IMHO Carl knows what he is doing.

Yes you have.

Good for you Carl.

I love Kauai. Where was the third from last taken?

Every CPU has a memory controller. The memory controller can have any number of channels with 2 being the most common for consumer PCs. For the best performance, you match the number of memory sticks to the number of channel with 1 stick per channel. This is why most memory is sold as a 2 stick kit. With 2 sticks and 4 slots, the manual will guide you how to populate the slots. The High End Desktop motherboards (Xeon cpus and X299 chipset) have a 4 channel memory controller.

try this:

https://www.macrium.com/cloning-a-disk-with-macrium-reflect-v8

it explains how to expand a partition during cloning.

I don't understand why it took so long. After the clone, go into disk management and expand the partition to include the unused space. I agree it's not a slick as Samsung Data Migration. There is also a tutorial on how to keep all partitions in proper order and have a middle partition utilize the extra space.

I'm not sure what you did but Macrium does a fine job of cloning a drive. Should have only taken a few minutes.
When you are in the main screen of Macrium just check the disk you want to clone. Just below the selected disk will be "Clone this disk." This is all covered with illustrations in the help file.

The OP is missing in action.

The 770 is not a "card." It is integrated into the CPU and motherboard. You don't swap anything out and it's easily upgrade by adding a graphics card. However, a 450 watt power supply (not on sale for $28) isn't going to cut it. The problem with Dell is that many components are not standard and you have to buy from them. I wouldn't have a non standard PC. Then you have to ask if there is sufficient air flow in the case to support a graphics card. More power means more heat, just like a 200 watt light bulb puts off more heat than a 60. Don't concern yourself with DDR5. You would have to run benchmarks to tell the difference. If fact, if you are using an Intel CPU ram speed makes little difference. However, if using an AMD CPU, I would recommend DDR4-3600 minimum.

Apple has started to buy Chinese chips for the iPhone. They say they will only use the Chinese chips in the phones sold in China. Who knows?

Am I the only person that used Kodachrome 10. I believe this was in the 1956-1958 time frame.

I sold my M3 outfit a few years back. I used a 50mm f2 Dual Range Summicron. A super nice lens and the close focusing attachment was very useful.

You can always use Handbrake to convert them.

How about Kodachrome 10?