the specification page here

It's not optimal but personally I'd stick with the tower cooler. If you have top case vents it should be no problem. If the top is closed it might be worth stressing the CPU a bit and watching the temps to see what the result is.

Should be fine. I installed a 3070 into a friend's system with a CS650M and it worked fine. I measured the draw to the GPU at 220W when overclocked. That leaves enough for your CPU.

Adapt it to what? A 3.5mm jack? You can get adapters but I have no idea about the quality of them. A jack plug carries an analog signal and the optical a digital so I assume there's some conversion going on somewhere.

Personally I'd plug that in. It doesn't look like the pins are shorting to one another so I doubt there's any danger to it.

You need to turn on XMP(Intel)/DOCP(AMD) in the BIOS. I did this on an Asus TUF board recently and the option was on the first screen when you get into the BIOS. Yours could be different though.

You mean an optical audio cable? Some high end sound cards have this as an output.

Windows keys that come preinstalled on a device are likely to be OEM licenses and not meant to be moved from one device to another. These keys can be locked to certain hardware identifiers.

That said there's nothing stopping you from entiring the key at install and seeing if it works. To comply with the terms you'd have to stop using/uninstall from your laptop.

Looks like he's using one of these

News to me, TIL! That's useful to know.

I don't think it would have been easier in my case. I have 3 machines, A,B and C. A is in one location and B and C are in another on a local network. C is not accessible from the internet but B is. I want to transfer a file from A to C, with the trigger and first command being on A.

I could have done ssh from A to B then done the remote scp command between C and A from there. That would illiminate the -J option I needed in my script but I'd still have the (now solved) issue of sending a filepath over ssh.

There's always multiple ways to do things and it's nice to know of the alternatives for the future. Thanks for the suggestion

Thanks, that worked perfectly!

For anyone finding this in the future this post helped and here's the code

#!/bin/bash
path_to_file=$1
printf -v path_to_file %q "$path_to_file"
ssh -J 2.2.2.2 192.168.1.3 'script -e -q -c "scp -r 1.1.1.1:\"'$path_to_file'\" /home/insomnia/ingest" >> /home/insomnia/ingest/log.txt'