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I ran "stress my PC" for an hour, 45 min on battery, 15 on power brick. Was writing this reply with all pertinent data and the laptop crashed. Crap I thought to myself. Came back to windows and everything ran smoother and faster. WTF!!! Was this a PC near death experience? Seems to be...

Let me add: I've contacted the custom builder of the laptop and HP. This is under warranty by HP as the customization were authorized with the likely exception of the PCI-E drive, but neither seemed particularly bothered by that. They both kind of shrugged and I didn't blame them.

I upgraded my i-7 6th gen 16GB HP envy m7-n109dx added Samsung EVO 860 SSD to an i-7 8th gen 32GB HP envy 17t-ae-100cto added HP EX920 M.2 1TB PCIe 3.1 x4 NVMe 3D TLC NAND. I run a graphic intensive application that bogged down considerably with the 6th gen machine. I added the samsung 860 evo...