Ignoring the “Ship of Theseus” paradox for the moment, what is so special about the 660Ti that you’re willing to replace every other significant component in the system but not that card?

Marketing! :-)

TIL, there are DIMMs now that are not powers-of-two.

Irrespective of the vendor of the CPU–and irrespective of SSD vs. spinny hard disk–if you take a boot disk from a first PC to a second {different} PC, it is possible that the disk will not have the correct drivers for the second PC.

Whether it operates enough to actually get to the point where you can download the correct drivers is unpredictable. It all depends how much work was done to optimize the disk in the first PC. If there was a lot of vendor effort to remove unneeded software for that context, there might not be enough generic support left to run on the second PC.

The most successful path is to install Windows to an empty new disk, which installs a very generic and broad set of minimum drivers. This gives a context where the new machine can boot and access the internet for any hardware-specific improvements needed for the new PC.

Then use a migration solution to move any apps and data from the original disk to the new machine. These are usually hardware+software combinations that allow one to either copy live from old PC to new PC via a cable or wireless network, or one takes the old disk out of the old PC and plugs in a cable that allows it to appear as an external drive to the new PC.

For your son, 14700k. For a nephew, 13700k. :-D

I don’t work for or at Intel.

But I would be surprised if their future direction was “simply more of the same.”

At some point, I would expect further differentiation between cores, e.g. not just E and P cores, but more letters of the alphabet, with different specializations per core type.

Maybe Arc moves into the main processor as A and/or G cores. Maybe an L and/or I core variant derived from E for even lower power when idle. Maybe yet more cores dialed in for bursty network traffic or sustained numerical workloads or equal-path crypto engines or who knows what.