Oh yeah, you can find "workstation" Dell or Lenovo PCs on Craigslist and eBay for pretty cheap because they upgraded a whole office at a time. They often have solid processors and ram inside already, but no GPU.

A modern Ryzen chip's integrated graphics will outperform your old gtx 650.

This is a tall order, if you want a real graphics card inside, but something like This (please don't just pick the exact linked one lol) would be an overall upgrade. There are a lot of "compact" "small form factor" PCs out there that companies have already built around a tiny case.

I also don't know what your budget is, but I assume you aren't looking for just a beefy laptop.

The power supply requirements is pretty easy, PC part picker actually has that info on it, where it will estimate the power consumption of a list of parts.

I pop everything I can on my body. Fingers, elbows, hips, ankles, neck. All fair game.

The dolphin will get sad if you forget about it.

There was a stock problem at one point, but mine was shipped in a regular amount of over seas shipping time, about a week I think. Shouldn't be a crazy shortage any more.

Even new garage doors use rolling codes, for exactly this reason. People could break into houses with a flipper and a little patience.

Cloning a fob that has rolling codes, and then using it to unlock the car, may de-auth the real fob and lock the person out of their car until they pay (sometimes $$$) to get it recoded. So, unless you have actual malicious intent it's a pretty shit thing to do.

I enjoyed the remake, and I've only played the original system shock 2. To me it felt like a good attempt at keeping the spirit of the old game while making it feel like a more modern title. The difficulty options are master class IMO, having combat, quest, puzzle and cyberspace all as separate 1-3 sliders means parts that you hate don't have to be hard with the rest of them.

That said, I played the cyberspace parts on medium, and the beginning parts were fine but some of the last cyberspace levels were frustrating and confusing.

Combat was fine, though I was definitely running low on healing items near the end.

The only disappointment for me was the final boss. No story spoilers, just mechanics>!you have a "real" body in cyberspace departing from every other cyberspace, a weird gun never before seen, and unlimited lives/resets where you just, go until you succeed. Somehow checkpoints and a game over screen would have made it feel less cheesy!<

But I do recommend the game, even for people who didn't play the originals . I do recommend playing with the "quest" difficulty on 1 though, otherwise you have to use notes and voice recordings to figure out what to do, and god forbid you miss something in the middle.

Also, I downloaded and used a chess engine to beat the computer at chess for an optional upgrade.. and I've played chess since I was a kid. Lol.

I'm curious, if you've done that much research into gaming PC prebuilts, what's keeping you from building your own?