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03-21-2015 , 03:11 PM

#576

Anais

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Good catch ^_^

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03-21-2015 , 03:13 PM

#577

Christophersen

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Installing windows now. I reviewed the BIOS when I caught the SATA drives not detected and believe everything else is in good shape.

Hopefully I'm in the home stretch. Thanks all for the help!!!

Really appreciate you guys putting up with my endless questions

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03-21-2015 , 03:18 PM

#578

Anais

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Think at next restart you *may* have to set your hard drive as the default/first boot option (if you put dvd drive as the first to install windows), but other than that you're done with the build part.

Just installing drivers, updating, setting proper settings left.

What order do people do for drivers?

Chipset first, I assume. Does it matter after that?

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03-21-2015 , 04:04 PM

#579

Christophersen

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When I go to my computer and drivers, is it common for all drivers to be up to date?

I am trying to let my computer search for drivers instead of going website to website.

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03-21-2015 , 07:24 PM

#580

Mr.mmmKay

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the ones from the manufacturer website are usually a lot better than those windows finds, definitely for the GPU

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03-21-2015 , 07:25 PM

#581

TheJacob

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I've never had that feature actually work. Go to the manufacturer's website and download the latest driver.

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03-21-2015 , 07:32 PM

#582

Christophersen

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Yea I ended up doing that. I think it's all set and going

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03-21-2015 , 07:42 PM

#583

Anais

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All you have to update aside from MOBO stuff is usually just graphics, so that's all of two websites to visit

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03-22-2015 , 01:11 PM

#584

Christophersen

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So computer worked fine for about a day and randomly today I just got a screen freeze that was black with gray vertical lines.

Thoughts?!

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03-22-2015 , 01:23 PM

#585

Krayz

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Try memtest (google it) and download a GPU and CPU monitor. See if anything is overheating. Google will tell you how hot they should get. Assuming it's not the monitor (can verify it isn't by plugging into laptop). I'm gonna guess faulty RAM just from the description but you never know

You can take the bad stick out and still use your computer until you get it returned.

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03-22-2015 , 01:44 PM

#586

Christophersen

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Will do that shortly. Computer is back on and seems fine again but I want to figure this out so the problem doesn't persist.

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03-22-2015 , 02:39 PM

#587

Anais

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You have two memory sticks I assume?

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03-22-2015 , 07:11 PM

#588

Christophersen

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Yea, 8GB (2x4)

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03-22-2015 , 09:02 PM

#589

Berge20

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If one is looking to buy off the shelf for a gaming laptop (I'll use that term loosely since I don't need max-end graphics), any particular recommendation on sellers? Newegg?

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03-22-2015 , 10:13 PM

#590

weevil

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I've heard good things about the Razer Blade, but they're pricy high-end gaming laptops, like starting at $2k+

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03-23-2015 , 01:41 PM

#591

IAmRobik

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Newegg runs some sick deals sometimes. What's your price range?

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03-23-2015 , 08:53 PM

#592

Berge20

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1-1.5k depending

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03-23-2015 , 09:19 PM

#593

kwanho1

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SAGER from XoticPC. Be sure to pick one with a discrete graphics card (950m+).

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03-23-2015 , 10:20 PM

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grizy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by weevil

I've heard good things about the Razer Blade, but they're pricy high-end gaming laptops, like starting at $2k+

I ended up getting MacBook 15. But has any Razer Blade like machines come out recently? I just can't have a glowing snake on my laptop for too many of my meetings.

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03-24-2015 , 12:23 AM

#595

Christophersen

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Another weird problem.. going to bed so will research tomorrow but:

I had the computer on for a while, played some CS:GO, etc etc. Had no issues at all, was watching in my browser just somebody on twitch.tv and randomly my screen went like a light orange with white vertical lines for a second, then went to completely light orange color. (my desktop background is orange so maybe there's a correlation?).

No idea what's up with this.. I hadn't had a problem since that one other crash I mentioned.

I got cpu-z and cpuid hwmonitor and everything seems normal (not 100% what to even look for).

Thoughts?

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03-24-2015 , 01:58 AM

#596

Krayz

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Did you run memtest

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03-24-2015 , 06:55 AM

#597

bubsodian

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Hi guys I was thinking about getting this pc (assembled) will mainly be used for gaming, dont need high end graphics just looking for everything 2 run smooth for next 3-4 years)

ASUS H97 PRO GAMER (LGA-1150)
Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz (LGA-1150)
Gainward 2G GTX 750TI PCI-Express Video Card
G.Skill /Sniper 16GB Kit DDR3 1600 Memory
Seagate 2TB SATA3 Hard Disk
Kingston HyperX FURY 120G SATA3 SSD Solid State Drive

for about 1175 AUD (950 USD)

what components should I be looking to upgrade, probably gonna go bigger on the ssd, would a 970 be a big step up? and is there anything in there that looks bad?
Any help appreciated

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03-24-2015 , 08:12 AM

#598

kwanho1

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Yeah, I'd upgrade the SSD's capacity. Video card upgrade depends on your needs. If you want eye candy then you'd want to upgrade. If you want everything to run okay, 750TI will do just fine for now.