If there is one thing I have noticed about "cord-cutters" its that they can't stop telling you how great not having cable is. Guess what, I don't care. I wish to keep cable.
Where I work if your manager notices you working > 40 hrs a week regularly they will often talk to you and remind you to keep a good work life balance and not spend too much time at work.
No....just no. There are some SITUATIONS that will see no benefit, just like Mantle, but there are many that will, especially if you don't have a high end CPU.
"absolutely will not help performance" - that is ridiculous.
I think it is sql server causing that. When it fills up open task manager and stop the MSSQL service and see if it drops down to normal levels. I have had problems on my dev machine before where I had to set SQL's ram limit or else it would use up all my machine's ram. And, like your images...
No matter what game you say has the most hacks, unless you say Medal of Honor Allied Assault you are simply wrong. The game had no anti cheat. (excluding 3rd party ones that came around late in the game's life.)